Andrew Reeves ([info]schizmatic) wrote,
@ 2008-04-13 22:50:00
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I Wonder
What would a romantic comedy written by men and for men be like? Not "for men" in the sense of having the level of humor seen in early Adam Sandler, but "for men" in the sense of "not obviously targeted at heterosexual women."

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[info]rfmcdpei
2008-04-14 04:16 am UTC (link)
The 40 Year Old Virgin? Knocked Up would be my second guess, although the sex comes first and the romance next in that one.

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[info]faulxbourdon
2008-04-14 06:01 pm UTC (link)
I thought that Love Actually was fairly universal... (Public service announcement: that's not the Milwaukee Airport)
I'd be game to watch it though, if you do find a romantic comedy for men, as those for women generally irritate me.

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[info]schizmatic
2008-04-15 12:04 pm UTC (link)
Okay, Love, Actually is a Romantic Comedy that breaks the mold of fulfilling the (putative) fantasies of middle- or upper-middle class heterosexual white women. Which is perhaps why I like it--it's not so #$%^ formulaic.

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[info]arcana_mundi
2008-07-15 09:00 pm UTC (link)
This is easy.

It would be like Say Anything.

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[info]schizmatic
2008-07-15 10:08 pm UTC (link)
Hmm... I've never seen that. Perhaps I should rent the DVD.

And on an unrelated note, with the caveat that this is an un-friends-locked entry. Do I know you, or did you find my LJ via someone else's?

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[info]arcana_mundi
2008-07-15 10:34 pm UTC (link)
I saw a comment of yours in double0hilly's LJ and clicked on you out of curiosity, and ended up reading a bunch of entries. :-) Hope that's not creepy.

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[info]schizmatic
2008-07-15 10:40 pm UTC (link)
Oh, not at all. I'm somewhat flattered that my LJ entries don't come off as unspeakably boring and banal. :)

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[info]arcana_mundi
2008-07-15 10:43 pm UTC (link)
No, not boring and banal. You seem pretty interesting to me, from this vantage.

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[info]arcana_mundi
2008-07-15 10:42 pm UTC (link)
P.S. If you haven't seen Say Anything, it's a classic Jon Cusack romantic comedy from the 80s. Maybe the definitive Jon Cusack movie.

The other John Cusack movie that might fit the bill of man's-romantic-comedy would be Grosse Point Blank, which is really great. And High Fidelity.

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