I'm not very rom com oriented, as I tend to feel manipulated by film genres, but the best of the genres manage to surprise me in a good way. I'm unfamiliar with most of your picks (and have noted to check them out), but I loved "Her". A few of mine:
- High Fidelity. Yes, the self-absorbed guy is an asshole through most of it but he painfully explores his prior relationships until the lightbulb goes off in his head. And it's based in Chicago. And it features cool music.
- Up in the Air. Ryan (George Clooney) plays a all-together middle aged guy who keeps relationships at a distance until he meets fellow business traveler Alex (Vera Farmiga) who convinces him his life is somewhat empty and has a surprise for him.
- Getting It Right. An obscure British film about a shy 31-year old virgin who gets entangled with three different women and he must make a decision. Charmingly awkward.
- Lars and the Real Girl. A socially awkward bachelor uses a relationship with a blow-up sex doll (with which he has no sex) as training wheels for starting a genuine relationship.
- The Sure Thing. Follows the typical teen rom com trope of the guy pursuing the hot girl until he realizes that it was the contentious, girl-next-door he wanted all along. But the writing is clever and John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga are priceless.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I'm cheating a little in that this is mostly regarded as a drama but there's endless depths of dark humor here as the film explores the role of memory in shaping our romantic desires (and delusions).
The movie “Her” results in our turning inward in introspection and judgment about ourselves. If we cry it is because of recognition both our good memories and those we regret. Loss is something that we will mourn. It is proof that we are still human and vulnerable.
Her instantly became one of my favorite films of all-time the moment I left the theater. I watch it regularly and it's never not a gut-punch. This whole section wrecks me every time: "It's like I'm reading a book... and it's a book I deeply love. But I'm reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you... and the words of our story... but it's in this endless space between the words that I'm finding myself now."
I'm not very rom com oriented, as I tend to feel manipulated by film genres, but the best of the genres manage to surprise me in a good way. I'm unfamiliar with most of your picks (and have noted to check them out), but I loved "Her". A few of mine:
- High Fidelity. Yes, the self-absorbed guy is an asshole through most of it but he painfully explores his prior relationships until the lightbulb goes off in his head. And it's based in Chicago. And it features cool music.
- Up in the Air. Ryan (George Clooney) plays a all-together middle aged guy who keeps relationships at a distance until he meets fellow business traveler Alex (Vera Farmiga) who convinces him his life is somewhat empty and has a surprise for him.
- Getting It Right. An obscure British film about a shy 31-year old virgin who gets entangled with three different women and he must make a decision. Charmingly awkward.
- Lars and the Real Girl. A socially awkward bachelor uses a relationship with a blow-up sex doll (with which he has no sex) as training wheels for starting a genuine relationship.
- The Sure Thing. Follows the typical teen rom com trope of the guy pursuing the hot girl until he realizes that it was the contentious, girl-next-door he wanted all along. But the writing is clever and John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga are priceless.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I'm cheating a little in that this is mostly regarded as a drama but there's endless depths of dark humor here as the film explores the role of memory in shaping our romantic desires (and delusions).
As always, a wistful, thought piece of writing.
The movie “Her” results in our turning inward in introspection and judgment about ourselves. If we cry it is because of recognition both our good memories and those we regret. Loss is something that we will mourn. It is proof that we are still human and vulnerable.
Her instantly became one of my favorite films of all-time the moment I left the theater. I watch it regularly and it's never not a gut-punch. This whole section wrecks me every time: "It's like I'm reading a book... and it's a book I deeply love. But I'm reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you... and the words of our story... but it's in this endless space between the words that I'm finding myself now."