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The Cinematropic Blogosphere

11/06/2011

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The Chick Flick Guy has company out there. Other people -- some talented, some not-so -- are casting their opinions and analyses out into the world (wide web) with blogs about movies. As another way to serve my readers -- and perhaps give myself some easy-to-do posts -- I'll be sharing other blogs I find. If you visit them, tell them you heard about them here. Maybe they will give me a plug, too. A guy can hope. Here's the first:

Taste My Sad 
The other night,  a writer named John Krizel was on the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions and Alex Trebek asked him about his blog. It turns out Krizel does a movie blog about sad films, so I looked it up. (Because I'm a movie blogger and I was on Jeopardy back in 2007.) Krizel's blog,  Taste My Sad, is a mirror cousin of the Chick Flick Guy. It's about emotional movies, but it focuses on depressing, whereas I lean toward happy. 

The day I checked it out, Krizel was talking about "Titanic," definitely a chick flick, but not a film that, er, floats my boat. My favorite thing about Titanic is the pop culture references that it spawned. One is in Britney Spears' "Oops! I did It Again." A second is in "Love Actually," where the widower and his stepson watch Kate and Leo for moral support. (see clip below) Anyhow, if your taste runs to multi-hankie cinema, check out Taste My Sad.

 


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