You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, You'll Wish Everyone Involved Was Horribly Maimed: The Romantic Comedies Poll Nominations and Discussion Thread

We've done action movies, horror, comedies - time for that most maligned of cinematic subgenres to have its day. Everything centering around two people in love + comedy joeks is eligible, from Lubitsch to Apatow. We'll keep this thread open for couple weeks and then we'll do the standard voting/ballots thing. Vote for however many you want, I'll figure out some weighted scoring based on what people submit.

SEND YOUR BALLOTS TO: audiobot at yahoo dot com

BALLOTS DUE: August 24th, 5pm PST

is this a poll for "worst" or "best"

what do you think, smartypants?

Are the following eligible:

Shaun of the Dead
The Princess Bride

xp lol i'm serious, w/ the thread title and how maligned the genre is, it was an innocent question

I would imagine whatev you think counts counts. Just concentrate on pre-1950 and you'll be fine.

All the Before crapfests will outpoll the complete works of Mitchell Leisen here, so I doubt I can stand to participate.

the Before crapfests aren't comedy tho right?

my favourite movie of all time is a romantic comedy, btw (That Obscure Object Of Desire)

Shaun of the Dead
The Princess Bride

the latter yes, the former ... uh I know I've seen this movie and yet I have absolutely zero memory of there being a romantic plot in it at all so I'm gonna say no.

Before movies are not eligible, no joeks

you not allowing non-sexual romance then? pegg/frost work that bro dynamic like it's got money hanging on it (which it does)

absolutely zero memory of there being a romantic plot in it at all so I'm gonna say no.

It's quite a major part of it! But you're the boss.

Like the whole film is basically about Shaun getting his girlfriend back.

ah man did i miss the chance to do a "romance" poll? ah well...enjoy debating whether movies are funny enough to qualify!

Bringing Up Baby, btw

^if this isn't top 3 you all fucking suck

it's a Zom-Rom-Com iirc. I wouldn't vote for it, but it definitely counts

Not going to vote in this at all (lack of familiarity - will be watching the results), but I would like to pile on outis for disqualifying Shawn of the Dead.

no one should tell other people what movies can or cannot make them laugh and make them cry

also using comedy as a weapon to keep out the movies that spend more time on feels than pratfalls for shame

ok fine Shaun of the Dead counts what do I care. movie made v little impression on me.

non-sexual romance

idk what this is, or whether or not its a common enough subject to warrant inclusion

Do the Thin Man movies count as romcoms, you think? I think so. No?

i feel pratfalls

the problem is i wd probably like to vote for cukor's Holiday but haven't seen it in maybe 15 years. so now i have to watch it in the next 12 days, along w/ 20 other titles i will think of.

Nick and Nora are married, which kills romance QED

(j/k)

If you haven't seen this already, you probably can't--but you should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsNTe9vdTGE

just let peoples hearts want what they want, and have faith in a happy ending poll-wise - telling people they're wrong about what's a romantic comedy feels like something the guy left seething at the altar does

lotta laugh lines in before sunrise imo

I don't have much interest in being genre police/bad guy tbh

i'm only submitting a ballot if you promise to let hearts run free, and be jerry orbach at the end of dirty dancing not jerry orbach in the middle of dirty dancing

vote for whatever you want you big baby

nobody puts big baby in a corner!

nominations:

When Harry Met Sally...
The Sure Thing
Easy A
Say Anything...
The Shop Around The Corner
Splash
Roxanne
The Princess Bride
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Knocked Up
Clueless
Moonstruck
The Thin Man
The Lady Eve
High Fidelity
Four Weddings And A Funeral
Hitch
Arthur
Groundhog Day
Friends With Benefits
Bull Durham
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Unfaithfully Yours
Singles
So I Married An Ax Murderer

Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Defending Your Life
Pygmalion

well I'll just get these out of the way (some Leisen in there for Morbz)

Midnight
Easy Living
Remember The Night
Ball of Fire
It Happened One Night
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
My Favorite Wife
The Awful Truth
The Palm Beach Story
My Man Godfrey
Holiday
Twentieth Century
Ninotchka
The Philadelphia Story
The Lady Vanishes
Born Yesterday
It Should Happen To You

The African Queen
Date Night
Up All Night
They Came Together

good list nn

Americas sweethearts.

woops, Up All Night should be All Night Long (Streisand/Hackman)

heh, i seem to remember that whatever romance is in The Lady Vanishes
is there bcz it "has to be"

All Of Me

some of these noms might be pushing it but..

hannah and her sisters
as good as it gets
tootsie
a matter of life and death
flirting
amelie
metropolitan
swingers
manhattan
annie hall
beautiful girls
the tall guy
pretty in pink

The Naked Gun

for this our hill, and these are our beans

the fabulous baker boys
raising arizona

Roman Holiday
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Graduate
The Heartbreak Kid
Broadcast News
Married to the Mob

ooh Married To The Mob; SO under rated.

Lots of Hitchcock movies could double as rom-coms, so in that spirit:

The 39 Steps
North by Northwest

oh man can't believe i forgot raising arizona and married to the mob yes

wouldn't vote for it now but back when my romantic ideal was a little more toxic i totally would have gone to bat for who's afraid of virginia woolf

true romance

Something Wild's good, but I like Married better--especially on the comedy end of it.

Tried to get my wife to watch Something Wild a year or two ago and lemme tell ya, years of manic pixie dream girls since has not made melanie griffith's character/performance fresher

NxNW is tooootally a romcom yeah

(that sounds sarcastic, it isn't)

after hours
into the night

50s/60s seem kinda like a fallow period for this genre on the whole, no?

has no one said the Apartment yet wtf

into the night

I could talk for hours about this movie

not that's good - it's actually p bad - but it fascinates me

Working Girl will probably make my ballot.

xxp

so could Mark Kermode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-CGHH6Ys0

nominating Ghostbusters because there's definitely a great rom-com inside of it, all the murray/weaver interactions

nominating Ghostbusters because there's definitely a great rom-com inside of it, all the murray/weaver interactions it will piss off Morbz

Some Like it Hot count, or too madcap?

13 going on 30

my wife loves that movie. i've sat through so many of these

the five-year engagement

depressing thread

Midnight
Easy Living
It Happened One Night
His Girl Friday
My Favorite Wife
The Awful Truth
The Palm Beach Story
My Man Godfrey
Charade
Married to the Mob

don't worry I'm sure someone will come along and nominate some Marx Brothers movies

xp

the great modern H'wood romantic comedy is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

...and it's not even that good!

change your heart.

agree w Morbz on that one

is that a comedy? that movie is so sad.

bell, book and candle

sabrina (1954)
little shop of horrors
intolerable cruelty
harold and maude

is Lolita a romantic comedy? Sparks fly between Humbert and Quilty.

lots of comedies are sad if viewed from a plot/theme angle xxxp

Annie Hall is one of the few romantic comedies where the principal couple is irrevocably broken at the end.

also, one I didn't see til the last year: Design for Living

i'm not sure about

to have and have not (1944)

but since it's probably my favorite movie of all time i'm gonna nom it

<3 <3 <3 design for living

DoL is a 3-way comedy!

