My Big Fat Greek Wedding - HILARIOUS sleeper movie
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding - HILARIOUS sleeper movie
Juju2bigdog | Sunday, December 22, 2002 - 09:25 am     Hey, Alegria! You kind of liked this film, eh? Must run in our family. |
Rabbit | Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 03:14 pm     Had the family over last night and we played this on DVD. Three generations, both genders and every single one of us loved it. |
Hermione69 | Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 03:32 pm     My sister and I saw this in open caption at the theater last weekend. Words cannot express how much we loved this film! It was incredible! |
Jbean | Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 05:06 pm     i have an unpopular opinion about this one as well, sweetbabygirl, i thought it was ok, but it has been built up so much that i was expecting the funniest movie ever made. i did think it was a sweet story, though...maybe i am just weird. my mom didn't think it was that funny, either. the woman's husband in real life is the guy's friend in the movie. to any felicity fans, he also played xavier on that show. i thought he was really gay because he was so convincing on that show as being gay. i saw that on like access hollywood or something, on a piece about them right around christmas or new years. <jbean runs out of the room for fear of being lynched for unpopular opinion> |
Froggiegirl621 | Monday, February 17, 2003 - 10:24 am     I'm with you Jbean. Saw it last night on DVD, and neither me or my bf thought it was as hilarious as everyone said it was. It was good, but not great. Seriously don't know what all the hype is about!?!? |
Lizadee | Monday, February 17, 2003 - 12:20 pm     Watched this last night with DH and thought it was hilarious Also watched Sweet Home Alabama and liked My Big Fat Greek Wedding better JMO |
Hermione69 | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 05:40 am     Well, I tell you that I have been looking forward to this movie for 6 months. As some of you know, I'm deaf and had to wait for an open caption version to come to town. Six months of hearing how good this movie is and how funny and endearing this movie is and how I absolutely have to see it. All I can say, IMHO, is that I have never watched a movie that DID live up to its hype the way this one did! I cannot remember the last time I laughed so hard or felt so content with the storyline. When a small budget film like this brings in money comparable to Harry Potter and is #28 on the "Top 50 Highest Grossing Films of All Time," someone did something right. But, alas, not everything is for everyone and I'm sorry some of you guys didn't enjoy it the way most of us did. Sometimes when it is a hype problem for me, if I let time pass and go back and watch it again, I'll like it more the 2nd time around. "O Brother Where Art Thou" was like that for me. |
Alegria | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 03:22 pm     Hermione I'm so glad you liked it. Now I see there is even a tv show based on the film - isn't that fast? The movie worked on a lot of visual sight gags and made me howl. There was also an endearing generosity of spirt which was very heartwarming. |
Tashakinz | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 11:28 am     Rented this over the weekend. OMG - we had to pause the movie at least half a dozen times because we were laughing sooooooooo hard. "I'm a vegetarian" "I'll make lamb" ROFL This will definitely be added to our dvd collection. |
Webkitty | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:41 pm     I just watched this movie, and it reminded me of my family, and my brother's wife's family. She comes from a huge Irish family, and we are the little dry toast family, lol. I can remember way back, in the beginning, joining them for get togethers, and we would be sitting there wide eyed at all the comotion, lol. I didn't think it was hilarious, but I did chuckle when her brother got the groom to say inappropriate things in Greek. I went ewwww when everyone started spitting on her as she walked down the isle, and I thought the Windex thing was stupid, but other than that, it was an ok movie  |
Tabbyking | Monday, February 24, 2003 - 07:33 pm     i think this ranks right up there with 'my cousin vinny' for favorite funny movies. maybe because i am that large irish family, in my case, (so substitute irish whiskey for lamb!) i was one of 9 kids and my dad had 9 siblings who mostly all had tons of kids, too. why do you think my husband and i eloped to nevada 6 weeks ahead of the supposed wedding date? then we just threw a big party at our home on the day when the wedding would have taken place, and we cooked all the food. anyway, this movie was a delight for me and i saw it 3 times before it came out on video. i had heard some of it, but my friends and i agreed not to discuss specifics until we had all seen it. i mean they made occasional comments about 'windex' and would fall down laughing, but i had no idea what it meant until i saw the film. for the 'windex thing' being stupid, after i saw the movie the first time, i was at our jewelry store trying to convince my friend, the clerk, to go see the movie. 'just a second', she interrupted me. next thing you know she was rushing over to a shopper with a bottle of windex spray. the lady had gotten a ring stuck on her finger and they used windex to get it off! my husband and i both burst out laughing. then renee walked back over and said, "now does this movie have some funny parts?" and we were still bent over laughing. and while we were trying to get our acts together, renee took the windex and cleaned the glass cabinets and then started spraying and wiping the jewelry itself. she said, "this stuff is good for everything. most people think it's just for glass. what are you guys laughing about?" i told her to go see the movie and let me know why she thought we were cracking up. so some people do use windex for things i never considered! |
Ericka1012 | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 10:37 pm     I have to say again, being from an italian family, I could sure relate to those things this family did...Cooking (the one thing I told my new dh was if my mom offered food to him JUST EAT don't be bothered you had just eaten...if you don't mom will think your sick. Then she'll really make you nuts!!), the extended family and how they want to do everything for you no matter what you want, the list goes on and on...Everytime I pick up windex I start to laugh and my dh yells at me "Stop Windex isn't meant to be funny!!" which of course makes us both laugh...Tabby I don't know how I'd react if I was in a store and someone used Windex in front of me...hope I have my Depends on...LOL. |
Azriel | Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 02:11 am     I just watched this tonight. I'm really glad that I didn't see it in the movie theater because I would have embarrassed myself because I was laughing so much. I LOVED THIS MOVIE! I'm going to be giggling everytime I see Windex, too! I come from a large family and the point where you had to introduce your boyfriend to 'the family' was always a scary moment because you never knew what crazy thing someone was going to do or tell him. I hope my mom and sister haven't seen this movie yet because I would love to watch with them when they are seeing it the first time. I know they are going to love it as much as I did. |
Knightpatti | Friday, March 14, 2003 - 08:11 pm     Loved this movie! I thought it could not be that good to on the movies that long, so I did not have high expectations. But I loved it !!!! |
Brenda1966 | Monday, March 17, 2003 - 12:08 pm     Jbean and Froggie -- glad to see I'm not the only one. I thought this movie was merely okay. In fact I was bored with it. I can see why they made it into a sitcom, because that's all it was to me: a sitcom stretched to 90 mintues. I laughed out loud once. |
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