10 Best Romantic-Comedy Movies

{DISCLAIMER}: This list is solely based on my opinion.

Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz’s It Takes a Man and a Woman will hit the theaters on March 30, 2013 and in the name of promoting a romantic comedy movie such as this I listed some of the best rom-com movies for the last 25 years. And what better way to start it with….

10. Just My Luck

      2006

This is the last movie I ever saw her as herself, you know the sober, fun, spirited and beautiful girl, just like the old Lindsay Lohan I used to love! Although this movie didn’t help much to make a huge come back and to make things worse she received her first Golden Razzie nomination for Worst Actress. And why the hell did I include this in my list? Because I have a thing for broken people! Besides it’s not that bad. It’s actually funny and sweet.

9. Pretty Woman

     1990

I’m not sure but if being a hooker is all it takes to have Edward Lewis [Richard Gere] in my life then I’d gladly and patiently stand on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard, of course that is, if I’m as pretty as Vivian Ward [Julia Roberts]. Kidding aside, it’s a feel good movie, the kind that inspires you, a classic tale of rags to riches in a romantic and funny way, a lot better than Runaway Bride.

8. Hitch

     2005

Two things come into my mind when I hear the name Will Smith; Aliens and Bad Boys. So when I saw this movie, it’s just totally refreshing. I love the movie; it’s just so hilarious I almost forgot that it’s actually a rom-com and not a comedy flick. The movie depicts that you don’t need a love doctor or even a date doctor to get the girl/man of your dreams; you just have to be yourself when dating someone and get to know each other along the way.

7. Going the Distance

     2010

Of all the entries in this list, Going the Distance comes a little closer to reality. Sometimes long distance relationships ends not because of lack of trust and commitment, it’s simply just not working, plus in an economy that is in recession it’s hard to turn down a job just because you love someone and wish to be with them. Garrett [Justin Long] realizing that he hates his job starts to look for another one whilst Erin [Drew Barrymore] struggles to find a stable job herself. Justin and Drew didn’t really have the chemistry in the silver screen but the movie somehow made it to highest grossing film of 2010, out of 324 movies they hit the 118th spot. Not bad!

6. 10 Things I Hate About You

     1999

Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger are charming together in this film. One of the best teenage flick during the 90’s, the kind that didn’t involve too much sex, drugs and bullies, but rather shows the fun and joys of being a teenager. You can also watch Julia Stile’s Prince and Me, it’s equally good I just opt to include this movie instead, because of one particular scene, when Patrick [Heath Ledger] serenaded Kat [Julia Stiles] with his performance of “Can’t take my eyes off of you” in the soccer field. That is just so sweet, don’t you think?

5. The Wedding Singer

     1998

Who doesn’t know the song “Grow Old with You”? This has been the theme song of countless wedding events or wedding proposals and surprisingly I met someone, who admittedly say that she didn’t know the song, not until the Zoren – Carmina wedding. I won’t tell you the name but I’ll give you a clue; somewhere between sunny and rainy, you go figure. Going back, like the song I treat this movie as some bad-ass classic movie with a great soundtrack. I find it sweet and heartwarming When Robbie Hart [Adam Sandler] confessed his love for Julia Sullivan [Drew Barrymore] after singing “Grow Old with you” inside the plane and in front of all the passengers.

4. Sweet Home Alabama

   2002

I so love Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas and that southern “drawl” accent. I don’t really believe that love is sweeter the second time around but I guess it really does happen, and I admire how the movie beautifully put everything into place for Melanie [Reese Witherspoon] and Jake [Josh Lucas], I like how Melanie – who even after seven years find herself still in love with her “supposedly” ex-husband, not the sudden type thing, it’s more like fate, if not destiny. The main lesson here is to not let your partner see their ex to avoid that “epiphany” moment in their life. 

3. Knocked Up

  2007

What is a rom-com list without Katherine Heigl in it? It seems to me that she left Grey’s Anatomy to make a bunch of rom-com movies! From Life as We Know It and The Ugly Truth to 27 Dresses and One for the Money, I’ve come to know her as the girl who falls in love with a guy and live happily ever after before the movie credits starts rolling in. I believe this is the “best among the rest” rom-com movies that she ever made and Seth Rogen played his character effectively. I had a handful of laughs for this movie but when you actually think about it, the story itself is no laughing matter! You got yourself pregnant out of a one night stand; you try to or maybe force yourself to love each because of the baby which ends up a lot messier.

2.  Easy A

      2010

3 reasons why I love, love, love this movie

This person – Emma Stone

This quote – Olive Penderghast: Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies? I want John Cusack holding a boom box outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80’s movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life. And

This song– Pocketful of Sunshine.

