@Buddha In all the petty squabbles going on at the ass crack of too damn early when this was going down for me, MF Doom never even crossed my mind. But I mean, yeah, that plays.
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STATUS: You'd think after like 15 years I'd stop feeling like a fraud when writing posts but I still do which is both a statement on my self confidence and a compliment to how good my partners are as writers 29 days ago
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You'd think after like 15 years I'd stop feeling like a fraud when writing posts but I still do which is both a statement on my self confidence and a compliment to how good my partners are as writers
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Why are you talking about Final Fantasy 10 like that
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Final Fantasy 13 is a top five entry in the franchise but ya'll still ain't ready to have that conversation
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This Bears/Packers game is gonna make me believe in the power of Chicago Pope
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The older I get the more I start to think BBQ potato chips are the worst flavor, actually.
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Look, I got lost on the way to getting some jajangmyeon and it'd be foolish to leave now.
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If anyone needs me I'll just be organizing the deck chairs.
Oh fuck is it time for round 2 I've always wanted to be a ring girl.
I'm enjoying the look of this role play. Are character entries still open?
We're all full up on low tier waifus, sorry.
But there'll be an opening soon I'll be sure to let you know.
@GarlandDaHero Maybe you don't like the genre and that's cool and fine. I probably did a piss poor job explaining the appeal but when it's something you really like it can be hard to articulate when you're just all stunned and shit. Or at least it is in my case. I'd try to find better words but at this point I'm just along for the ride.
I'm just wondering who was keeping score now.
so, yeah, nobody is right or wrong in this situation. instead, you're all just in the wrong. and autistically screeching at one another. yay.
Yeah but my autistic screeching had cadence!
@SleepingSilence The first conversation, as in the one that has been going on for like three pages, didn't start that way at all and we both know it.
I'm tagging out of this. I can't continue making the same points and doing this circle talk.
Can anyone explain the appeal of Romantic Movies and Romantic Comedies?
I personally absolutely do not like the genre as a whole. There are certain exceptions, of course. I don't discredit an entire bunch of movies because a few aren't my cup of tea. I want to know why some people swear by them-- Why some people have seen basically everything in the genre! Why?!
Thank you for your attention.
I can take this one. Or at least attempt to. Aggressively flexes useless film degree.
Okay so you know how people have comfort foods or the like? Romantic comedies are sort of comfort food for a certain group of people because the typical romantic comedy presents romance as the idealized dream. Case in point, most leads in a romantic comedy is a woman in a somewhat successful career but doesn't have fulfillment in her work - and boy is there a conversation to be had there but let's not - and often this lead is one of a handful of archetypes. She could be frigid, she could be neurotic, she could be a workaholic, or a combination. Obviously I'm generalizing but the shoe clearly fits in this case. Then along comes the opposite and blah blah you know how it goes.
There are, of course, exceptions (like, I dunno....Pretty Woman) but when you watch a romantic comedy you know what you're getting. You're gonna get 90 minutes of awkward interactions and gags with some pretty people. It's a different form of escapism that exists within other film genres. Romantic films have their cliches and revel in them but they're movie comfort food. Even something like Trainwreck which was like "Hah hah it's the anti-romantic comedy look at how much dick I sling" turned into the exact thing it was mocking anyway.
The appeal comes from the same sort of place of, say, a bad action movie. It's escapism and wish fulfillment. No one goes into a movie starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler expecting high art or the like; they go in wanting to be comforted and experience a cute little love affair. Romantic comedies are the movie version of a Janet Evaonvich novel.
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