#movies : romcom

[mellosghosts]

in my heart this joke is in the movie, but unfortunately im afraid only we, hughjackmaniacs, would get it 🥀

[ayo-edebiri]

I don’t know anything about saving worlds, but you do.

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) dir. Shawn Levy

[jakeperalta]

★ countdown to christmas (take two) ★ day 14 of 24: while you were sleeping (1995)

[marshmallowmusing]

hugh jackman in paperback hero (1999)

[confessionsdiaz]

can i just say the weird standard people try and hold queer romcoms(and queer media but) in general is so weird

It's always "its too juvenile" and "it's too wholesome," but then it's "this is too sexualised," and apparently queer ppl having sex scenes is automatically "fetishizing". Always "too corny" and "too angsty" and dont get me started on people who act like something has to be a bad representation just because they didn't like it

"its cringey" it is a fucking romcom bro. like half of the appeal of a romcom is the kinda cringey fun of it all . not your thing? fine, go watch something that is. Not being the audience for something is fine, but god stop acting like one romcom is gonna dismantle the movement for queer rights.

[Since this keeps getting notes, for the love of god stop telling me that I'm saying we shouldn't ever be critical. I am saying hold a queer romcom to the same standard you would a hetero romcom. They are of equal weight. They are allowed to both be criticised. Queer media in itself is allowed to be criticised. But why are you treating a ya show the way you would Oscar bait]

[phobos-exe]

i like how deadpool and wolverine is one of the only movies where ryan and hugh get to be on together and actuaylly have their characters interact and they decided they had to make it the gayest shit ever

[danaclese]

It's just bad movie fatigue

Do you hate superhero movies?

or the fact that the only two companies making movies are using a formula?

[chasingm00n]

MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

Sandra Bullock & Benjamin Bratt as Gracie Hart and Eric Matthews

[st0nedr0s3]

WADE LIKES HIM SO MUCH IT HURTSSS😔💔 did anyone notice his little head nod after he asked logan if he’ll see him again💔he was basically asking him to please say yes and his heartbroken reaction at the end IM GONNA BE SICKKK

[moonlightsdream]

John Tucker Must Die (2006) — dir. Betty Thomas

[multi-fandom-bullshittery]

Did I create an entirely new blog just to hop on the deadpool and wolverine train?

Yes

Anyways, I havent seen this done yet, so.

[gooch-cancer]

bring back insatiable male yearning like this

[marshmallowmusing]

hugh jackman in paperback hero (1999)

[sunny-rants]

sometimes I forget that yellowjackets is a horror show and not a cute 90s high school sitcom but sapphic, where the goth loner surprises everyone by going out with the geeky theatre kid, and the uptight christian girl chills out when she starts smoking weed with her stoner girlfriend, and the mean lesbian and her butch are running the girls locker room like it’s a gay speakeasy and their exasperated health teacher/soccer coach has to keep getting them out of trouble and no one gets lost in the woods or cannibalized

[ashintheairlikesnow]

Okay so here, I think, is why I think Red, White and Royal Blue succeeds spectacularly as a romcom, and actually to me is a better-than-average take on the genre.

First, the leads have absolutely scorching chemistry. They are incredibly believable as two men absolutely infatuated with each other. They each kiss like drowning men shown water, right down to how each grabs at the other, at hair or back or neck and face.

They each have developed their character having a specific characteristic even when flirting or kissing. Henry grabs Alex's hair, for example, every single time, in a way that makes it clear he spends serious time thinking about that hair.

Fair enough, Henry.

They also do something even goddamn better.

They are friends. They are believable as two people who could actually get along long enough to fall in love.

They are allowed to become FRIENDS.

They are given time to get to know each other before they get physical. You can feel their interest in each other growing. And, to my opinion, you can tell that Henry is feeling Alex out through texts to see if the interest might be reciprocated even though he thinks it can't possibly be.

One thing that kills me about romcoms is how the leads will have witty "sexy" banter but don't seem to actually like each other. They are enemies who fall into bed but aren't really believable as lovers.

Henry and Alex are believable, because they... Well. They're impossibly silly even when tearing at each other's clothes. They have awkward moments.

They laugh.

Alex laughs in bed. He holds Henry in a way that is romantic, openly so. Henry is overcoming the conditioned hesitation and avoidance he has, his smiles and warmth and laughter come with rare vulnerability - Alex is a man who throws himself head first into life and has no such compunctions in the moment. He laughs because this is awesome and Jesus Christ, Prince Henry is too hot to be real.

They like each other, they stumble, they laugh.

But also, another reason this works so well?

The sex scene isn't scorching.

Watching the sex scene felt realistically intimate. It felt like I had walked in one real people and needed to leave. It was intense in a way that felt like something I maybe wasn't meant to see.

It was filmed so well. So much romanticism and deeply felt adoration in a simple grasping of a hand, the look in soft eyes, a hand pressed against a back. The edge of a knee just in frame. Looking up and looking down.

It felt like we walked into their room during and saw them both laid utterly bare.

Henry's look of vulnerability and nerves and pleasure, Alex looking slowly over his face to take it all in. Moving slowly, then, when everything they do before this is hurried or hidden.

It works as a romcom because you believe 100% these two men could get to like each other, fall in love, and stay that way.

You believe Henry's very real terror of rejection from the public because he already knows his family, beyond his sister, will reject him. You believe that Alex is a headstrong idealist who is sure that you can bulldoze through any wall too tall to climb.

And you believe that between the two of them, they can find a way around the wall entirely.

This movie is a master class on how a movie can get you to suspend so much disbelief if the leads sell their characters. The importance of believable chemistry.

And also... Isn't it nice to see a queer love story in a world that is, in some ways, just a few shades better than our own?

P.S. you cannot tell me Stephen Fry did not chew the goddamn scenery in circles all around everyone during his single scene. That man was having a ball.

[luluspicedesigns]

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