1. 50 First Dates

    2004

Well what can I say I’m a Drew-Adam shipper! Reuniting after 6 years from The Wedding Singer, they still have that easy chemistry on screen. This is by far the most hilarious, touching and sweet romantic-comedy movie I have ever seen. The very meaning of “romantic comedies”, for those who are close to me, knows that when I laugh hard, I cry! Not the emotional tears of joy type of cry. I literally cry as if I’m watching a very sad and depressing movie, so basically I cried laughing while being touched by the warmth of the movie making it really some kind a heart-breaking sad movie.

BONUS:

* Now That I Have You

   2004

I included a local film as a bonus entry. A story on how being persistent and consistent can help you win a chance in love with the love of your life -well at least that’s how Betsy [Bea Alonzo] sees Michael [John Lloyd Cruz]. Bea and John Lloyd collectively known as LaBers had (and I think they will always have) an overwhelming chemistry in this movie. Bea was surprisingly funny and somewhat playful in this movie which I think works fine, so the audience can easily relate to the story. And John Lloyd like the best actor he is -portrayed his character neat and convincingly.

10 Fascinating things about Fans that you probably didn’t know, that you should know.

I’m a fan from my skin down deep to my bones, and not everyone understands that it’s just not a hobby, it’s a BAD HABIT so bad like a member of some MAFIA you can’t quit unless of course, you die and since I’ve been reading a list of 10 things of just about everything I decided to make my own version of it.

{WARNING}: This is just for fun, not everything is necessarily true. Some might not have experienced it and some might have. Nonetheless this is just for fun.

 

10. Faction

We don’t get ourselves affected if Sarah said ok fine I love Gerald, We don’t get ourselves involve if Sarah said yes Rayver cheated on me. You know what we do? Nothing! Yes, nothing! You know why? Well because we’re a part of that whole Faction, and guess what? That Faction whether you like it or not is part of Sarah. So technically part of us is a part of Sarah, which technically means we’re automatically affected and involve because of her. We don’t like redundancy, do we?

9. Shameless

Contrary to the beliefs that fans are unashamed when people look at them and realized they are fans of some artist, truth is they are actually embarrassed with what they are doing, standing there for hours, shouting the artist’s name and carrying that big tarpaulin. And it’s not helping when people belittle and see them as some low life person who follows someone else’s life and so because of this I came up with….

8. Pride

They don’t let other people see that shamefacedness, they’ve got their pride and this my friend is something that they do out of love, because love needs something in return, we just don’t get to have it and not sacrifice something in return. So they stand up, they exalt the idea that it’s fun to be a fan. After all, the over flowing love and support for the artist is not meant to be kept inside. That is why they have the strength to stand for hours, shout the artist’s name and hold that banner for as long as 3 long agonizing hours.

7. Happiness

They keep on saying they want the artist to be happy when in reality they want their selves to be happy. You know why I said that? Because 7 out of 10 fans will say “her [artist] happiness is my ecstasy” (well not the exact words but the same idea). So they actually use the star to find their own happiness and they just use the “supporting” part to justify that they are happy even without the artist. Of course they will not find happiness in the artist alone, what I’m saying is that they don’t recognize that sometimes when the artist is in good spirit , fans, are actually not.

6. Buying

They don’t buy everything that the artist sells, more so if it doesn’t help their daily living. Like Globe, I personally hate them. They don’t provide the quality service that Sarah promotes! And I remember trying that magnolia fruit drink, it’s awful! I don’t know how Sarah manages to smile after that drink but sure as hell I didn’t. So when the sales are high for a particular product don’t point your finger to the fans just yet.

5. Critics

People think that fans gives flattery to the artist like they will not run out of it. Actually no! That dress didn’t look good on her, she got fat don’t you think?, her hair is a mess, she sounds tired, is she tired?, she’s off tune, she looks horrible in that make up, she doesn’t look pretty today, what kind of interview is that?, is that suppose to be an answer? Did she actually have her nose fixed? Fans asked and say these things to the artist, well not directly to them, of course. But fans, like any other people criticize the artist for all intents and purposes.

4. Friendly

I believe fans are the friendliest person in the world. They talk to a complete stranger and are friends by the end of the day and they can also be the most evil friend that you once knew. I don’t know about you but if your “used to be” friend is an officer or close to an officer of the Faction I can guarantee, your name is off the list for good. Example: If there’s a mall tour, you better find yourself another friend that can help you enter the “box” otherwise you will be standing outside, tiptoeing just to get a glimpse of the artist and all you manage to see is her hair. I’m telling you its worst than being exiled.

