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WCDT Strips 3306 - 3310 (12th to 16th September 2016)
Storel:
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--- Quote from: Zebediah on 16 Sep 2016, 03:36 ---Romantic comedies with body counts: There's Heathers, and, um... :?
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Maybe Ferris Bueller's Day Off, if you count the Porsche as a death? :wink:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Sep 2016, 03:39 ---Scott Pilgrim vs. The World had the potential to go there but didn't.
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Haven't seen Scott Pilgrim, so was this
* because it wasn't romantic enough, or
* because no one died?
willpell:
--- Quote from: gpvos on 13 Sep 2016, 23:37 ---"Expository context"? Is Emily aware that she is in a comic or something?
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Presumably she's just one of those people who lives her life as if she was the star of her own story (whether comic, movie, or whatever medium she prefers to imagine herself in). Being raised in an incubator of pop culture as we are, that sort of behavior is only going to keep becoming more and more common; I don't find it an unrealistic character trait for someone (particularly a "the weird one" someone) in a near-future-setting webcomic to possess.
--- Quote from: Timemaster on 14 Sep 2016, 22:26 ---Ohmygosh, this is really true? Women appreciate guys who show their feelings? I´m having a personal epiphany here.
I´ve been doing something wrong my whole life!
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I for one do not believe for a moment that a guy who went around telling complete strangers "I'm really depressed, I don't think there's any purpose to my life, and frankly the behavior of everyone around me is getting on my last nerve" would be "appreciated". I'm distinctly unhappy with Jeph for that line, although I do like where the Coffee of Doom girls took it in the subsequent strip (shorter romantic comedies would certainly be a boon, IMO).
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Storel on 16 Sep 2016, 12:22 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Sep 2016, 03:39 ---Scott Pilgrim vs. The World had the potential to go there but didn't.
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Haven't seen Scott Pilgrim, so was this
* because it wasn't romantic enough, or
* because no one died?
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IMHO, it wasn't a romantic comedy at all but a rather surreal slapstick parody.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Sep 2016, 13:07 ---
--- Quote from: Storel on 16 Sep 2016, 12:22 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Sep 2016, 03:39 ---Scott Pilgrim vs. The World had the potential to go there but didn't.
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Haven't seen Scott Pilgrim, so was this
* because it wasn't romantic enough, or
* because no one died?
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IMHO, it wasn't a romantic comedy at all but a rather surreal slapstick parody.
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I recommend the comic series, the movie didn't do it justice at all. The comic series is a lot more nuanced with a lot more character development and deeper themes. The film is an incredibly shallow and pale shadow of the source material.
That aside, the film is not a romantic comedy in any traditional sense, even if has some of the thematic elements, and, although a number of people die, it is done in a cartoonish, classic videogames style. Not at all what I am imagining in regards to the idea we're discussing.
Method of Madness:
I still hold that it fits both criteria. But even if it doesn't, Shaun of the Dead absolutely does.
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