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

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.

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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

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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

he doesn't even hate what he hates

Glad that I didn't have to sit through 60+ Hawks films after the 5 or 6 (most of them acclaimed as being among his best) I watched did nothing for me.

you mean you don't like Hatari!

Fell asleep.

Everything I love about Gentlemen Prefer Blondes apparently has very little to do with Hawks (tho even the most recent re-watch didn't light my fire as the movie had in the past).

(Still voted for it in this poll tho I think.)

He's a jack-of-all-trades, silly... wait, that's MASTER of all. But you can't detect all his strengths in one genre.

like me

Hawks is a master of jack, trade.

jeez i haven't been called "trade" since Joan Rivers was funny

tasteless :(

[Dennis Perrin "Gaza hospital" tweet]

i can't even imagine loving movies and hating howard hawks, but there you go.

It truly is a democratic marvel of a medium.

that's one way to put it.