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

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

Sex. Clothes.
Is There Popularity.
A Problem Here?

is Dr. Nadir screaming in a restroom stall?

i need a mood bump after this, so i'm off to chemo.

2. Groundhog Day (1993, dir. Harold Ramis)
9 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 382 points
http://www.timelessmoviemagic.co.uk/ekmps/shops/fozzy/images/clueless-original-uk-quad-poster-alicia-silverstone-95-2655-p.jpg

haha whoops

2. Groundhog Day (1993, dir. Harold Ramis)
9 votes, 1 no. 1 vote, 382 points
http://glance.matia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/groundhog_day-poster.jpg

1. Annie Hall (1977, dir. Woody Allen)
9 votes, 3 no. 1 vote, 382 points
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rNPEt6EFg7I/UAC1j4RNg2I/AAAAAAAATHU/4riyZK9gI04/s1600/Annie%2BHall%2Bposter%2B2.jpg

1.Annie Hall
2.Groundhog Day
3.Clueless
4.His Girl Friday
5.The Lady Eve
6.Tootsie
7.When Harry Met Sally...
8.My Man Godfrey
9.The 40-Year Old Virgin
10.The Shop Around The Corner
11.Roman Holiday
12.The Palm Beach Story
12.The Philadelphia Story
13.Bringing Up Baby
14.The Princess Bride
14.The Apartment
15.Manhattan
16.Defending Your Life
17.Trouble in Paradise
17.All Of Me
18.The Graduate
19.Some Like It Hot
20.City Lights
21.It Happened One Night
22.Ninotchka
23.Say Anything...
24.Midnight
25.10 Things I Hate About You
26.Holiday
27.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
28.Raising Arizona
29.Smiles of a Summer Night
30.Twentieth Century
31.A Matter Of Life And Death
32.Bull Durham
32.Forgetting Sarah Marshall
32.Roxanne
33.The Thin Man
34.Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
34.Broadcast News
34.High Fidelity
35.Working Girl
36.The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
37.Something Wild
37.Pierrot Le Fou
38.I Know Where I'm Going!
38.Enough Said
39.The Awful Truth
40.Sleepless In Seattle
41.Design For Living
41.There’s Something About Mary
42.Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
43.Love Me Tonight
44.Muriel's Wedding
45.Moonstruck
46.Breakfast at Tiffany’s
47.Fucking Åmål (Aka Show Me Love)
48.Amelie
49.Harold And Maude
50.The Lady Vanishes

will someone defend When Harry Met Sally? I'm curious.

Morbz must be bummed about Knocked Up not placing

clueless really should be that high

always kinda amazed that Rob was brazen enough to steal the faked-orgasm joke from his own dad

does Annie wear those poster clothes in the movie? Is it a still from an unused scene?

Surprised only half voted for the #1.

I will defend WHMS on the basis that I've watched it a million times and I still love it, but I think I'm too close to it to give any kind of critical analysis

baby fish mouth

i just realized the thread title is a hitchhiker's guide reference -- was that a prompt to include the hobbit/deschanel version on the poll?
the couples documentary segments are really good framing/punctuation marks in harry+sally.

I will defend WHMS on the basis that I've watched it a million times and I still love it, but I think I'm too close to it to give any kind of critical analysis

otm, saw it recently and it held up despite the fact that a billy crystal/meg ryan/rob reiner/nora ephron collab would sound like slow death just a few years later

though i gotta say i think bruno kirby and carrie fisher have the best meet-cute in the movie

bruno & carrie are my favorite thing about the movie - especially bruno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihaku9B92yk

Kinda have the urge to revisit Forget Paris, a semi-forgotten tonally similar thing Billy Crystal directed and starred in with Debra Winger in the mid-90s. the family rented it once at the time, didn't hate it but haven't even heard about it since

never gone near Mr saturday night though

I think WHMS kinda set the template for the modern romcom, but it's more emotionally subdued than most of the movies that followed (except for the "running to confess my true love" finale, which was a bit OTT even then, but I'm willing to forgive it because at least Sally isn't about to move to another country and Harry doesn't catch her at the airport as her flight is about to leave or anything), Crystal and Ryan have genuine chemistry, the "old folks reminiscing of their relationship" gimmick gives the movie a nice groundedness (something that wasn't used in most of its imitators), and in general the movie hits all the genre's sweet spots while featuring few of its more irritating cliches.

