Tuesday, May 30, 2006

comedic romances

for some reason, when i'm looking for a movie to fall asleep to at night, i'm usually choosing from my romantic comedies. more due to the first half of the genre than the second. are there flat out romance movies that aren't comedy? this is a little weird, because i put up a pretty good front (what's the word for putting up a front when you're not sure if it's a front or real?) about how bitches are bitches and relationships are a lot of trouble. i wonder what it is.

what makes this selection a difficult one is i want a romcom (do they call it that? if they do, whoever started that should be shot, and if not, i should be shot) that doesn't have that shitty part in the middle. of course every relationship in the movie world and thus real life is predicated on a deception of some sort, and it is inevitably discovered, and there invariably follows the period of lonely moping and walking around and staring at stuff while bad music plays. i want a movie witout that. keeping the faith has it. 50 first dates has it. every one involving teenagers always has a couldn't-possibly-come-back-to-bite-you-in-the-ass bet that is discovered. chasing amy has it. eternal sunshine is almost entirely made up of the shitty period. that's it for my actual stock of romantic comedies, which is probably a good thing. but annie hall has it. i would never own it because i don't think it's comedic or romantic, but how to lose a guy in ten days has it. i could probably go on, but i don't want to embarass myself more than i already have.

someone give me a movie that's nice and sweet and happy the whole way through. do they exist? are there movies that tried this and failed miserably at being a movie, or making money, or whatever criteria movies are judged by?

2 Comments:

At 12:03 PM, Blogger saisai said...

i don't know if you'd call ocean's 11 a romantic comedy - probably not - but i don't think it has a deception/breakup moment.

have you seen the family stone? that doesn't have one either, i think... or at least it's mutual deception?

how about win a date with tad hamilton? no, that's got a shitty part...

wow, this is harder than i thought.

 
At 7:44 AM, Blogger but you're Jess said...

Grosse Point Blank is about the best i can think of (because they teach us the goddamn recipe in elementary school. remember that stupid ramp diagram describing how a story should progress? hook, dilemma, rising action, climax, resolution or some shit like that....). either way, grosse point blank pretty much gets it over with in about 2 minutes when she freaks out and bails on him, then he saves her dad, voila. short, sweet, on to more sex.

 

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