THAHN is not only allowed imo but wd prob be in my top 3

it's romantic and it's definitely funny

& also awesome

Oh I got a British one! *everyone runs screaming*

...Gregory's Girl

What about Stolen Kisses/Baisers Voles?

Smiles of a Summer Night count?

I have no idea what any of the last 6 posts are referring to

mos def xp

it's romantic and it's definitely funny

yes, but IT'S NOT A COMEDY! You could say the same about The Big Sleep

plenty of other Hawks movies at hand

I guess THAHN is more of a suspense movie & war film than comedy, but when I saw it on the big screen the audience was cheering throughout p much

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

We gonna allow Pierrot Le Fou?

She's All That

10 things i hate about you

I Know Where I'm Going!

sans soleil is a romantic comedy when you think about it

mother and son

teenage mutant ninja turtles II: legend of the ooze

sicko

scarface: the shame of a nation

:D

some musicals:

pitch perfect
enchanted
south pacific (?)
camelot (surely)
my fairy lady
grease

I hope Holiday gets a lot of mentions. It's a special movie, my favorite Grant-Hepburn pairing.

south pacific (?)
camelot (surely)
my fair lady
grease

these are all p much safely filmed records of Broadway musicals w/ little cinematic respect, full stop

Grease is the only one of those I would stan for and even that is mostly down to the songs and Travolta's ridiculous line readings

Tampopo
To Be Or Not To Be

my fair lady + grease are both classic. camelot + south pacific are terrible but still i love.

lol Tampopo - I remember renting that as a teenager (it was one of the few Japanese films at the local "underground" video store) and being v confused.

In the Realm of the Senses

yes, we know you'd rather have yr libido lopped off than watch a well-crafted comedy, honeybunch

cntrl+f, "shop around th..."

alright good job everyone.

Smiles of a Summer Night count?

― jmm, Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

It better. that whole bedroom bit always comes to mind when i think of the high points of rom-coms.

da croup nominated 'shop around the corner' way upthread.

man 1989 was a big year for iconic romantic movies with an ellipsis in the title

I offer Cukor's The Marrying Kind starring Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray

(even tho there's a wrenching death in it)

da croup nominated 'shop around the corner' way upthread.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, August 12, 2014 7:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I opened the tread to immediately check and found that everyone had done their jobs.

L.A. Story
Adam's Rib (wait, they're married. is this still allowed?)
Once Around
Everyone Says I Love You
Enough Said
Trouble in Paradise
For Scent-imental Reasons

Enough Said

haha the whole reason I started this thread was because I saw this and was reminded of/thinking about how many horrible generic titles there are for this genre (Anything Goes! Whatever Works! Enough Said!) but rather than just start a thread about that I remembered that we'd never gotten around to a proper poll and so

Good timing: eight consecutive Cary Grant romantic comedies tomorrow on TCM.

you can do with Doris Day what ya want

is there a decent romantic comedy about two men? from Europe maybe? the film of Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey has a few big laughs, but it's not upper-echelon.

btw AFI's #1 was City Lights. I'm not sure if no one here suggested it bcz the woman is 'just' The Blind Girl.

City Lights (xpost)
Desk Set
Love in the Afternoon

oh fine, i'll do it then

Never Been Kissed
Notting Hill

Where do we stand on Rohmer? Claire's Knee or Love/Chloe in the Afternoon?

A Summer's Tale

Superbad
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Celeste and Jesse Forever

superbad is far from 'romantic'

it's bromantic

if only Morbz could bear to watch Jonah Hill's fat ugly mug, he just might find that decent romantic comedy about two men that he's been looking for

At Evan's house, Seth and Evan reconcile and declare their friendship for each other. The next morning, they go to the mall to buy stuff for college. They meet Jules and Becca, where they then reconcile with them. Seth takes Jules to buy eye cover up for her bruise while Evan makes arrangements for a date with Becca and look for a comforter.

But I mean, Οὖτις's call. I'm just trying to nominate stuff that seems to fit that hasn't been mentioned.

Unless this works differently from ILM polls. I don't always get ILE tbh.

I'm only going to vote for what I consider to be of the genre, regardless of what is nommed. So the Before films are right out.

Bromantic comedies

lethal weapon
beverly hills cop
midnight run
thunderbolt and lightfoot
in bruges

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

yeah I don't really care what people nominate/vote for, everybody follow Gukbe's example

Superbad is different from those other films piscesx in that the two male leads actually affectionately spoon each other. That, and whether or not they really love each other is the central plot driver. altho they do end up with their respective girls at the end

xp

i didn't nom before midnight but thought sunrise/sunset were full of laugh lines and are obv about romance, which is all the genre boundaries i need

I like The Wedding Singer a lot--this time, more for the romance than the comedy, although some of it really makes me laugh, like his mopey Cure song.

Buscemi's bit is the best

NO LESSONS

Eddie Murphy goes so far as to say he loves Judge Reinhold in beverly hills cop and there's a lot of 'i love yous' going back and forth through the whole thing. no spooning though!

I Know Where I'm Going!

― Number None, Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:48 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Excellent choice

is there a decent romantic comedy about two men?

My Bodyguard

pygmalion streets ahead of mfl

the artist

Netflix has Sophie's Choice as a romantic comedy. Honest question: Is this accurate?

Look Who's Talking
Bridget Jones's Diary
Earth Girls Are Easy
Stranger Than Fiction
Music & Lyrics

I don't think it'll make my ballot, but Music & Lyrics is about as good as a contempo romcom as one could hope for.

I watched it on a plane or something and a few bits stuck with me which is more than I'd've expected. IIRC both male and female leads have kind of believable, interesting problems they're working on, not just vague "baggage" from a past relationship that they need to "get over," and whether they get together or not has to do with more than just lame misunderstandings or w/e. I don't really know the genre that well though, so I could be super way off.

Just watched Look Who's Talking recently and was, to my surprise, charmed to pieces by Alley & Travolta. The baby voiceovers were amusing but not really what kept me around.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a sorta romantic comedy about two men (?)

kung fu hustle

kung fu hustle is a comedy about buddhism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_film

buddhy film

but I'm sure if we strain enough we can come up with an entirely female-free poll xp

It's been a while since I saw Albert Brooks' Modern Romance--does that work, or is it too acerbic? I can't even remember if it's just about breaking up, or if there's any getting-back-together. Defending Your Life belongs, though.

Acerbic's the wrong word for Albert Brooks; pathetic, maybe.

Yes! Modern Romance belongs (as does Defending Your Life).

i will definitely vote for defending your life

how about...

crossing delancey

I haven't seen it, but I do recall the existence of this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/RomanticComedyPoster.jpg

I really liked Crossing Delancey at the time--watched it at least three times.

how about...

the man with two brains?

