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Post by JangoB on Feb 7, 2024 16:28:44 GMT
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 7, 2024 17:05:44 GMT
The power of Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell.Now suddenly everyome wants to greenlight Rom-Coms for the big screen, and not just relegate them to streamers  |
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Feb 7, 2024 17:11:11 GMT
The power of Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell.Now suddenly everyome wants to greenlight Rom-Coms for the big screen, and not just relegate them to streamers You don't think the fact that Celine Song's debut film was nominated for Best Picture has anything to do with it? |
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Post by pupdurcs on Feb 7, 2024 17:15:03 GMT
The power of Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell.Now suddenly everyome wants to greenlight Rom-Coms for the big screen, and not just relegate them to streamers You don't think the fact that Celine Song's debut film was nominated for Best Picture has anything to do with it? I'm being tongue-in-cheek because of the recent discourse/debate on the board about Sweeney and Powell bringing back the Rom-Com  Of course it's about Celine Song. Also, it's A24, which will take chances on any genre, as long as they support the vision of the filmmaker. |
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Post by rhodoraonline on Feb 7, 2024 17:31:28 GMT
Happy for Chris Evans. Has had a string of duds too many.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2024 17:48:37 GMT
It'll be interesting how her writing style - in Past Lives anyway - translates to a Rom-Com.....the genius of Past Lives script and it is a kind of genius is in how much she held back....where dialog wasn't essential - she wasn't afraid of silence....life is filled with silence, movies never are because you know movies don't trust you and feel they have to barrage your senses.....
Romantic comedies specifically are usually about snappy patter - almost to a ridiculous extent ......basically if you have a lean romntic comedy ..........it tends to actually be a romantic drama.....the laughs are almost always textual not visual ......
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Post by wattsnew on Feb 7, 2024 19:37:32 GMT
Her going from two incredible asian leads to this cast of white mediocrity… how disappointing.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 7, 2024 19:43:44 GMT
Yeah, this premise and cast is a bit of a disappointing follow-up. I hope Song can surprise, though.
It sucks that it feels like most rom-coms are about wealthy people. Like hardly anyone can conceive of a rom-com with people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck or god forbid even struggling.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2024 20:03:44 GMT
Yeah, this premise and cast is a bit of a disappointing follow-up. I hope Song can surprise, though. It sucks that it feels like most rom-coms are about wealthy people. Like hardly anyone can conceive of a rom-com with people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck or god forbid even struggling.Indeed........wasn't always that way though .........and sure she is a ridiculously gorgeous waitress and he's the GOAT - and the play had the far more less starry glam Kathy Bates and Bruce Weitz - but conceptually Art once sold something resemblng a reflection of some of their audience........even if it was a Hollywood lie ......................the attempt - any attempt ........was in itself a wonderful lie   |
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Post by cherry68 on Feb 7, 2024 21:24:51 GMT
Yeah, this premise and cast is a bit of a disappointing follow-up. I hope Song can surprise, though. It sucks that it feels like most rom-coms are about wealthy people. Like hardly anyone can conceive of a rom-com with people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck or god forbid even struggling. Moonstruck? All Italian comedies from the 50s and 60s, like Pane, amore e fantasia or Poveri ma belli. Actually most Italian romantic comedies nowadays too are about middle/low income classes. |
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Post by JangoB on Feb 7, 2024 21:27:33 GMT
Yeah, this premise and cast is a bit of a disappointing follow-up. I hope Song can surprise, though. It sucks that it feels like most rom-coms are about wealthy people. Like hardly anyone can conceive of a rom-com with people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck or god forbid even struggling. Or that the main characters always look like models. Us normies/uglies also fall in love, y'know? |
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 7, 2024 21:43:25 GMT
You're actually lucky in American movies if people are shown working at all - even in oddly specific white collar jobs........and no one is ever happy in their job and you never learn much about it...... in American movies people are cops / CIA, spies, authors or weirdly lately........... orchestra conductors I'm waiting for an update of Marty where being a butcher is just too gross and instead he's a vegan chef in a posh LA restaurant addicted to heroin  |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 7, 2024 21:55:09 GMT
Yeah, this premise and cast is a bit of a disappointing follow-up. I hope Song can surprise, though. It sucks that it feels like most rom-coms are about wealthy people. Like hardly anyone can conceive of a rom-com with people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck or god forbid even struggling. Moonstruck? All Italian comedies from the 50s and 60s, like Pane, amore e fantasia or Poveri ma belli. Actually most Italian romantic comedies nowadays too are about middle/low income classes. Rom-coms with working class people exist, of course, but in America it's been a while since they were the norm. At least for non-teen ones (and even half the teen ones still have some kid with a mansion). |
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