The LIST!!

No, I'm not referring to the list of ex-boyfriends with whom I plan on remixing in order to find out if one of them has magically transformed from a lazy loser into my ambitious yet sensitive one true love. I'm no Anna Faris in "What's Your Number?"/ I already tried it thrice and it doesn't work!!!

The list refers to the all time best modern day romantic comedies, in order of impact on my life. Here goes:

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (saw it with my parents, they both cried when Kate Hudson and MM kiss the first time without any pretenses in the bathroom after getting splashed with water or something...it got kind of uncomfortable)

10 Things I Hate About You (Paintball Scene--classic for any woman who loves to get almost viciously teased then shoved into a hay stack then kissed by the man-child they love. Oh, and Heath Ledger :( Sorry for the emoticon, I don't know how to express myself properly on that one.)

Drive Me Crazy (Walked out of it the first time I saw it. Was confused by Melissa Joan Hart's lazy eye paired with Adrien Grenier's youthful bad-boyness. Upon revisiting, I laughed and maybe cried. I relate to the growing apart from childhood friends part. And the lazy left eye.)

She's All That (Introduced the general public to performance art/miming? Me likey.)

WIKIPEDIA!!!!

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily" Another definition states that its "primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled".

I really do

Well, hello, Mindy Kaling, and thank you for your wise words. Mindy, I, like you, want to profess my love… my love of the ideal girl, that both loves fashion and football, the guy, that adores her parents and doesn’t mind using condoms, the best friend that will tell you off for liking the asshole, but drive you to the airport to catch his flight (probably to LA, from NY or vice versa). I no longer want to lie to my friends, claiming I’m going to yoga when really I’m showing up 20 minutes early (in my yoga clothes) for prime seating to ANY Nancy Meyer movie. I don’t want to adjust my position, so nobody can see my Netflix watch instantly queue as they pass my computer. I want to compare and contrast the book and the movie with my boyfriend, without being both embarrassed that I read the book and saw the movie. In the theater. Alone. I want to talk about my favorite leads and my best romcom experiences. I want to really delve in to what makes “Valentine’s Day” such a great romcom, and about other similar ensemble cast romcoms, and if they fall short and how.

And that is what we’ll do…

"An Admission of Mild Stupidity"

5 million. The exact number of times I have had to defend my intelligence after admitting that I love rom coms, and NOT ironically. Thank god I have Mindy Kaling writing a NEW YORKER article about how she totally agrees with me. Here is something I am now going to add to my defense of this beloved genre:
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. For me, there is no difference between Ripley from “Alien” and any Katherine Heigl character. They are equally implausible. They’re all participating in a similar level of fakey razzle-dazzle, and I enjoy every second of it.

Thanks Mindy, I am now going to quote that phrase and even cite you as my source so that people know that mildly stupid girls like me can ALSO read the New Yorker!