Joking aside, he’s great in The Last Seduction - he’s a terrible person but not a dupe (or at least as much of a dupe as the lead dude) and watching him be stuck in this position of being the asshole who happens to be right is a lot of nasty fun.

I’m struggling to see how John Krasinski isn’t the hot guy in this scenario. Even in The Office as an average joe, I was thinking myself and my girlfriends would be falling over each other to hot desk next to him...

That’s the same thing I keep coming back too: the people who write, produce and direct rom-coms keep letting the wish fulfillment of the plot interfere with actual, honest-to-goodness dramatic tension. And as a result, we get a weird example of the tragedy of the commons.

or spaceballs (i’m being totally serious, he was super hot in that)

I love that you bring up Dermot Mulroney and his lack of charm, there’s an excellent podcast from We Hate Movies that hypothesizes that he is in fact a murderer just waiting to kill Cameron Diaz’s character for her money in my Best Friend’s Wedding.

I’m from Oklahoma and married to a teacher. They didn’t win. They started the strike after the pay raise was signed. The strike began because of classroom funding and cuts to the funding bills for the raise. Classroom funding was never passed. The teachers got a raise and that’s where it stopped. This entire mess is…

The Last Seduction as a romcom is a pretty interesting reading.

I always felt bad for Bill Pullman in that movie, he’s just got weird allergies, he’s not a bad dude.

Yeah, I write. Not that I think there’s a lick of sense in your apparent defense of that last resort of the thin-skinned (“If you can’t do it, you have no right to critique it, which is why I never complain about politicians or potholes on my road or bad restaurant food.”) but I don’t do that shit. And if I came up…

And when he made that speech on July 4.

I understand that it’s hard to find good roles for women in Hollywood, but if that’s the target Hudson’s been aiming for, she’s like someone who’s playing darts at a bar and ends up with every dart stuck in the pool table.

Bill Pullman is a good actor, is I think the main takeaway here.

If the end of your rom-com movie is the woman picking up any man’s dry-cleaning, it’s time to dig deeper on just exactly whose wish is being fulfilled here. “Co-written by June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson?” Unlikely. “Original script by Greg DePaul?” Ah, now there’s our suspect.

Or Spaceballs.

This is unrelated to why this movie is so horrible, but I remember watching the movie after reading the book (and forcing myself to get through it) and being PISSED when they made Ethan secretly be in love with Ginnifer Goodwin’s. Did everyone around her have to be secretly in love with her? It just made her look even…

But, I’m SO GLAD to hear this publicly proclaimed! Of all the myriad causes she could’ve named at this pivotal moment, she CHOSE to assign blame to their electing members of the organized crime family called the GOP.

Having had both union and non-union jobs, I’ll take a union job any day. I paid $25/month to insure my WHOLE FAMILY! Medical AND dental!

You forgot Malice.

Exactly. Though I always felt sorry for him in that movie - imagine being dumped for a random guy she’s never met who, in all honestly, isn’t that different from him.

Pullman may be bland by default there but he’s pretty charismatic in other rom-coms, like While You Were Sleeping and The Last Seduction.