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

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

the point of nice-guy schlub Bud Baxter's awakening in The Apartment is not that he's a DOORMAT, but that he's a PIMP.

why don't you guys diagnose zany housewife Lucy Ricardo next

Is jack Lemmon gonna have to choke a bitch?

when i first saw philadelphia story i was pretty shocked at how casually domestic violence was treated (vis-a-vis cary grant slapping hepburn)

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

The unfaceable truth. Wonder what Morbs' Mulholland Dr. fantasy looks like. (All of ILE in a lake of fire, I assume.)

ugh, ilx in a fantasy wd be worse than dead cats or old nuns

oh not THE UNFACEABLE TRUTH

lol

humming "the unfaceable truth" to the tune of man of la mancha's "the impossible dream"

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7mxWMvM3NuA/TFCLfVMOETI/AAAAAAAAAPU/oBMqMfo0dOA/s640/unfaithfully_yours.jpg

It feels so weird to note that "pimp" is a rather flattering description of a guy who lets his boss and his crush fuck in his apartment

That like, "pimp" suggests a criminal degree of domination and authority over women. That the neighbor assumes he has it is even a running joke in the film

If he learned he was a pimp the moral would have been to stop abusing women. He learns to stop being abused by his bosses, and is rewarded with respect from a woman.

Ha, I loved that movie as a kid. I haven't seen it in forever though.

Am rescreening The Freshman w/Harold Lloyd, and be damned if it doesn't have one of the all-time 'meet cutes' when our hero helps the heroine with her crossword puzzle on the train.

saving the rest for Labor Day? the winner is obviously

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x4r2EfTj-_o/T5TAQYv1HoI/AAAAAAAAAHU/zkjoatvD8EE/s1600/nutty-prof.jpg

TCM has an evening of JL on the 11th...gonna try to catch that one.

xp my #2 iirc

wish i had voted in this.

philadelphia story is the ur-romantic comedy to me because it's so explicit in articulating the misogynist ideology that dominates so many romantic comedies that came later. i always feel guilty about liking it so much for that reason, but in highlighting the ideology, it makes it available for critique. i know the first time i saw it i was like why are all these men yelling at katherine hepburn for the exact thing that makes her awesome?

also the character of liz makes me so sad/mad.

the only cringy moment is when they make jimmy stewart say all that fires banked down crap.

cary grant is so beautiful.

i have seen this movie at least one hundred times and it still makes me laugh out loud. so, so funny and quick.

i'm not sure i would have put it at the top of my ballot, though. holiday is more human.

we're in perfect alignment

<3

and Cary Grant is so damn sleek in it, like an otter

Tracy Lord's being 'tamed' is sort of a neat prophecy of Hepburn's late career -- say after 1967 -- when she kept doing the kate thing mostly in disposable movies, w/out true bite.

(not that it didnt happen earlier, as in that lousy reshot climax to Woman of the Year)

btw if it hadn't been made for TV i'd have voted for this, her last great comic role

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncs3VO_TtjI

So, are we gonna get the top 10 soon?

results blew away with a gust of wind when Shakey's mother-in-law opened a window

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD55dkiX_ZQ

THAT'd be a RC if the threesome hadn't been cut

(I mean why do you think they had Walter act without his dentures)

OK kids GET READY

10. The Shop Around The Corner (1940, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
6 votes, 269 points
http://www.filmposters.com/images/posters/14294.jpg

Margaret Sullavan's voice is one of the wonders of the western world.

Her selling the music box to the fat woman = gem.

Wonder how many of these will have figured in even half the ballots.

Shameful omission from my ballot. lolxp

goddamn it's an adorable movie

(The only reason I didn't vote for it is because I think of it as a Christmas movie, which now I feel like a total goob for even saying out loud)

9. The 40-Year Old Virgin (2005, dir. Judd Apatow)
8 votes, 274 points
http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_expanded/R/40-year-old-virgin-cinema-quad-movie-poster-(teaser-1).jpg