Big Screen: Once

Painfully earnest and sincere. Very sweet. Some pretty songs. But I found myself wincing sometimes and didn’t quite fall for it, although my co-viewer completely DID. She felt it was just to the acceptable side of being too saccharine. I thought it was right on the line. It didn’t go so far over that I couldn’t watch it, but it was teetering right there on the edge.

T: “I’m going to buy the soundtrack RIGHT NOW! I loved it!!! Didn’t you?”
Me: “Um…. it was PAINFULLY sincere. Really, really earnest.”
T: “So you didn’t LOVE IT!! I LOVED IT!!”
Me: “No, I didn’t love it. I thought it was sweet.”
T: “You didn’t love it????? I LOVED IT!!”