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

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
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TIE 38. Enough Said (2013, dir. Nicole Hofcener)
3 votes, 110 points
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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
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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."

Yeah ppl, quote fucking Moonstruck (too cute by a half), let The Awful Truth go by in silence.

Enough Said should be about 500th.

I Know Where I'm Going! is great. AAAAND NOOOOOT A FUUUUUCKING ROMANTIC COMMMMMEDDDYYYYYYYYY

you can't just shut up and stop acting like George Will can you

hey guys, check out the genre labels under the film title on the iMdB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037800/?ref_=nv_sr_1

DRAMA. ROMANCE.

you can't just get your yuks reading The Corner, can you

'Dan' Leeson: I certainly learned about women from you.
Aunt Patsy: [handing him a Dear John letter] Here's your diploma.

BEST EVER

let The Awful Truth go by in silence

Better to say nothing at all than, et al.

I do love that this poll is twisting Morbs into fits over movies he actually LIKES placing, for a change.

pretty sure Asta would treat him like Ralph Bellamy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMqXb7IAIU

don't worry Eric, Make Way for Tomorrow may yet show up here

Morbius: you're so well behaved over on the Ramones countdown, and so angry on the romantic-comedy countdown. Odd symmetry.

I voted for Dragonseed.

I voted for Demon Seed.

people on the Ramones poll seem to have heard the Ramones.

pretty sure people on this thread have seen Moonstruck.

that's the problem

"sorry to be seething with contempt but i have a really high standard when it comes to romantic comedies"

"the idea of people settling for films nowhere as warm and hilarious as the ones i enjoy...it just makes me want to berate them endlessly"

If we're conflating "romantic comedy" with "screwball comedy," then "warm" isn't at issue.

off to watch some Rockford Files s1

croup, i forget what this is from... "shit in your hat and punch it"

well, romance in the movies is bullshit, just like love songs in pop

Probably something really old