Top five worst romantic comedies
Ah, Valentine’s Day! It’s a wonderful day when love fills the air and romantic comedies fly off of the shelves at the video store. While some are great, light-hearted affairs (like While You Were Sleeping and Love Actually) many romantic comedies are to be avoided. Here’s a short list of those that should be left on the shelves.
Serendipity (2001) starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. Formula: Boy meets girl, boy has great day with girl, boy and girl go separate ways, fall in love with other people, become involved in binding relationships, remember how much the liked each other from their chance meeting, find each other and live happily ever after while everyone else is pissed of and confused. Yes! That’s love! To quote the comic book guy, worst movie ever!
Excess Baggage (1997) starring Alicia Silverstone and Benicio Del Toro. Formula: Girl pretends to kidnap herself by tying herself up and locking herself in the trunk of her car. Car gets stolen by boy. Boy and girl argue and fight. Eventually, boy and girl fall in love to the tune of Dave Matthew’s Crash. This definitely gets the WTF award for romantic comedies. This was the beginning of the end of Alicia Silverstone.
Forces of Nature (1999) starring Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck. Formula: Boy gets on plane to go to his wedding. Plane has accident. Boy meets girl who is more exciting than girl waiting for him at home. Comedy doesn’t ensue. Wow, what a snoozer. This crapfest beat out two other films in this category with the same lead actors: Hope Floats (1998) starring Bullock and Gigli (2003) starring Affleck.
Three to Tango: (1999) starring Matthew Perry and Neve Campbell. Formula: Boy and partner want a job. Boy and partner pretend to be gay to get job. Boy meets girl, who happens to be girlfriend of new boss. Boy’s boss asks boy to follow girl and make sure ... blah blah blah. Boy and girl somehow get together. Janet here at the office says this is the worst movie ever! I agree that it’s a stinker.
10 Things I Hate About You: (1998) starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. Formula: Girls with different personality types meet boys who are their exact polar opposites, yet somehow manage to fall in love at the end. I fell for this one because it was a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. It’s also where I learned the true meaning of the word reinterpretation—it’s crap.
Happy Valentine’s Day! And if you’re going to enjoy a movie, avoid these films like the plague!
Serendipity (2001) starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. Formula: Boy meets girl, boy has great day with girl, boy and girl go separate ways, fall in love with other people, become involved in binding relationships, remember how much the liked each other from their chance meeting, find each other and live happily ever after while everyone else is pissed of and confused. Yes! That’s love! To quote the comic book guy, worst movie ever!
Excess Baggage (1997) starring Alicia Silverstone and Benicio Del Toro. Formula: Girl pretends to kidnap herself by tying herself up and locking herself in the trunk of her car. Car gets stolen by boy. Boy and girl argue and fight. Eventually, boy and girl fall in love to the tune of Dave Matthew’s Crash. This definitely gets the WTF award for romantic comedies. This was the beginning of the end of Alicia Silverstone.
Forces of Nature (1999) starring Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck. Formula: Boy gets on plane to go to his wedding. Plane has accident. Boy meets girl who is more exciting than girl waiting for him at home. Comedy doesn’t ensue. Wow, what a snoozer. This crapfest beat out two other films in this category with the same lead actors: Hope Floats (1998) starring Bullock and Gigli (2003) starring Affleck.
Three to Tango: (1999) starring Matthew Perry and Neve Campbell. Formula: Boy and partner want a job. Boy and partner pretend to be gay to get job. Boy meets girl, who happens to be girlfriend of new boss. Boy’s boss asks boy to follow girl and make sure ... blah blah blah. Boy and girl somehow get together. Janet here at the office says this is the worst movie ever! I agree that it’s a stinker.
10 Things I Hate About You: (1998) starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger. Formula: Girls with different personality types meet boys who are their exact polar opposites, yet somehow manage to fall in love at the end. I fell for this one because it was a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. It’s also where I learned the true meaning of the word reinterpretation—it’s crap.
Happy Valentine’s Day! And if you’re going to enjoy a movie, avoid these films like the plague!
posted by Eric LaRose at
11:01 AM
2 Comments:
HEY! I can't agree on you with Serendipity and the cheap shot on Hope Floats (how can any guy hate a John Cusack movie? I thought he was a man's man?). I'm sorry to have to break the news to you, but those are two of the better romantic comedies. The stuff that sucks that I couldn't even make it through: Anything with the Friends cast: That Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd flick (in fact, anything with Jennifer Aniston, really) and I CAN'T STAND Schwimmer and Perry. NOw that stuff sucks.
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Nhia, at 9:57 PM
I stand by what I said ...Serendipity stinks! It doesn't matter if Cusack is in it or not...it's a bad movie. And I don't think it was a cheap shot at Hope Floats. There were plenty of reviewers who made statements like "You know what else floats don't you" when that film came out. And I have nothing but love for Sandra Bullock, I've seen both Miss Congeniality films and I love While You Were Sleeping. But Hope Floats wasn't one of her better ones.
Sorry Nhia...I'm standing my ground!
But I agree on the Friends cast fiascos. Woowhee. I mean, I never walk out of a movie, but woooo.
Jennifer Aniston was great in Leprechaun though!
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Eric LaRose, at 10:09 PM
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