Also, Shag: The Movie and Out of Sight, which seems more rom-com than anything else.
No power in the 'verse can stop me.
River ,'War Stories'
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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
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.
Burrell - Jul 15, 2010 10:49:07 am PDT #9904 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
What counts as a nihilistic action film? I suspect I love or hate them.
Skipped a bunch, so this may have been answered, but since I made up the term I guess I should 'splain myself. I like action films, so it's not the shoot-'em-up that gets to me. It's the shoot-'em-because-there's-a-hole-in-my-soul that I find dreary.
Bleak. That's it. Action + Bleak - any Happy at all = nihilistic action film. The Dark Knight. I know, I know, Heath Ledger's last film. But I hated it all the same.
(And now please forgive me for not defending my shallow, Pollyanna tastes. I'm not being avoidy, I just need to get some grading done.)
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2010 10:50:58 am PDT #9905 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Bleak. That's it. Action + Bleak - any Happy at all = nihilistic action film. The Dark Knight. I know, I know, Heath Ledger's last film. But I hated it all the same.
Hey, I am All Batman, All The Time, and I loved Batman Begins and bought it on DVD the day it came out.
I have no desire to see The Dark Knight again, nor do I want the DVD. You're spot on -- it is bleak. Bleeeeeeeak. With a side of why god why.
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2010 10:51:26 am PDT #9906 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aha. I do love the nihilistic action film. I love the cheery action film also, but Batman needs a hole in his soul, and I adore him to bits.
eta:
With a side of why god why.
Because he can! The only reason I haven't bought it yet is because I don't have a Blu Ray player, and it deserves Blu Ray.