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chasingm00n · 2 months ago
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MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie
Sandra Bullock & Benjamin Bratt as Gracie Hart and Eric Matthews
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starbuck · 1 year ago
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i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’
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admireforever · 3 months ago
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Nobody Wants This
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moonlightsdream · 10 months ago
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John Tucker Must Die (2006) — dir. Betty Thomas
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ashintheairlikesnow · 1 year ago
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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nibmoss · 8 months ago
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did you hear there’s a new short film that is GAY?? LESBIAN, even???
AND it’s filmed in a minority language?? a CELTIC language, one might say??
AND that it’s available for FREE, with SUBTITLES in both irish AND english??
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“FAN” (2024) dir. cúnla ní bhraonáin morris
watch here 🫶
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propalahramota · 1 month ago
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Keanu Reeves in Sweet November (2001)
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gugumbathraw · 2 years ago
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Rye Lane (2023) dir. Raine Allen-Miller
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esqueletosgays · 1 month ago
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YOUR MONSTER (2024)
Director: Caroline Lindy Cinematography: Will Stone
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ycllowjackcts · 11 months ago
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but i'm a cheerleader (1999)
my favorite romantic comedy.
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chasingm00n · 2 months ago
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MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie
Benjamin Bratt as Detective Eric Matthews
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admireforever · 3 months ago
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Nobody Wants This
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moonlightsdream · 10 months ago
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John Tucker Must Die (2006) — dir. Betty Thomas
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myrandom-fandomlife · 1 year ago
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genuinely don’t get why people are acting like the rwrb movie cant be a little cringe
like it’s a romcom??? that’s what they do??
queer romance doesn’t always have to be serious and artful and sad
just let them be happy and in love and cutie and YES, CRINGEY
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batfleckgifs · 1 month ago
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THE SUM OF ALL FEARS Dir.Phil Alden Robinson ‧ 2002
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psykopaths · 2 months ago
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Annie Hall (1977)
Dir - Woody Allen
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