Sentences with phrase «kind of romantic comedies»

Though Curtis has recently announced that «About Time» will likely be his final film as a director, the movie represents everything that's great about the kind of romantic comedies Curtis excels at making.

Meg Ryan seemed to realize that once she turned 40, she would no longer get to play leading lady in the kind of romantic comedies in which she made her name.

Oh, it hurts so much to see Lake Bell and Simon Pegg, both so naturally charming, sink to the regressive, stupid levels of «Man Up,» the kind of romantic comedy that reminds you why the genre continues to wheeze and sputter and die while the few good ones...

Still, it's closer to that neurotic trippiness than a grown - up version of Weird Science or Bedtime Stories or the kind of romantic comedy you'd expect from someone too young and promising to be bitter and resentful.

It's the kind of romantic comedy that could easily be remade today if you could invent a reason for having the couple take different forms of transportation to go from New York to Florida.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, she was inspired by the 2010 romantic comedy Date Night, in which Tina Fey and Steve Carell actually have the kind of date night most of us don't want to have!

I am also the kind of guy that likes to watch Romantic comedies.

No matter what type of relationship you're looking for — from the forever kind to the When looked upon with the rose - colored glasses of nostalgia, the dating we did in our 20s was the stuff of romantic comedies, especially when compared with

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Baggage Claim is definitely a film that is made for an audience that is into these kinds of clichéd romantic comedies, which feature attractive casts and the bare minimum requirements to develop a premise that slightly differs from those that came before it.

The Mountain Between Us builds towards a tame romance that left me wondering what kind of film it might have been if the studio had the courage to make a straight romantic comedy starring Winslet and Elba, who are above this parodic material.

«Drinking Buddies,» Joe Swanberg's deceivingly jolly, sharply alert romantic comedy, doesn't just pay homage to those confusing unspoken feelings, but engages in that very opaqueness itself, plunging viewers into the same kind of what's - really - going - on - here questions that its young, attractive protagonists are facing.

Yet credit co - writer / director Will Gluck («Easy A») for obviously trying to evoke the kind of snappy, screwball, romantic comedy that was once embodied by droll pros like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

Fans of romantic fiction may enjoy this gimmicky comedy, which cleverly plays around with Jane Austen's fiction but kind of misses its own joke.

Even those who find extended success at a certain kind of picture — say, Will Smith in heroic sci - fi action or Adam Sandler in goofy romantic comedies — eventually find audiences growing tired of their shtick and wanting them to challenge themselves.

See Arnett reveal his inner philanthropist and inner romantic while he explains exactly what kinds of shows «The Comedy Show Show» plans to showcase in these clips.

Richard Curtis» Love Actually, which strikes me as the British counterpart to this film, played out as an ongoing series of happy endings, the kind every romantic comedy eventually provides.

With Peggy Sue, though, Cage's career kind of took off and the following year would see him star in both the Oscar - winning romantic comedy Moonstruck and the Coen Brothers» offbeat cult classic Raising Arizona.

Young Adult (2011)- Strongly gives the impression that writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman intended to take the cliches of romantic comedy and apply them to real life: What kind of person would do such things, and how would she be received?

, the latest romantic comedy from director Marc Lawrence purports to be one of those cutesy, funny things happen when two people are put into foreign or uncomfortable positions kind of films.

Trainwreck is the kind of satisfying and confident romantic comedy that has been dead for a decade thanks to our collective cynicism and Jennifer Lopez.

The Lincoln Lawyer represents a slightly different, incongruously clothed vehicle for McConaughey, but like so many of his recent romantic comedies, it's agreeably mediocre, a cinematic paperback novel transformed into the kind of fare folks mindlessly consume on planes and forget about before touching down.

This is the kind of film that includes a romantic comedy style run - across - town - to - tell - the - leading - lady - something scene, and Jackman, bless him, runs so hard that you'd think Barnum was rushing to defuse a bomb.

Clockstoppers is the offspring of a fifth season «Twilight Zone» episode called «A Kind of Stopwatch», in addition to the mid-Eighties teen whiz kid romantic comedy adventures WarGames, The Philadelphia Experiment, Back to the Future, and Zapped!

This is entirely different from the phenomenon of the romantic comedy with fake charm, the kind that's convinced, against all evidence, that it has chemistry and amusing banter and meet - cute likeability by the bushel.

Fire Down Below — A weird one, the first half dark romantic comedy, with Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon doing a kind of riff on Bogart and Brennan in To Have and Have Not, the second half a disaster film with a race against time to free a trapped sailor from a ship that could explode at any moment with Napoleon from King Vidor's War and Peace fretting nervously about the dock.

Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a fountain in a public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).

Vampires are one thing (and though the «Twilight» comparisons are inevitable, they're completely unwarranted), but the idea of doing a romantic comedy where a zombie falls in love with a human is ripe for exactly the kind of dark humor that «Warm Bodies» will hopefully deliver in spades.

This kind of episodic romantic comedy practically writes itself, with a loser at the center of the film going back to meet all the wildly eccentric women of his past, one after the other, until he finally matures through the experience and can make the leap to find true love.

Clooney performed an extensive rewrite, to which he was denied co-writer credit, but ultimately tailored it to the kind of madcap romantic comedy he had envisioned from the beginning.

What makes «The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby» truly stand apart from all the other films of its kind, be they French art - house award winners, your mother's favorite Meg Ryan movie or the myriad of romantic comedies out there, is the emotional depth that is allowed by the film's premise and length, executed almost perfectly.

A different kind of stretch comes from Wes Craven, who awkwardly marries a thuddingly ineffective ghost story (apologies owed to Oscar Wilde) to an otherwise frisky romantic comedy between Rufus Sewell and Emily Mortimer.

It's been a long time since we trusted McConaughey to give us anything but crappy romantic comedies, but this looks like the kind of movie Paul Newman might have starred in during his rumpled «70s run.

Reese Witherspoon stars in an upscale romantic comedy written and directed by Hallie Meyers - Shyer, who has impeccable family background for this kind of thing.

As usual, not only does comedy ensue, but all kinds of romantic sparks fly and awkward things happen.

Whether you're judging it as just a 1950s romantic comedy or simply a Disney animated feature (the only of its kind released in between 1953 and 1959), Lady and the Tramp holds up nicely.

Reese Witherspoon is the kind of petite, perky actress you expect to see in romantic comedies like Legally Blonde, Just Like Heaven, Sweet Home Alabama or This Means War.

Instead of emphasizing its importance or lingering too long on technicalities, though, the movie is a simple pleasure — the kind of entertainment romantic comedies are prone to provide.

What resulted is this amazing time - lapse video of the northern lights (or aurora borealis to those of you that get technical about these kinds of things), an in - flight movie that I guarantee beat any romantic comedy that may have been showing on his seat back that evening.

The film has been generating substantial buzz as a completely different kind of movie — a funny, edgy, hip romantic comedy... about abortion.

The romantic comedy Must Love Dogs with Diane Lane and John Cusack may have been kind of forgettable, but the bungalow that Lane's character lived...

He adds: «What I'm experiencing is a kind of true love that isn't written about in sappy songs or featured in standard romantic comedies.