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javachik - May 02, 2012 3:27:45 pm PDT #19715 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Gris - May 02, 2012 4:09:15 pm PDT #19716 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Somebody mentioned High Fidelity but it is my absolute favorite precisely because I think the romance story, at least, is remarkably realistic.
Juliebird - May 02, 2012 4:19:31 pm PDT #19717 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'm sorry, but romcoms are so ridiculously outlandish and fairytale-ish and fantastical that I can't begin to believe that anyone with a full crayon box would think that that's how falling in love should go.
But then, that's me, growing up with the poem in the bathroom that read something like "I will not wait for someone to bring me flowers, I will grow my own garden".
I always knew what fantasy was, what fairy tales were, and never confused them with reality, or real relationships.
Rom-coms are fun because they aren't reality.
Although I agree about the epic fail that was the end of Titanic. I was actually explaining the end to a friend who had never seen the movie, and she thought that I was making shit up when I told her Rose let Jack freeze to death and shoved his stiffened dead hand off hers while proclaiming repeatedly "I'll never let you go!" shove shove
Burrell - May 02, 2012 8:05:16 pm PDT #19718 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Can anyone think of a well-done rom-com that skirts closely to what might actually happen in RL?
Annie Hall
I will always love that movie.
Polter-Cow - May 02, 2012 10:03:14 pm PDT #19719 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just watched Haywire, and I think ita said everything I'd want to say, but better. Although even the fights and action sequences were not all that exciting for me. There was no there, there.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 02, 2012 10:41:05 pm PDT #19720 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Can anyone think of a well-done rom-com that skirts closely to what might actually happen in RL?
500 Days of Summer had relationship development that struck me as somewhat reality-based in terms of basic plot, though of course everything was over-dramatized and Zooey Deschanel was held up as some sort of hipster Aphrodite ideal. Sadly real life doesn't include big song-and-dance numbers by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Maysa - May 02, 2012 11:20:47 pm PDT #19721 of 30000
I'm sorry, but romcoms are so ridiculously outlandish and fairytale-ish and fantastical that I can't begin to believe that anyone with a full crayon box would think that that's how falling in love should go.
I actually find that article slightly offensive. Most movie genres are in no way realistic--I mean Westerns? Or spy thrillers? Or pretty much ANY escapist film genre? But it's usually only taken for granted that romantic comedies (a primarily women's genre) apparently confuses its viewers' poor addled brains because women believe everything they see.
The same crap argument gets trotted out about romance novels--or even just plain novels--or basically anything that women like to escape into for a few hours.
erikaj - May 03, 2012 5:25:51 am PDT #19722 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
that's true. You never see an article "Die Hard" weakens men's response to crisis."
Jesse - May 03, 2012 5:29:05 am PDT #19723 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
YES. "Men think they can get shot over and over and still keep fighting, thanks to Hollywood."
tommyrot - May 03, 2012 5:29:43 am PDT #19724 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah. Or an article "Musicals give people the idea they should burst into song periodically."