Romantic Comedy flicks or Rom-Com is the usual movie genre
we see in our local movie industry. What draws us to watch Rom-Com flicks and
what compels the movie makers to make more? Here are the reasons why we love
Pinoy Rom-Com flicks:
 |
| Starting Over Again BlogCon |
The tandem / love team:
Everyone has a favorite movie pair or what we locally call love team. It makes
the movie marketable because they have the fans’ support. It takes more than
looking good to entice the fans. It also needs onscreen chemistry to make sure
the audience will feel the romance among the pair. The fans are not easily
fooled. So if they can’t feel the romance, the movie’s an epic fail. Some of
memorable examples of a good tandem were Claudine Barretto and the late Rico Yan
in the movie “Got To Believe”; Marvin Agustin and Jolina Magdangal in “Hey, Babe”;
and the Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz tandem in their Rom-Com trilogy (A
Very Special Love, You Change My Life, It Takes A Man And AWoman)
Quotable lines: A
good Pinoy Rom-Com flick has the unforgettable lines that will be memorable for
weeks to come. It all depends on the mind of the screenwriter or screenwriters
to immortalize his or her script make a Rom-Com memorable. It took a lot of
research or writing skills to gather all these pick-up lines. One memorable
Rom-Com flick that has lots of quotable lines is from the movie, “My Amnesia
Girl”. It has a list of pick-up lines that is so cheesy but you can’t help but
laugh every time.
Scenic locations:
Rom-Coms are also memorable because of locations that make the audience want to
go to these travel destinations like the movie, “That Thing Called Tadhana”. It
features the travel destinations in Northern Luzon. Recently, I watched “A Day
Before Valentines” that shows different locations in the island of Lanai, one
of the Hawaiian Islands.
Pinoy Rom-Coms are
good to watch all year round: During the season of Lent or Holy Week, local
broadcast channels on free TV is either showing programs relating to Holy Week
or they showing wholesome movies and some of these movies are Pinoy Rom-Com
flicks. A friend told me that she watched “My Bestfriend’s Girlfriend” many
times on a Holy Week.
The most memorable moment of all in a Pinoy Rom-Com flic is how the captive audience can relate to the
movie: Movies like “That Thing Called Tadhana” and “Starting Over Again”
are one of the memorable movies that made their audience cry because most
recall the pain of breaking up and moving on.
Our Pinoy Romantic comedy
flicks can be compared to its Hollywood counterparts. It’s just as intelligent
and entertaining to watch and both have the same standard and level of
creativity. Maybe, one day, Hollywood will start adapting our Rom-Com to their
audience. This is written by someone who used to think that romantic comedies
are too girly and guys should only watch action flicks.
