Dramatic Romance and Romantic Comedy's

[Binx]

I would like to know if I'm alone in this.

I have a beef with dramaticly romantic movies. These over-blown Hollywood piles of pish-posh seem to set an impossible ideal for what can be expected in reality. They seem to portray romance & love as something that's star spangled and miraculous - but I don't know anyone in that type of relationship. I don't even know anyone that have over come great odds to be with the ones they love.

AND! With Romantic-Comedy's I always feel like I've finished watching a marginally OK epidsode of>insert popular sit-com<... its all so uninspired!!

What's your take??

[eLL85]

I agree. I find them entertaining if I'm in the mood for something brain dead and easy to watch and there are the occassional standout ones.
Love Actually is funny and romantic but I definatly wouldn't class it among all those other stupid romantic comedies, it was fantastic so entertaining, even my BF giggled his butt off watching it.

I kinda feel embarrassed to watch a lot of the super cheesy ones though, they just make me groan and want to hide my head under a pillow.

[Cherie]

I just love the romantic comedy..Why? Because they take us out of the hum drum of family life. It doesn't matter if it's all over done BS to me..as long as I can go have a laugh/cry whatever, and just take my mind off stuff that irks me at home..

[sandydee]

I feel the same as you Cherie....as long as I get a laugh /takes my mind off other things I am happy It rarely happens in real life like the movies but I am still happy to watch them

[Cackle]

I like a few different kinds of movies, depending on my mood. I'm not into blood and guts stuff though. Love Actually is funny.

[crashtestwoman]

I will not watch a romantic comedy (well maybe if I was on life support in a coma in hospital, I could possibly let one go on in the room , maybe the sheer stoopidity of it would wake me up ).
So you could say I HATE EM.

[Rachel]

I just love the romantic comedy..Why? Because they take us out of the hum drum of family life. It doesn't matter if it's all over done BS to me..as long as I can go have a laugh/cry whatever, and just take my mind off stuff that irks me at home..

me too

and the same with dramatic comedies.. they are "feel good" Even though life may not imitate it, it still inspires hope and happiness in me...

Movies aren't really true to life in most genre's to me...

[Alexa]

You had better not see any of Nicolas Sparks movie's then Maliss - Dear John, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, The Last Song etc.

Hollywood love them as they are "easy and cheap to make". It is a formula that works, even a classic like Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Women love them as they are an escape from there everyday lives, blowout of hearts and flowers (washed down with a tall glass of tears). All in moderation I say but I would rather watch this than watch a horror of someone being sliced and diced...

[Rachel]

and the same with dramatic comedies..

I meant dramatic romance!

I love Nicolas Spark's movies and his novels

[Rachel]

and the same with dramatic comedies..

I meant dramatic romance!

I love Nicolas Spark's movies and his novels