Entries tagged with "tom hanks"

'It's such an interesting mixture of poetry and meanness'

posted by srah on August 26, 2003 10:48 AM

Tags: buster keaton, in the good old summertime, movies, tom hanks, you've got mail

I hate You've Got Mail. I don't want to hate it. I love romantic comedies. I feel like it's my duty to love this one, but I don't. Not only do I not love it, I hate it. I hate it for lost potential, for what it could have been but wasn't. I hate its long stretches of pointless dialogue. I hate Tom Hanks. I hate all of the characters in it. I hate it because it's not In the Good Old Summertime. I hate it for itself. We watched In the Good Old Summertime followed by You've Got Mail...