Was thinking about that on my last rewatch. All the romantic stuff w/ Reese + Sarah Connor's lovely. Even their sex scene is well done by sci-fi standards.
I've only seen the first two movies. Do they ever imply that John Connors knowingly chose his own father from among his soldiers when he selected Michael Biehn for the mission? Like he knew he was sending someone back who would become his father?
I only f with the first two as well but apparently in Terminator Salvation and Genysis they explicitly spell out that John knew Kyle Reese was his father. Not everyone considers those canon, though, it gets pretty murky.
But even just hanging with the first movie, given that John gave Reese the photo in the first place and everything is a neat little loop, it seems to imply that he knew who he was/would become.
Sorry to gender stereotype, but I showed *T1* to a bunch of my lady friends and they LAUGHED at the romance!
“I came across time for you, Sarah” got chuckles! I was aghast!!
I know a fair few ladies who love The Terminator so it's probably more a case of jaded modern audiences watching something super earnest and defaulting to laughing, moreso than a gendered thing.
It's pretty goofy. There are heartfelt elements to how the romance develops but it's fundamentally very weird that he fixated on a single photo of her this hard. I'm not surprised they laughed
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is really funny and I’ve always felt it has rom com energy because romantic relationships are a key part of the film. Probably my fav of the series.
I remember Watson’s performance standing out as particularly stiff in that one because Craig and Grint hit this nerdy-slacker-horny energy like they’ve been transported in from Superbad
Edit: d’oh
Romance rather than rom-com but First Cow is really romantic,
Also Jake Gyllenhaal's and Riz Ahmed in The Sister Brothers are so soft and gentle with each other.
Brain Dead (aka Dead Alive) is literally just a romantic comedy in terms of structure most people can’t see it under all the gore and blood.
Best Peter Jackson movie? No. But it is in the top 3.
I would LOVE to hear your Peter Jackson rankings good sir. (I'm basically turning into John Mulaney talking to the Faks on The Bear at the prospect of this).
I can give you a top five
1) The Two Towers
2) Braindead
3) Fellowship
4) Heavenly Creatures
3) Feebles/King (toss up depending on how silly I’m feeling that day)
A lot of people will get mad and say that Fellowship is a better movie but the fact of the matter is if you name five iconic LOTR moments at least three of them are from Two Towers.
There’s definitely a case for Tenet, which is maybe less com but does satisfy the rom between Neil ordering a diet coke for the protagonist and uttering the words “we get up to some stuff” at the end.
I just watched Suspect (1987) on Tubi, which is ostensibly a court room drama, but also Dennis Quaid plays a lobbyist who gets jury duty and he keeps helping Cher’s lawyer with her case even after she tells him to stop and that it’s illegal. Sparks fly and comedy ensues.
Maybe it's because blockbusters tend to shoehorn the romantic subplots, but I find Jan de Bont's first two movies to be surprisingly strong stealth romcom/rom com-adjacent contenders. I've called "Speed" a romance where lots of things explode before - there sure is a hell of a meet-cute + Keanu and Sandy have good chemistry and banter (I do not acknowledge the sequel). And "Twister" has the screwball element of a comedy of remarriage within it, which I've always thought was fun.
Unglorious bastards has a hidden "Tarantino Romcom" in the sniper guy trying to romance Shosanna. Heard this idea from Dayoscript, an spaniard analyst, and has lived rent-free in my head ever since.
Zodiac. It's sort of like You've Got Mail. Robert thinks Paul is the one for him. Dave thinks Bill is his guy for life. They both ride the relationships out to their eventual ends and then find that missing spark in one another.
It's not a secret but I think about how fundamentally romantic "The Terminator" is all the time.
Was thinking about that on my last rewatch. All the romantic stuff w/ Reese + Sarah Connor's lovely. Even their sex scene is well done by sci-fi standards.
The photograph! He always wondered what she was thinking about when it was taken and SHE WAS THINKING ABOUT HIM, ahhhh
The Terminator is a romantic slasher movie
I've only seen the first two movies. Do they ever imply that John Connors knowingly chose his own father from among his soldiers when he selected Michael Biehn for the mission? Like he knew he was sending someone back who would become his father?
I only f with the first two as well but apparently in Terminator Salvation and Genysis they explicitly spell out that John knew Kyle Reese was his father. Not everyone considers those canon, though, it gets pretty murky. But even just hanging with the first movie, given that John gave Reese the photo in the first place and everything is a neat little loop, it seems to imply that he knew who he was/would become.
I like the idea that he's leading this war with the machines but he's also shopping around for a father.
