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

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.

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

i feel like kirk van houten just told me he sleeps in a race car

is Mary Astor more sinister in TPBS or TMF?

I really can't stand Katherine Hepburn

xp

― Οὖτις,

Nicht, Toto, nicht.

xp more sinister IRL, now

voted for palm beach and philadelphia story which i've always loved. one of the best films ever about philly (even tho it actually takes place outside philly)

I can understand the Hepburn repulsion: the accent, the mannerisms, the range. In her early films she's more weird than good. She only starts looking like a human being in Holiday – then The Philadelphia Story spends most of its running time destroying what makes her unique.

it's not hepburn per se for me, the character just comes off like a psycho

re the apt, i'll admit my own embarrassment over masochistic pining shit in my youth makes me less sympathetic towards portrayals of the archetype today

i know i dug the palm beach story when i saw it but couldn't remember anything specific so i didn't vote for it.

it's a divorce-com

http://thefilmexperience.net/storage/messages-soused.jpg

I can understand the Hepburn repulsion: the accent, the mannerisms, the range.

yeah idk it's something about her stiff, brittle manner it just really rubs me the wrong way. my wife prob hates her more than I do so I p much never see her stuff anyway. I remember hating African Queen when I saw it in high school.

number none otm

hmph I voted for the Apartment AND Princess Bride, 'alternating'

The Palm Beach Story is just the best.

And Joel McCrea is damn cute

hmph I voted for the Apartment AND Princess Bride, 'alternating'

yeah Morbz is making a mistaken assumption about the uniformity of people's ballots, most covered both eras

Looking at my ballot, I had several movies from the 30s/40s/50s, several from the 80s/90s/00s, but only one from the years between 1960 and 1983. This was not intentional in any way, but I guess there really was a golden age for this stuff in the years around WWII, and the second golden age didn't start until the mid-80s?

Though I think the second golden age is over already? I voted for only a couple of movies from the last 10 years, Safety Not Guaranteed is really the only truly remarkable romcom I've seen in recent years. And even that one stretches the romcom formula quite a lot, though it undoubtedly belongs to the genre. The best "traditional" romcom that I've seen lately is The Mindy Project, which is a TV series.

My ballot dropped off -- drastically -- after 1950.

I only had 12 on my list, and six were from that 1960-83 bracket. I'm probably doing it all wrong--is there anyone here who lets you know when you're doing it all wrong?

ask Dr. Nadir.

idr morbz were you on the action thread complaining too? bc that seems like it'd be even worse in this regard.

I was not, because there were no Hollywood films called "action movies" until the descendants of The French Connection were thoroughly lobotomized and hyperedited inro the sacred work of Mel, Ahnuld and Bruce. There were swashbucklers, cop thrillers, westerns etc, with characterizations instead of catchphrases.

so there

in fairness to Morbs, it is awful for him when people have opinions.

only when theyre wrong

I don't care what YOU ppl think about anything, unless you rule the world after Hillary drops the bomb

Who Bomb the World (Girls)

Morbz you spend hours every day telling us what we think is wrong. You care so much its funny.

complaining about Hepburn being "psycho" in BUB seems kind of like complaining that Bugs Bunny is a psycho, though I can see how her character being the ur-manic pixie feels sour in 2014