Dude, you might want to get the hideous back growth removed.
Love Story was the most popular movie of 1970, making it Exhibit X in what is quickly becoming the main thesis of this blog, “People in the 70’s had terrible taste.” Romantic movies typically start with a Meet Cute. This one starts with a Meet Ugly, since the girl is such a horrible person that the banter seems more like it should end with her getting punched, not a date. I would have paid real cash money to watch her die slowly of a terminal illness and oh hey look wish fulfillment. Her death’s not really a spoiler since her sweet, sweet demise is announced at the beginning of the movie and it was made 40 years ago.
The guy isn’t much better, since all he does is whine about how much it sucks to be rich, then how much it sucks to be poor, then how much it sucks that his wife is dying. I think I’m supposed to feel bad for him since his actually pretty nice parents are too rich, but his rebellion makes him seem like a petulant twerp. Both of the main characters don’t have a sympathetic bone in their body. They’re also about the only people in the movie, so you’re stuck with them for the duration. Aside from “young” Tommy Lee Jones anyway. Dude was born forty years old.
At least all this nonsense is completely forgettable. Love Story is just a montage of scenes from other movies. Montage of falling in love, montage of being poor, montage of fighting/making up, montage of being rich, montage of dying, montage of people who made the movie. These aren’t kick-ass 80’s montages either. It’s all people slowly walking around in coats while a piano plinks away in the background. The whole thing is as generic as the title. The only memorable thing is how ugly the girl is. Even for the 70’s she’s homely.
Rating: Musty
Did I fast-forward: Yes
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