The premise is you find an otherwise attractive man who is “damaged goods” in some way. He’s a phony. A liar. He wastes his brains or talent in pursuit of false goals. He’s carrying around way too much emotional baggage. He can’t commit. You know the drill.
Now then:
First, be totally non-threatening. Be “kooky” or ditzy if possible, and smile a lot.
Second, stick to him like glue for the first 36 hours. Never mind if you normally work three part-time jobs. Never mind if you end up sleeping on the floor under his piano. There’s no place else you’d rather be!
Third, have sex with him. (Duh. Of course you’re sexually available to him. Look at those big, sad eyes!)
Now you have power over him!
Now you are free to quarrel with him about nothing. Well, not nothing, but the same stuff everyone who knows him and cares about him has been trying to tell him for years.
Now, make up with him and kiss. You’ve redeemed him! Congratulations!
Oh, but the new one is different! It is set against the backdrop of the World Series of Poker! :rolleyes: It seems as though the public was not fooled by this one, finally- it tanked. Seriously, these Amercian romantic comedies with big name stars, has there been one since Annie Hall that wasn’t a totally predictable piece of formulaic fluff?
And Lucky You (will people ever stop using cutesy pun titles?) was directed by Curtis Hanson? Please tell me only out of contractual obligation.
Yeah, but they don’t have to be so brainless. I watch these only when stuck on an airplane or something, but I have seen a couple of British ones that weren’t totally idiotic. And just once, can we have one of these where the two big name stars don’t get together at the end
Gosh, heretofore I haven’t had an opportunity to mention how little I regard that film, so why not here?
I had heard so many good things about this movie, not the least of them from the SDMB. And yet, in reality it sucked. It was sucktitious. It sucked shit from the shit-teat of the cow of suckitude. If it were a foodstuff it would be a pile of cold wobbly fried suck in a tureen of congealed shit. What an utter, utter pile of wank.
And I am the kind of girlyman who usually enjoys romantic comedies.
Don’t forget “The Wedding Singer” too. At least Adam Sandler’s broken-ness was funny.
Not dissing “The Wedding Singer,” mind you. The only problem I have with that movie is what the hell were they thinking with Drew’s hair? A girl in the 80’s would have died before she went out in public with her hair parted in the middle like that with no bangs (especially no mall bangs).
The boy and the girl (they need not be the biggest names in the film, but their identities as The Boy and The Girl must be established unambiguously early on) have to get together at the end or it wouldn’t be a romantic comedy at all!
(For that reason, I don’t really consider Annie Hall a romantic comedy.)
So, I haven’t seen “Never Been Kissed”, but I’m dying to know. I caught part of it at a friend’s house and it seems that undercover reporter Drew had a crush on one of her teachers. Did they ever get together, or did it end in heartbreak? I need to know!!!