Grosse Pointe Blank

God, this is so not my genre. Does Thundercrack! count?

love grosse pointe blank

can i nominate permanent board bans for anybody who votes for Shaun of the Dead?

kung fu hustle is an everything about everything

both posts true tbf

you can take the girls and laughs outve a Buddhist movie sure but then it'd just be a catholic movie

Safety Not Guaranteed
Sleepless In Seattle
Sixteen Candles
My Best Friend's Wedding
Love Actually
There's Something About Mary

oh my god, i can't believe we were just talking about her and now... :'(
http://www.thewrap.com/lauren-bacall-legendary-actress-and-model-dead-at-89/

Yeah, Οὖτις OTM about Superbad so I guess I could withdraw its nomination as a 'troo' romantic comedy.

in the midst of this cary grant marathon on tcm. the bachelor and the bobby-soxer on now.

don't have any noms yet, might poke around online this weekend and figure out where I'm at

definitely voting When Harry Met Sally and I'm showing up on results day with a big fat perm

seems like a good genre to have a worst of ballot too [so i can vote for fool's gold]

27 goddamn Dresses has to be in the worst

I doubt there would be enough consensus re: worst to tally the results

what's that one where David Duchovny has the heart transplant from a dead guy

or the one where Keanu and some bimbo share a cabin but they're each there on different years

i saw Superbad, it was OK cept for too much Rogen/Hader cops. it wd not be in my top 1,000 in this genre if it qualified tho.

Veg reminding me why i shd never click on this thread again

i think the keanu one wasn't a comedy iirc?

but this keanu one was:

something's gotta give

also i guess?

as good as it gets

YOU DONT GET TO TELL ME HOW TO WATCH

(not that the second one had keanu, just that the first one reminded me of it)

morbs otm re superbad cops

pretty woman

enchanted

ok yer trolling we get it xp

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NDloO81u2jk/UUhZhLjHRnI/AAAAAAAACL0/FpihbmPNyoU/s320/url.gif

Shakes is it Lake House that you're thinking of?

Zelig

yes the Lake House I think so (I did not actually see this movie FULL DISCLOSURE)

can't believe Morbz watched Jonah Hill's face for more than 5 minutes
xp

Lake House was v v v dumb

also not v funny

The Lake House was supposed to be a comedy? I never saw it, but the ads made it look achingly sincere.

it wasn't

is clueless a rom com?

i reckon so

that's a top 5 for me

yeah I guess those two I cited didn't have joeks and are "romantic dramas"

ok how about Sex and the City II

are all Jane Austen adaps ROMANTIC COMEDIES?

Shakey, I reviewed Moneyball and watched This Is the End.

how about Murmur of the Heart (mother-son romcom)?

clueless is definitely a romantic comedy! most austen adaptations would qualify; she's an important forebear.

lol xp

what's the over under on morbs storming out of this thread in a huff

(not saying I want you to leave btw <3)

shakey, how many spots do we get on our ballots?

In a minute-and-a-huff, I think.

hahah nice one clemenza

However many u want

I'll work out the point ranking system later.

xp

clemenza beat me to that post, which is reason enough to storm out

All these troll-posts, and nobody has nominated Life is Beautiful yet?

(I will vote for LiB, btw. The rom-com sections are great)

i'm not sure i buy LiB as a rom com

my coworkers and I just had a Clueless/I hope not sporadically' moment so yes I will be voting for tha

t

i quote clueless every day. every. day. everytime i'm in a car with my sister we do the "hello, that was a stop sign?" "i totally paused!" exchange.

<3

Here's a few nominations:

Trick

Addicted to Love

Fucking Åmål (aka Show Me Love)

Happy Accidents

Irma la Douce

How to Marry a Millionaire

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Monkey Business

The Seagull's Laughter

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

The Tao of Steve

The Wedding Banquet

Love and Other Disasters

clueless is perfect

speaking of which, I'll nominate I could never be your woman

if anyone suggests any of my rom com noms are trolling this will turn into a horror thread v quickly

But I'm A Cheerleader
American Pie
Pat And Mike
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Green Card

Pat and Mike's good--and Woman of the Year, too.

Hal Hartley's Trust

Shakespeare In Love

GOING THERE

"going there" as in bringing up shakespeare in love, sadly there is no romcom named Going There

...yet.

have we nommed Groundhog Day?

will vote trust!

i nom'd groundhog day

can't believe i've nominated three movies where someone's in love with andie mcdowell

lol

and I hate andie mcdowell but I love that movie

who the hell needs 27 years to find a way to convince andie mcbraindamaged to fuck you

― and what, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 3:08 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mr. & mrs. smith

the brangelina one, haven't seen the hitchcock/lombard one

KNIGHT AND DAY

saw knight and day AND twilight: eclipse during my honeymoon, great time for violent romance in the theaters

all I remember about Knight and Day is that the most palpable chemisty in the movie was btwn Cruise and an incidental male supporting character

shut your mouth, that movie is mad romantic

mouth-foamingly mad romantic

i have never seen knight and day

but this is coming from the gentleman who nommed shakespeare in love so I'm not sure how much attention I should be paying here

here I thought you guys were talking about that movie with Heath Ledger in Arthur drag.

hey i'm just nomming any movie i have warm thoughts for even if i haven't seen it since high school. all i've seen from SiL recently is the Ben Affleck "HUZZAH!" scene.

Knight And Day is highly recommended if you want to see Tom Cruise play a Manic Pixie Dream Secret Agent who turns Cameron Diaz's world upside down. I did!

hmm maybe I *do* want to see that

It's like Charade on uppers

if I watch this and it sucks I'm never listening to you again

i'm trying to imagine what kind of person would want to see a tom cruise romantic action comedy described as "charade on uppers" and NOT like Knight And Day, so you should be fine

did you see the Wolverine? Same director, KaD is more whimsical but not dissimilar in its absurdity

I haven't seen Wolverine yet, I've been kind of afraid

watch the train fight sequence on youtube, if your reaction is "lol wut i'm entertained" see KaD if you're like "well this is just embarrassing" then you should wait for a classier tom cruise action romcom

http://youtu.be/5nC8r3RWL3Q

KaD is horrible just fyi

SOLD

xpost sorry Simon you're too late

Wall-E, maybe? Wiki calls it "science fiction romantic comedy."

Wasn't considering voting in this one until you just reminded me of WALL-E.

is le regle du jeu a rom-com?

Renoir might think so.

If there's a Worst Of ballot, I would like to direct everyone to see A Good Year.

Nothing could be worse than the Kutcher/Heigl Killers. Trust me on this one.

By which I mean I'm pretty sure I've seen every bad Hollywood romcom made between about 2008 to 2012 and I'm fairly confident that was the most dismal, half-assed of them all.

Killers was terrible but in a really generically bad way. A Good Year is astonishing in its ineptness. I didn't know anything about it other than Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe when I foolishly wandered in, and it took a whole 30 minutes before I realised it was a "comedy".

I was told that A Good Year was an excellent candidate for the nightly bad-movie viewing sessions at the video store I used to work at, but we never got around to it. The trailer is amazing, though.

Regle du Jeu might be too harsh for rom-com... It doesn't provide romantic satisfaction.

When Russell Crowe has to rent a Smart Car (HAHA) and then there's a fast-motion "stuck in the parking lot" bit I was like, "oh, this is supposed to be funny, despite the fact that nobody involved is funny."

Is it an essential feature of romantic comedy that it have a happy ending?

Roman Holiday, at least, would seem to contradict that (or at least be the exception to prove the rule)

see, Groundhog Day is NOT a romantic comedy, because the romance is PART of it but not the entire point.