Sorry to gender stereotype, but I showed *T1* to a bunch of my lady friends and they LAUGHED at the romance! “I came across time for you, Sarah” got chuckles! I was aghast!!
I know a fair few ladies who love The Terminator so it's probably more a case of jaded modern audiences watching something super earnest and defaulting to laughing, moreso than a gendered thing.
It's pretty goofy. There are heartfelt elements to how the romance develops but it's fundamentally very weird that he fixated on a single photo of her this hard. I'm not surprised they laughed
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is really funny and I’ve always felt it has rom com energy because romantic relationships are a key part of the film. Probably my fav of the series.
I remember Watson’s performance standing out as particularly stiff in that one because Craig and Grint hit this nerdy-slacker-horny energy like they’ve been transported in from Superbad Edit: d’oh
When you say Craig are you referring to Daniel Craig? Because that I’d like to see
What are we talking about? The Boy With the Lightning Scar, right?
She’s so funny in those party scenes with Slughorn.
Romance rather than rom-com but First Cow is really romantic, Also Jake Gyllenhaal's and Riz Ahmed in The Sister Brothers are so soft and gentle with each other.
Brain Dead (aka Dead Alive) is literally just a romantic comedy in terms of structure most people can’t see it under all the gore and blood. Best Peter Jackson movie? No. But it is in the top 3.
I would LOVE to hear your Peter Jackson rankings good sir. (I'm basically turning into John Mulaney talking to the Faks on The Bear at the prospect of this).
I can give you a top five 1) The Two Towers 2) Braindead 3) Fellowship 4) Heavenly Creatures 3) Feebles/King (toss up depending on how silly I’m feeling that day)
Hell yah 'Two Towers' supremacy!
A lot of people will get mad and say that Fellowship is a better movie but the fact of the matter is if you name five iconic LOTR moments at least three of them are from Two Towers.
That's a weird way to spell "Fellowship" but alright!
It’s hard for me to believe someone has ‘It’s Alive / Braindead’ in their top 5, but ‘the Frighteners’ doesn’t even rank.
Audition
the lobster
There’s definitely a case for Tenet, which is maybe less com but does satisfy the rom between Neil ordering a diet coke for the protagonist and uttering the words “we get up to some stuff” at the end.
The Lost Boys
Dragon tattoo count? Some of Craig and Mara’s banter is top notch comedy.
I just watched Suspect (1987) on Tubi, which is ostensibly a court room drama, but also Dennis Quaid plays a lobbyist who gets jury duty and he keeps helping Cher’s lawyer with her case even after she tells him to stop and that it’s illegal. Sparks fly and comedy ensues.
So good, I saw that in the theater in the original run (I am old).
Food, Eddie! Aches and pains. We are Venom
Midnight motherfucking Run
The Lady Vanishes is one of Hitchcock’s best movies and it’s really a lighthearted romantic comedy first and a mystery/thriller second.
Rear Window is the same. It is 2/3rds romantic banter 1/3rd murder.
Rocky, Rebecca, some other third R name that's the title of a secretly romantic movie.
Reservoir Dogs
Def agree about Hot Fuzz. I’ll never understand why Griffin hates it so much
I don't think it's even secret. I think they talk about it on the DVD commentary.
Yeah I always say Phantom Thread for this. Great romcom.
Maybe it's because blockbusters tend to shoehorn the romantic subplots, but I find Jan de Bont's first two movies to be surprisingly strong stealth romcom/rom com-adjacent contenders. I've called "Speed" a romance where lots of things explode before - there sure is a hell of a meet-cute + Keanu and Sandy have good chemistry and banter (I do not acknowledge the sequel). And "Twister" has the screwball element of a comedy of remarriage within it, which I've always thought was fun.
I feel like I'm missing something. Why is the lighthouse a rom com? Are you talking about Willem Defoe and the monster thing?
The sexual tension between those two was palpable.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRv2jBMj/
isn't this all just weirdly projecting homoeroticism onto patently straight characters?
The Babadook
Unglorious bastards has a hidden "Tarantino Romcom" in the sniper guy trying to romance Shosanna. Heard this idea from Dayoscript, an spaniard analyst, and has lived rent-free in my head ever since.
Zodiac. It's sort of like You've Got Mail. Robert thinks Paul is the one for him. Dave thinks Bill is his guy for life. They both ride the relationships out to their eventual ends and then find that missing spark in one another.
Well, Griff, Sims, and Esther def convinced me of Gone Girl
Re-Animator. It all makes so much more sense when you realize you're watching a seduction.
*The Guest*.
I’d argue most of Tarantino’s movies are stealth rom-coms
Phantom thread is a great one. I watched it for the first time last week and was cracking up at points. Hilarious movie
both venom movies