The only thing I don't like about it was "can [straight] men and women really be friends" debate that's both in the movie and was also sprung by it in the real world, because the idea that they can't is some essentialist bullshit. (Though to be fair to the movie, it never flat out states men and women in general can't be friends, just that these two can't.)

So yeah, if you like modern romcoms, I don't see any reason not to dig WHMS, because it has all that's good about them, and if you don't like the genre, well, what are you doing in this poll anyway?

I can't get past how uncharming Meg Ryan is, but I'm alone in thinking so: her appeal escapes me.

as a hetero man I cosign this sentiment

everything about this movie rubs me the wrong way - the cheap appropriation of superior material, the grating leads, the cloyingly pat resolution

if someone already had a masters in woody studies when it came out i can definitely see that being annoying

the cheap appropriation of superior material

Huh? Isn't it done from an original screenplay?

there's a very strange meg ryan romcom where she plays a biker from the future sent to kill her ex. that one might be a good watch for harry haters?

that does sound p entertaining

idk what to tell you Tuomas the film p obviously lifts its tone, style, setting, themes, and comic delivery almost entirely from Woody Allen (and this key bit from Reiner's dad as noted upthread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sxgnJVhKxxU#t=143)

but y'know minus the Jewy-ness and intellectual posturing and curdled mysanthropy

yeah when i was a kid i think i just assumed that all movies set in manhattan had jazz piano and modest title cards and shit

delivery of "and I think jazz is STUPID" in that clip >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the entirety of WHMS

xp

my sister went through a phase in the late nineties when she watched Forget Paris a lot.

"I will defend WHMS on the basis that I've watched it a million times"

i see, Chauncey

Chauncey von Poopandfart?

answers i arrived at

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Trouble in Paradise
The Shop Around the Corner
My Man Godfrey
Love Me Tonight
His Girl Friday
The Apartment
The Lady Eve
Annie Hall
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Palm Beach Story
Bringing Up Baby
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Gay Divorcee
City Lights
It Happened One Night
A Summer's Tale
The Awful Truth
Libeled Lady
Adam's Rib

Manhattan
Ninotchka
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
The Marrying Kind
The Philadelphia Story
All of Me
Pillow Talk
Say Anything...
To Be or Not to Be
Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Seven Chances
Midnight
Christmas in July
Design for Living
Cluny Brown
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Easy Living
The Last Days of Disco
Holiday
Taxi zum Klo

Remember the Night
The Thin Man
Tampopo
It Should Happen to You
A Fish Called Wanda
Kiss Me Stupid
Ball of Fire
Pygmalion
"10"
Theodora Goes Wild

equally weighted, thought i voted for Shop Around The Corner but musta spaced it

bold means i liked it more than most

A Fish Called Wanda
All Night Long
All Of Me
Before Sunrise
Bull Durham
But I'm A Cheerleader
Defending Your Life
Easy A
Friends With Benefits
High Fidelity
Knight And Day
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Married To The Mob
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Pygmalion
Raising Arizona
Roxanne
Splash
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The African Queen
The Princess Bride
The Sure Thing
The Thin Man
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
When Harry Met Sally...

oh and it was the brangelina mr mrs smith, though i forgot to specify

Romance dead, comedy dying--not my favourite genre.

1. The Heartbreak Kid
2. Broadcast News
3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
4. Roman Holiday
5. The Paper Chase
6. The Graduate
7. Annie Hall
8. Married to the Mob
9. The Wedding Singer
10. Ninotchka
11. Tootsie
12. Woman of the Year

My Man Godfrey
Holiday
She's All That
City Lights
The Shop Around The Corner
Easy A
Midnight
The Awful Truth
His Girl Friday
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Easy Living
The Lady Vanishes
Claire's Knee
Twentieth Century
Amelie
Roman Holiday
A Matter Of Life And Death
The 39 Steps
The Palm Beach Story
Bringing Up Baby