L'Atalante (one of the ten greatest narrative features ever btw) has lots of funny stuff in it, but tho it may be a comedy in the Shakespearean sense I just don't think it fits here.

basically you could just repost the fucking comedies poll, except for the Marx Bros films before Thalberg put all those fucking boy tenors/girl sopranos in em.

someone pass the smelling salts, morbs is having one of his "spells"

I don't think a happy ending is necessary. The Break-Up functions like a romantic comedy but obviously doesn't end that way. Annie Hall as well. I guess I'd say the definition, for me, would be "a comedy about romance".

Yeah, I guess my definition is something like "comedies about romance, represented romantically," which for me excludes Annie Hall and will tend to promote happy outcomes. But heartbreak can be romantic(ized) as well, sure.

"comedies about romance, represented romantically," which for me excludes Annie Hall

stumped there

yeah how does that exclude AH?

Even if someone dares to nominate something outside the box, its not like the poll will slippery slope into perverts putting Beethoven and Leon The Professional in the Top 10. I'm sure genre norms are safe.

Flirting With Disaster

Sorry, not trying to police anyone's ballots. I'm just curious about the genre and what its limits might be.

Annie Hall definitely romanticizes a relationship, so yeah, my def'n won't exclude it. I guess I'm stuck on its being a failed relationship, whereas rom-coms typically are highly optimistic and affirmative. But yeah, no point in making that a binding rule.

'Failed' being debatable, I suppose. A relationship that was not happily ever after, I mean.

morbs otm, without genre policing this is gonna be a shitshow. to the argument that 'the movies that everyone agrees are romantic comedies will do the best anyway,' it should be pointed out that the classic rock poll just named The Cars the best classic rock album ever. at this rate i see fucking Shaun of the Dead walking this

That's a pretty solid album tho

my point is that it's a definitive New Wave album (and New Wave exactly dne Classic Rock). other people obv think it's close enough, but the disagreement about its genre didn't prevent it from getting the top spot. idk why this poll should be different if anything goes.

a more realistic example would be the Before movies: i could totally see them winning, but to what extent are they actually attempting comedy?

so we gotta make rules to keep ilx polls from being overrun by the tastes of "other" people? fuck that fascist noise

it'd be one thing if there was some clear rule, but we're talking about taste here, not numbers. anybody pulling some "nuh-uh, it's not funny/romantic enough for me, you can't vote for it" shit is clearly the billy zane in titanic, not the leo

That reminds me to nominate titanic

hey man, you should listen to Billy Zane, he's a cool dude.

life is a romantic comedy

I think it was just platonic between Eddie murphy & Martin Lawrence actually

Saw that Before Midnight doesn't appear to have been nominated so I'm doing it now.

The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called "The Wit to Woo". The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches, and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble.

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. But Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper. Fine, but he marries her and takes her home Albert, of course, is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.

Carry On Loving is about as unromantic as possible

http://www.blessthishouse.net/film_files/bthlgposter.jpg

That reminds me to nominate titanic

― Atp Fin (wins),

I couldn't stop laughing at the ending

Saw that Before Midnight doesn't appear to have been nominated so I'm doing it now.

― xyzzzz__, 14. elokuuta 2014 13:25

I noticed that Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are nominated too, can someone explain how exactly these rate as "comedies"? Just because they have a few funny moments doesn't mean they belong to that category. Texas Chainsaw Massacre has funny moments too.

this is not important enough to 'police' just use yr head

the Befores ARE romcoms, just increasingly bad ones

Tuomas bringing the scare quotes

I'm using my head and I still don't understand how they're comedies?

(xpost)

Both Wikipedia and IMDb call them romantic dramas.

"categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided"

I mean, if we want to have general romantic movie poll, I'm all for it! But if this gonna be a romcom poll, the "com" part should count too.

(xpost)

Linklater unsure

Or like when I’m making Before Sunrise or -Set, I guess they’re technically romantic comedies maybe, but I don’t acknowledge the genre stuff too much.

"because it comes up so short against Trouble in Paradise"

TCM brings the "rom" AND the "com."

"categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided"

Okay, here's my list of nominations then:

Irreversible
La Strada
Audition
Chinatown
The Piano Teacher
Detour

They sure made me laugh!

you can just play the clip of Jake's Chinaman joke

Daddy Long Legs
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

man you are really bringin' the second-tier oldies

i just watched bachelor and bobby-soxer last night. it was fantastic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfv1Jx3_PRs

hoodoo? you do! do what? remind me of a man.

Alone. Love Wastes Andy Hardy

Oh so the thread title actually refers to this thread

What's Up Doc
A New Leaf
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Pillow Talk
A Fish Called Wanda
Punch-Drunk Love

is there a single genuine lol in Before Midnight? i mean there's some funny stuff in Before Sunrise but.. BM is as funny as Salo iirc.
possibly less so.

that reminds me

Salo

I think of the 'Before...' films as 'Romantic', don't see that much more comedy in one of the 'Before...' series than the others. What Linklater does though (which is highlighted more than ever by Boyhood) is to see how Hollywood treats a genre and then proceeds to, not exactly subvert it, but certainly start with it as a base, do things with it that it wouldn't normally. The 'Before...' films are in a conversation with Rom Coms.

Just feel it should be on the poll.

my wife asked if there were any homo-rom-coms in the nominations

I can't think of any, apart from "But I'm a Cheerleader" I guess? (which is a terrible movie)

saw wedding banquet and 2 girls in love nom'd

I mentioned Jeffrey which is not good enough imho

Design for Living is about a menage a trois but not explicitly gay (tho it couldn't be)

I Love You Phillip Morris?

haven't seen it

I would call Before Midnight melodrama. The previous films are RC enough.

I kinda liked Philip Morris despite two bad, simpering performances at its heart

Weekend I thought was an actually good film tho I doubt many here would agree

think there's some space between "comedy" in the broader Shakespearean sense and modern expectations of actual lols. comedies don't need to be full of one-liners to lie inside the broader definition, and if a poll comes down to arguing about what films are genuinely "funny" in 2014 then it's kinda doomed before it begins. if nominations need policing at all then the edge cases shd be blatantly silly imo

I liked Philip Morris for its two excellent performances and OK script construction.

I mean, I don't think you can like a romcom if you dislike the performances

Oh ok I liked the performances then

winner

I nominated Trick also, which is very much a homo romcom.

yeah, Jim Carrey is one of the 5 best US film actors of the last 20 years, quite easily

my sarcasm detector is broken

immediate response is to say "no way" but then i started running thru possible candidates in my head :/

I like him a lot! I just remember his performance there as the point I lost patience with "Jim Carrey has a lump in his throat"

But I guess I remember wrong cause I liked the film QED

2 Days in New York
50 First Dates
American Pie 2
Dan in Real Life
Just Married
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Romancing the Stone
Silver Linings Playbook
The Americanization of Emily
Two Weeks Notice
Wanderlust
We're the Millers
Woo

The Americanization of Emily was both James Garner's and Julie Andrews's favorite movie they did, if I recall correctly.

I may be completely alone in the world in my love of Woo (semi-Bringing Up Baby update), but I'm a sucker for both date-gone-wrong movies and beautifully executed slapstick, and Jada Pinkett Smith is comic force.

