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New/Rented Movies: Bring Back Laserdiscs!

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The Departed was great until the end. I could have written a better ending. It was one of the single laziest endings I have ever seen in film. Period.

Kepler said:
Same problem here with RomComs. Except Fifty First Dates and When Harry Met Sally, which somehow got through my defenses. But the rest... gak.

I can't think of another movie where Ben Stiller is funny. That's why it was such a surprise. It was like seeing Julia Roberts put in a good acting job.
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Funny, I also liked 50 First Dates.
 
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Ben Stiller was good in Royal Tennenbaums. Thats about all I can think of off the top of my head. Ok...just looked at his profile on imdb. I do like Mystery Men for some reason. I really cant explain why. It really shouldnt be a good movie.
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
Ben Stiller was good in Royal Tennenbaums. Thats about all I can think of off the top of my head. Ok...just looked at his profile on imdb. I do like Mystery Men for some reason. I really cant explain why. It really shouldnt be a good movie.
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That movie was terrible. Royal Tennenbaums might be the only movie I've ever turned off and walked away from. Horrible, horrible movie.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
That movie was terrible. Royal Tennenbaums might be the only movie I've ever turned off and walked away from. Horrible, horrible movie.
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And Im sure i could say the same thing about a movie you like. Thats the thing about movies.
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
Ben Stiller was good in Royal Tennenbaums. Thats about all I can think of off the top of my head. Ok...just looked at his profile on imdb. I do like Mystery Men for some reason. I really cant explain why. It really shouldnt be a good movie.
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Ok, forgot about Tenenbaums. Although he was the 7th best actor in there, at best. I might even put one of the Wilson brothers ahead of him. Yep, I said it.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Again?!
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I was a few days shy of 11 years old when it came out, and I guess that in my youthful stupidity I actually thought it was going to be mostly about the Titanic disaster, so I told my parents I wanted to go see it with them. Oops.

I think that was the first time I ever saw boobs on screen though.
 
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Kepler said:
Same problem here with RomComs. Except Fifty First Dates and When Harry Met Sally, which somehow got through my defenses. But the rest... gak.

I can't think of another movie where Ben Stiller is funny. That's why it was such a surprise. It was like seeing Julia Roberts put in a good acting job.
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Seeing as you've never seen The Apartment, your list of RomComs that you like should be at 3.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I was a few days shy of 11 years old when it came out, and I guess that in my youthful stupidity I actually thought it was going to be mostly about the Titanic disaster, so I told my parents I wanted to go see it with them. Oops.

I think that was the first time I ever saw boobs on screen though.
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Kate winslet did have some "talent" in that one.
 
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Rimbaud said:
Seeing as you've never seen The Apartment, your list of RomComs that you like should be at 3.
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I'll check it out.

I think of RomComs as something specific and in all the cases I can think of, modern (post-1980). For instance, It Happened One Night (one of the GREATEST movies in history, and possibly the greatest comedy ever made) is "romantic" and is a comedy, but it's not a RomCom, IMHO. Same with Arsenic and Old Lace, Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, and a dozen other classic movies that were made before studios figured out it was more profitable to treat every audience as comprised of middle schoolers with ADD.

I think an essential aspect of a RomCom is its triteness. Once in a million (or twice) it works, but usually (Pretty Woman, Bridget Jones' Diary, What Women Want, etc.) it's a formulaic opiate for sad, middle-aged haus fraus who want to pretend "it could happen to them." (It can't. They're done.)
 
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Ben Stiller was great as the nursing home dude in Happy Gilmore ;) :p :cool:
 
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Kepler said:
I'll check it out.

I think of RomComs as something specific and in all the cases I can think of, modern (post-1980). For instance, It Happened One Night (one of the GREATEST movies in history, and possibly the greatest comedy ever made) is "romantic" and is a comedy, but it's not a RomCom, IMHO. Same with Arsenic and Old Lace, Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, and a dozen other classic movies that were made before studios figured out it was more profitable to treat every audience as comprised of middle schoolers with ADD.

I think an essential aspect of a RomCom is its triteness. Once in a million (or twice) it works, but usually (Pretty Woman, Bridget Jones' Diary, What Women Want, etc.) it's a formulaic opiate for sad, middle-aged haus fraus who want to pretend "it could happen to them." (It can't. They're done.)
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In that case The Apartment is not a RomCom as you would define it. Which I do agree with your definition. Just because some is "romantic" and funny does not mean its a RomCom. The Apartment is good though.
 
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Greyeagle said:
What about Brett.....Fav-er-a? :)
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That worked so much better than their attempt to cast Drew Bledsoe as that role (Drew was in some trouble at the time for stage diving and injuring someone at a music club in Boston, I think, and he was advised to turn it down, from what I remember?)
They have had Boston athletes in a few of their movies with Cam Neely and Roger Clemens (off the top of my head) and wanted Bledsoe originally... The Fav-er-a thing worked so well though, I dig that movie
 
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Gibber said:
That worked so much better than their attempt to cast Drew Bledsoe as that role (Drew was in some trouble at the time for stage diving and injuring someone at a music club in Boston, I think, and he was advised to turn it down, from what I remember?)
They have had Boston athletes in a few of their movies with Cam Neely and Roger Clemens (off the top of my head) and wanted Bledsoe originally... The Fav-er-a thing worked so well though, I dig that movie
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True. Having Farve probably helps Something About Mary have a little more staying power. Hell, who now could really pick Bledsoe out of a lineup?
 
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