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

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

Here's mine:

1. The Philadelphia Story
2. Fucking Åmål (aka Show Me Love)
3. Muriel's Wedding
4. Clueless
5. The Seagull's Laughter
6. Groundhog Day
7. How to Marry a Millionaire
8. The Wedding Banquet
9. Four Weddings And A Funeral
10. Safety Not Guaranteed
11. The Incredibly True Adventure Of Two Girls In Love
12. Monkey Business
13. Romancing The Stone
14. Addicted To Love
15. The Lady Eve
16. Love And Other Disasters
17. American Pie
18. The Shop Around The Corner
19. Happy Accidents
20. Pillow Talk
21. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
22. Trick
23. As Good As It Gets
24. There's Something About Mary
25. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
26. When Harry Met Sally...
27. The Tao Of Steve
28. Green Card
29. Bridget Jones's Diary
30. Irma la Douce

the cheap appropriation of superior material

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

― Tuomas, Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:03

srsly, fuck non-expertise

1. The Philadelphia Story
2. Working Girl
3. Ninotchka
4. My Man Godfrey
5. Moonstruck
6. Bull Durham
7. Groundhog Day
8. Roman Holiday
9. Roxanne
10. Some Like It Hot
11. Harold And Maude
12. Tootsie
13. It Happened One Night
14. Pat And Mike
15. Murphy’s Romance
16. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
17. The Princess Bride
18. The Thin Man
19. When Harry Met Sally...
20. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
21. Sleepless In Seattle

Trouble in Paradise 1932
The Shop Around The Corner 1940
Annie Hall 1977
The Lady Eve 1941
His Girl Friday 1940
Roman Holiday 1953
The Palm Beach Story 1942
Love in the Afternoon (Wilder) 1957
Ninotchka 1939
City Lights 1931
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944
Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008
Bringing Up Baby 1938
Desk Set 1957
Say Anything... 1989
L.A. Story 1991

30s 4
40s 5
50s 3
60s 0
70s 1
80s 1
90s 1
00s 1

annie hall? really?

Would have easily been my #1 if I'd voted.

it was a foregone conclusion that it would win imo

bcz both people who do and don't gen watch films before 1987 have seen it

Maybe the issue is that it doesn't seem like a very typical romcom?

i mean, i like the movie, but it's so... earthbound compared to so many other films that made the list.

bcz both people who do and don't gen watch films before 1987 have seen it

^^^
ding ding ding

ballots reflect this p clearly

it's so... earthbound compared to so many other films

idk what you mean by this really. it's departures from reality are frequent and numerous

we're dealing with a poll where 9 people voted for the #1 pick and 7 voted for #10 so I wouldn't bother reading too deeply into the tea leaves re: a big comedy director's best picture winner taking the top spot

not looking for a flight to the moon on gossamer wings

Morbs is still waiting for his Wiener King.

you'd think morbz would be thrilled ilx voted a woody allen #1 even after the earlier hullabaloo

we're dealing with a poll where 9 people voted for the #1 pick and 7 voted for #10 so I wouldn't bother reading too deeply into the tea leaves re: a big comedy director's best picture winner taking the top spot

― da croupier, Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:30 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good point.

by earthbound i guess i just mean... it's an amusing character study. sometimes very amusing. but compared to a lot of other films on the list it seems very conventional, complacent even.

but you know taste etc.

but i think it'd be hard for me to understand someone who would put it in the league of something like "his girl friday" which on the level of performance and pacing is such a miracle.

but what da croupier said, really

but compared to a lot of other films on the list it seems very conventional

This seems like a surprising thing to say about Annie Hall but I'll admit that there's a lot I haven't seen on the list.

not conventional compared to motherfucking When Harry Met Sally

yeah I don't really get calling it conventional - its structure and pacing is p unusual

but compared to a lot of other films on the list it seems very conventional, complacent even.

http://585579096.r.lightningbase-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/0749852143.gif

comfort yourself that Groundhog Day didn't win, a great comedy THAT IS NOT A ROMANTIC COMEDY

And fwiw (not much) I don't put Annie Hall in the same league as His Girl Friday.

the fact that it's about a couple that split and move on to plausibly more momentous relationships also seems less than conventional for a rom-com

it's an anti-romcom bc the misanthrope doesn't get the girl at the end, he just gets to be miserable, desperately trying to figure out how to recreate magic that is permanently gone from his life

When I saw Annie Hall on release, it definitely felt like no film I'd ever seen before. I was 16, mind you, and everything seemed new, but Annie Hall still feels unique 37 years later.

yeah i guess you're right. it just feels kind of uninspired compared to some of the other films on the list, but looking at the full list i suppose it doesn't qualify as 'conventional'

sry

and then came India Song xp

To reiterate, "uninspired" in a list that includes When Harry Met Sally ...

india song is kind of funny if you approach it a certain way

xpost

sure fine

I'd have no objections to calling Annie Hall mundane in practically any other context. But this list ... I mean, girls, Lisa, boys kiss girls!

I would have liked India Song a lot better if there'd been two or three scenes involving lobsters and/or this guy.

http://media.cinemasquid.com/screenshots/1ad421b6-c0b1-49dc-ba96-2c302d6d001b/annie-hall-blu-ray-screenshot-0004929-I-824.jpg

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/y2glIlm0rGs/hqdefault.jpg

india song is kind of funny if you approach it a certain way

Le Camion has the real yuks.

point morbs for namedropping even more obscure duras film

i saw a screening featuring post-analysis by John Waters!

that's right, i remember reading his praise the budget-saving minimalism of le camion and bresson's lancelot du lac

there's a Marguerite Duras doublebill marquee shot in one of his '80s films

http://www.thecinetourist.net/uploads/7/0/9/9/7099213/8568482_orig.jpg

:)

i wish i liked john waters's films more :(

Stick to your guns. I'm f'n glad Howard Hawks bores me.

why would you be glad to be bored that seems sort of strange