Everyone makes better romance movies than Hollywood. The independents, Canadian, Brits, Australians, French... they all come out with wonderful, creative, touching little romantic comedies. But it's the Hollywood ones that get all the press, and then everyone concludes that there are no good romantic comedies being made anymore.
Not true! There are just no good ones being made by the big studios.
I just watched a cute, funny little movie that's on Netflix with English subtitles, from France/Belgium. It's called Romantics Anonymous, though that's a translation of the word "émotif" which really means emotional. Émotifs Anonymes is a real group in France for people with emotional problems. The film apparently came about because the two stars are shy, have both been to the Émotifs group, and thought up a romance movie about shy people.
I'm now going to spoiler the end, but it's a love story so... come on... you know they end up together.
Some people on Jennifer Crusie's blog once talked about how they don't like movie love declarations made in public. Personally I don't mind them, cause I like comedy and public declarations can be really funny--like in Crocodile Dundee. In this movie there's a cute compromise. The declaration happens in front of their two support groups--her Émotifs group and his employees. Just before they kiss she asks him: Are they watching us? He says no. They kiss, and he motions for everyone to turn around. See? Comedy.
At their wedding, he finds her hiding in a closet (he's hiding too.)
And they run away together.
The other thing about non-Hollywood films is the actors aren't always drop dead gorgeous. At least, there's more variety.
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