Letters to the Editor
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Romantic Comedies: Disasters.
Hollywood has managed to take one of its great inventions, the Romantic Comedy, and mangle it beyond recognition. The stock characters and the repeated pranks have created a genre that is a way below in stature than the laugh track sit com. As television gets better, the Hollywood formulaic industrialized movie is the most dispicable of genres. Take Diane Keaton depicting the ditsy 60+, sex starved mom over and over again. Gads, give us a break. The slapstick idiocy in every movie is beyond redemption. Packaging includes some gimmick with the same story line and slapstick over and over again.
Who would have thought that this genre shares the same name as It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey, Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, Annie Hall and Love Actually, one of the only good recent Romantic Comedies. If you see Jenifer Aniston, Diane Keaton, Robyn Williams, etc, you know its the kiss of death. These actors are pataking in the junk movie industry that replicates the porn movie model.
I say lets start a black list of actors, writers( are they writers or just movie execs) directors, etc. and shame them into never making another one of those dogs. Or just watch TMC and enjoy the ample supply of old ones.