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Rummy_McGin
05/11/09

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If anyone's interested there is an AWESOME book called "what a girl wants?" by Diane Negra, she's one of my ver very favourite film writers, it's awesome, kinda depressing but very thought provoking.

all about modern female aimed media.
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HuckleberryFriend
05/11/09

@Rummy_McGin: Adding it to my book list! Thanks for the suggestion!
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Jack_Burton
05/11/09

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{cough} Ghosts of Girlfriends Past {cough}
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Diziet_Sma
05/11/09

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If anyone wants to see a GOOD indie flick about love, go see Adventureland (if it's still on where you are.) As a bonus, Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig play supporting roles!
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SunburnedCounsel
05/11/09

@Diziet_Sma: I loved this movie. It was a thousand times sweeter then I ever would have guessed, and it made my heart hurt in places remembering what I was like at that age.
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Dictator for Life
05/11/09

@SunburnedCounsel: Seconded. My fiancé and I saw it, and we both left with a bittersweet feeling that most rom-coms can't come close to creating in a viewer.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
05/11/09

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Have any movies with mega-ensemble casts made a ton of money? Usually they're recipes for disaster. Too many trailers and big heads, I think.
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bluebears
05/11/09

@HeatherNumber1: Oceans 11 did pretty well.
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TheGuvnah
05/11/09

@HeatherNumber1:

Crash?

Tropic Thunder?

Sex and the City?

Am i defining ensemble casts differently?
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
05/11/09

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Listen. It'd take a 2000-whatever version of The Godfather to get me into a theatre these days. I mean really. Who wants to spend fifteen bucks to sit in a big dark room with a hundred strangers, all of whom are alternately shout-whispering, standing up and blocking the screen, farting, and rustling candy wrappers? Plus it always always always smells like feet in those places. It's like I can feel the airborne microbes landing on my skin. So need anyone ask if I'll be lining up to watch this crap and other craps like it? Didn't think so.

Harrumph.
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bluebears
05/11/09

@..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: I feel the same way, I'm fine with netflix thanks.
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tscheese
05/11/09

@..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: Eugh, this is another one of my issues with movies. Paying a zillion bucks to be surrounded by rude strangers in a musty uncomfortable chair splattered with how many layers of godknowswhat? And you can't even pause if you have to go pee?

I'll put up with it for Star Trek, but not for Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel "meeting cute" with some bland milquetoast love interest.
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midwesternmom
05/11/09

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And then there was the Valentine's Day I went with a girlfriend to see The Piano. We left grateful to have all ten fingers and no husband.
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battleaxonista...is a humorless bitch
05/11/09

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It seems, as a gender, that women will faithfully go to banal and formulaic 'romantic comedies' just as, as a gender, males will faithfully go to banal and formulaic 'shoot 'em up's. Studios will make what puts the asses in the seats, simple as that. HJNTIY never claimed to be psychologically deep the exact same way that Crank never pretended to be anything than what it was.
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thesciencegirl
05/11/09

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Well, at least this one is clearly going to have a more diverse cast. See! They included one multiracial actress!

:-/
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rocknrollunicorn
05/11/09

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You guys, mediocre movies will generally make the most cash. Every once in awhile that proves untrue, but most of the time a group of people or a couple will compromise and go see something that no one involved finds outright offensive.

There are good romcoms, there are bad ones. Guess which ones people will still be renting 50 years from now? I feel like this is the nature of any medium. I mean, fuck, Everybody Loves Raymond was like the most popular show for awhile.
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merv
05/11/09

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I'm totally cool with short-stories-with-big-star-cast... movies. But more of the Creepshow variety. campy horror > romantic comedies
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Old King Clancy (the former Referee Pitman)
05/11/09

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They should institute a penalty box in Hollywood. Like Anne Hathaway has to go to it for "Bride Wars." A suitable punishment before you get to make another movie.
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HuckleberryFriend
05/11/09

@Encouraging Referee Pitman: lol totally. Kate Hudson should be locked away for life at this point.
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Rare Affinity
05/11/09

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This film will bomb in the UK. Romance has been offically pronounced dead following Katie (Jordan) Price's announcement that her marriage is over. If travelling to your wedding in a white glass coach modelled on one seen in a Disney film and wearing a pink wedding dress with a foot high diamond tiara that even Barbie wouild blanche at sporting is not enough to keep the fires of love burning, then there is no hope for us mere mortals.
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rocknrollunicorn
05/11/09

@Rare Affinity: WHAT? When was this? gah.
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clevernamehere
05/11/09

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I have no problem with a formulaic rom com coming out for V-Day. I might even go see it. I'd rather a formulaic rom com like Bridget Jones's Diary than the woman hating bullshit that has been passing for romantic comedies lately.

Even the ads for He's Just Not That Into You made me want to claw my eyes out. I like romantic escapism- girl meets boys, minor misunderstandings occur, some verbal banter and viola, they end up together. What I am not interested in is a movie that tells me it is hard for a woman to find love but not a man. It isn't romantic escapism to watch women chase after guys who aren't into them (while that could be a good drama).

I'm also tired of male centered rom coms. Outside of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and a few others they are mostly about guys who have been absolutely horrible to women in the past (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Made of Honor, My Best Friend's Girl). I don't find that romantic or realistic. I don't even understand how they keep getting made. Most guys aren't Lotharios, most women don't want douchebags, and they aren't even very funny.

Bring on the formula!
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bluebears
05/11/09

@clevernamehere: Honestly I have no problem (in moderation) of watching a cute/funny love story, see Two Weeks Notice, but its this whole new trend of women are so desperate and that desperation makes them stupid and they need help! is just so gross.
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dj_chick
05/11/09

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I liked 'He's Just Not That Into You'. (The movie, not the book. I think the book is obnoxious.) I liked the whole plot with Ginnifer Goodwin and the Mac guy (aka Justin Long). The part with Scarlet Johansson? Not so much. But anyways, I have the right to enjoy whatever trashy chick-flicks I want. The same way I can enjoy ridiculous books about vampires who sparkle. I don't think it makes me a lesser person. Or less intelligent, etc. They're not for everyone... hence we have variety at the movie theaters.

/defensive mode
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rocknrollunicorn
05/11/09

@dj_chick: With you on this. Didn't see HJNTIY but generally I love romantic comedies. I really enjoyed Definitely, Maybe. And I'm not gonna hide it. I have high class tastes, too, thankyouverymuch.
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tinydundie42
05/11/09

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This will probably be terrible, but... Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Garner? Be still my high-school-era-Alias-loving heart!

Also, Shirley MacLaine is great and I'm liking Hathaway more, lately.
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