Most romcoms are ridiculously fake. A bit of fantasy & escapism is welcome, but with no boundaries it blunts any possible goodness of the movie/story.
In real life, true and proper romance usually occurs within the confines of a marriage relationship – not as a series of “clever” plot devices designed to fatefully bring two people together.
When the rare movie comes out that depicts the life of a married couple, e.g. Julie & Julia, it scores far more points with me than its counterparts – presuming that the story is interesting.

22044 on February 23, 2013 at 1:16 AM

Good point.
There was a time, you know, when romance didn’t happen until after the wedding. “Lady Jane” was fairly interesting, for as short a time-frame as it covered.

Oh, come on. How do those married couples get married in the first place? Romance can and does happen before marriage and truly great love stores (comedic or dramatic) can be told about how those relationships formed.

MikeknaJ on February 23, 2013 at 1:41 AM

Fair enough…I’m just proposing an alternative.

Nearly all of the dating/wooing relationships I’ve seen for real that led to marriage – the two people usually liked each other from the get-go. The stories are nice to hear, but rarely approach the fantastical levels seen on the screen.

Wait. ‘Battleship’ wasn’t a romantic comedy?

trigon on February 23, 2013 at 1:54 AM

Brooklyn Decker was the second prettiest lady on the set (after the USS Missouri) and was almost as badly under-utilized.

The plots suck, and the stories are unoriginal and stupid. But plot and storyline is not the point of either. The intent for porn is to get men off. The intent of RomComs is to get women off.

Bulletchaser on February 23, 2013 at 1:58 AM

Your citation can be found at some very interesting sites. By interesting I mean white-supremacist, hate-sites.

But you already knew that.

Little Jennifer could probably teach you a thing or two about diversity…not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Capitalist Hog on February 23, 2013 at 12:23 AM

I know all I need to know about “diversity” from the crime stats, the National Felon League and the total implosion of Detroit, Birmingham, Phildelphia, Chicago, Atlanta; books like “White Girl Bleeds A Lot“, and Elderly rape Statistics.

Did you know that in modern times there has never been a rape of an elderly black woman by a White, but that Elderly rape of White grandmothers is common. I quote from the FBI top profiler:

Of all the metrics of black violent crime against whites the sexual homicide of elderly white women offers the most compelling evidence of race hatred toward the victim. For starters, the motives of the perp in any sexual homicide of an elderly woman is pure hatred. His victim is largely symbolic. His motive is not lust but extreme hatred.

(Special Agent Mark E. Safarik, a profiler in the Behavioral Analysis Unit at the FBI Academy, published in the May issue of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence)

I know all I need to know about “diversity”…spit.