Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by toyg on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:32PM
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That sounds like the beginning of a slice-of-life movie... Withinboredom and the luggage guy became great pals, travelled the world together, started a business, met their spouses... until something dramatic happened, the link was severed, and now Withinboredom longs for the times they spent together, underlining how fleeting existence is, how every day is precious, etc etc.
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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by finite_depth on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:58PM
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Tom Hanks stars in: Personal Baggage
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by m463 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:23PM
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He really does do movies like that, doesn't he? Stuck in the airport in the terminal, stuck on a remote island in castaway, even chasing decaprio in catch me if you can...
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by toyg on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:50PM
(#38033119)
I mean, you could say he started his career stuck in a grown-up's body (Big, 1988)...
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by js2 on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:53AM
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He has a long and varied career. He's made over 50 movies. Maybe half a dozen fit that description?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by suid on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:13PM
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Reminiscent of the plot in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox. A meet-cute with the famous Bombay Dabba-Walas (lunchbox delivery service) accidentally messing up a delivery, and leading to a correspondence and later a meeting between an unhappy housewife and a lonely widower.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by toyg on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:47PM
(#38033106)
I've actually seen this! Hated the ending.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by sho on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:24PM
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> A meet-cute
OK. That's the second time now. I feel like in the last 48 hours, "meet-cute" or "meetcute" has been introduced as a New Word and everyone got the memo but me.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by TylerE on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:30PM
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It’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom
coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by js2 on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:49AM
(#38034804)
Also, everyone should watch Roman Holiday because honestly they never needed to make another romcom after that and the meet cute is the sweetest you'll ever see.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by lloeki on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:39AM
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Ha, lucky 10k + frequency illusion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by toyg on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:12AM
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But it was largely limited to professional storywriters, Hollywood / Broadway types. The internet spread their lingo much more widely, and terms like that have become more common and fashionable in recent years.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by alanfalcon on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:45PM
(#38034463)
Welcome to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Now go watch The Holiday (2006).
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by solsane on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:05PM
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Ok but can someone explain what this means
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by kdwikzncba on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:40AM
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The lunchbox, is that the movie they watch in Seinfeld, which Elaine hates?
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding
by actionfromafar on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:22AM
(#38035282)
No but she definitely would have hated it