We know them as a romantic movie that will end in love. These movies are somewhat funny yet, we all know the guy will get the girl at the end.
How it starts, well, it depends on the movie. Like Wedding Singer:
Adam Sandler portrays a Wedding Singer who falls head over heels for a girl (portrayed by Drew Barrymore) It seems a lot of love stories with Adam Sandler have his character fall in love with Drew Barrymore's character. Like Blended or even 50 first dates. But this is the one of the Adam Sandler romantic comedies I like the most.
Another good one is Roxanne, based on a play called Cyrano de Bergerac which stars Steve Martin having a huge nose, but that never bothered him. He falls in love with a woman and she takes a shining to him. But another guy, named Chris, loves her as well but can't have the courage to say anything without hurting her feelings or feeling like a total ass.
Steve Martin's character helps him out, reciting poetry and making love notes. It turns out, Roxanne can woo anyone, even if their nose was large. It was very good.
But there are some romantic comedies that can be too predictable, or just plain suck. Pearl Harbor is one of them Why? Because it involves love between two people during a tragic time in history and it doesn't even revolve around the disaster, just the romance. What the hell were they thinking?
Another hit and miss is "When in Rome" involving Kristen Bell as a girl who wants a guy, so she throws a penny in the fountain of romance in Italy, and soon, a few men (like Danny DeVito, Will Arnett, Jon Header and even her actual husband, Dax Shepard) are coming to her saying that they are in love with her, but she really is in love with another guy who wanted nothing to do with her. After all that, they realized that they were meant for each other; however, he had nothing to do with throwing a poker chip in the fountain. It was the priest's all along that sealed their marriage at the end.
I found that one ok, but very predictable. Notting Hill was good. A man, played by Hugh Grant, has a travel book store and Julia Roberts soon comes in to his life. She is a well known actress doing a role in England and soon, well they fall in love, soon paparazzi expose everything thanks to Hugh Grant's roommate and they fall out of love. She's about to leave for America forever and he tries with all his friends helping, to get her back. It works. I was never a fan of Julia Roberts but this one movie was one of her best roles.
Sadly now, there aren't many great comedies that involve romance these days. Unless the girl is dying or an illness and the boy stays by her side until she dies.
One more I wanna talk about, not only it is a Christmas filmed, and I talked about it before, but it is also romantic in its own way.
Love Actually: involving many people from England. Hugh Grant playing the Prime Minister and falling in love with his secretary, A boy who lost his mother and tries to get his step father (played by Liam Neison) to find a girl, which eventually happens in the end. The boy too, tries to convince a girl he loves that he is indeed head over heels for her, and he would go to any lengths to tell her before she leaves for America.
Alan Rickman feels he is a loveless man and his wife, played by Emma Thompson, finds a gift he was planning to give to his girlfriend from work. Colin FIrth even asks for a woman, who doesn't speak a word of English, for his hand in marriage.
I loved that movie a lot, it's romantic as well as related to Christmas.
It is wonderful and one of my favorites. Find your Loveable Comedies for Valentine's day.
Till then, enjoy anything that makes you fall in love all over again.
Ciao Bloggers, and Happy Valentine's day.
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