Boy-being Meets Girl-being Under a Silvery Moon (Which Then Explodes for No Adequately Explored Reason): THE ROMANTIC COMEDIES POLL RESULTS THREAD

28. Raising Arizona (1987, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
3 votes, 129 points
http://www.rowsdowr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RaisingArizona_quad-1.jpg

well if that ain't one of the worst posters ever

27. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, dir. Michel Gondry)
4 votes, 142 points
http://azharikahfi.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/2004_eternal_sunshine_of_the_spotless_mind_wallpaper_001.jpg

well if that ain't one of the worst posters ever

haha I know rite, I just had to use it instead of the other more common one. it's so off.

i missed the comedy part of ESOTSM

voted for four of the last five.

bull durham's way good. wasn't crazy about roxanne but haven't seen it in years; did vote for steve elsewhere. def come to hawaii vg.

"bawdy-nawdy enough to be french" haha. wau @ that raising arizona poster.

26. Holiday (1938, dir. George Cukor)
4 votes, 147 points
http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/40/4030/1XBLF00Z/posters/holiday-1938.jpg

John Barrymore going "ting-a-ling-a-ling" at the beginning of TC still makes me laugh out loud

Holiday is the most special Grant-Hepburn movie.

i missed the comedy part of ESOTSM

Jim Carrey gets beat up by a little kid. Ruffalo dances around drunk in his underwear w Dunst. David Cross. there are small jokes in there. I think plenty of it is funny, in among the heartwrenching stuff

find grant/hepburn a lil twee in holiday (and elsewhere) but voted for it cuz lew ayres.

that's it for today kids!

david cross saying "i am MAKING... a BIRDHOUSE" is what came to mind first in terms of eternal sunshine lols. realize that's v minor.

drink to mother, johnny. she tried to be a seton for a while. till she gave up and died.

Glad to see Fucking Åmål and Muriel's Wedding on the list, those were my #2 and #3. (And I suspect my #1 will place high in this poll.) Fucking Åmål is probably heavier and more dramatic than most of the movies in this poll, but there's plenty of comedy in it too, and it's one of my favourite movies of all time, so I had to place it high. I remembering just bawling my eyes out at the cinema when I first saw it. I love that there's a lot of other stuff going on besides the most "shocking" content (lesbian romance between two teen girls, can they admit it to others?), so even if times change and this theme will feel a bit outdated, the movie still works.

Funnier than twentieth century, anyway.

oh man just realized I forgot to vote for Flirting >:(

Anyway, it's been years since I saw Arizona Baby, but I don't remember it having much in the way of a romantic plot? Sure, it has a married couple, but IIRC the movie doesn't really focus on their romance?

and yet here it is

i almost posted an explanation of why someone could find raising arizona both romantic and a comedy but i'd prefer to let the mystery be

lol arizona baby

I find it very romantic, in a very funny way.

so there you have it

I'm not saying people shouldn't have voted for it, I'm just curious to here what makes them think it's a romantic comedy? The same applies to A Matter of Life and Death, which IIRC doesn't really have any comedy at all, it's pure melodrama. Both are great movies, but I didn't put them on my list because I can't see them as romantic comedies, so I'd love to hear why others do?

(xxxpost)

re-watch the opening and closing scenes. the middle may not be about "romance" but it establishes the romantic themes throughout

opening and closing montages, rather

biggest asshole on this list (the movie *and* the character)

that's a pretty strange complaint since obviously Knocked Up will be in the top 20

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Knocked Up has one good scene (the one with Harold Ramis) vs. the zero good scenes in Scott Pilgrim, so...

holly hunter can't have children, wants children, nicolas cage loves her so much he's willing to kidnap those darling little quintuplets just for her

it's about as stupidly romantic as you can get

croup otm -- it's all about the set up and the close

xxxxxpost can i just point out that I have a sentimental attachment to "High Fidelity" only because my alltime favourite album makes an appearance (a movie first & probably last)

http://www.quadrupedmedia.com/mx80/images/Hifi1.jpg

H.I.: A man for a husband.
Ed McDonnough: That ain't no answer.
H.I.: Honey, that's the only answer.
Ed McDonnough: That ain't no answer.

A Matter of Life and Death, which IIRC doesn't really have any comedy at all, it's pure melodrama.

give up, i have

anything less sobering than 12 Years a Slave is a comedy, apparently

lol

Unfunny P&P vs. unfunny Irene Dunne

vs unfunny Eric H.

I'll admit if someone had nommed The Red Shoes I probably would have voted for it without thinking about it too much

for the record, results so far:

26.Holiday
27.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
28.Raising Arizona
29.Smiles of a Summer Night
30.Twentieth Century
31.A Matter Of Life And Death
TIE.32.Bull Durham
TIE.32.Forgetting Sarah Marshall
TIE.32.Roxanne
33.The Thin Man
TIE.34.Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
TIE.34.Broadcast News
TIE.34.High Fidelity
35.Working Girl
36.The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
TIE.37.Something Wild
TIE.37.Pierrot Le Fou
TIE.38.I Know Where I'm Going!
TIE.38.Enough Said
39.The Awful Truth
40.Sleepless In Seattle
TIE.41.Design For Living
TIE.41.There’s Something About Mary
42.Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
43.Love Me Tonight
44.Muriel's Wedding
45.Moonstruck
46.Breakfast at Tiffany’s
47.Fucking Åmål (Aka Show Me Love)
48.Amelie
49.Harold And Maude
50.The Lady Vanishes

i'm gonna assume the Finnish subtitles on Matter of Life and Death and Muriel's Wedding were terrible but in different ways

a baby named arizona baby who represents the typical arizona baby

who represents the typical baby arizona

i missed the comedy part of ESOTSM

"Technically, it is brain damage," motherfucker

Carrey furiously masturbating to a catwoman sketch while repeating the word "Shame".

We should I suppose have one of the "Asshole realises he is an asshole due to his Feelings for mysterious lady, tries to shape up" films, and Scott Pilgrim's the best of them, so...

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t407/KezzerC/tumblr_lvqvseP7H31qlbgxa.gif

i'm gonna assume the Finnish subtitles on Matter of Life and Death and Muriel's Wedding were terrible but in different ways

Huh?

well the former's a comedy and the latter's pretty much anti-romantic so

"Technically, it is brain damage," motherfucker

I heard that line as a straight-up factual statement tbh.

factual statements can be especially funny

allright everybody, grab your hankies and uh ... whoopie cushions... or something