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Sam Rockwell as Jim Crocker in Piccadilly Jim (2005)
Sam should’ve shot a hundred episodes of whatever TV shows to capture all those kinds of pretty moments🥹
Stole it from @lucy-sky Listing 5 of my favorite movies so you can pick your favorite, let's go!
Pick one!
Annihilation (2017)
Interstellar (2014)
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Song of the Sea (2014)
Stoker (2012)
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
"Love is everything. Love blows everything to bits and makes it new again. It's like a bomb in your heart. Boom"
Piccadilly Jim (2004) Sam Rockwell
Maximum Himbo
Thoughts on any standalone Wodehouse books you may have read?
Piccadilly Jim: My favorite of the standalones I’ve read. I thought it had a very funny plot with some great characters, with some surprisingly sweet moments to the romance. I did lose some interest about 3/4 of the way through (the whole criminal subplot made everything just a touch too complicated), which contributed to me wandering away and not finishing it for the better part of a year (though that says more about my distractability than the quality of the book.)
The Pothunters: Does this count as a standalone, or do the school stories count as their own series? Since I haven’t read any other stories with these characters, I’m counting it among the standalones. I remember it being better than I expected, but most of it was forgettable (as evidenced by my forgetting of it).
The Prince and Betty: I liked the musical-comedy-without-the-music aspect of the original part of the story, but I mostly remember and am amused by the bizarre turn into a Psmith, Journalist remake. I do think having Betty as a secretary adds a lot to the Cozy Moments office dynamic and I kind of wish she’d have been in the original.
If I Were You: Goodreads tells me I have read this. I have zero memory of it and that frightens me. Usually if I don’t remember a book, I just don’t remember the contents, but I have no memory of even hearing of this book, much less reading the entire thing. It’s so bizarre that I’m finding more realistic explanations to be 1) I rated this book by mistake or 2) this is an artifact from a rewritten alternate timeline of the universe.
Favorite Movies (27/40): Piccadilly Jim (2005)
I’ll abandon the entire plan… if you tell me you love me.