Oh, and classic L.L. Cool J cameo.

that is a terrifying list Pete

back to the future I and III; II is oddly an anti-romcom, like proto-todd solondz.

that is a terrifying list Pete

was gonna say, almost every one of those makes me want to claw my eyes out

yes, let's stick w/ Nick & Nora from The Thin Man even if theyre married

Hey, it's a romantic comedy poll, you hit what you head for!

But really? Nobody loves any of that? Amazing...

Scott pilgrim so

You've Got Mail is a better film than both Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally but hasn't been mentioned yet.

rong

I have never seen Americanization of Emily -- i'm waiting on it from the library -- but the fact that Paddy Blowhard Chayefsky wrote it does not fill me with hope.

I'm OK w/ Scott Pilgrim! He has all those fights for her! It's better than the Befores, and probably Breakfast at Tiffany's!

You've Got Mail is a remake of Shop Around the Corner, so why bother. (It's bad enough that I've seen even one of that Meg-Nora trilfartogy.)

What's interesting to me is the scarcity of movies that find ways to make love, in an actual developing relationship, both funny and the center of a plot. Even Shrek doesn't quite count (there's more buddy movie there than couple movie). To me, The Big Sleep is more of a rom-com than The Thin Man, but there aren't many movies (that I've seen) fitting this ideal that haven't already been mentioned...

It's also funny to me that Sleepless in Seattle, a movie I loathe where they don't even meet until the end, is considered the Ur-film of this genre.

the genre is "romantic comedy" and not "love comedy" i guess. the former is a lot easier to narratize

how that reflects or informs or distorts people's actual lived experience and relationships is a nicely tangly question

I guess 2 Days in New York is basically Meet the Parents but I love both; more romance in 2 Days.

Something's Gotta Give. Rom-coms must happen in these kind of houses, apparently.

Woman of the Year

Something's Gotta Give counts but it's ghastly despite how good Keanu-Diane are.

something can be funny w/out being a comedy, and v.v.

Elaine May's New Leaf is kind of a travesty of a romantic comedy, as Matthau's trying to kill her most of the time. (ditto Heartbreak Kid, and that everyone but Grodin knows his pursuit of Cybill Shepherd is 100% desperation)

btw "travesty" is not always pejorative, something at least one editor in my life seemed not to have known

Something's Gotta Give is horrible and Diane Keaton was horrifying in it

Oh no! I watched the thing through my fingers but Keaton acted as if she were in a real movie. I'll tell you what's a travesty -- its woman director and cowriter was so convention bound that she couldn't conceive an ending in which she and Keanu stayed together.

we were clearly watching different movies

Carnal Knowledge

xp: I think you're right that these movies distort how we see relationships, but even more maybe how we define romance in movies? I realize this is highly individual. To me, The Breakfast Club is more romantic than Sixteen Candles (real relationships sparking across social lines, etc.), and Turner & Hooch (romance with the vet, not the dog, the latter of whom humanizes him to loosen up and fall in love with the vet) is slightly more romantic in a breezy way than any of the other Hanks romance movies here.

xp: Yeah, original Heartbreak Kid is satire of self-loathing "romance." Remake punishes character by having him marry Cybill Shepherd figure first.

It's Complicated (ducks)

you're not, alas

jesus, Pete

Ducks are complicated; Jesus nearly so.

"10"? certainly over Arthur, as D Moore vehicles go

It counts. I saw it for the first time three weeks ago and couldn't get past or see through Bo Derek's corn rows.

Are musicals specifically excluded? Only think one person nominated any?

If not, Love Me Tonight is hereby nominated.

good choice!

I dont see why musicals should be specifically excluded

Well, the thing is, nearly all 'classic' Broadway musicals are romantic comedies (save the notable tragedies like Carousel, West Side Story) but the emphasis is on the score -- that's why their books usually suck.

But no one goes around singing stuff from Love Me Tonight -- it's the dialogue/plotting that's foregrounded.

You've Got Mail is a remake of Shop Around the Corner, so why bother.

These two movies are actually quite different! In She's Got Mail the "they like each other as pen pals but hate each other in real life" thing is pretty much the whole plot, whereas The Shop Around the Corner has other subplots too, and is more of an ensemble piece. So it's well worth watching both of them, seeing one doesn't really spoil the other.

think there's some space between "comedy" in the broader Shakespearean sense and modern expectations of actual lols. comedies don't need to be full of one-liners to lie inside the broader definition, and if a poll comes down to arguing about what films are genuinely "funny" in 2014 then it's kinda doomed before it begins. if nominations need policing at all then the edge cases shd be blatantly silly imo

― The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Thursday, 14 August 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Remins me that the Joss Whedon filmed Much Ado About Nothing is another nom.

Hello dolly

if we're allowing remakes and lit adaptations then

pride and prejudice
emma
sense and sensibility
howard's end

etc etc

actually the BBC version of Pride.. is properly hillarious and swooningly romantic in equal measure. can't comment on the recent film as i haven't seen it.

Howards End not a comedy, the other 3 are

Olivier/G Garson P&P from 1940

the best of Wilder's after The Apartment: A Foreign Affair, maybe? It sure as hell ain't Sabrina.

you're not, alas

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 August 2014 00:26 (15 hours ago) Permalink

jesus, Pete

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 August 2014 00:31 (15 hours ago) Permalink

Is this a response to posting "It's Complicated"?

lemme check

It's Complicated (ducks)

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're not, alas

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, August 15, 2014 1:26 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus, Pete

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, August 15, 2014 1:31 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep

(sigh) I had just posted a bunch of other stuff.

can we fast forward to the point where the ilx film crankster sophisticates decide they can't bear to talk about movies w/ us peons and storm out? it's so unenjoyable reading the same biggety put-downs of other ppl's taste.

get HER!

Branagh Much Ado > Whedon Much Ado

is her (2013) a romcom?

(jokes)

Can we fast forward to the point where ILX finally mounts a decent argument for 27 Dresses?

(oh, and I nominate Her.)

i think no one has nominated 27 dresses except as the worst?

Can we fast forward to the point where someone finally nominates 27 Dresses?

it sounds like you have feels for the film. why don't you nom it?

can I nom Muriel's Wedding please?

27 Dresses probably the best of the Heigl-era. She's got good chemistry with Marsden.

more Irene Dunne

in his book James Harvey discusses the Astaire-Rogers musicals, particularly The Gay Divorcee, as RCs. Which makes sense, since as a kid I preferred the nonmusical scenes in those films.

betsy drake is a riot in every girl should be married. cary grant gets some funny lines, but it's really a vehicle for her. and then i guess they got married a year later?

every girl should be married

you just did whatchamacallit to that Grant TCM day -- tivoed? -- and are going thru the midnight-6am stuff one at a time.

Theodora Goes Wild

otm xp

Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait

NOT the Beatty/Buck Henry one

modern romantic comedies need songs like this

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

Shampoo

funny as a toothache like but there it is.

seconding Theodora Goes Wild

I guess I agree that Superbad is more of a friendship/bro-mantic movie but I was confused because Easy A had been nominated. I love that movie but I don't really feel that the love story is any more central to the plot of that movie than it is to Superbad.

