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It makes sense, then, that in the romantic-comedy world there are many specimens of women who-like Vulcans or Mothra-do not exist in real life. They’re all participating in a similar level of fakey razzle-dazzle, and I enjoy every second of it. For me, there is no difference between Ripley from “Alien” and any Katherine Heigl character. I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. I actually feel robbed when the female lead’s dress doesn’t get torn open at a baseball game while the JumboTron camera is on her.

I have come to enjoy the moment when the male lead, say, slips and falls right on top of the expensive wedding cake. I like watching people fall in love onscreen so much that I can suspend my disbelief in the contrived situations that occur only in the heightened world of romantic comedies. But that has not stopped me from enjoying them. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. But what I’d really like to write is a romantic comedy. Those movies all sound great to me, and, incidentally, I am prepared to write any of them, if there is interest. “The Cute Bear from Those Toilet-Paper Ads Movie” “The Untitled Liam Neeson Vendetta Project” “Apples to Apples 4D” (The audience is pummelled with apples at the end of the movie.) Based on what I’ve learned from my time in Hollywood, the following titles are my best guess as to what may soon be coming to a theatre near you: I’m even more surprised at how often they are correct.

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I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. People really seem to respond to those.”įor the rest of the meeting, we talked about whether there was any potential in a movie called “Yahtzee!” I made some polite suggestions and left. He finally said, “Yeah, but we’re really trying to focus on movies about board games. One of the execs sheepishly looked at the other execs. After I finished pitching one of my ideas for a low-budget romantic comedy, I was met with silence. The junior executives’ office at Thinkscope Visioncloud was nicer than any room within a fifty-mile radius of the “Office” studio. It’s snobby and grossly aspirational, but it’s true. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. I have a great job writing for “The Office,” but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. Thinkscope Visioncloud had put out several of my favorite movies, and they wanted to see if I had any feature ideas. Each has such unique merit! So this is by no means a definitive best-of list-just a jumping off place of some classics and a few lesser-known gems for your next chick flick fix.A few years ago, I sat down for a meeting with some executives at a movie studio that I will call Thinkscope Visioncloud.

I'll admit that choosing such a list is not-so-unlike choosing a favorite from among those 17 pairs of black shoes.

Flicks about women finding love, hope, friendship, reconciliation, a sense of purpose, their voice-and often themselves. Movies about true girl power, that celebrate women and our relationships with each other, our family, our significant other, our world. So to save you from such cinematic mishaps, we compiled a list of ten can't-miss chick flicks. True chick flicks don't require you to check your brain or your morals at the door. You know, like the much-touted Pretty Woman. (My friend Max says the difference between chick flicks and guy movies is that in the former, one person dies slowly, and in the latter, a lot of people die really quickly.)īecause of the important role these movies play in our life, there's nothing worse than plunking down your nine bucks at the theater or your rental card at the nearest Blockbuster and getting fooled by a Chick-Flick Wannabe. Throughout life, we women turn to our cinematic friends after breakups and bad haircuts, for Girls Nights Out and Me Nights In, when we need a good laugh or a good cry, when we're feeling frumpy or flirty, happily in love or hormonally imbalanced. And our ongoing love affair with chick flicks. A woman's need for 17 different pairs of black shoes. There are many things in this life men simply don't understand.

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