Romantic Comedies b/w Frankie Valli Appreciation.

Hotsauce84

So I was driving around today bumpin' and singin' along to the greatest hits of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons when I got stuck on "Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye)" and instantly reminded of one of my favorite romantic comedies, Love Actually. I'm a Hugh Grant fan and secure enough in my "man-ness" to admit that. (I'm sayin'...Any man with enough charm to get busted cheating on his bangin' wife with an ugly prostitute and STILL come out loved and adored is A-OK in my book!)Watching Love Actually is one of my by-myself-meeting-while-wrapping-gifts-on-Christmas Eve rituals (along with Emmitt Otter's Jugband Christmas).So anyways, plaese to suggest some of your favorite romantic comedies to me. SOFTBATCH AND PROUD.And here's another reason I like Love Actually so much:

Supergood

And here's another reason I like Love Actually so much:

I dig that film for another reason:

jinx74

serendipity w/ john cusak
what women want w/ mel gibson
50 first dates w/ adam sandler
wedding singer w/ adam sandler
groundhog day w/ bill murray
the american president w/ michael douglas
dave w/ kevin kline

Hotsauce84

serendipity w/ john cusak
what women want w/ mel gibson

You can never really lose with Cusack. I've heard good things about What Women Want, too. I need to peep that.

edith head

def. groundhog day
gross pointe blank (cusack kickboxes a pro-kickboxing lil dude in it)
some like it hot
hannah and her sisters
annie hall
coming to america
there's something about mary
singin' in the rain
alfie (orig)
sabrina
broadcast news
she's having a baby (guilty pleasure)
shampoo

i won't even start on cary grant

rootlesscosmo

herm you a bitch.

rootlesscosmo

tonyphrone

your a brave man. Thank you- i feel validated.



It's all about Bill Nighy.

LaserWolf

I also like romatic comedies. One reason they get a bad rap is there are so many bad ones. Two of the best is When Harry Met Sally and Bull Durham.
Others I like:
High Fidelity
Dirty Dancing
Hairspray (John Waters, I aint seen the musical yet.)
My Cousin Vinnie and Mrs Doubtfire start with couples in rocky relationships so they are not about dating like most of the others but good movies.

The old ones are always good. Hepburn and Tracy. Thin Man movies. Rear Window. African Queen. To Have and Have Not.

SoulOnIce

Emmitt Otter's Jugband Christmas

cas

holyshit birds, soulonice. i just posted about this in the holiday movie thread. i have way too many muppet related movie coincidences.

SoulOnIce

I just wish I could have found the video
of them performing "Riverbottom Nightmare Band"
... but it's been removed

cas

I just wish I could have found the video
of them performing "Riverbottom Nightmare Band"
... but it's been removed

dude. i just tried to find the exact same video. did you mean this for the holiday movie thread? that riverbottom shit was killer!

Hotsauce84

I just wish I could have found the video
of them performing "Riverbottom Nightmare Band"
... but it's been removed

dude. i just tried to find the exact same video. did you mean this for the holiday movie thread? that riverbottom shit was killer!

Scroll up and give me my credit, beeeea arthur!

SoulOnIce

did you mean this for the holiday movie thread?

Nah, Herm randomly dropped the title in the first post above.

If these were better-looking, I'd be all over one:

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BreakSelf

One reason they get a bad rap is there are so many bad ones.

Seems unfair doesn't it?

Hotsauce84

I just wish I could have found the video
of them performing "Riverbottom Nightmare Band"
... but it's been removed

That was my myspace video for months a while back.

I'm still rockin' my VHS copy. I suppose I should step up to DVD.

serg

dude love actually? wtf, I've only seen that shit in the video store I worked at and that shit is straight up garbage. I think watching that makes you less mexican even. It's like being allergic to tortillas.

Hotsauce84

I think watching that makes you less mexican even. It's like being allergic to tortillas.

(self_blast)I absolutely HATE guacamole.(/self_blast)

onetet

hmmm... I don't dig too many Hollywood romantic comedies, at least not from the last 15 years or more, but there's some decent ones lurking on the indie corners...

Friends with Money
Raising Victor Vargas
Kicking and Screaming (Noam Baumbach from the 90s, not the Will Ferell)
Mr. Jealousy (also Baumbach)
Year of the Dog (a truly strange film)

and of course every Judd Apatow film -- 40 YOV, Knocked Up, even Cable Guy kinda fits.

Going back in time, I'm down with Woody Allen and a few of Albert Brooks (Modern Romance is a sleeper)

and if you want to get truly classic Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Seven Year Itch)

and Preston Sturges (Palm Beach Story, Miracle at Morgan's Creek, Lady Eve) are class personified.

LaserWolf

I think watching that makes you less mexican even. It's like being allergic to tortillas.

(self_blast)I absolutely HATE guacamole.(/self_blast)

I think that makes you less Californian than Mexican.

JRoot

Adam's Rib.

DrWu

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (the most original take on this genre I can think of)
Roman Holiday
Tootsie
Harold and Maude (which is technically a tragedy)
It Happened One Night
Sixteen Candles
Prizzi's Honor
Amelie

faux_rillz

Up next: Herm's musical comedy tribute thread

DrWu

Up next: Herm's musical comedy tribute thread

I call dibs on Victor/Vitoria


b/w

Go to sleep Da***l