If it does count, though, Easy A might be top 5 for me.

I don't remember anything about the romantic plot in Easy A. The action in that movie is all elsewhere.

yeah if we're going to stretch definitions I personally would prefer to err on the side of "light romantic films with a few lols" rather than "comedies with a tacked-on love interest" cause, yknow, we already had a comedy poll & probably won't have a romance poll, but ymmv

Branagh Much Ado > Whedon Much Ado

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, August 15, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Branagh is thrash!

All I remember about the Branaugh one is him walking around a fountain with a big dumb smile on his face.

KEANU

I love the concept and ephemerality of Whedon's version and it's not bogged by Branagh's hammy work (it does need Emma Thompson though).

Denzel and Keanu are the acting standouts

anyway, given the liberality i have my #1 choice, a Sturges w/ sufficient all-American VULGARITY

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Miracle_morgan_creek.jpg

I have never heard of this movie

it's my favorite of PS, a lot of people overlook it bcz it's not on that boxed set that came out in the last decade.

basically, smalltown schlub reluctantly rides to the rescue when the girl he's worshipped unrequitedly gets knocked up by a departing soldier she was too drunk to remember. yes, this came out in 1944.

Bracken is too hysterical for me but it's Demarest's best work.

lol, look at that poster, hysteria is the order of the day

btw i would kill for an 18x12 version of that

36x24 better still

yeah, the Bracken movies will never be my favourite Sturges because I basically can't stand him

I think TCM shows this once or twice a year? You used to be able to get an email alert from them when they scheduled it, but I can't find that function on their site anymore.

So, there are people who *don't* have TCMs schedule in their daily bookmarks?

TCM is different and not as good over here :(

Miracle is really the only movie i would watch on Christmas Eve, over The Apartment and Bad Santa

what no Die Hard

Hmm, looking closer -- some movies on TCM have upcoming scheduling and a "remind me" function, but some don't. Bummer.

Winking is srsly uglier than duckface.

(Best holiday movies would be a dece movie genre poll too, btw.)

http://www.thedailygouge.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OBAMA-WINKING.jpg

it's my favorite of PS, a lot of people overlook it bcz it's not on that boxed set that came out in the last decade.

basically, smalltown schlub reluctantly rides to the rescue when the girl he's worshipped unrequitedly gets knocked up by a departing soldier she was too drunk to remember. yes, this came out in 1944.

When I read this at 1st I misread which part of the sentence "unrequitedly" was modifying & was like what the hell does it mean to unrequitedly get knocked up

well that's a different movie

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/12/article-2025319-001B598800000258-132_468x544.jpg

5 DAYS TO GET THOSE BALLOTS TOGETHER PEOPLE

can we plz get a full list of noms to peruse?

I'm officially not nominating Begin Again.

Bumbling (and not in a Hugh Grant kinda way) my way through a top 20 right now. Too many gaps in my viewing, or just things I haven't seen in years. I *did* PVR It Happened One Night off TCM yesterday, which I'd been wanting to see again anyway.

every single person who has debated whether someone else's choice should qualify is bradley cooper in wedding crashers

consenting adults can love whatever movie they choose, eyes on your own hearts people

yeah I kinda hope they die

easy a has numerous romantic scenes with penn badgley and the climax ends with her getting her "jake ryan" moment NAMED AS SUCH so if it's not romcom enough for you well then DONT VOTE FOR IT.

who, consenting adults? xp

references to '80s high school movies in recent movies = good job growing up

^ bradley cooper in wedding crashers

XP anyone, everyone, particular anyone advocating for bracken

Bracken haters hate comedy!

outrageous

Nominations list:

10 Things I Hate About You
13 Going On 30
2 Days In New York
50 First Dates
American Pie 2
Dan In Real Life
Just Married
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Romancing The Stone
Silver Linings Playbook
The Americanization Of Emily
Two Weeks Notice
Wanderlust
We're The Millers
Woo
A Summer's Tale
Addicted To Love
After Hours
Into The Night
All Of Me
Americas Sweethearts
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Defending Your Life
Pygmalion
Bringing Up Baby
But I'm A Cheerleader
American Pie
Pat And Mike
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Green Card
City Lights
Desk Set
Love In The Afternoon
Claire's Knee
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Crossing Delancey
Daddy Long Legs
The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer
Design For Living
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Flirting With Disaster
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Fucking Åmål (Aka Show Me Love)
Gregory's Girl
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hannah And Her Sisters
As Good As It Gets
Tootsie
A Matter Of Life And Death
Flirting
Amelie
Metropolitan
Swingers
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Beautiful Girls
The Tall Guy
Pretty In Pink
Happy Accidents
Heaven Can Wait
Holiday
How To Marry A Millionaire
I Know Where I'm Going!
In The Realm Of The Senses
Irma La Douce
Knight And Day
L.A. Story
Adam's Rib (Wait, They're Married. Is This Still Allowed?)
Once Around
Everyone Says I Love You
Enough Said
Trouble In Paradise
For Scent-Imental Reasons
Look Who's Talking
Bridget Jones's Diary
Earth Girls Are Easy
Stranger Than Fiction
Music & Lyrics
Love And Other Disasters
Love/Chloe In The Afternoon
Midnight
Easy Living
It Happened One Night
His Girl Friday
My Favorite Wife
The Awful Truth
The Palm Beach Story
My Man Godfrey
Charade
Married To The Mob
Midnight
Easy Living
Remember The Night
Ball Of Fire
It Happened One Night
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
My Favorite Wife
The Awful Truth
The Palm Beach Story
My Man Godfrey
Holiday
Twentieth Century
Ninotchka
The Philadelphia Story
The Lady Vanishes
Born Yesterday
It Should Happen To You
Monkey Business
Mother And Son
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Muriel's Wedding
Never Been Kissed
Notting Hill
Pierrot Le Fou
Pitch Perfect
Enchanted
South Pacific (?)
Camelot (Surely)
My Fairy Lady
Grease
Pride And Prejudice
Emma
Sense And Sensibility
Howard's End
Roman Holiday
Breakfast At Tiffany's
The Graduate
The Heartbreak Kid
Broadcast News
Married To The Mob
Sabrina (1954)
Little Shop Of Horrors
Intolerable Cruelty
Harold And Maude
Safety Not Guaranteed
Sleepless In Seattle
Sixteen Candles
My Best Friend's Wedding
Love Actually
There's Something About Mary
Shakespeare In Love
Shampoo
Shaun Of The Dead
The Princess Bride
She's All That
Smiles Of A Summer Night
Some Like It Hot
Something’s Wild
Something's Gotta Give
Superbad
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Celeste And Jesse Forever
Tampopo
To Be Or Not To Be
The 39 Steps
North By Northwest
The African Queen
Date Night
All Night Long
They Came Together
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Raising Arizona
The Five-Year Engagement
The Incredibly True Adventure Of Two Girls In Love
The Man With Two Brains
The Marrying Kind
The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
The Seagull's Laughter
The Tao Of Steve
The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Singer
Theodora Goes Wild
To Have And Have Not
Trick
True Romance
Trust
What's Up Doc
A New Leaf
Chilly Scenes Of Winter
Pillow Talk
A Fish Called Wanda
Punch-Drunk Love
When Harry Met Sally...
The Sure Thing
Easy A
Say Anything...
The Shop Around The Corner
Splash
Roxanne
The Princess Bride
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Knocked Up
Clueless
Moonstruck
The Thin Man
The Lady Eve
High Fidelity
Four Weddings And A Funeral
Hitch
Arthur
Groundhog Day
Friends With Benefits
Bull Durham
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Unfaithfully Yours
Singles
So I Married An Ax Murderer
Working Girl
Zelig

uh sorted alphabetically:

