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Which TV or cinema romcoms ring truest about love&relationships?
Posted by Remote Control on 1 March 2010 - 9:29pm.
Watching 'Married Single Other', got me thinking...
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'Before Sunrise'/'Before Sunset'
Gauche, sweet, geeky, selfish.... Love 'em.
you and me both,Lisbon
I love both those movies
can I make it a threesome?
Love the idea of going back to them years later, with the speechifying, strut and pomp of youth now knocked out of them. (As had happened to me in the interim too!)
My thinking also led me to
- 'When Harry Met Sally', set a template but none of its offspring matched it for emotional truth or good lines.
- on tv, not sure I can think of any better than 'The Office', Tim and Dawn's romance so real it hurt. The ending still works, gave us what we wanted all along without feeling cheap.
The Office
Tim and Dawn getting it together certainly did the job in dramatic terms, but I think it wasn't close to real life. Dawn would have gone through with her marriage and it would have ended in abuse and despair (her betrothed was a pure and utter c**t) and she might possibly have got together with Tim a few years later, but I doubt it.
Seinfeld
Maybe that´s revealing too much?
know it's not 'hip' or 'citizen kane'..
but i found 'the break up' too near the bone for my own comfort zone. but that's just my own experience
Just Good Friends
The 80s series with Paul Nicholas seemed to work on a real-life kind of level. I loved that programme though I wonder if it would travel well.
Cold Feet
I'd say it was very spot on.
But all relationships are different. I'd say it was impossible to find anything that resembled my own.
impossible to find anything that resembled my own
Agree, but some on-screen romances feel right, move us, charm us, have us willing them to get together, and some don't. No?
Another one works for me, in terms of couples with right feeling chemistry and dynamics, is 'The Good Life', both Tom & Barbara and Margot & Gerry well cast, well written. (As an example of when it's done wrong, cf most of the unfeasible merry-go-round pair-ups in 'Friends' over the years.)
No children...
...in The Good Life. Always thought that was unrealistic, even then.
Free Agents - love comes at a price...
I'd like to throw C4's 'Free Agents' into the mix; bit of a cynical slant, but I thought the rather selfish side of the female, who didn't want the man except when his attention might be taken away by another, was nailed.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/free-agents
http://www.youtube.com/show?p=tgf0yYwo88I&feature=fvsp