Is there a movie out there that centers around a guy that has no fortune in the realms of relationships/dating/sex and tries to do something about it without said efforts being presented in a comical manner?
I can’t think of anything, which is not surprising since I watch very few movies. Can anybody think of a movie like that?
While it is not a perfect fit, the best example I can think of is American Beauty …
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Interesting. Yes, I guess you are right. I have very original thinkers visit my blog. Yay for me! 🙂
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I don’t think there is much market for such a movie. Most people seem to want very much to ridicule young men with this problem, either because they have the problem themselves and are ashamed, or because they don’t believe the problem is real at all.
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I think it’s definitely an issue in North America.
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what about Superman? or spiderman? 😉 You can get more american than that 😉
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Yes! Spiderman totally fits. I wouldn’t know about Superman because I never watched or read a single version.
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If I’m not mistaken wasn’t Superman (Christopher Reeve) attempts at trying to make a move on Lois Lane presented as a dweeb that didn’t understand humans and was not sure what to do?
And with Spiderman. I saw all three of them and in the first and third ones McGuire was presented in a comical matter when trying to make a move on Mary Jane Watson (especially in the third when he took on the symbiote and all of a sudden he was a dapper asshole). But my memory fails me on the second so you may have a point on that one.
Thanks for bringing some examples up anyway though Lear.
Its just a bit bugging that out of the many movies on this subject over the last few decades there really isn’t much to pick from. And the pickings looks really slim considering that in the last few years this subject has been pretty much Rogen’d and Aptow’d.
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Yes, your observations definitely make sense. Men with unsuccessful personal lives are portrayed as funny and ridiculous and women as pathetic. I stopped watching Law and Order SVU because I couldn’t take it anymore how Stabler with a hugely dysfunctional marriage and a bunch of severely messed up kids kept pitying Benson for not being similarly blessed.
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From what I remember, Last Chance Harvey fits this. The guy is down on his luck in work, relationships and family, and the movie doesn’t make a big joke about it or about his path back to a more meaningful life.
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Clarissa:
Men with unsuccessful personal lives are portrayed as funny and ridiculous and women as pathetic.
Either funny and ridiculous or so f’d up that they leave the viewing deciding that the deserved their unsuccessful personal lives.
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Dexter!!! All of his relationship (romantic or not) are deeply dysfunctional. He seems to be on a quest to try and build a meaningful relationship with someone, but cannot escape the person that he is. Nothing comical about it! 🙂
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Gregory’s Girl was a lovely Scottish movie about an awkward teenage boy in love with the girl who replaced him on the school football team.
Juno had an awkward boy as a love interest, but the relationship wasn’t the central part of the movie. And it was Canadian, too.
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Danny watch “Gigantic”…… no spoilers but I think you may quite like it. If you don’t you’ll just be richer for it. Enjoy.
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