[ 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
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.
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
also i'm rooting for clueless to go #1 overall
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
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).
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
18. The Graduate (1967, dir. Mike Nichols)4 votes, 175 pointshttp://www.filmposters.com/images/posters/16430.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Meh.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
i know being dismissive of new movies is kinda morbz' raison d'etre but there's something genre-incoherent to me about damning all post-1980s rom-com film for it's lack of... what? seriousness? lol. maybe rom-com just brings out the cinematic poptimist in me. (idr morbz were you on the action thread complaining too? bc that seems like it'd be even worse in this regard.)
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
"one word. plastics."
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Went with Virginia Woolf as a rom-com instead.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
graduate is kinda an anti-rom-com which is why i think it belongs (and i voted for it)
TIE 17. All Of Me (1984, dir. Carl Reiner)5 votes, 183 pointshttp://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_expanded/JamieF-TH/all-of-me-cinema-quad-movie-poster-(1).jpg
TIE 17. Trouble in Paradise (1932, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)4 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 183 pointshttp://www.filmsite.org/posters/trou3.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
this tie pleases me
the whole Doris Day Period is a divisive thing unto itself.
and then in the Classic Period commercially ambitious films did not take teens' amorous quandaries seriously (I don't mean in a drama vs comedy sense, I mean as something for the sole focus of an "A" picture). The Andy Hardy movies always found their ostensible moral center in his dad the Judge straightening his silly concerns out.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
jesus christ i had no idea how bad taglines were in the 80s
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
granted now the nonsensical phrases of today won't age well either
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
The post-1980s rom-com pretty much has nothing to do with the 1929-48 repartee-and-slapstick-based romantic comedy. Different concerns, approaches, assumptions, style.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
idk about that, i think the best movies from ever era have sharp dialogue, romantic banter, improbable plot narratives
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
"this is a movie where a great guy named Fred is going to have a wild adventure and you should go see it." vs "GET READ' FOR FRED"
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
i agree obv that the style of 1929 will obv differ substantially from 1999, but i like that 10 things i hate about you can appear in the same list as it happened one night
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
these are p amusing and I'll watch them if they're on TV but they're hardly great. I did like that remake/ripoff w Obi Wan Kenobi in it, what was that called... Down With Love
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
all of me sounds terrible based on that poster
― marcos, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
down with love...from the director of bring it on and the impending ant-man, as well as numerous superchunk videos
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
one major difference is that propriety allows ppl to make movies about relationships post-1980 that you couldn't do in 1942 when ppl were making divorce-coms.
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
idk it kinda had me "Edwina Cutwater"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
All of Me is the best Martin-Reiner film
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
probably
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
I did like that remake/ripoff w Obi Wan Kenobi in it, what was that called... Down With Love
Tony Randall was in it as the most explicit carryover, and he said while promoting it that they should've just re-released one of the originals, which i'm sure the producers loved.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
16. Defending Your Life (1991, dir. Albert Brooks)5 votes, 204 points
https://briansfilmlog.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/jamier-bx__defendingyourlife1.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
i voted for that even though i haven't seen it in maybe 20 years just on how badly i want to see it again
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
i've seen defending your life a lot. it's great. my #4 overall.
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
i mean, not so badly i'll pay money or remember to put it on my netflix queue, but i really want to see the name scroll by when i'm dvr-ing pay cable
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
rip torn is hilarious in it
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
15. Manhattan (1979, dir. Woody Allen)5 votes, 220 points
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/dvdreviews15/a%20woody%20allen%20manhattan%20dvd%20review/manhattan%20woody%20allen%20dvd%20review%20poster2.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
ok i didn't know rip torn was in it (certainly didn't know who he was when i saw it), bumping it up to "put on netflix queue"
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
yeah I haven't seen Defending Your Life in at least 20 years either, feel like it deserves a second viewing
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link