Angels in the Secret Garden of Incest
I come up with some doozies, don't I? (We all remember Tom Cruise Sucks Big Hairy Balls fondly, don't we?)
But there is a reason.
As there is for all my terribly interesting titles. I spent the morning, lazing about in bed, watching mediocre, bad, or in some cases very bad movies on television. I watched this one on LMN because it had Patrick Dempsey in it, and let's face it, we'd all watch a movie about paint drying if he were going to be the one painting. (And don't lie, you know you'd do it. He's too pretty not to!)
I watched Angels in the Outfield. I have seen the movie a lot in my youth, but I haven't seen it too much in the past few years. I must have forgotten how many famous people were in it before they were huge stars. Matthew McConaughey and Adrien Brody star, as well as Dermot Mulroney as the deadbeat dad. Remind me why I haven't watched this movie so jam packed with hotties for so long?
After that, I flipped back and forth between reruns of The Hills, (which is sorta disappointing me, for some reason, even though Lauren was my fave on Laguna Beach) and D2: The Mighty Ducks. Neither were really holding my attention too well, since I kept flipping around to other stuff that didn't hold my attention either.
Then I started watching a really bad sequel to The Secret Garden, which I love. I don't know why I kept watching it, it wasn't very good. It had that girl from that remake of When a Stranger Calls in it, as well as a bunch of other no name children actors and a few older actors that are sorta familiar but not really. It had a forced plot, bad script, and was relatively not good. Then, it found a way to not only creep me out for the rest of the day, but to also to possibly ruin the original and the book for me.
IT WAS A DIRTY MOVIE!
Mary married Colin!
EW!
Now, for all of you who have neither seen any version of the movie or read the truly fabulous book that should be required reading for any preteen, Mary is a little girl who comes to live with her Uncle after her parents die in an epidemic/earthquake (depending on what version you go by) in England, at Misselthwaite Manor. She discovers a Garden that belonged to her aunt, (HER MOTHERS TWIN SISTER!) and with her Uncle's blessing (sorta) she starts to fix it up, with the help of Dickon, and she discovers the ill and bedridden Colin. Colin is the son of her aunt and uncle. He is her First Cousin!
In the bad, bad, bad movie, Lady Mary introduced her husband, Sir COLIN!
EW!
EW! EW! EW!
I can't believe that the people that made this movie are either that sick and twisted, or are so ignorant of the book/movie that they were sequelling, that they didn't realize that they were committing a crime. Because it's illegal in most places to marry your COUSIN.
Is this an average, every day practice over in England? I'd ask someone, but I don't know anyone from there or who is there. If it is, I didn't realize that the aristocrats in Great Britain had so much in common with the people from Appalachia.
Deformed children.
Katherine
