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

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.

idk about that, i think the best movies from ever era have sharp dialogue, romantic banter, improbable plot narratives

"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"

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

the whole Doris Day Period is a divisive thing unto itself.

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

all of me sounds terrible based on that poster

down with love...from the director of bring it on and the impending ant-man, as well as numerous superchunk videos

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.

all of me sounds terrible based on that poster

idk it kinda had me "Edwina Cutwater"

All of Me is the best Martin-Reiner film

probably

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.

16. Defending Your Life (1991, dir. Albert Brooks)
5 votes, 204 points

https://briansfilmlog.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/jamier-bx__defendingyourlife1.jpg

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

i've seen defending your life a lot. it's great. my #4 overall.

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

rip torn is hilarious in it

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

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"

yeah I haven't seen Defending Your Life in at least 20 years either, feel like it deserves a second viewing

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.

Yusss @ Defending Your Life!

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!!

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)

btw emil.y, I resolved your dilemma by not voting for non-RCs, and not looking at the nominations.

another lol tie comin up

I can't believe I forgot to vote for Thundercrack!

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.

I wouldn't even say Brooks was balanced in Lost in America, really.

closer

I mean Hagerty has things to do, she loses the nest egg.

TIE 14. The Apartment (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)
225 points
http://www.impawards.com/1960/posters/apartment_ver3.jpg

TIE 14. The Princess Bride (1987, dir. Rob Reiner)
225 points
https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/A70-5610

also distinguishing screwball from romantic comedies, yeah let me know when you see ppl doing that ITT

work's over, enjoy the rest of the alternating VegGrrl/Dr M choices

xp You aren't exactly keeping your votes or at least rooting interests secret here.

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

I'll save the top 10 for Monday just for you morbz

(Labor Day)

13. Bringing Up Baby (1938, dir. Howard Hawks)
6 votes, 234 points

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/95/MPW-47852

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

love the all of me-trouble in paradise tie. i put all of me very high.

bringing up baby bugs me.

TIE 12. The Palm Beach Story (1942, dir. Preston Sturges)
6 votes, 252 points
http://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 points
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nX5fPYwu6ds/T7VRgAsrkrI/AAAAAAAAAJA/H2LIWIbuvXE/s1600/PS+poster.jpg

11. Roman Holiday (1953, dir. William Wyler)
6 votes, 259 points

http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/sc/posters/web/Picture71.jpg

ok that's it for today

Now, The Palm Beach Story I do kinda like.

bringing up baby is another one where on second viewing i just couldn't get past the obvious but ignored toxicity of the romantic dynamic. the sense that katherine hepburn was blatantly NOT WELL.

it's nice that neither you or your friend understood The Apartment, croup -- whoosh

xxxxps: the scene with the bowler, when he takes her aside at the christmas party to show off his status symbols, all of which rely on getting closer to the guy he doesn't know stomped on her heart, culminating in actually showing her w oblivious hierarchy-happy pride the generic christmas card w the picture of the guy and his happy nuclear family, is the painfulest/best thing in the apartment, which i didn't vote for for some reason.

I really can't stand Katherine Hepburn

xp

i LOVE the palm beach story. maybe my favorite movie about money.