3. War freaks

Fans are war freaks by nature, until they mature and realize, “boy, that’s stupid I should have known better”. I regard fans as the knights of some castle, the front line of some war, the defender of some King and for that matter it’s the artist. If an artist gets involve in a scandal or intrigue, it’s not the network that 1st create the so called “damage control” it’s the front line! They engage their selves in the “internet wars” defending the honor and legacy of the artist, building walls of truths against cannon balls of lies! Then the artist will say in an interview “No comment” and I was like what the hell!!! I’m wounded! Hand severed! And all you can say is no comment! That’s when they will start to mature and say “boy, that’s stupid I should have known better”.

2. Professionals

Sure some of them didn’t earn a bachelor’s degree, some is yet to earn it, and then there are those who got themselves a professional position, even a prime position in the dog eat dog society. So don’t assume that every fan is a domestic helper in some house hold, who only has a chance to mingle on Sundays. And what if that is the case? So what?! A house hold helper earns a minimum wage of 3k+ and have an annual salary increase, they contribute to SSS and is a member of PHILHEALTH, and according to the law they have working hours and should receive a pay slip. So they have the same frame or concept of work that a professional gets in a desk job. So stop acting like you’re a totally a different person, a notch higher than them, stop discriminating and this should help you look at fans on a different light. For all we know their employers really do increase their salary every year while the professional “you” wait for that increase, you and the helper already have the same salary.

1. Cult

Some people think that fans are almost the same as cults because they praise and glorify the artist in a Godly way. It is not exactly the same way, if truth be told it’s far from being a cult. According to Wikipedia cult is a pejorative term for a new religious movement or other group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre by the larger society. Well to fans glorify means being proud with all the achievement the artist has achieved. Praise means complementing them about the good characteristics they present on and off the camera. So it’s merely admiring the artist with his or her talent and good personality not really singing songs of praise and believing in miracles type of belief, that

DISNEYLAND ADVENTURE

My partner and I went on a holiday 2 weeks ago, we went to Hong Kong and Macau. I can honestly tell you that I’ve had so much fun with this trip. We were there for 4 days and 3 nights, let me tell you that it wasn’t enough. Not in a sense that I want more time but we literally didn’t have much time to fulfill our itinerary.

We left Singapore around 6am and landed in Hong Kong almost 10am, We saw Heart Evangelista and Chiz Escudero at the immigration queue. I actually saw them first then I told Wendy (my partner) about them and she took a “paparazzi” picture and I scolded her saying we are not allowed to take some pictures in the immigration, I’m telling you this because we left the airport around 11am. You go figure what happens in between that time.

Good thing I read the news

Then we had some difficulty as well getting to our hotel, because we got lost in translation. No one can seem to understand us, well at least for those people that we asked. Then I was surprise on how some locals ignored us, I thought it was rude but then again it’s not your soil on the ground you have to adjust to the world. Anyway we found the hotel past 12pm so at this point were a bit late for our 1st stop which is Disneyland.

Like a child

We arrived at Disneyland almost 2 in the afternoon, took some pictures of the venue. I mean Wendy took pictures while me, I’m excited to be there it’s my first time so I looked around pretty much. It’s sunny yet the wind is cool that day which is perfect we took our lunch there then roam around. I first saw Buzz light year , and happily queue to get a snap shot with him. I would like you to see the picture to know what I mean when I said “happily” but I’d like to keep myself anonymous chos! haha! Then walk to hunt other Disney characters, they are not hard to find, what’s hard is to find them with a file of people but we’ve got no choice, do we? Let’s see, overall we’ve got a hold of Mickey and Minnie mouse, Buzz Light year, Tinkerbell and oh did I mention that she’s fascinating?, and that’s about it obviously queues on each character took all our time we were not able to get a snapshot with anyone else, not even the Enchanting Disney Princesses, but we saw them in the parade and without no exaggeration it was enchanting to meet them :).

Speaking of parade, this is the most wonderful part about the whole Disneyland thing. I was so happy with this parade I can almost borrow Charlie’s line in the movie Perks of being a wallflower. Seeing all those Disney characters come to life with a very upbeat happy song on the background, you know the type of soundtrack that you hear in Disney movies where everyone is having fun. I swear in that moment I was infinite! Really I was so happy like I was a child all over again. I couldn’t remove the smile on my face during the parade. We were at the Fantasy garden when the parade started, we ran as fast as we can because we don’t want to miss this program. Before the parade ends they stopped and called some kids to participate to the dancing and singing stuff. Woody, on the other hand saw Wendy trying to get a picture of him and so he posed.

