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Comment by munificent

5 years ago

I did appreciate that it was an hour and a half of good vibes and pretty pictures, though it felt a little try-hard to me.

> I mean there is a reason why romantic comedies just work telling the same kind of stories all over again with different actors.

As someone who loves romantic comedies, I don't think of them as the "same kinds of stories" any more than I think of my ex-girlfriends as the same experience even though they were all romantic relationships that ended.

Would you think of a travel documentary to Brazil and one to Spain to be the same because they are both travel docs with similar structures? Probably not, because the details of the place itself are what the doc is about and those differ. With romantic movies, it's about the details of the character's individual psychologies that make the movie.