There's a good question...
Do women actually find romantic comedies funny, or do they just find them entertaining because the story tends to be quite saccharine and has a couple of weak laughs along the way?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 May 2010, 16:23, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I don't really like rom coms
although I found How to Lose a Guy really funny and so do most of the men I know who've been forced to watch it. Give it a go with an open mind. It's obviously got a soppy ending but it's amusing for the rest of it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 5 May 2010, 16:38, Reply)

Oh, I've tried to watch several of them
Including the inexplicably fabled Four Weddings. Some, I admit, were better than others, some failed to even raise a smile. Though I have now got the slightly judgemental stage of being able to watch the trailer for one of them and think, "That's going to be shit." Not that I won't try your recommendation, of course!
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 May 2010, 16:42, Reply)

Eugh, Four Weddings was shit
But not as bad as Love Actually.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 5 May 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Love, Actually was fucking awful
Although Bill Nighy's hamming it up as the aged rock star made the whole thing slightly more bearable. Four Weddings I could swear blind did not have a single joke apart from that bloke signing "your flies are undone."
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 5 May 2010, 16:48, Reply)

Oh god yeah they were both dreadful
and everyone quotes them as being the most watchable rom coms. Love actually was boring, although I quite liked Martine McCutcheon seducing the prime minister.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 5 May 2010, 16:50, Reply)

Except for Charlotte Coleman (Scarlet) - I'd like to have met Scarlet.
- and when I say met...
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 5 May 2010, 16:49, Reply)

They are all,
without exception, 'fucking shit'.

Hope this helps.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 5 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)

that's not true
that's like saying that all action films with Bruce Willis are brilli...oh wait.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 5 May 2010, 17:06, Reply)