tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post3551786042107578296..comments2024-03-17T10:11:46.952-04:00Comments on Film Experience Blog: Kissing: When George Met MaryNATHANIEL Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-57491561384592456312007-11-03T18:08:00.000-04:002007-11-03T18:08:00.000-04:00The Big Sleep has some great kisses. The muddled p...The Big Sleep has some great kisses. The muddled plot is so head-scratching, I just concentrate on the sexual tension. My favourite kiss is when Bacall herself intigates it, when Bogie's tied up.Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09258493877737555910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-52874603671318863942007-11-01T20:46:00.000-04:002007-11-01T20:46:00.000-04:00That kiss in IAWL is one of my all time favorite m...That kiss in IAWL is one of my all time favorite movie kisses. It's up there in my top three: Notorious (on the balcony), and Somewhere in Time (holy SHIT).Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061313079120981794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-84385204932560282882007-11-01T16:58:00.000-04:002007-11-01T16:58:00.000-04:00I would submit the first kiss between Rock and Adr...I would submit the first kiss between Rock and Adrian as one of the greats, for the same reasons described already.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-73090676148722937352007-11-01T11:57:00.000-04:002007-11-01T11:57:00.000-04:00Good points burbanked,Yes, movie kisses are too pe...Good points burbanked,<BR/><BR/>Yes, movie kisses are too perfect which is why I liked this kiss so much. It feels very spontaneous and passionate and that's what made it real.PIPERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13054305230216613759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-10832812498775386122007-11-01T11:31:00.000-04:002007-11-01T11:31:00.000-04:00This topic occurred to me the first time I saw Wha...This topic occurred to me the first time I saw <STRONG>What Women Want</STRONG>. While watching it, I knew I 1) wasn't liking it particularly, 2) never bought into the premise of what women's inner dialogue could POSSIBLY sound like, 3) hated more or less every minute that "Oscar winner" Helen Hunt was on screen.<BR/><BR/>But man. Gibson and Hunt did some seriously excellent kissing in that movie. And the revelation that I had was that true movie stars know how to kiss like nobody's business. Or at least they know how to simulate how we think kissing should be, in an ideal world.<BR/><BR/>That over-qualifies my point, which is also part of my point. Movie kissing is usually idealized to the max - the lighting, the angle, the music swelling, the close-ups - but when it's done right, in the correct context, it can be wonderfully magic in the way that only true cinema can.<BR/><BR/>The fact that I felt so removed from the greater context of <STRONG>What Women Want</STRONG> by simply watching these two actors do it right is, I think, a true indication of why the overall movie doesn't work. You're either watching a pair of actors act well, or you're experiencing a special, intimate moment between two characters you've come to care about.<BR/><BR/>And, of course, there's the reverse: the horrifying, cringe-inducing revolt-o-macking between Steven Seagal and Erika Eleniak at the end of <STRONG>Under Siege</STRONG>. There couldn't have been enough booze on-set to make that scene comfortable enough for that poor, misguided girl.Burbankedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14060477901077195090noreply@blogger.com