Posted by Neil at 205.163.142.226 on February 10, 2000 at 19:15:22:
In Reply to: I disagree wit'cha again, Bleeding Tree man. posted by Chiusano on February 10, 2000 at 19:04:38:
: : : An example of a Romantic Comedy is like "You've got Mail" or one of those Julia Roberts movies.
: : That's one tone for a Romantic Comedy.
: : It's also a story of two guys who come to terms with how much they love the women they recently lost and then winning back their love.
: I'm going to have to side with Mr. Bowl Smoker here. I think that once you open the floodgates to include Mallrats in the realm of romantic comedy, then you'd have to also allow Ace Ventura, Austin Powers, Happy Gilmore, Tommy Boy, Deuce Bigalow, and countless other completely unromantic comedies into the fold as well, simply because they have a meager subplot where the hero pursues a romantic conquest with some pretty little underdeveloped character. You could find romantic elements in the majority of comedies out there, but I think that the ones where the romantic elements predominate are the ones that deserve the label "romantic comedy". And I just don't feel that 'Rats really applies.
The main story for both of the duel leads in MALLRATS revolves around their quest for romantic love. It's not a commercial ploy sub-plot to create a weak story arc. It is, in fact, the main story of the film. The A-Plot. Just because the tone is different than NOTTING HILL and it wasn't marketed as a story about romantic love, does not on any level change the fact that it is.