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

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

lemme ask you a hypothermical question

25. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, dir. Gil Junger)
4 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 149 points
http://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

24. Midnight (1939, dir. Mitchell Liesen)
4 votes, 150 points
http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Posters/M/Poster%20-%20Midnight%20(1939)_02.jpg

Midnight was my #2.

23. Say Anything... (1989, dir. Cameron Crowe)
4 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 152 points
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvrj9mlTSD1r38d5m.jpg

always considered this inferior to Better Off Dead

xp Never realized that was the tagline.

[ 22. Ninotchka (1939, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
4 votes, 160 points
http://www.impawards.com/1939/posters/ninotchka_xlg.jpg

21. It Happened One Night (1934, dir. Frank Capra)
4 votes, 162 points
http://pre-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/it-happened-one-night-movie-poster.jpg

Garbo's a drag pre-laugh, although her scowl is funny the first couple minutes.

you just don't like Communists

I'm an anti-fan of the genre, but even I'm surprised by how low IHON placed.

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?

I'm not particularly fond of IHON but I haven't seen it since high school

it seems more agreeable and less classic every year. hence all those Oscars

I'm an anti-fan of the genre

thx for voting

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

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.

Reagan era, I meant, not post-80s

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.

20. City Lights (1931, dir. Charlie Chaplin)
4 votes, 163 points
http://www.movieposterexchange.com/poster_photo/71.jpg

19. Some Like It Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder)
5 votes, 165 points
http://noirwhale.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/film-noir-some-like-it-hot-movie-poster-via-movieart-net.jpg

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.

I'm an anti-fan of the genre

thx for voting

An anti-fan of screwball, not rom coms.

if ppl's ballots are anything like mine they are individually split between pre-war and post-80s. those are the two eras that best resonate w/ my aesthetics + taste in the genre. post-war romances that i considered nominating seemed more like melodramas than comedies.

also i'm rooting for clueless to go #1 overall

Entirely predictable.

yep - there are a few exceptions but even the noms list didn't include much in the intervening years, I had a hard time thinking of any myself (altho I do like Pillow Talk and What a Way to Go and some others).

18. The Graduate (1967, dir. Mike Nichols)
4 votes, 175 points
http://www.filmposters.com/images/posters/16430.jpg

Meh.