A Guide for V-Day, or something
Okay, as most of my readers (*as she thinks, gee that makes it sound like I have readers*) are guys this blog will probably be unappreciated, but per a GAIM conversation tonight, I'm feeling inspired to defend and disparage the realm of the romantic comedy. All romantic comedies are not created equal - i.e. they are not all crap.
Level 1: Classic
When Harry Met Sally
This one is in a league all of it's own . . . Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in probably the only modern romantic comedy that can claim to be a modern classic.
NOTE: If Pretty Woman could be called a romantic comedy, then it would rank in this category as it too is a modern classic, but I'm not sure it quite qualifies. It's one of those rare movies that manages to just be a romance - not a romantic comedy, not a dramatic romance (a la When A Man Loves a Woman, the Notebook, etc) - just a romance.
Level 2: Well-Done
Sweet Home Alabama, You've Got Mail, and While You Were Sleeping.
These movies manage to be original (or well, at least if you forgive YGM for being a remake . . .but if you take The Shop Around the Corner and YGM's premise together was original compared to the genre of rom. Com. as a whole), funny, and believable both in their portraits of people and the evolution of the romance.
Level 3: Strangely Addictive though not so Good.
The Prince and Me, She's All That, Bridget Jones' Diary
Level 4: Unmemorable:
IQ
Level 5: Painful
Never Been Kissed, most Hugh Grant movies, My Best Friend's Wedding, Bridget Jones Diary II
Level 6: A Scourge Upon the Earth
Serving Sara
(quite possibly the single worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life).
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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eternal Sunshine is by no means a comedy. It's got way too many depressing scenes in it.
One that I did forget though was Love Actually, which quality wise was better than When Harry Met Sally - though its hard to compare them because they are so different - but hasn't had time to become a classic (and probably won't . . . it's just not the type.) That is, if you define "classic" in terms of how well-remembered by the general populace a movie is, which is a debatable definition I admit.
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