Favorite rom-coms of the last 30 years or so:
Amélie, Bella Martha, Clueless, The Cutting Edge, French Kiss, Green Card, Groundhog Day, Moonstruck, Pretty Woman, Say Anything, Sweet Home Alabama, While You Were Sleeping, Working Girl, Year of the Comet
Wait. People? She eats people? 'To Serve Man.' It's 'To Serve Man' all over again.
Gunn ,'Power Play'
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megan walker - Jul 14, 2010 12:11:13 pm PDT #9843 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
javachik - Jul 14, 2010 12:12:10 pm PDT #9844 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I don't know if we can be friends anymore, megan, since I hate half of those movies.
I am sure we can get over it long enough to enjoy seeing "Psycho" with the SF Symphony accompanyment this Saturday!! I am "Psyched"!!
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2010 12:13:58 pm PDT #9845 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mmph. While You Were Sleeping. Very much so.
I do hate Pretty Woman, though. I just don't see the rom in it.
Mentioning Enchanted reminded me of a rom-com I liked, but it's a TV movie. Lucky 7. I suspect I need to file that under "guilty pleasure" though.
megan walker - Jul 14, 2010 12:14:08 pm PDT #9846 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Sorry, I'm a total sap for most romantics comedies. There's no earthly reason anyone should like Green Card or Year of the Comet, but there you go.
megan walker - Jul 14, 2010 12:15:41 pm PDT #9847 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Note: I would put most screwball comedies over any of the recent films. Except, of course, Bringing Up Baby.
Connie Neil - Jul 14, 2010 12:17:44 pm PDT #9848 of 30000
brillig
Philadelphia Story rocks.
DebetEsse - Jul 14, 2010 12:18:53 pm PDT #9849 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Although she was too old for the role by the time they made the movie. Much like the cast of Rent.
Vonnie K - Jul 14, 2010 12:22:43 pm PDT #9850 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Although she was too old for the role by the time they made the movie.
Katharine Hepburn? Well, there wouldn't have been a movie without her (the role was specifically written for her, IIRC.) She handpicked Grant and Stewart, I believe. A woman of impeccable tastes.
I do hate Pretty Woman, though. I just don't see the rom in it.
In a film magazine somewhere many years ago, I read an article about how Sleeping with the Enemy can be considered an unofficial sequel to Pretty Woman. I thought that was brilliant.
javachik - Jul 14, 2010 12:23:26 pm PDT #9851 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
My loathing of "Pretty Woman" knows no bounds.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 14, 2010 12:30:34 pm PDT #9852 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
"Object of My Affection"...I think it's sort of a romcom and sort of a dramedy.
I'd say it's a Hopeless Romantic Comedy. I mean, they did tack on a happy ending for the lead character with Striking Extra #3, but 95% of the movie was about her forming a doomed imaginary romantic relationship with her gay roommate and then flipping out when reality intruded.