April 07, 2004
I'm a sucker
I'm a sucker for romantic comedies. There've I said.
Now let me tell you why.
They're horrible charming. I'm not big on cutsey ones. Love, Actually. *shrug*
But those pithy great well made romantic comedies are awesome. For me it all started with When Harry Met Sally.... and I haven't looked back.
There's lots of reasons I think and allow me to break them down for you.
1) Becuase they're witty. I think romantic comedies are allowed more dialogue than any other type of film in Hollywood. It's two people being charming and witty usually fighting off their eventual love interest.
2) You like the actors. I think casting is everything in Romantic Comedies. If you don't like the actors involved you won't find the characters as charming. Forces of Nature is a fine example of miscasting. Hot Sauce will say it's because my man Affleck is in it. I say it's Sandra Bullock. No don't get me wrong I love Sandra Bullock... just look at Miss Congenality and Two Weeks Notice for great Sandra B romantic comedies. But with Forces of Nature she doesn't fit that character type. She's supposed to be a wild and wooly women... but that's Sandy. They should have cast some likably wild like Angelina Jolie or Katie Hudson (who has probably done one too many romantic comedies.) Sandra is just too all american.
Too prove my point even more I point out the fact that you would not want to see a romantic comedy with Joe Don Baker and Wynonna Judd (in her first movie following her sis' footsteps.
Nope and...
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3) The most important reason: They're feel good movies. You never leave a good romantic comedy thinking "well they shouldn't have ended up together." Hugh Grant only has a career in romantic comedies cause he's just too good at it. He could never get away with much else. Except for the occasionaly period piece they throw him. But you hear Hugh Grant you don't think period piece you think Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Technically romantic comedies have been around forever. Shakespeare wrote some, for gosh sakes. In movies think of the Shop Around the Corner from 1940 starring Jimmy Stewart. This movie still holds up! But they went and remade it with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (another actor who may not ever get out of romantic comedy too bad to say) and called it You've Got Mail.
All this started because at the end of April comes a movie that looks like all of these things. The Laws of Attraction Julianne Moore who I adore and Pierce Brosnon who will be great in a comedy. Gonna watch it... you should watch the trailer I'm going for a bowl of soup.
Matt
I always thought people liked romantic comedies because it was the one genre of film that you wished were your life. Romance, good sense of humor, and a happy ending... all things people want and most times can only find in those movies. So I don't know if I should curse them or love them? I keep watching so I guess that's my answer. I babbled enough... I'm out!
Posted by: A.J. at April 7, 2004 07:11 AMcan't comment on forces of nature...becaue of course...i didn't watch it.
yes...kate has been in one too many. i can't keep them straight because there are too many...and it seems like they came out at the same time. confusing to simple minded movie people such as myself.
i think there is another reason that you like romantic comedies. you are stuck in one. you talk...a lot of the time...like you are in a romantic comedy. that flirty...witty way about you. you would be a good one to cast for that type of flick. everyone would pull for you to get the chick.
Posted by: HOT SAUCE at April 9, 2004 08:14 AMHugh Grant does romantic commedies? Well, I know that he's in Bridget Jones's, but that's really just Pride and Predjudice. Hmmm, I remember him in Restoration, the fun pic where Sam Neil is Charles II. He did the fab turn as Edward Ferras in Ms Thompson's Sense and Sensibility. There was the fun Edwardian peice, the man who went up a hill but came down a mountain. I recall he was in Sirens, a film I'm sure Matt has seen. Another Edwardian, if I'm not mistaken. Then there was Remains of the Day, which seems to go back and forth between the late 30's and the late 40's. He played Frederic Chopin in Impromptu. Lord Byron in Rowing In the Wind. He was in White Mischief, Kenya in the 40's. But if you say he's done romanic comedies, I'll take your word for it.
Posted by: Kenneth at April 12, 2004 09:51 PMChecking IMDB just to be sure I've got them all:
Love Actually
Bridget Jones (as you said, but don't forget it's sequel now being filmed)
Two Weeks Notice
Notting Hill
Nine Months
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Four Weddings and a Funeral
And that's just since 1994 when he hit it big with 4 Weddings.
Matt
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