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Shaun of the Dead is a pretty good rom-com, I reckon.
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precision posted:No discussion of alt-Romantic Comedies would be complete without a big old mention of Hal Hartley, particularly Trust and Flirt: Hal Hartley loving rules. I've only seen the Henry Fool trilogy, but I feel like what you describe as "alt-rom com" is exactly how they play out, albeit in a very broad, high melodramatic kind of way. It's almost like... what if Wes Anderson was more grounded? Also, speaking of, Moonrise Kingdom is a fantastic romantic comedy with child stars.
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They Came Together is fantastic, one of the best parody films in a long time.
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precision posted:500 Days of Summer is amazing and right at the very beginning it says "This is not a love story". It's really not a rom-com anymore than Eternal Sunshine is. It's more that a "love story" and a "romance" are overlapping but distinct. (500) is absolutely a rom-com in the same way as Annie Hall... or Fight Club, its two closest formal and thematic cousins
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Well, yeah, but it's important to not get hung up on reactionary pleasure/displeasure. We're talking genre, so it's incredibly weird to see folks claim that a comic film about a character swept up in romantic memories of his old flame isn't a romantic-comedy. Eternal Sunshine isn't going to get cooties from touching 50 First Dates - calling the films romantic-comedies is an accurate appraisal of the cultural and rhetorical concepts in which they're dealing.
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