Thursday, February 14, 2013

AS IF. I AM ONLY SIXTEEN, AND THIS IS CALIFORNIA, NOT KENTUCKY:  Grierson and Leitch pick romcom couples who clearly didn't belong together, a list to which I'd like to add (1) either potential couple in My Best Friend's Wedding and (2) Heigl and Rogen in Knocked Up. Really? That's gonna work?

14 comments:

  1. Marsha10:27 AM

    And, of course, Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral. He's an unreformed ass, and she's personalityless. He belongs with Kristin Scott Thomas.



    Then again, no one belongs with Andie MacDowell.

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  2. This list could be SO much longer. I'd add Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook (really, NEITHER of them are employable), and my least favorite rom-com couple of all time, Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Am I really supposed to be happy that two loathsome people get together?

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  4. Adam B.10:48 AM

    He's totally employable: falling in love cures mental illness, remember? Isn't that the whole message of the movie?

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  5. Yes, much as I liked most of Silver Linings Playbook, I found the film's treatment of mental illness at the end to be very superficial. I do think that there's an interesting relationship there, but the idea that the relationship magically solves all their (considerable) problems made me like the movie less.

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  6. bellawilfer11:24 AM

    I completely disagree about Cher and Josh not belonging together. He grounds her in a way that no one else in her life does, and she lightens him up. And yes, I am somehow talking about them as if they are real people. As for those who DON'T belong together, I for years have been leaving various mediocre romcoms and saying "and the next day, they broke up."

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  7. Joseph Finn12:04 PM

    Also, they're no longer step-siblings. (Plus, c'mon, they're only 2 years apart.)

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  8. How about Jerry and Dorothy in Jerry Maguire? I love the movie, especially its sharp, observant screenplay, but would those two crazy kids really be able to make a go of it?

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  9. Look, this is a movie in which the Eagles make the playoffs, so clearly they're not going for realism.

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  10. Adam B.1:32 PM

    If they had gone far in the playoffs, I'd see your point.

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  11. isaac_spaceman1:52 PM

    Isn't the point of the rom-com that the couple shouldn't be together? That's literally every romatic comedy.

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  12. Adam B.2:23 PM

    No. The point is that they don't realize they should be together, and often involve couples who are together, fall apart, and need to recognize the reasons for re-marrying.

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  13. isaac_spaceman4:54 PM

    No, that's too reductive. The reason that they (as characters) don't realize they should be together is the same reason that we (as viewers) know they should not be together. He's a grumpy cynic; she's an good-hearted optimist. He's a calculating realist; she's a flighty dreamer. He's an in-the-moment rebel; she's a work-focused control freak. They're both serial philanderers. The central premise of the rom-com is that love bridges those divides (or neutralizes that last destructive similarity), but the central premise of this who-is-mismatched question is the reality that similarities (other than a shared pride in wrecking relationships) have a stronger correlation to long-term romantic success than do profound differences.

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  14. Adlai7:42 PM

    George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Ocean's 11. Nope.

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