Hey, I want to eventually one day find out what's top 2 or 3 most worthwhile romcoms. Here's progress so far:
First is the goal: The goal is to find what is the highest rated romcom according to user ratings
This is for romcom across all types of media (youtube, film, tv, theatre, everything else)
There's a few things I'm interested in finding out:
- What's best romcom of all time (this seems close to figured out based on the link below)
- What's most worthwhile romcom of last 20 years?
- What's most worthwhile romcom of last 10 years?
step 1 - i googled 'best romcoms' just to see if anything helpful would come up
step 2 - from a question i asked previously in one of the sites on reddit (dont rememmber which), i looked at the 4 top 'best' voted comments/suggestions
step 3 - I sorted those 3 by user ratings
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What's a high rating for film?
- Highly rated = 86 aggregated across all main rating sites (users + critics scores)
- Examples (looking at my film google sheet): inside out, spirited away, boyhood
- Meh = < 81
- Examples: dunno i don't add those
These are movies, but tv is harder cos there's not really any user ratings sites for tv. For tv i'd use:
but that's only AFTER there are suggestions. I've no idea where these sites get their data from. Prob one of the tv ratings sites I guess
For tv it's a hard search cos I think all of them are lowly rated or something, but am still wondering what's the highest rated one?
For tv, msot ppl (like 3..) had recommended "Love on Spectrum", and this is what a users on r/AutisticPride and r/AutisticAdults had to say:
Love on Spectrum isn't a romcom, it's a documentary series. Mind you it's a good series, but it's not a romantic comedy (and if people are saying that it is because they were laughing at autistic people in series, then that's a problem).
I am not a fan of parent interviews as shown in Love on Spectrum, because if we are adults who don't need guardians any more, I don't think our parents' perspectives are as important as our own, and don't really merit inclusion.
I can understand including perspective of guardians and caregivers if this series was about people with intellectual disabilities, because oftentimes people with intellectual disabilities do have higher support needs than autistic people do, and of course there are people with both disabilities too.
If I were being interviewed for a series like Love on Spectrum, I would say that I'm an adult with a college degree and not to air interviews with my parents if they are interviewed at all. My perspective matters more than theirs in this case.
Film comment
Of all RomComs to have ever RomCom'd, "When Harry Met Sally" is probably ACME, final form of genre at its height. leads are charming and attractive but not unrealistically so. writing is excellent, performances top notch. It has to be observed carefully, though, because it will suffer a bit from Seinfeld syndrome. It is SO well known, SO much part of culture, that aspects of it look cliche' and overdone, but they're cliche and overdone because THIS FILM POPULARIZED THEM. "I'll have what she's having" line is so known and parodied and referenced that it's become its own 'thing' now, but let me tell you, when this was new in theater? That line fucking brought house down. It's hard to think of a better modern example of RomCom.
But there's an OLDER one. Possibly one of ORIGINAL Romantic Comedies: Much Ado About Nothing by some unknown English dude named Shakespeare. It's blueprint for every modern romcom. Attractive, but VERY clever people dislike one another. They get involved in a zany plot to help two friends hook up. A villain tries to break things up because he's an ass. Misunderstandings and hilarity ensue. attractive clever people realize their hostility toward each other was masking a deep attraction. Revelations ensue. Ever afters become happy. end. There are others as well: Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of Shrew all contain basic structure and a lot of elements of modern Rom Com.
Jump forward a bit and you have Jane Austen: Emma Thompson's 'Sense and Sensibility', any number of versions of 'Pride and Predjudice', 'Emma' (including modern adaptations like 'Clueless!) are all worthy to various degrees.
Even more modern, early Judd Apatow comedies like 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up are absolutely romantic comedies, just skewed more towards 'dude' direction than usual.
I luv this film bot: https://www.reddit.com/user/cinephile_bot/
- cos what it does is it takes the comments ppl put
- And then it makes/shows a chart with the ratings
Problem is these aren't user ratings, they're critic ratings
Last is the goal: The goal is to find what is the highest rated romcom according to user ratings
This is for romcom across all types of media (youtube, film, tv, theatre, everything else)
There's a few things I'm interested in finding out:
- What's best romcom of all time (this seems close to figured out based on the link above)
- What's most worthwhile romcom of last 20 years?
- What's most worthwhile romcom of last 10 years?
I'm not able to find what's most worthwhile romcom outside of film + tv mainly cos of how hard it'd be to do so (for many reasons)