Romantic comedies are like internet cat videos. They’re sweet, sometimes funny. Their hearts are in the right place but the formula is so trite they’re hard to sit through.
“Why in the world would you waste your time sinking so low as to watch a one then?” I here fans patronizingly ask. Two reasons, and they are directly related. First, I like to be as ignorant as I can be of the movie I’m going to see. All I want to know is if it is a film that I could like, i.e. genre, director, writer, etc. I do this because movies have a target audience, and I readily admit that often the target audience is not me. Sure, a filmmaker dreams of creating a movie that everyone loves, but the realistic advice is to “know your audience.” So, I don’t want to waste readers time,...
“Why in the world would you waste your time sinking so low as to watch a one then?” I here fans patronizingly ask. Two reasons, and they are directly related. First, I like to be as ignorant as I can be of the movie I’m going to see. All I want to know is if it is a film that I could like, i.e. genre, director, writer, etc. I do this because movies have a target audience, and I readily admit that often the target audience is not me. Sure, a filmmaker dreams of creating a movie that everyone loves, but the realistic advice is to “know your audience.” So, I don’t want to waste readers time,...
- 4/20/2013
- by Aeryk Pierson
- Obsessed with Film
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