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Okay, must admit I find romantic comedy the insipid refuge of the world weary and cloistered, but this is my own prejudice to carry (wife loves them and therefore I will stock them in the queue as decorum and restraint may dictate). All that nonsense said, are there any that appeal to folks generally who find that genre not to their liking, and....
I will kick it off by saying I think "Jerry Maguire" was such a film but cleverly tricked some into thinking it was a sports movie, to open the door. Hope I don't catch too much flack downing the romantic comedy as i am sure my war movie fascination well merits some criticism. anyway, what you think...romatic comedy for the non-fan of the genre?

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Permalink Reply by Autumn on March 31, 2008 at 9:19pm: A recent one that I enjoyed was "Dedication"; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Replicant Rachael on March 31, 2008 at 9:58pm: okay, so on the Meg Ryan note; there is a monologue in Addicted to Love that always brings a tear. It's the one where she is telling whiny boy that he doesn't know what love is. Then she graphicly describes her father digging bug larvae... anyway, it's great. On par with why Phoebe Cates hates Christmas. Actually liked the whole film. something about stalking that makes a romantic comedy okay to me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rayny on April 1, 2008 at 2:11am: I love romantic comedies, though am not a fan of just plain romantic movies. It's the genre that brings my 16 year old daughter and I together.

Our favorite is, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. I could be wrong, but I think it's a free watch here, too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pihk on April 1, 2008 at 6:42am: Watch little Brooke Shields on her erotic journey from Milan to Minsk!

An awkward and unnecessary Seinfeld reference, but I'm sticking to it!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Headcheese on April 1, 2008 at 6:45am: I will check out Enchanted sometime but mostly for Amy Adams! I fell in love with her in Junebug! She was the greatest thing about that movie and she totally charmed me into possible schmaltz watching in the future with her in it! lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Microwaved on April 1, 2008 at 1:58pm: I didn't fall in love with Enchanted, I wanted to rip my eyes out.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Microwaved on April 1, 2008 at 2:53pm: I really wanted to like it, I really did. I wanted it to be more critical of the Disney genre as a whole, more self aware, it just turned out to be more of the fairy tale rubbish our young girls are fed everyday about their prince finding them.

Morose and Bizarre, at least you didn't call me creepy:); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Drom John on April 1, 2008 at 8:34am: Tortilla Soup
Venus
Music and Lyrics
Elizabethtown
A Good Year
Coupling [BBC tv]
Deconstructing Harry
The Girl in the Cafe
Casanova [Ledger]
The Taste of Others
Grosse Point Blank
Under the Tuscan Moon; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jo17ie on April 1, 2008 at 9:50am: I love Tortilla Soup. I saw it before I saw Eat Drink Man Woman, so I have always liked this remake better. But Eat Drink is amazing as well.

Grosse Point Blank -- of course, why didn't i think of that?

Girl in the Cafe surprised me. I really liked it, although it took me a while to get into it.

Another good one, and with different layers unconventionality is Saving Face; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Whatchawatchin on April 1, 2008 at 8:41am: I just watched For Roseanna on IW and it was excellent. I must be getting all soft and mushy in my...sort of middle age :P In my defense, her husband is running around trying to keep people from dying so she can have the grave she wants. Plus Jean Reno..I mean, come on, it's Papillon!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by astromono on April 1, 2008 at 1:54pm: Garden State
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Knocked Up
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Juno
Stranger Than Fiction
Swingers
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Princess Bride?

From those already said, I agree with High Fidelity, Elizabethtown, Grosse Point Blank, Secretary, Punch Drunk Love and Sliding Doors - and I hope you appreciate all the Brendan Frasier man-meat I had to scroll though to pick those out...; ▶ Reply to This