WHEN WILL I FUCKING LEARN.....?

........ that watching movies on LOGO is probably going to make me want to slash my wrists?

I finally saw Between Love & Goodbye, which I'd been dying to see for like, a year now, and had mistakenly believed would be a happy-ending kind of movie.

I was wrong, wrong, UNBELIEVABLY WRONG.

And it was kind of like a Smiths song, you know . . . cheery happy bouncy music with lyrics that make you want to shoot yourself in the face.

I'm gonna end up buying the soundtrack, because it's too awesome for words and I think The Inertia Kiss just made it onto my list of New Favorite Bands, but I just can't handle the movie ever again. I gotta stop watching that channel; it always breaks my poor little marshmallow heart.

*sobs*

I mean, it wasn't a great movie by any stretch of the imagination. The acting was weak, as is unfortunately common with low-budget films, because you can tell the actors got their scripts the day before; the dialogue was heavy-handed at best, because the writer / director was busy Making His Point instead of making a realistic, natural-feeling movie; and of course, everyone was miserable and / or DEAD by the end, which I hate, no matter how true-to-life it might be.

I don't watch movies because they imitate life . . . I watch them because I want them to improve on life, to let me have my ninety minutes of escapist fantasy. The eternal optimist hiding in me wants to believe that happy endings can happen, somewhere, to someone.

And it does, sometimes. Exceptions really do seem to prove the rules.

Well, except for the rule that LOGO movies make me bawl, that is.