View Full Version : Is The Romantic Comedy Genre in Movies Dying?


Brian Damage
10-11-2010, 09:15 PM
Life as We Know It" was a flop as we know it at the box office this weekend, as former "Grey's Anatomy" star Katherine Heigl failed to deliver.

The rom-com bomb about two opposite-sex frenemies who are forced to adopt an orphaned toddler earned a ho-hum $14.6 million in its opening weekend.

In fact, the Heigl-as-movie-star issue seems to be creeping up on her. Following her big hit with "Knocked Up" (which was overrated in our opinion), her last few romantic comedies have been duds. Same goes for Jennifer Aniston ("The Switch) and Jennifer Lopez ("The Back-Up Plan").

We can't decide if the romantic comedy genre is dead or whether we're just sick of the same-old actresses acting out the same-old plots.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/10/11/romantic-comedy-biggest-bomb/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fentertainment+%28Internal+-+Entertainment+-+Mixed%29

TJL
10-11-2010, 11:38 PM
Let them die!

;)

MrCleveland
10-12-2010, 07:18 AM
I'm hoping to make a film called "Annulment" which is about a guy who sees that his school crush was married and he has 72 hours to annul the wedding. It's a combination of "Knocked-Up"...

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...and "Breakfast at Tiffany's"....

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With music by Neil Hannon, featuring this song....

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So maybe I'm trying to make the Perfect Romantic Comedy for this generation....