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Post by roverpup on Mar 15, 2023 19:08:09 GMT
I think there have been a few good popular romcoms since 2000 but precious few.
I loved Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003), About a Boy (2002) and Enough Said (2013).
I know it sounds like I really go for everything Hugh Grant but I'm not a fan of Notting Hill (Dan liked that one though).
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Post by queenzod on Mar 15, 2023 21:24:08 GMT
Lol those, with the exception of the last one, were 20 years ago. How time flies, don’t it? I’ll have to look for Enough Said. Don’t think I ever saw that one. I tried very hard to like Leap Year with Amy Adams & the delectable Matthew Goode, mostly b/c it was set in Ireland, but it was so banal, typical, & cringe!
Speaking of hacked off Hugh Grant, anyone following the meltdown about him “being rude” on the Oscar red carpet? I thought he was hilarious but apparently others think he should have been more polite? I’m loving his evil villain phase. 😂
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Post by mllemass on Mar 15, 2023 23:23:13 GMT
LOVE Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually! I didn’t think of About a Boy as a romcom, but I liked it, though. I’ve never heard of Enough Said.
I tried Leap Year when it was first on tv, but it wasn’t good.
Hugh Grant is absolutely hilarious! Those red carpet interviews are usually pretty awful. I didn’t watch too much of it at this year’s Oscars, but I think they’re the same year after year. I’ve seen celebrities questioned about movies they weren’t even in because the pretty interviewer had no idea who they were and relied on the questions from their earpiece. I can understand hiring ex-models as presenters on entertainment news shows, but putting them on a red carpet is a huge mistake.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 15, 2023 23:49:00 GMT
Other than Michael Fassbender, I do associate those other actors as comic - even Penelope Cruz (Zoolander). Unless they have an amazing, well-written original story to bring us, I have no interest in yet another romcom. Historically, the romcoms that have been popular were not necessarily big-budget or critically acclaimed. They all have experience in romantic comedies (with the exception of Fassbender) but I am not sure they are stars of the genre. I mean the three of them are in Woody Allen classics: Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona and Midnight in Paris. Allen is probably the biggest master in the genre but he is considered more arty than the popular version of romantic comedies. Johansson did also Lost in Translation but again, too arty! She was also in other more “traditional” romantic comedies. Probably the best of them was In Good Company but I don’t think she is a Diane Keaton or a Julia Roberts or a Meg Ryan. Someone you can see as a star of the genre. Wilson is probably more there. And he has done both “arty” romantic comedies and conventional popular romantic comedies like the ones Nancy Meyer used to do.
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Post by roverpup on Mar 16, 2023 3:40:40 GMT
I'd highly recommend Enough Said. I'm not surprised few have heard of it. It didn't get much notice. It starred James Gandolfini and Julia Louise Dreyfus. Gandolfini isn't someone who you'd normally associate with romcoms but he was wonderful in the role and played beautifully off Dreyfus. A real adult romantic comedy. Very funny. It was one of Gandolfini's last roles and actually was released, I think, after he died. Such a great loss!
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 17, 2023 2:21:48 GMT
Apparently WB wants to buy it. That’s interesting considering that the scrutiny is worst for theatre releases than streaming (Netflix could always lie if something goes wrong!).
We will see, maybe they are sure they have a huge hit in their hands but, for example, the last George Clooney/Julia Roberts movie did “only” $172 millions worldwide. No bad for a $60M movie but, this one allegedly “need” a $150M budget! Are Meyer, Johansson, Wilson, Cruz and Fassbender much bigger than Clooney/Roberts and could make a film to do around $300M to be profitable?
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 17, 2023 2:33:10 GMT
By the way, here is a list of the biggest romantic comedies ever. I don’t think these are adjusted numbers so most of them would be much bigger with today’s inflation but still, Meyer needs to make a film that goes directly to the top numbers (and she has already a few movies there) but the most interesting fact here is that, with the exception of a few Chinese movies, the biggest hits were from the peak years of the genre: 1990s and early 2000s. www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/genres/romantic-comedyEDITED, Hopefully she could make her film as she wants and create a huge box office hit! I’m not a fan of the genre in general. I think there are a few lovely movies there but not necessarily hers. I would go for the Woody Allen ones and maybe a few of the British ones with Hugh Grant (not Love, Actually which I think it’s awful! Sorry!). TBH I am pretentious enough to claim my favorite romantic comedies are by Eric Rohmer and Truffaut but they aren’t in the list. I also think the Before Sunrise trilogy is great and Whit Stillman’s, talking about American films, but again they are not there! Neither of these directos would dare to ask nor receive $150M by studios
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Post by queenzod on Mar 17, 2023 4:18:59 GMT
400 bad request. 😕
Do you remember the top 5?
Also, and I don’t know if these would qualify as blockbusters, but classic Hollywood put out some slamming romcoms back in the day. Shop around the Corner, Philadelphia Story, It Happened One Night, The Lady Eve, Ninotchka, Bringing up Baby, etc. Miles ahead of anything written over the last 20 years.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 17, 2023 10:26:00 GMT
It still works for me! Anyway, the ones that made $300 or more,
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Post by queenzod on Mar 17, 2023 10:32:53 GMT
Ok lots of those are bad, lol. 🤦🏻♀️
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