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

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

I unreservedly hate this next entry and a pox on you all for voting for it

haha wait no I take it back this one is allright, it's the one after it that's terrible

8. My Man Godfrey (1936, dir. Gregory La Cava)
6 votes, 2 no. 1 votes, 277 points
http://luxedb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/My-Man-Godfrey-Poster.jpg

7. When Harry Met Sally... (1989, dir. Rob Reiner)
7 votes, 2 no. 1 votes, 280 points
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0EBzD8TFmjk/URYczXPATvI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/CqrbUL7tQB0/s1600/Romance_When+Harry+Met+Sally.jpg

i don't get 40 year old virgin rating so high. I mean, I liked it but jeez

xpost YAAAAY

sorry shakey but I love it

"I've lost a lot of money."

"Well, maybe you left it in your other suit."

could watch Alice Brady + Eugene Pallette in a sitcom.

i don't get 40 year old virgin rating so high. I mean, I liked it but jeez

this is on cable all the time so I feel like I've seen it (well, parts of it) an awful lot. the pacing of it is really great, the only false note is really the sappy bit at the end when he crashes through the billboard on his bike, it's just unnecessary. otherwise the ensemble cast makes it, all of the supporting characters add depth to it.

i don't get 40 year old virgin rating so high. I mean, I liked it but jeez

it got 8 votes where the movies before and after got 6, so it's more of a general thumbs up than a BEST MOVIE EVER thing

yeah the action chase sequence at the end of 40yo is really pro forma but great ensemble, and i appreciate how they get at the pathos of carell's haplessness without suggesting he's an unspoiled dreamboat or something.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall > 40yo Virgin imo but I didn't vote so eh.

Don't love any of these top 10ers, but whatever keeps the path clear for Annie Hall's fine with me.

" 6. Tootsie (1982, dir. Sydney Pollack)
7 votes, 291 points
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u5ri0vVFL._SS500_.jpg"

" 5. The Lady Eve (1941, dir. Preston Sturges)
7 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 312 points
http://www.filmposters.com/images/posters/11676.jpg"

The Lady Eve my #1.

Tootsie I've written enough about.

4. His Girl Friday (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)
8 votes, 349 points
http://api.ning.com/files/sITKNS7bAwnFFKy*LoC-iuL9fbcUHr0D7Pchah-UnIST85dTVHSLWrcq-QLFKbcudKAvbHXZkyGsREiGTxb6N1HD-3GkowCp/hisgirlfriday.jpg?width=721

3. Clueless (1995, dir. Amy Heckerling)
9 votes, 359 points
http://www.timelessmoviemagic.co.uk/ekmps/shops/fozzy/images/clueless-original-uk-quad-poster-alicia-silverstone-95-2655-p.jpg

the cellphone jokes in this movie don't even register as jokes anymore

they remind me of the CD longbox joke in Defending Your Life

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