graduate is kinda an anti-rom-com which is why i think it belongs (and i voted for it)
― Mordy, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
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
but no All of Me is nowhere as brilliant as Trouble in Paradise
Meryl Streep sighed over her role in the Brooks "I'm just The Girl." To be great, 2 or 3 roles need to be comparably substantive, which is why City Lights doesn't really fit in this for me either.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Yusss @ Defending Your Life!
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
If Streep doesn't recognize that her comedies circa Life were what opened her up as an actress, she's nuts.
this rollout is serving as repeated facepalms for me over how many I forgot to vote for
how the hell did I forget Defending your Life? So great!!
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
then again I composed my ballot on my phone while I was at a concert so I have only myself to blame (the opener was kinda boring)
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
btw emil.y, I resolved your dilemma by not voting for non-RCs, and not looking at the nominations.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
another lol tie comin up
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
I can't believe I forgot to vote for Thundercrack!
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Eric, that doesn't change the fact that Defending Your Life is unbalanced, Brooks' The Muse even moreso. Then he got away from having to have a female counterpart entirely by squirming under Debbie Reynolds' thumb.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't even say Brooks was balanced in Lost in America, really.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
closer
I mean Hagerty has things to do, she loses the nest egg.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
TIE 14. The Apartment (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)225 pointshttp://www.impawards.com/1960/posters/apartment_ver3.jpg
TIE 14. The Princess Bride (1987, dir. Rob Reiner)225 pointshttps://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/A70-5610
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
also distinguishing screwball from romantic comedies, yeah let me know when you see ppl doing that ITT
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
work's over, enjoy the rest of the alternating VegGrrl/Dr M choices
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
xp You aren't exactly keeping your votes or at least rooting interests secret here.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
loved the apartment when i saw it as a kid but kinda got ruined when it was on tv and a friend with a more active social life saw jack lemmon wearing the bowler and asked why we're supposed to like this guy again. the whole "doormat with a heart of gold" thing just ain't been appealing since
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
I'll save the top 10 for Monday just for you morbz
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
(Labor Day)
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
13. Bringing Up Baby (1938, dir. Howard Hawks)6 votes, 234 points
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/95/MPW-47852
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
say anything has a similar "i'll just be a glutton for punishment until she realizes she should take my virginity" quality as the apartment (and hey who released a book of interviews with wilder, cameron crowe that's who) but i got more fondness for the ensemble in that, even if shirley maclaine's way better than ione skye
― da croupier, Friday, 29 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
love the all of me-trouble in paradise tie. i put all of me very high.
bringing up baby bugs me.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
TIE 12. The Palm Beach Story (1942, dir. Preston Sturges)6 votes, 252 pointshttp://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/sc/posters/web/Picture58.jpg
TIE 12. The Philadelphia Story (1940, dir. George Cukor)6 votes, 2 no. 1 votes, 252 pointshttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nX5fPYwu6ds/T7VRgAsrkrI/AAAAAAAAAJA/H2LIWIbuvXE/s1600/PS+poster.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
11. Roman Holiday (1953, dir. William Wyler)6 votes, 259 points
http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/sc/posters/web/Picture71.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
ok that's it for today