So glad MBFGW3 and Special Ops: Lioness made her dye her hair to this darker color. It really compliments her well.

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3 (2023) dir. Nia Vardalos

ELIAS KACAVAS

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3 (dir. Nia Vardalos, 2023)

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Ok let's talk about My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and the fact that there's amazing NB representation in it. Please go see the movie!

And while you're at it watch the first 2 also because there's not a lot of good Greek representation in Hollywood movies and also the first one is BASICALLY the story of my moms life. The family connections are beautiful, the closeness, the fighting, the yearning, the acceptance, the convelutedness, how there's only 3 names for everyone, and just the everyone in everyone's business. It's how I grew up and its so beautiful to see that story told on screen and to look at it and see my own family.

It's fantastic and it's my family. And the NB representation and acceptance in the 3rd is so lovely

I can’t BELIEVE my big fat greek wedding 3 gave us the non-binary autistic icon that is Victory. I love them SO MUCH

My heart! Toula and Ian are still absolute couple goals! I could watch them lean on each other in various locations all day. There wasn't quite enough for Ian to do, although I loved seeing him with the monk. I am convinced John Corbett came up with the idea to imitate the rooster in that one very brief shot. This movie packed so much in (maybe too much) but I laughed, I cried, and I recognized places I've been. I loved how much Nick got in this! I found Paris' college storyline the least compelling, but I enjoyed her character in this new setting. Nonbinary disaster gay Victory is an icon. I feel like this movie really shows an evolution where our characters are less tropey and deeper. What a beautiful nod to immigrants, the impact of war, and the sharing of culture, as well as grief and seeing parents age. Beautiful stuff. There are movies that I consider mine, as in no one recommended them to me or showed me them, but I fell in love with them on cable. These titles include You've Got Mail, Music & Lyrics, and of course, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, even though I was definitely too young to be the intended audience. I only watched the sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding after my local FYE went out of business and I got the DVD BluRay combo pack for maybe $10 tops. It had come out while I was in college and I was jaded that a sequel even existed. But it got me hook, line, and sinker when I did sit down and watch it. I figured that this third installment might surprise me in a similar way, and I was right! I was very scared by the poster as it looks just wretched and I had seen some people online say it was a flop, and there were only three other people in my screening, but I was just thrilled to be seeing some of my favorite characters on the big screen for the first time. Going opening weekend was important to me. The heart that these films have-and that's what matter to them-is unmatched. Nia Vardalos is my Greta Gerwig. If you didn't have fun, I don't know what to tell you! Σωπα!

I know everybody is waiting for this movie too:

But I I'm waiting for this one:

Me finding out other people didn't love My big fat greek wedding 3

new-to-me #697 - My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

I love that My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 had a married couple that still likes spending time together and still likes each other. And this is a couple that been married for decades by this point.

what a rare and beautiful thing to see in film.

Guess who just went to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 for Stephanie Nur 👀

She looks so beautiful and cute in the movie 😭 and her character Qamar is completely different from Aaliyah- so light and free. (I noticed Qamar’s voice is more similar to Stephanie’s voice in real life than Aaliyah’s.) Can’t stop thinking what if in this universe Aaliyah/Qamar and Cruz/Zara met each other… Aaliyah/Qamar is the Syrian refugee girl in this Greek village and Cruz/Zara is the visiting American here for traveling/business etc. What would become of them then… where they are free from their dark and heavy fates and can just be them and have regular problems. 🥹

Also, there’re scenes of her, and her ARMS 👀👌🏼 Girl needs to drop her arm workout routine (i do not believe her “just carrying heavy grocery bags home” bs)

I went with low expectations because she wasn’t focused on any of the promotions & trailers, and she wasn’t even on the movie poster. But, there were actually a good amount of her in the movie, and she was kinda the secondary/tertiary plot. The movie isn’t my genre so don’t have much comments on that, but it’s tolerable and fun, so if you can, go watch it!

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3 (2023) dir. Nia Vardalos

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

250. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 1 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

Nia Vardalos brings us everything we loved from the first two movies plus the beautiful scenery of Greece and a delightful nonbinary character who is not the butt of any jokes (Victory is number one… the best!)

(I didn’t really buy the Paris/Aristotle chemistry, but that’s what fanfics are for - hello Qamar)