too many beautiful women are often paired up with UGLY or OVERWEIGHT guys onscreen.

how often do we see an UGLY or OVERWEIGHT (or unattractive) female paired up with a sexy, physically fit guy onscreen? Not very often.

*marked 'like!' This is all too painfully true.

HUGE fan of the rom-com genre. I denfinatley DON'T look at it with same jaded eye as "The Bitter Script Reader;" a guy who's opinions for the most part I very much respect -- though I'm not very high on what he had to say here, as he shows considerable dissrespect for a genre that I love dearly!

First off, it IS NOT EASY to write, or end up with a "good" romantic comedy. You hafta have romance, AND you have to be funny. AND you hafta blend that mix throughout the story. Not all writers and filmmakers have the necessary sensitivities to do that. Making a successful romantic comdy is DEFINATELY NOT as easy as the Bitter Script Reader makes it sound.

Sure there's been lots of disappoints over the years, BUT there's also been some real winners: "13 Going on 30," "How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days," "The 40 Year Old Virgin," "(500) Days of Summer," "Enchanted."

Billy Mernit has a MUCH BETTER paradgm from which to write and evaluate a romantic comedy movie. Dude, (Mernit, I'm talkin' about) brilliantly lays out the 7 basic beats which comprise the basic structure for building a romatic comedy on his "Writing the Romantic Comedy" paperback book. THAT'S what we SHOULD be taking about. Not some flipant observaions from someone who is obviously not passionate, and seriously UNDERVALUES this genre.

What the Bitter Script SHOULD be pointing on is what makes movies tick in genre that he's passionate about. THAT would be much more interesting read.


Rant asside. I will play along. Of the 9 steps sited (# 10 is kind of a throw-away). The one step the Bitter Script Reader sited that is most overused is "kooky friends." And the one step which he sites that I think is the most important is casting.

This post got my blood to boiling. I think I'll step out for some air now...

- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA

LOL. and these are also the top ten reasons I avoid romantic comedies like the plague...
People making these movies think this formula is a replacement for actually being creative and developing plots and characters.
Why watch a movie when I know exactly what's going to happen? I'd rather read TMZ and see what's actually going on in Katherine Heigl's life- that's just as trashy, but at least it's (potentially) true.

Just to clarify a point here... I didn't write the article in question. I tweeted a link to it and that's how Scott discovered it. The original article is here on Uproxx.