The Endzone's Best RomCom Challenge

[95 Vol Alum]

Post your entry wants here.

 

[Behr]

Hmmm, that's tough. Let me think about it.

 

[Souce]

wtf

 

[Souce]

Waterworld

 

[95 Vol Alum]

I started at 1987 to current so "older" stuff is out. My list by rankings:

1 Seeds
The Princess Bride
Silver Linings Playbook
Say Anything
Groundhog Day

2 Seeds
Much Ado About Nothing (1993 version - or thereabouts)
High Fidelity
The Big Sick
When Harry Met Sally

3 Seeds
Moonstruck
Broadcast News
Amelie
Knocked Up

4 Seeds
Jerry Maguire
500 Days of Summer
Chasing Amy
Four Weddings and a Funeral

5 Seeds
Enough Said
Notting Hill
The 40-Year Old Virgin
Punch-Drunk Love

6 Seeds
Clueless
Roxanne
Bridget Jones's Diary
Crazy Rich Asians

7 Seeds
Crazy, Stupid, Love
The Wedding Singer
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
There's Something About Mary

8 Seeds
10 Things I Hate About You
Sleepless in Seattle
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Love Actually

Missing the cut:
Trainwreck
You've Got Mail
Pretty Woman
Something's Gotta Give
My Best Friend's Wedding
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Proposal
50 First Dates

 

[Souce]

What's next....a best manscaping tools bracket?

 

[95 Vol Alum]

What's next....a best manscaping tools bracket?

Clearly I have no boundaries. So, post up your nominations for tools.

 

[Behr]

You got Say anything twice, 1 seed and 2 seed.

I looked at a top 50 and a top 20 RomCom list and one had Pretty Woman at 14 and the other at 13. I think it should be added. I also think definitely maybe should be added in place if one of the say anythings.

@BadJerry20

 

[Behr]

Bunch of those I've never seen.

 

[theFallGuy]

Why did Pretty Woman miss the cut?????

 

[theFallGuy]

The Breakup needs to be a 1 Seed. Beleeeeeev Dat!

 

[95 Vol Alum]

You got Say anything twice, 1 seed and 2 seed.

I looked at a top 50 and a top 20 RomCom list and one had Pretty Woman at 14 and the other at 13. I think it should be added. I also think definitely maybe should be added in place if one of the say anythings.

@BadJerry20

Good catch. The 2 seed should be High Fidelity.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Why did Pretty Woman miss the cut?????

It scores pretty low on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scoring, 62 and 51 out of 100 respectively.

 

[theFallGuy]

Coming To America is a romcom. Change my mind

 

[95 Vol Alum]

@BadJerry20 is on sabbatical from VN. FYI

 

[Behr]

I started at 1987 to current so "older" stuff is out. My list by rankings:

1 Seeds
The Princess Bride
Silver Linings Playbook
Say Anything
Groundhog Day

2 Seeds
Much Ado About Nothing (1993 version - or thereabouts)
*Say Anything
**St. Elmo's Fire
*The Big Sick
**Pretty Woman
When Harry Met Sally

3 Seeds
Moonstruck
*Broadcast News
** You've Got Mail
Amelie
Knocked Up

4 Seeds
Jerry Maguire
500 Days of Summer
Chasing Amy
Four Weddings and a Funeral

5 Seeds
Enough Said
*Notting Hill
**The Proposal
The 40-Year Old Virgin
Punch-Drunk Love

6 Seeds
Clueless
Roxanne
*Bridget Jones's Diary
**50 First Dates
Crazy Rich Asians

7 Seeds
Crazy, Stupid, Love
The Wedding Singer
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
There's Something About Mary

8 Seeds
10 Things I Hate About You
Sleepless in Seattle
*My Big Fat Greek Wedding
**How to lose a guy in 10 days
Love Actually

Missing the cut:
Trainwreck
You've Got Mail
Pretty Woman
Something's Gotta Give
My Best Friend's Wedding
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
The Proposal
50 First Dates

Just my opinion, but I think the movies with an asterisk in front of it should be replaced with the movie with 2 asterisks in front.

 

[theFallGuy]

@BadJerry20 is on sabbatical from VN. FYI

oh lawd what did he do

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Coming To America is a romcom. Change my mind

Movie had to appear on at least 3 independent RomCom rankings that I found to make the analysis. Then they had to make the top 32 to be in.

Saw that movie on 1 list only. Those found on at least 2 lists:

Bull Durham
Love, Simon
Shakespeare in Love
Waitress
The American President
Reality Bites
As Good As It Gets

Therein lies the issue, no consensus on what is a RomCom. So, you can build any list of entries you want and let them fight it out.

 

[Behr]

oh lawd what did he do

Sabbatical doesn't = Band Camp. Dumbie.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

oh lawd what did he do

Nothing. He just informed us he was stepping away in the NBA Forum. He lost his job last month. I was worried, but he told BEN to tell me to gfm. So, he must be doing somewhat ok.

 

[theFallGuy]

yikes that sux. Lot's of people hurting in this lockdown.

 

[Behr]

American President. Good one.

 

[theFallGuy]

Sabbatical doesn't = Band Camp. Dumbie.

ROOD

 

[theFallGuy]

Movie had to appear on at least 3 independent RomCom rankings that I found to make the analysis. Then they had to make the top 32 to be in.

Saw that movie on 1 list only. Those found on at least 2 lists:

Bull Durham
Love, Simon
Shakespeare in Love
Waitress
The American President
Reality Bites
As Good As It Gets

Therein lies the issue, no consensus on what is a RomCom. So, you can build any list of entries you want and let them fight it out.

I forgot about Reality Bites.

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Just my opinion, but I think the movies with an asterisk in front of it should be replaced with the movie with 2 asterisks in front.

I will do the rankings but am fine with your recommendations for entry. I'm not overly familiar with many of these movies so am just the numbers guy here.