Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Back in Stars Hollow

 Lorelai and Rory summoned us.


Loved when Rory's fractured her arm and Lorelai sleeps in a chair at the end of the bed and we cut to her asleep later and then the camera shows Chris is also there and also asleep. (He's let himself in unbeknown to the girls.) Lovely touch.

Judy Geeson, Seth MacFarlane and John Hamm pop up.

'Oy with the poodles already!'

Alternative title: "Shut up Paris!"

Lorelai's "Pull a Menendez" = brothers who shot their parents.

The children's book titles Lorelai makes up are 'Goodnight Spoon' and 'The Horse that Wanted to Bark'.

'Show her Nick Nolte's mug shot'. Nolte had been arrested driving off his head on GHB and (it wasn't actually a mug shot but a police photo) he looks like a wild man.

Luke's sister and brother-in-law are annoying and redundant.

We laughed at "Well I'll leave you men to your drinks".

Message in a Bottle (1999 Luis Mandoki)

Yes, one of those "Just tell him!" ones. Enacted by Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas and Robbie Coltrane.

Well executed by Caleb Deschanel (camera), Steven Weisberg (editing) and Gabriel Yared (music) but writer Gerald di Pego hasn't managed to iron out the deficiencies in Nicholas Sparks' story. Filmed on the coast of North Carolina (and Maine).