Rom-Com QOTD
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    Major Spoilers Question of the Day: Rom-Com Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 3 Comments1 Min Read

    It’s the time of the season when my wife watches Lifetime Chrimmus movies almost exclusively until January and while it’s good to see what all the sitcom stars of my youth are up to now, even Winnie Cooper can’t keep me from noticing that the stories are… kiiiinda repetitive?  For my money, you can’t beat Groundhog Day, a story that has Andie MacDowell at her cutest and Bill Murray at his most earnest and a truly earned happy ending, but past that, it’s hard to call even the romance movies that I love a Rom-Com. Does Her count?  Or Chasing Amy?  How much com do ya need with your rom to count?  It’s the kinda thing that might launch our from-a-big-city-coming-home-to-the-small-town-for-the-holidays query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is pretty sure sex, lies and videotape doesn’t make the cut, as much as I love it, asking: Which Rom-Com would you actually recommend to your friends?

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    3 Comments

    1. Frank on

      “You’ve Got Mail” All of Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan movies are fantastic. It’s fun to see a feud between business rivals be ‘tweaked’ into a romance.

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    2. Daniel Langsdale on

      While it’s not a genre which I have a lot of experience with, I’ll go one better and recommend a romantic comedy set at Christmastime: “While You Were Sleeping” with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman.

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    3. Jarmo Seppänen on

      Its not really a comedy, more like bittersweet drama with comedic elements but Lost In Translation.
      I’m not into romantic comedy genre at all, but this is one of my favorite movies of all time.

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