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

idk if mordy meant moon river, there are darker possibilities

44. Muriel's Wedding (1994, dir. J.P. Hogan)
2 votes, 94 points
http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/(R)__MurielsWedding(teaser)3.jpg

43. Love Me Tonight (1932, dir. Rouben Mamoulian)
2 votes,95 points
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreviews21/a%20Rouben%20Mamoulian%20Love%20Me%20Tonight%20DVD/poster4%20Rouben%20Mamoulian%20Love%20Me%20Tonight%20DVD.jpg

First of the all-time greats to show up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGNQ7TrVDrg

42. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, dir. Howard Hawks)
(3 votes, 98 points
http://woodstockwardrobe.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/gentlemen-prefer-blondes-poster.jpeg

There's Something About Mary (1998, dir. Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
3 votes, 99 points
http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_expanded/(JamieR-BX)__TheresSomethingAboutMary(teaser)2.jpg

er that's no. 41.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/497404/Gentlemen-Prefer-Blondes-Movie-Clip-Anyone-Here-For-Love.html

Forgot to vote for Moonstuck.

TIE 41. Design for Living (1933, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
3 votes, 99 points
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Posters/D/Poster%20-%20Design%20for%20Living_07.jpg

40. Sleepless in Seattle (1993, dir. Nora Ephron)
3 votes, 106 points
http://www.parkcircus.com/assets/0009/5465/SLEEPLESS-QUAD.jpg

the pensive expressions on this movie poster crack me up, so insipid

sleepless in seattle aged really poorly

was it the shoulder pads

you can tell they were meant to be together because they are both wearing shapeless grey outfits

it's just such a bizarre movie. iirc a huge portion of the plot relies on ppl calling into radio shows?

yeah, Nora Ephron ahead of Lubitsch, mm hmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlK5y5ne3Xs

i've got design for living waiting for me to watch at home

i'm pretty sure any aging that affected Sleepless' status was done by the viewers

well - i guess what i mean is that for many years i was told it was a classic of the genre and then i watched it and realized it was really really bad, even by the standard of contemporaneous rom-coms

SIS would've been approved with Edward Everett Horton and Lew Ayres as the leads.

All Quiet on the Screwball Front

the hardly edgy Owen Gleiberman of EW gave SiS a "C" in '93

i can't remember for sure but i'm pretty sure meg ryan just, like, left bill pullman with the check in a restaurant after she got him to agree she should call off their engagement and go meet a stranger at the top of the empire state building

according to wikipedia they were eating at the rainbow room at 30 rock

so it ripped off Love Affair

well they directly reference An Affair To Remember throughout the film, which was based on Love Affair

i wish he'd said something like "well christ if you want to leave me for a widower with a kid you've never met, who knows what bullshit you'd pull with an unattached co-worker in three years" rather than "follow your heart"

and An Affair to Remember (a rotten movie), which ripped off LA

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whoa I didn't even know the rollout had started

a lot of these I haven't seen or don't feel v strongly about, but I voted for Moonstruck & Muriel's Wedding :D

my fave scenes in Moonstruck were between John Mahoney and Olympia Dukakis

yeah they were fantastic -- Mahoney had such a small role but so memorable!!

as 'romcoms' written by John Patrick Shanley go I prefer Five Corners, where John Turturro stalks Jodie Foster and throws his mama out the window.

Five Corners is good, p odd movie

I haven't seen Moonstruck, but Mahoney is also the key to Say Anything

Moonstruck hits all the right notes for me, has a terrific cast...and I adore Cher.

the best two parts of that movie:

"a bride without a head!" "a wolf without a foot!"

and:

"Bring me the big knife. I want to cut my throat." < which i love to quote

- In time you will see that this is the best thing.
- In time you'll drop dead and I'll come to your funeral in a red dress!

<3

39. The Awful Truth (1937, dir. Leo McCarey)
3 votes,107 points
http://michaelgloversmith.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/awfultruth1.jpg

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TIE 38. Enough Said (2013, dir. Nicole Hofcener)
3 votes, 110 points
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZiK-CAvMlCg/Ul8tJzKUDpI/AAAAAAAADMM/HcQ9CmvOxbY/s1600/Enough-Said-UK-quad-movie-poster.jpg

awwwww yes

such a good movie. I wish it came in higher but glad that it got into the top 50

didnt even occur to me to vote for Enough Said or Holofcener generaly

TIE 38. I Know Where I'm Going (1945, dir. Powell and Pressburger)
3 votes, 110 points
http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/66470/photos/PHOTO_10996440_66470_8882393_ap_320X240.jpg

yeah I saw Enough Said recently and it was okay I guess but p unremarkable

oh I loved it -- I just forgot about it.

I Know Where I'm Going![ is such a strange fairy tale. Glad to see it here.

god I wish Roger Livesey was in more movies, or had at least ended up doing some voiceover work

i still need to see enough said, been sitting on the dvr

Didn't vote. So happy to see Fucking Åmål on there. Varför måste vi bo i fucking jävla kuk-Åmål!!!

idk if mordy meant moon river, there are darker possibilities

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 4:16 PM (2 hours ago)

lol i just realized this could've possibly meant the deep blue something song. i meant "moon river."

like me

Hawks is a master of jack, trade.

jeez i haven't been called "trade" since Joan Rivers was funny

tasteless :(

[Dennis Perrin "Gaza hospital" tweet]

i can't even imagine loving movies and hating howard hawks, but there you go.

It truly is a democratic marvel of a medium.

that's one way to put it.

he's bored by men-in-groups

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