A Very Important Question For You All

[apolla]

I like lighthearted, funny films where people live happily ever after, but it has come to my attention that most all Romantic Comedies actually suck like a big old Dyson bag-less vacuum. They suck like Oldham Athletic and they suck like syphilis.

Why do they suck? Is it that most seem to aspire to be 'screwball' but just screw it up? Is it that they always feature Rich People, and almost always Rich White People? Is it that the films' sense of gender equality rarely exists or exists only on a cosmetic level? Is it that they almost always promote a very particular way of living (married, conventional, non-boat-rocking)?

So tell me, if you like rom-coms, what do you wish they did better? What do you wish they'd do at all? What do you wish they'd do differently/not do at all?

Comments

[empressov.livejournal.com]

I usually wish romantic comedies would have either/both more boy kissing or more space battles. But that's just me.

[apolla.livejournal.com]

He's Just Not That Into You had boys who kiss boys and it still came off as... insulting/offensive somehow. Maybe I was just seeing more than was there.

Space battles, on the other hand, are so rarely made of fail.