Your favorite romantic comedy... or one you hate?

[{ Emilia }]

Yes, she dared!

Let's see if there's anybody who will admit to liking a romantic comedy. Are there romcoms you like and why do you like them? And yes, "Groundhog Day" is a romantic comedy so get off your high nerd horse. You know you've seen it.
And I still haven't seen Annie Hall...

Here's my... short list:

- Before Sunrise: Two strangers meet and spend a night in Vienna, just talking a lot (mostly...). None of this cheesy Hollywood bullshit, no slapstick jokes, no embarrassing moments, no overly contrived plot, just a charming movie.

- When Harry met Sally: Come on, how can you not like this movie? There's so much fun dialog in it! The concept is a bit silly because it's so obvious that men and women CAN be friends. But meh, it's a fun movie.

- 500 Days of Summer: Adorable, and they don't even get each other in the end. Quirky, fun, again lots of talking and no cliché plot. The anti-romcom? Love the indy style.

- Amélie: It's been years since I've seen this one but I remember liking it so much. Adorable, quirky and funny.

There are some more that I really liked but it's been a while since I saw them so I don't know how well they hold up to repeat viewing: Shall we dance (gimme a break, i love ballroom dancing), Crazy Stupid Love (that Dirty Dancing scene, omg), . High Fidelity was quite fun, too.

Stuff I hate:
- movies with an overly contrived plot and concept. The only exception: How to lose a guy in 10 days. What an absurd and dumb concept but... I just love watching Kate Hudson make Matthew McConaudfhxcuhy's (spelling?) life hell. Oh shit, and I really like Serendipity because of the two actors.
- slapstick (Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler doing a romcom? Ugh...).
- Humour for 16-year-olds. I will not watch There's something about Mary again. Ever.
- Moonstruck. I just hate it. It's so awful.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Ooh! I love me a good rom-com.

My Favourites:

When Harry Met Sally
The Wedding Singer
Music And Lyrics
Two Weeks Notice
Overboard

 

[Greg Cox]

Time After Time (the original, not the short-lived remake).

And are we counting screwball comedies like WHAT'S UP DOC or BRINGING UP BABY?

Who doesn't like a good romantic comedy once in a while? And why bother insisting of "well, it was my partner's idea."?

Enjoying a good romantic comedy will not give you cooties.

 

[J.T.B.]

The Philadelphia Story. Just thinking about it makes me smile.

 

[Greg Cox]

Going back a few years: The Sure Thing, Notting Hill, When You Were Sleeping . . ..

Going back even further: I Married a Witch and Sullivan's Travels, both with Veronica Lake.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

On the modern side... Friends With Benefits and Crazy Stupid Love.

Adding to my earlier list... My Big Fat Greek Wedding. "Put some Windex on it!"

 

[{ Emilia }]

The Philadelphia Story. Just thinking about it makes me smile.

I had totally forgotten about this one. I saw that with my parents when I was like 12 years old. I'll have to rewatch it.

On the modern side... Friends With Benefits and Crazy Stupid Love.

Adding to my earlier list... My Big Fat Greek Wedding. "Put some Windex on it!"

I tried rewatching "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" a few weeks ago. For some reason it doesn't hold up that well for me.

Crazy Stupid Love, though...

"Fuck... it's like you're photoshopped!"
And then "the big move"

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[1001001]

Overboard

I love that movie. It's one of those films I can watch any time I stumble across it channel surfing.

"I'm a short, fat, slut!"

The Philadelphia Story. Just thinking about it makes me smile.

My GOD, is that a brilliant movie. The dialogue is incredible.



As for me, I'll have to go with Knocked Up.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

500 Days of Summer is trash.

I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings posting this.. I think I will have to make it up to you by folding many dozens of paper boats with a mix of poems and lyrics and single words written on the paper and floating them down the Hudson. We will share so much love and also shifting eye moments of intimacy afterwards so it will be totes worth the paper cuts.

 

[{ Emilia }]

500 Days of Summer is trash.

That's okay. I quite liked it but it surely is flawed. Only seen it once, maybe I was in a particularly good mood.

Now if you'd said that "Before Sunrise" is trash...

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Haven't seen that. Can honestly say I have only watched romantic comedies by accident or at the behest of others.

Wouldn't have put Amelie in that category though?

 

[Timewalker]

Yes, she dared!

Let's see if there's anybody who will admit to liking a romantic comedy. Are there romcoms you like and why do you like them? And yes, "Groundhog Day" is a romantic comedy so get off your high nerd horse. You know you've seen it.
And I still haven't seen Annie Hall...

Here's my... short list:

- Before Sunrise: Two strangers meet and spend a night in Vienna, just talking a lot (mostly...). None of this cheesy Hollywood bullshit, no slapstick jokes, no embarrassing moments, no overly contrived plot, just a charming movie.

