Comments on: In Defence of Romantic Comedy

By: max

max — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:55:51 +0000

All reviewers have a script in the drawer no one liked. It makes them bitter.

By: Certain Lines « i am the octopus

Certain Lines « i am the octopus — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:16:32 +0000

[...] is a line in the film “The Holiday” – a movie which is decent for the genre but not off-the-charts great or anything – where Eli Wallach’s character of an aging [...]

By: michele

michele — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:50:21 +0000

I think some reviewers think that admitting they enjoyed a romantic comedy would make them a little less “macho” or “manly” in front of their friends. Why they even review a genre that they denigrate in the first place is beyond me.

By: max

max — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:41:26 +0000

[psst, it is comedy, do not get serious, just mock the hell out of people]

By: sulya

sulya — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:45:27 +0000

I love the film Sullivan’s Travels. Saw it for the first time last year. And, I totally agree – defending comedy in general is always a seriously uphill battle….

By: max

max — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:28:04 +0000

Sullivan’s Travels is a wonderful film about the value of comedy. It ws made quite a while back too so this defense of comedy has been going on a very long time. If society likes to denigrate the arts and devalue them as superfluous, it likes to denigrate the comedic arts and devalue them even more.