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This would be what motivated me to make a LJ post: please name your top 10 romantic comedies, friends. Define "romantic comedy" however you see fit. (That sentence makes it sound like I want you to go indie or weird -- I don't, I just want to know your favorites. If your favorites are "You've Got Mail" and "Love Actually", that's what you should
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HALF OF THESE AREN'T EVEN "COMEDIES" OR "ROMANTIC" AND I HAVE HORRENDOUS "TASTE" BUT I STICK BY THIS LIST UNTIL MY LAST DYING BREATH!!!
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Bride & Prejudice, Someone Like You, Better off Dead, Loving Leah, Antique, THE WEDDING DATE, the Lucy Liu Lifetime miniseries Marry Me!
If you want I can give you very long exclamation-filled non-explanations about why I love all these movies so much BECAUSE I HAVE VERY STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT ALL OF THEM.
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oh my GOD how did I not know this existed
IF YOU WANT TO ELABORATE, I WANT TO HEAR IT!!
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She's the Man: I mean do I even have to explain this one?! Twelfth Night is my favorite Shakespeare, CROSSDRESSING IS THE BEST TROPE, the only time (other than Step Up) Channing Tatum has looked like the handsome heartthrob everyone claims he is now, Amanda Bynes!!! :((( Everything about this movie is so much better than it has any right to be. OMG David Cross.
Spellbound (aka Chilling Romance): You can watch this on hulu! Lee Min-ki and Son Ye-jin! It didn't really hit me until I saw this movie a few years back just how AWFUL American romcoms have gotten BECAUSE KOREANS DO IT SO MUCH BETTER. There's something disingenuous about American romcoms now, I don't know what it is, it's just so obvious that it's studios putting together bland actors with a bland script to make as much bland money as possible. Nobody MEANS it anymore! Nobody MEANS their romcoms!!! I think we can all agree that Koreans ALWAYS mean their romcoms, always. Every single sappy, heartwarming, heart-wrenching moment, they always mean ( ... )
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The Cutting Edge: ULTIMATE!!! Years ago, when I was a small child, I watched this movie for the first time on UPN when it was still UPN. AND IT CHANGED MY LIFE. It has basically shaped and formed the way I view fictional relationships, especially my favorite of favorites: love/hate relationships. The bickering, the chemistry, the ice skating!!! TOE PICK.
And here are the TV movies:
Marry Me: SO INEXPLICABLY GREAT. I watch a lot of shit on Lifetime and most are just that, SHIT, but this one is actually unjustifiably funny and good. It has all these elements that would make you think it's going to be one of those disingenuous romcom-type things (a precocious teen, a guy with a castle?!) but somehow being a TV movie actually works in its favor because it ( ... )
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I have to say, the AMAZING thing about this post zanza is the fact that there are so many places where I'm like SEKRIT SHAME ALEX DOESN'T SHARE THESE WITH ME AT ALLLLLL :( :( :( but now there are apparently other people who do. Like, many that I would not have guessed would appear on (especially multiple) people's Top 10????
FEELINGS
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I LOVE THIS PARAGRAPH. Completely accurate. I guess I need to watch more Korean romcoms?
I've actually seen Something New, although I wouldn't've realized without the description -- that title is so... I mean it actually kind of suits the film, but it's also such a cliche/generic film title that... you forget. I liked it a lot, but I honestly think I missed the glossiness.
I NEED TO WATCH ALL OF THESE NOW. Especially the TV movies. Those last two sound awful in the best possible way.
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Yesssssssssss oh my god
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