After the parade, we went to Golden Mickey. It’s like a golden globe kind of program where they would highlight some of the cartoons that Disney made. They have categories and each of it will show a scene out of that movie. For example they have a category for Love so they cut a scene in Beauty and the Beast singing “Something There” then on the stage came out Belle and the Prince dancing to the tune of “Beauty And The Beast”. There’s Lilo and Stitch. Ariel and Sebastian, etc. I was expecting to see Ariel in the water not above the ground floating in the air haha! I saw Tarzan and I didn’t realized that he was a huge tall guy you know what I mean, in the cartoon sure he have some muscles but not all muscles haha! anyways it was like a 30 to 45 minutes show and it’s fun.

I forgot before we went to the Fantasy Land we went to “It’s a small world” another program for the kids that has a background song from the title of the program itself. The idea is to help you see different countries and continents by riding the boat. When your inside you will see different cultures and people singing the same song only on different languages depending on the country they are in. A lot of singing and dancing dolls, not in a creepy way, I must say. It’s basically seeing the world 🙂

We went to Magic Mickey, I guess? I forgot the name of the program, it’s a musical program where the main character is not Mickey Mouse but Donald Duck, he’s supposed to lead an orchestra with the help of Mickey’s magic hat. But the hat seems to have a life of itself because it keeps slipping Donald’s hands and as he chase the hat they also travel to different dimension or world, like it went under the sea with Ariel, then to the jungle with Simba and oh I forgot this program is like the ones in Universal Studios (USS) here in Singapore, the 3D stuff. So we wore 3D glasses and whenever there’s water splashing in the screen there’s also water splashing on our faces. The 3D is cool because it really did make everything seems so close.

So after that we went in souvenir shops because it’s getting late and the fireworks will start in an hour and a half. So better get those “pasalubongs” as we walk along the whole stretch we realized that there are some places that we hadn’t gone through yet like the Toy Story, Grizzly whatever (please bear with me I don’t remember the name of the places that much). So we checked it out, I didn’t realized that unlike USS there’s not much of rides in Disneyland I only saw a couple of it in Toy Story land to which my partner described “walang kwenta” I don’t like to take rides because I have fear of those things so she rode alone and I guess to her it’s only for kids too. You see Disneyland is for the kids and kids at heart so everything I guess, is harmless.

The last program is the Fireworks at Sleeping beauty’s castle. When we arrived in front of the castle a lot people is starting to file up so we looked for our spot but I had to leave Wendy there because her shoes is killing so I ran to get her slippers but when I got back the people already positioned themselves and sat on the pavement and I wasn’t able to squeeze myself in anymore so at the end we were not able to watch the fireworks together which is kind of upsetting specially to her because it’s supposed to be a sweet moment for us. Nonetheless I enjoyed the lights up above, you see I have a thing for lights. But I didn’t see much because there’s these tall guys in front of me I only wished Wendy had a good spot which she had apparently. It lasted a good 30 – 45 minutes I guess. What I’m sure is it’s the longest fireworks show I’ve ever seen.

And so the adventure in Disneyland ends. After this we went to the city at the Ladies market to get more pasalubong and of course see what their night market looks like. We took the MTR from Disneyland to Sunny Bay to Mongkok. By the way I super like the train from Disney to Sunny Bay so cozy, like how I like their Airport Express makes me feel that I’m traveling via train like the ones in the movies :P.

It’s almost 9pm when we arrived at the Ladies’ market and remember that I have a thing for lights? I so love the place because of the lights. It didn’t seem to be so dark to me at the time. It feels as if it’s daytime because of the lights and the people. A better version of Divisoria in the Philippines. There’s a lot of cheap things but we didn’t bought so much because we have this thinking that it’s expensive like the I love HK shirt cost around HK$100 but when we convert it to SGD it’s like S$16 only so a lot of numbers makes it expensive which is funny and interesting. We walked the whole strip of the street and bargained to the sellers, it’s kind of weird when they bargain like Wendy just went and asked how much the key chain is the lady said HK$80 so Wendy said ok thanks and were about to leave, when the lady grabbed Wendy’s arm and asked how much do you want? and Wendy said No, thank you but the lady insisted so Wendy just said 50 and then the lady said ok 50 get it!. Funny and scary at the same time, I would call it “brasohan” HK version.

That’s our DAY 1. It’s a long story because it has been a long and happy day. I will definitely go back to Disneyland I fell in love with the place and this time I want to watch the fireworks with Wendy and get a good spot. On my next entry I will tell you about our adventure in Macau!