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Chick Flick Improvements
My wife is watching The Englishman who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain. Bleh.
That movie is supposed to take place during The Great War. So, why don't they have more war in it? War would really improve that movie.
No - what would really improve that movie is a werewolf. The Werewolf who went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain.
Townsfolk: We're verra a'fear'd o' tha werewolf tha lives on tha mountian, ye ken?
Hugh Grant: Well, it's not really a mountain. It's a hill.
Townsfolk: We dinna really care. We need ye to gae an' kill tha beastie.
So Hugh Grant tramps up the hill, kills the werewolf, buries him under the sod. As he comes back down into the town, a closeup shows that he's been bitten by the werewolf.
Four Weddings and a Funeral just screams out for a zombie outbreak.
What other improvements to chick flicks could be made?
That movie is supposed to take place during The Great War. So, why don't they have more war in it? War would really improve that movie.
No - what would really improve that movie is a werewolf. The Werewolf who went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain.
Townsfolk: We're verra a'fear'd o' tha werewolf tha lives on tha mountian, ye ken?
Hugh Grant: Well, it's not really a mountain. It's a hill.
Townsfolk: We dinna really care. We need ye to gae an' kill tha beastie.
So Hugh Grant tramps up the hill, kills the werewolf, buries him under the sod. As he comes back down into the town, a closeup shows that he's been bitten by the werewolf.
Four Weddings and a Funeral just screams out for a zombie outbreak.
What other improvements to chick flicks could be made?
Comments
-I think the biggest thing that needs to be added, is the unhappy ending. Or hell, bittersweet would even work, take the main character who doesn't find love, but learns how to love herself. That kind of ending wins in it's own right.
-Have the testacles to bring up serious issues with complications of sex, pregnancy, baby-raising, homosexuality, or what messy conflict happens from -cheating.
-Don't mistake snide comments for love. There's a great difference between passion and intimacy, they are not one in the same.
-Less cliches. RomComs would be more tolerable if they weren't so predictable. How about a movie all about swingers who have sex for relief, and that's it? No falling in love, none of that.
Actually, something interesting would be where the couple goes through the movie, struggling to keep it together, and they go "Yo, We're just not right for each other, we should stop doing this" and then instead of hating everyone the other person is with and relentlessly trying to sabotage both each other's and their own relationships, and get back together in the end, they have an amicable split, remain friends, and help each other find happiness as best friends?
Or maybe a movie where a group of people have casual sex, and it doesn't end in tears, heartbreak, finding true love(or at least, just the one), or basically "Correcting" them down to a life of strictly monogamous marriage where they don't even look at anyone else? Shit, even just a regular-but-mostly-happy open relationship would make for an excellent romantic movie.
In what you guys are saying, we do need more movies like Shaun of the Dead, which are essentially about romance, but have other-worldly elements.
Oh wait, that was the beginning of Transformers 2. Thanks, Michael Bay.
Red Riding Hood and ANY Twilight related movie.