so there you have it
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
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)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
re-watch the opening and closing scenes. the middle may not be about "romance" but it establishes the romantic themes throughout
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
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...
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
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
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
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
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
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
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
lol
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
Unfunny P&P vs. unfunny Irene Dunne
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
vs unfunny Eric H.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
I'll admit if someone had nommed The Red Shoes I probably would have voted for it without thinking about it too much
― rob, Thursday, 28 August 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
for the record, results so far:
26.Holiday27.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind28.Raising Arizona29.Smiles of a Summer Night30.Twentieth Century31.A Matter Of Life And DeathTIE.32.Bull DurhamTIE.32.Forgetting Sarah MarshallTIE.32.Roxanne33.The Thin ManTIE.34.Scott Pilgrim Vs The WorldTIE.34.Broadcast NewsTIE.34.High Fidelity35.Working Girl36.The Miracle of Morgan's CreekTIE.37.Something WildTIE.37.Pierrot Le FouTIE.38.I Know Where I'm Going!TIE.38.Enough Said39.The Awful Truth40.Sleepless In SeattleTIE.41.Design For LivingTIE.41.There’s Something About Mary42.Gentlemen Prefer Blondes43.Love Me Tonight44.Muriel's Wedding45.Moonstruck46.Breakfast at Tiffany’s47.Fucking Åmål (Aka Show Me Love)48.Amelie49.Harold And Maude50.The Lady Vanishes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
i'm gonna assume the Finnish subtitles on Matter of Life and Death and Muriel's Wedding were terrible but in different ways
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
a baby named arizona baby who represents the typical arizona baby
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
who represents the typical baby arizona
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
i missed the comedy part of ESOTSM
"Technically, it is brain damage," motherfucker
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
Carrey furiously masturbating to a catwoman sketch while repeating the word "Shame".
― I Don't Wanna Ice Bucket With You (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 August 2014 05:18 (nine years ago) link
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...
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 August 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t407/KezzerC/tumblr_lvqvseP7H31qlbgxa.gif
― Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 29 August 2014 08:07 (nine years ago) link
Huh?
― Tuomas, Friday, 29 August 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
well the former's a comedy and the latter's pretty much anti-romantic so
― Daphnis Celesta, Friday, 29 August 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
I heard that line as a straight-up factual statement tbh.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 29 August 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
factual statements can be especially funny
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:36 (nine years ago) link
allright everybody, grab your hankies and uh ... whoopie cushions... or something
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
lemme ask you a hypothermical question
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
25. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, dir. Gil Junger)4 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 149 pointshttp://hellogiggles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/10thingsihateaboutyou-poster1.jpg
I walked out of this movie, and I hadn't even paid to get in
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
24. Midnight (1939, dir. Mitchell Liesen)4 votes, 150 pointshttp://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Posters/M/Poster%20-%20Midnight%20(1939)_02.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
Midnight was my #2.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
23. Say Anything... (1989, dir. Cameron Crowe)4 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 152 pointshttp://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvrj9mlTSD1r38d5m.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
always considered this inferior to Better Off Dead
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
xp Never realized that was the tagline.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
[ 22. Ninotchka (1939, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)4 votes, 160 pointshttp://www.impawards.com/1939/posters/ninotchka_xlg.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
21. It Happened One Night (1934, dir. Frank Capra)4 votes, 162 pointshttp://pre-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/it-happened-one-night-movie-poster.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Garbo's a drag pre-laugh, although her scowl is funny the first couple minutes.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
you just don't like Communists
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm an anti-fan of the genre, but even I'm surprised by how low IHON placed.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
Say Anything... my number one. Pretty good list so far. Funny how there's a huge split in time period. Where's Pillow Talk to give us a bridge?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
I'm not particularly fond of IHON but I haven't seen it since high school
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
it seems more agreeable and less classic every year. hence all those Oscars
I'm an anti-fan of the genre
thx for voting
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
underwhelmed by IHON when I saw it (only part i really loved is when they imitate a squabbling, long-married couple) but i can take on faith it was fresh at the time
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
I do think it's interesting that these poll results are split almost entirely between pre-war and post-80s, it's like the intervening three decades didn't even happen.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
Reagan era, I meant, not post-80s
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
Going back to conversation upthread, one of the (many) reasons I didn't vote in this is that I didn't know what to do about A Matter of Life and Death. To me, it is absolutely not a romantic comedy - some light comic relief does not a comedy make - but it is an absolutely wonderful film, and I'd want to vote for it over a lot of the dross here. Pretty sure there were a fair few others in this boat that had been nominated, so my ballot would've focused on non-comedy romances or non-romantic comedies, and thus been completely pointless.
Still think Thundercrack counts, though.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
20. City Lights (1931, dir. Charlie Chaplin)4 votes, 163 pointshttp://www.movieposterexchange.com/poster_photo/71.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
19. Some Like It Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder)5 votes, 165 pointshttp://noirwhale.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/film-noir-some-like-it-hot-movie-poster-via-movieart-net.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
I do think it's interesting that these poll results are split almost entirely between pre-war and post-80s
The James Harvey book I cited way up top diagnoses the genre as dying around 1948. So we have that bloc of scholarly voters, and then the ones who will watch very little pre-1984. Entirely predictable.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
An anti-fan of screwball, not rom coms.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link