- When Harry met Sally: Come on, how can you not like this movie? There's so much fun dialog in it! The concept is a bit silly because it's so obvious that men and women CAN be friends. But meh, it's a fun movie.

- 500 Days of Summer: Adorable, and they don't even get each other in the end. Quirky, fun, again lots of talking and no cliché plot. The anti-romcom? Love the indy style.

- Amélie: It's been years since I've seen this one but I remember liking it so much. Adorable, quirky and funny.

There are some more that I really liked but it's been a while since I saw them so I don't know how well they hold up to repeat viewing: Shall we dance (gimme a break, i love ballroom dancing), Crazy Stupid Love (that Dirty Dancing scene, omg), . High Fidelity was quite fun, too.

Stuff I hate:
- movies with an overly contrived plot and concept. The only exception: How to lose a guy in 10 days. What an absurd and dumb concept but... I just love watching Kate Hudson make Matthew McConaudfhxcuhy's (spelling?) life hell. Oh shit, and I really like Serendipity because of the two actors.
- slapstick (Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler doing a romcom? Ugh...).
- Humour for 16-year-olds. I will not watch There's something about Mary again. Ever.
- Moonstruck. I just hate it. It's so awful.

I haven't seen any of the movies on your list.

The ones I've seen include (I had to look this up on Wikipedia, since I wasn't really sure what a "romcom" is considered to be):

Roman Holiday
Romancing the Stone
The Jewel of the Nile
Overboard
The Princess Bride (Wikipedia says it is)
Pretty Woman
Sabrina
As Good as it Gets
What Women Want
Maid in Manhattan

Now that I think about it, the Wikipedia article fails to mention three that I really enjoyed:

The American President
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Little Lady

There are a few on the list that I have in my DVD collection and will watch at some point.

I think Overboard was spoofed on an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess (or am I thinking of a different movie?).

 

[{ Emilia }]

Haven't seen that. Can honestly say I have only watched romantic comedies by accident or at the behest of others.

Wouldn't have put Amelie in that category though?

Meh, if you ask me even The Mummy is a romantic comedy. So is a show like Castle since most people watched that for the shipping.

@Timewalker I remember liking Roman Holiday but it's been so long. The Princess Bride did nothing for me, which apparently makes me a horrible person.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Meh, if you ask me even The Mummy is a romantic comedy. So is a show like Castle since most people watched that for the shipping.

I am recategorizing TOS as we speak !!!

I remember liking Roman Holiday but it's been so long. The Princess Bride did nothing for me, which apparently makes me a horrible person.

I am also a horrible person.

Thank god it's old now and the endless quoting back and forth has stopped.

 

[1001001]

The Princess Bride did nothing for me, which apparently makes me a horrible person.

 

[Timewalker]

Meh, if you ask me even The Mummy is a romantic comedy. So is a show like Castle since most people watched that for the shipping.

@Timewalker I remember liking Roman Holiday but it's been so long. The Princess Bride did nothing for me, which apparently makes me a horrible person.

The movies I listed are ones I've seen, not necessarily ones I really liked enough to see them more than once (although there are some that I've seen more than half a dozen times). The Princess Bride has Cary Elwes in it, and that's reason enough to watch it once. But even though he's cute (or was back then), I didn't care for the story itself.

But mentioning Cary Elwes reminds me of these two:

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

The second, which Elwes starred in as Robin, is a spoof of the first.

 

[CorporalClegg]

I love me some romcoms. They had a good generic run from about 1995 to 2010. You know the ones: they seemed to come out as fast as Nora Ephron's second assistant's best friend's sister could write them. They starred TV actors hoping to break into film (and ultimately failing). And they always presented ridiculously out-dated social structures and mores. But it was okay because of the pretty colors and the wistful chimes of Christophe Beck's upper-register noodling.

Most of them are utterly terrible. And yet, they never fail to entertain and pacify my brain for 108 minutes in a way most modern blockbusters never seem to do.

Though I was just thinking the other day that the seem to be a dying breed, especially as far as main studio releases go. There are still a few good indie roms that pop up here and there. I just watched What If? over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised. However, the whole time I kept thinking that someone needs to make a Netflix slice-of-life sitcom about Harry and Kylo's struggles as roommates in a modest Toronto loft.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

There's Something About Mary and The Princess Bride are both good. One that I like and haven't seen mentioned yet is Roxanne.

 

[Greg Cox]

There's Something About Mary and The Princess Bride are both good. One that I like and haven't seen mentioned yet is Roxanne.

Haven't seen it in ages, but, yes, ROXANNE is probably one of Steve Martin's very best films.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I think Overboard was spoofed on an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess (or am I thinking of a different movie?).

In the episode "Married With Fishsticks" Gabrielle falls into the ocean and ends up having amnesia. She is kidnapped by a mer-man who tells her that she is his wife (his real wife ran off) and treats her like a slave. Until you mentioned it, I never even considered that it could be a spoof.