Posted by On a rainy Sunday afternoon, my girlfriend and I decided to pop in a movie. We both wanted to broaden the other’s horizons with a movie we’ve never seen before; I wanted her to see True Romance, she wanted me to see Mean Girls. Despite my best efforts, trying to win her over by saying things like “Quenten Tarantino, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Walken, Bronson Pinchot, Michael Rapaport, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Gary Oleman as a Rastafarian pimp and Val Kilmer as Elvis,” she was having none of it. She accused my movie of “sounding too violent,” which was odd, because if we’re going by titles alone, hers seems like the more violent choice. So we watched Mean Girls, and I have to say it was surprisingly funny! But I also have to say “sad” at the same time. While True Romance is riddled with crime, the sexy star of Mean Girls is going to jail in real life.  Oh Lindsay! Why? Why did you have to get so caught up in the booze and the drugs, destroying your reputation, your future and not to mention that beautiful body of yours? You had so much promise, now there are photos of you looking like Gollum!
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