10 Things I Hate About You
13 Going On 30
2 Days In New York
50 First Dates
A Fish Called Wanda
A Matter Of Life And Death
A New Leaf
A Summer's Tale
Adam's Rib (Wait, They're Married. Is This Still Allowed?)
Addicted To Love
After Hours
All Night Long
All Of Me
Amelie
American Pie
American Pie 2
Americas Sweethearts
Annie Hall
Arthur
As Good As It Gets
Ball Of Fire
Beautiful Girls
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Born Yesterday
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby
Broadcast News
Bull Durham
But I'm A Cheerleader
Camelot (Surely)
Celeste And Jesse Forever
Charade
Chilly Scenes Of Winter
City Lights
Claire's Knee
Clueless
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Crossing Delancey
Daddy Long Legs
Dan In Real Life
Date Night
Defending Your Life
Design For Living
Desk Set
Earth Girls Are Easy
Easy A
Easy Living
Easy Living
Emma
Enchanted
Enough Said
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Everyone Says I Love You
Flirting
Flirting With Disaster
For Scent-Imental Reasons
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Four Weddings And A Funeral
Friends With Benefits
Fucking Åmål (Aka Show Me Love)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Grease
Green Card
Gregory's Girl
Grosse Pointe Blank
Groundhog Day
Hannah And Her Sisters
Happy Accidents
Harold And Maude
Heaven Can Wait
High Fidelity
His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday
Hitch
Holiday
Holiday
How To Marry A Millionaire
Howard's End
I Know Where I'm Going!
In The Realm Of The Senses
Into The Night
Intolerable Cruelty
Irma La Douce
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night
It Should Happen To You
Just Married
Knight And Day
Knocked Up
L.A. Story
Little Shop Of Horrors
Look Who's Talking
Love Actually
Love And Other Disasters
Love In The Afternoon
Love/Chloe In The Afternoon
Manhattan
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Married To The Mob
Married To The Mob
Metropolitan
Midnight
Midnight
Monkey Business
Moonstruck
Mother And Son
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Muriel's Wedding
Music & Lyrics
My Best Friend's Wedding
My Fairy Lady
My Favorite Wife
My Favorite Wife
My Man Godfrey
My Man Godfrey
Never Been Kissed
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist
Ninotchka
North By Northwest
Notting Hill
Once Around
Pat And Mike
Pierrot Le Fou
Pillow Talk
Pitch Perfect
Pretty In Pink
Pride And Prejudice
Punch-Drunk Love
Pygmalion
Raising Arizona
Remember The Night
Roman Holiday
Romancing The Stone
Roxanne
Sabrina (1954)
Safety Not Guaranteed
Say Anything...
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Sense And Sensibility
Shakespeare In Love
Shampoo
Shaun Of The Dead
She's All That
Silver Linings Playbook
Singles
Sixteen Candles
Sleepless In Seattle
Smiles Of A Summer Night
So I Married An Ax Murderer
Some Like It Hot
Something’s Wild
Something's Gotta Give
South Pacific (?)
Splash
Stranger Than Fiction
Superbad
Swingers
Tampopo
The 39 Steps
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The African Queen
The Americanization Of Emily
The Awful Truth
The Awful Truth
The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Five-Year Engagement
The Graduate
The Heartbreak Kid
The Incredibly True Adventure Of Two Girls In Love
The Lady Eve
The Lady Vanishes
The Man With Two Brains
The Marrying Kind
The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek
The Palm Beach Story
The Palm Beach Story
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
The Philadelphia Story
The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride
The Seagull's Laughter
The Shop Around The Corner
The Sure Thing
The Tall Guy
The Tao Of Steve
The Thin Man
The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Singer
Theodora Goes Wild
There's Something About Mary
They Came Together
To Be Or Not To Be
To Have And Have Not
Tootsie
Trick
Trouble In Paradise
True Romance
Trust
Twentieth Century
Two Weeks Notice
Unfaithfully Yours
Wanderlust
We're The Millers
What's Up Doc
When Harry Met Sally...
Woo
Working Girl
Zelig

only one ballot so far...

kung fu hustle?

i should have nominated the last days of disco

North By Northwest and To Have and Have Not are silly misclassifications, but whatev

you are not limited to nominations i dont believe

LDoD trumps most of what's been mentioned of recent vintage, ditto Damsels in Distress.

missing from that master list and definitely mentioned:

I Love You Philip Morris
Love Me Tonight
The Gay Divorcee

people named a lot of shit in this thread, I explicitly said I wasn't gonna police anything

xp

also i thought of another gay male one

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/TaxiZumKlo.jpg

bah, saw the Damsels in Distress nom before sending in my ballot. i couldn't bother to parse genres really so i voted for whatever looked good to me and docked it a few points if it didn't quite seem rom commy enough

and a lady-lady classic

http://images.moviepostershop.com/go-fish-movie-poster-1994-1010397628.jpg

One or two of us nominated Woman of the Year.

Let me add The Paper Chase, too.

10 Things I Hate abt You will own this I hope

3 ballots in - votey vote vote folks

There was a romantic plot in Zelig?

therapist falls for Zelig

"Please, no more pancakes."

People, the romantic plot should be the *foreground* of the film. Or the foreskin in Taxi zum Klo.

3 days left to do this?? god damn..

get to work

4 ballots in

my nominations roundly ignored, hmp

look scrolling through this thread and c+p'ing every single thing people nominated (some of which were clearly jokes) was a pain in the ass sorry if I missed something it was not intentional

vote for whatever you want

oh don't worry: you'll get mine this weekend.

just sent mine

no that's fair xp, I'm not sure I'll have time to vote anyway and most of my noms were jokes.

deservedly hailed in Harvey book as best Loy-Powell comedy (plus Harlow-Tracy)

http://themave.com/Powell/powloy/films/libeled1.jpg

get them votes in

6 ballots in now - starting to worry that ILX is neither funny nor romantic >:(

I will be turning in a ballot but it might be at the 11th hour so don't think I don't love you comedically, romantically

accompanying pic is lol

http://news.yahoo.com/st-louis-area-cop-thinks-protesters-put-down-173237961.html

haha wrong thread whoops

Damn, forgot to nominate "Convention City"

i like Joan Blondell, dont know that one tho

I'll do a ballot, probably tomorrow, but def before the deadline.

Can I rescind my ballot only to decide I liked it after all then chase it down at an airport and send it in at the last possible second?

We need some subpolls for this one, like the 10 best meet cutes.

no

I agree with Morbs. Grant and Hepburn on the golf course would walk it so there's no point.

