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Closest we got to that was As Good As It Gets.
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There's probably a writer somewhere in there that is hoping for some life imitating art after his movie hits the theater. I have bad news for him. Unless it works. Then I'm happy for him.
I have created an interesting spinoff movie in my imagination here.
I know no one wants to watch "married couple generally likes each other does boring things." But I swear our pop culture idea of romance and love is fucking up peoples ideas on both.
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That isn't about Hollywood, that's story telling. Stable relationships are boring, that's why there needs to be conflict. In media that have longer life spans like tv relationships have their ups and downs, or if Whedon is writing it dying when the couple are too happy, movies only have 2 hours to explore the relationship entirely. That cuts down their options.
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Climax of the movie is when they operate a post hole digger together and finally learn how to measure twice and cut once while erecting a privacy fence to keep the neighbor's unleashed dogs out.
I guess I write what I know?
That'd be unrealistic to the other extreme. Couples do argue, though it doesn't have to reach the point where they almost break up over it.
Honestly it reminds me how cop shows never just have a police officer who is a normal law abiding dude, everyone has to be Vic Mackey in hiding.
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How is this unrealistic when I just described a portion of my own life from the past year? It might be boring but I'm not a professional writer either. I challenge Hollywood to make this film!
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married 6 years largest argument I ever had was over an mmo and loot. And it wasn't even a long term argument.
Oh and that time we murdered a hobo.
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Yeah. If the film is actually about the couple and their relationship, the couple will generally need to have interesting drama to keep it... well, interesting. But tons of films show, say, the married parents of the main character in completely happy and functional relationships. Or parents who maybe have some minor issues but resolve them without ever being in danger of breaking up. Or there's a married couple who are subjected to an external problem and then have to negotiate it with no relationship drama at all.
Sure, rom-coms disproportionately feature either couples in new, exciting relationships or old, stale ones. And action films disproportionately feature either supercops who don't follow the rules or average joes who wind up In Over Their Heads.
That's just how interesting drama works in a film about relationships. That's how stakes work. Nobody wants to watch a movie where the happily-married couple try to buy a house and it doesn't go very smoothly and so they calmly decide to switch real estate agents and then they successfully buy a house and the movie ends.
Yep, just off the top of my head, I remember Juno's parents being perfectly rational human beings in a stable relationship.
Also, Easy A.
But the parents were not the main focus/plot in either movie.
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And the parents from Natural Born Killers.
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That trailer doesn't surprise me at all.
TV I think generally does this better. Mostly because, I think, the longer time you have to work with means you can use a healthy relationship as a backdrop for the actual story and it'll still get enough screentime to feel like it's covered.
What's the argument over? Who has to pour the lye?
This sort of thing is supposed to strengthen a relationship. You work together and it all goes better.
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Of course, there was also time travel involved. So maybe Hollywood thinks the one is just as unlikely as the other.
You'd be blaming the wrong people. Screenwriters don't have all the control over their stories, they answer to producers and directors. It's a miracle we got a good Superman movie with Jon Peters - he's the guy who wanted to put a giant spider in a Superman's movie, it ended up in Wild, Wild West.
I was more focusing on things that aren't made to be these tentpole all inclusive action summer blockbusters, those have a formula they stick to because rightly or wrongly no change is better than change. But all those mumblecore or independent or lower budget Hollywood movies that are a step above DTV? That they mostly still follow a predictable formula when they really don't need to.
Ima drop some Rilke on ya'll and say writers need to love themselves before they tell us how to love *beatniks snapping fingers as Mike Meyers gets onstage at the SF coffee shop*
There's a point to be made that a movie with no tension in the romance might be dull, I say these days it would be so refreshing even if it's not executed well the novelty would still carry it over the line. That dude talking to that other attractive lady over there? His current attractive wife doesn't need to get jealous about it!
His haircut looks absolutely ridiculous in this, but him and Tina Fey make a hot couple. I swear she keeps getting hotter every year.
I meant the above the line big budget movies. Independent movies are a different kettle of fish.
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Hey look, he's also in a RomCom with Harry Potter
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Liam Neeson shooting more dudes.
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