The Lion in Winter is my kind of RomCom. Also, my favorite Xmas movie.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
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quester - Jul 14, 2010 5:20:28 pm PDT #9894 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
§ ita § - Jul 14, 2010 5:24:05 pm PDT #9895 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Say Anything is the only rom com I seem to own. Though I did wonder for a second if A Fish Called Wanda counted. But I'm thinking no. NSM with the comedy in my collection, or the happy ending romance, except as by product of action movie. And even then...
Beverly - Jul 14, 2010 5:26:10 pm PDT #9896 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Second vote for Big Eden. Tim DeKay had to totally overcome his character in it for me to trust and like Peter on WC, though.
megan walker - Jul 14, 2010 5:57:15 pm PDT #9897 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also, Shag: The Movie and Out of Sight, which seems more rom-com than anything else.
javachik - Jul 14, 2010 5:59:27 pm PDT #9898 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I always say Soderbergh is a genius for actually getting acting from Andie McDowell, Julia Roberts, and Jennifer Lopez.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 14, 2010 6:05:19 pm PDT #9899 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, my favorite Xmas movie.
Mine is probably The Ref at this point (apart from some of the classics that I have an undying fondness for). Gremlins gives it a run for the money, though.
Though I did wonder for a second if A Fish Called Wanda counted.
Oh, that's totally a rom-com in my book. But that book includes the movies I mentioned earlier, so...
erikaj - Jul 14, 2010 6:27:40 pm PDT #9900 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
The Ref rocks...that family is too much like mine, though. Not even kidding.
Fred Pete - Jul 15, 2010 4:42:04 am PDT #9901 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I would put most screwball comedies over any of the recent films
If you haven't seen it, check out It's Love I'm After. Bette Davis and Leslie Howard play a bickering pair of stage actors (think Lunt and Fontanne with serious problems getting along offstage). Olivia deHavilland plays an heiress who falls for Howard's character, then invites the pair to weekend at the family mansion. Comedy ensures. Boy, does it ever.
Another great screwball that also qualifies as a rom com is My Man Godfrey, but that one doesn't qualify as "unjustly forgotten."
Katharine Hepburn? Well, there wouldn't have been a movie without her (the role was specifically written for her, IIRC.)
The story I've heard goes further than that. In the late '30s, she appeared on a list of "box office poison" actors/actresses. So she got Philip Barry (the Neil Simon of his day) to write the play, The Philadelphia Story, specifically for her. The play was a Broadway hit, and when MGM came around to buy the movie rights, one condition was that she play Tracy in the movie.
dcp - Jul 15, 2010 4:57:19 am PDT #9902 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Hmmm. Would the re-make of The Thomas Crown Affair be considered a rom-com?
erikaj - Jul 15, 2010 9:20:57 am PDT #9903 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
don't think so...I'd call it a "caper, with romantic and comedic elements." Great movie, though.