Votey vote vote

OK, I slapped together a ballot.

voted!

sent!

I sent a list of 50

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516fFxr8qzL._SX342_.jpg

Ooh just beating out mordy's ballot of 40

Y'all remembered to specify the 1936 version of My Man Godfrey, didn't you?

i like Joan Blondell, dont know that one tho

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius

Nobody does, it's been a lost film forever

we'll trust Shakey doesnt think anyone wd vote for the George Gobel one

xp

I didnt even know there was another version

I missed deadline -- I was watching a movie.

Shakey! Can I still get it in by tomorrow morning??

Oh, I thought this was just the nominating thread, I didn't realize we were voting already! Is it still possible to send a ballot, if I send it today?

tsk tsk

Tried to get my wife to watch Something Wild a year or two ago and lemme tell ya, years of manic pixie dream girls since has not made melanie griffith's character/performance fresher

― da croupier,

I know what you mean but she's a little older and even without knowing what happens in the second half she gives the impression of being dangerous? idk She's never come off like proto-Zooey Deschanel.

Alfred you voted for it twice

sure!

14 ballots total, so I'll keep voting open for a little while in case there are some stragglers also how could we do this poll w out lol Tuomas

I would've voted for a certain Mitchell Leisen film twice too

feeling bad that I forgot to mention Nights of Cabiria in this thread/get it on the noms list

Alfred when did you first see something wild and when did you last see it? Would it have even occurred to you how someone might see it with fresh eyes today? Cuz the Zooey is there, even if demme goes deeper into who'd "turn your world upside down"

Nights of Cabiria is a TRAGEDY, goddammit! wtf, full enrollment needed in genre school.

something wild is a movie that opens with melanie griffith meeting a stuffy (allegedly) married dude in a diner, whimsically throwing his wallet out of the car before handcuffing him to a bed for some wild sex. melanie griffith. it shouldn't be THAT hard to imagine how it wouldn't be a great first impression for someone in 2014.

cuz ppl like their wallets more in 2014?

Nights of Cabiria is a TRAGEDY, goddammit!

but it's funny! and about romance. albeit more than one. and she's alone at the end. but still

funny sequences and/or Masina's funny face /= comedy

for you they made it into Sweet Charity

which I also considered voting for

but I like the original more

I also discounted Twentieth Century bcz it's about the Lombard and Barrymore characters, and they are not fucking each other or trying to.

something wild is a movie that opens with melanie griffith meeting a stuffy (allegedly) married dude in a diner, whimsically throwing his wallet out of the car before handcuffing him to a bed for some wild sex. melanie griffith. it shouldn't be THAT hard to imagine how it wouldn't be a great first impression for someone in 2014.

1994 my first viewing, and, yeah, it was after several years of Griffith sexpot roles like Working Girl and Shining Through, so it was far easier to accept her. But even from the pod of a newbie she's older than the average Manic Pixie Girl. She emits a danger that the Zooeys don't.

I've got a ballot in the making. Only had to add about 5 titles that weren't on the master list.

hurry up laggards!

But even from the pod of a newbie she's older than the average Manic Pixie Girl. She emits a danger that the Zooeys don't.

the fact that she was hovering around 30 doesn't make the shtick fresher, and you're really overrating the danger emittance in the first act

pssshht, Tuomas won't look at this thread again until Thursday.

nobody's mentioned About Last Night.... which was the first "date movie" i actually watched while on a date

is there a number limit on the ballots?

well the longest ballot so far is Morbz' with 50. I adjusted the scoring/point weighting to accomodate that (which didn't really change the results much) but I'd say that's the upper limit now.

Ballot sent.

nobody's mentioned About Last Night....

when you say "romantic comedy" you're really saying "David Mamet"

I did find Mamet's casting of Al Pacino/Helen Mirren as a couple in "Spector" p funny

now i'm fretting whether Rob Lowe was the Herbert Marshall or Melvyn Douglas of the '80s

16 ballots now. any more last minute contenders besides tuomas?

The David Manners, Morbs.

I would say Cesar Romero, cept that might be Freddie Prinze Jr.

Sent my ballot.

any other stragglers out there...?

allright unless there are any objections I'm gonna close balloting - 17 voters.

that seems like way less ballots than the action and comedies polls I guess ILX just doesn't feel the LUV

or ILM thinks Radiohead has more laffs and romance.

or people didn't wanna fuck with subgenre police

arrest this man

His Meg Ryan hairdo is making me feel ill

the fact that she was hovering around 30 doesn't make the shtick fresher, and you're really overrating the danger emittance in the first act

I'll concede that someone who's endured 500 Days of Summer's Hall & Oates sequence has less patience for this shit, but there's enough going on in SW -- the use of locations, soundtrack, use of non-actors and the supporting cast -- to mitigate The Scent of Manic Pixiness. A large part of what makes the movie work for me is how I never know how I'm supposed to feel about Charlie and Lulu's hookup, Charlie going along with Lulu, Lulu herself. Cuz of all the stuff I mentioned, the ground feels like it's continuously churning. Few Manic Pixie movies even bother.

shit can i still send a ballot? balls.

no, Οὖτις's in charge of the poll.

shit just sent a ballot :/

oh well if it counts it counts, if not .. my own daft fault doh

I'll include it dont worry

ahh you're a good man.

this will probably be at least as bad as the general comedy poll

Jonathan Demme knows nothing abt yr Manic Pixie Shit, and the guy who wrote the script -- w/out looking, im gonna say E Max Frye? and that he never had another credit in the same ballpark? -- was also too old to.

omg, that guy has written the Carell-Tatum wrestling-psycho drama

and it's his first theatrical feature in 14 years

i just sent a way late ballot sorry! looking forward to rollout whether it gets in or not.

Laggards I say!

put them in the iron maiden!

Make 'em watch Maid in Manhattan.

haha

that seems like way less ballots than the action and comedies polls I guess ILX just doesn't feel the LUV

I think some people (like me) might've gotten confused by the title of this thread, because it says "The Romantic Comedies Poll Nominations and Discussion Thread", with no mention of voting, or a deadline. I thought there'd be a separate thread for voting, as is usually the case with ILX ballot polls.

Can send a ballot tonight if that's ok.

new ILX ballot wardens

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I thought there'd be a separate thread for voting

yeah well this has never made sense to me (what is there to discuss in a voting thread - that you voted?) and as Romantic Comedies Poll Dictator For Life I have dispensed with this unnecessary step

hurry it up xyzzzzz

If I knew there'd be extra time, I coulda watched some of my choices!

you still can, you just can't change your vote

Sorry btw, can't, actually needed time to remind myself etc etc.

Look forward to the countdown.

you are fired from this thread

VOTING CLOSED

RESULTS TOMORROW

Damn! Didn't realise that the voting phase had even begun. Oh well, interested in the results.

Brief but relevant: http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/when-harry-met-adam-and-steve-the-problems-in-creating-a-good-queer-rom-com-20140825

oh man, i have seen some painful stinkers in that realm.

I finally saw My Man Godfrey for the first time today and I love it so fucking much. I am ashamed it took me this long to enjoy but will i ever enjoy another movie as much? DOUBTFUL

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