Paying for things is like magic.
I never really like romantic comedies. I find most of them have the same trope in them that really bothers me. You have the girl we’re supposed to root for and the man she wants. The man (and sometimes the girl) are in a relationship with a perfectly lovely human being that we’re supposed to dislike. Often the man has a child that prefers the lead female to his current girlfriend for no apparent reason. In the end the man dumps their girlfriend for the lead female. I always feel sorry for them.
I’m reminded of this every time I hear “That’s how you know” from Enchanted. I like the song but the movie has everything I hate about romcoms. At least the dumped lovers get a happy ending. I guess.
Not all romantic comedies are an entire success? If I remember right, the lead protagonist didn’t really win in “My best friend’s wedding”, even though she almost did.
I like how in the process of today’s comic Pan’s ears went from non-pointy to pointy.
I HATE romantic comedies, even if the said people aren’t dumping the ones they’re already with for the protagonists.
For one thing, sometimes the protagonists are just simply too unlikable to me, even with all the wacky hi-jinks they get into. and apparently some of their bad behavior is just magically forgotten with the fluffy happy ending for them.
http://www.anomalousmaterial.com/movies/2010/11/3-reasons-why-romantic-comedies-suck/ in fact, this article sums up perfectly how I view romantic comedies.
After reading a certain “Tangled” fanfic lately, I only have that movie on the brain… and I don’t think it’s a rom-com, so I have nothing valuable to contribute other than Pan’s face in the second frame makes me giggle.
I can’t read fics. I think my imagination is far more interesting.
do you guys/gals feel the same way about the romantic comedies of the 30’s and 40’s? his girl friday, bringing up baby, dark passage, to have and have not
i’m with you there, in regards to a LOT of rom-coms.
first thing to sprint to mind is the adjustment bureau, which (though not a rom-com) contains the magical I KNOW I TOTALLY LET YOU BEHIND AT THAT HOSPITAL BUT PLEASE TRUST ME and then SHE DOES GOD DAMNIT WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF WOMAN. (although that movie had a legitimate reason it still pissed me off because WHAT ABOUT THE MAN SHE LEFT AT THE ALTAR LIKE TWICE)
I find this problem exists in a lot of modern media, not just in romantic comedies, and frankly I blame bad writing. It’s not terribly difficult to make someone likable or unlikable, but that comes from fleshing out the character and making them more than one-dimensional. The reason this problem is particularly pervasive in romantic comedies (or comedies in general) is that the characters ALL tend to be one-dimensional; the characters have no depth beyond the role they are playing.
It’s very hard to have a cast of one-dimensional characters in a tragedy or darker film, which is probably why I prefer watching those films.
The irony was he was 15 cents off, had to call in a few more favors with two Raven’s and a Squirrel real fast. XD