The Republic of Awesome

Just caught The Ugly Truth with a friend earlier this evening.

Fairly typical romantic comedy. But it’s got the genre to blame for that.

Come on, every single romantic comedy has plotline that can be summed up as follows:

1. Guy meets girl.
2. Guy and girl are as similar as Martin Luther King and the Ku Klux Klan.
3. Therefore, guy and girl hate each others’ guts, liver, kidneys and other internal organs.
4. However, they are forced to work/live/cooperate together.
5. Plenty of awkward situations thrown at the duo to fulfil comedy quota.
6. Finally, guy and girl realise their hate is really sexual tension and probably love.
7. Something gets in the way of their romance.
8. Obstacles are resolved in the last 15 minutes of the movie.
9. They finally make out/fuck in some romantic location and live happily ever after.
10. The end.

Hollywood “romcom” writers print out the above list and pray to it 5 times a day.

Then for the lead they’ll probably hire Matthew McConaughey or Hugh Grant or Ben Stiller (for the most slapstick ones, ugh).

Funny though their choice of Gerard Butler. I’m guessing the producers liked his performance in PS I Love You.

Yes I watch way too many romcoms and chick flicks. I’ll go sit in a corner and grow a vagina.

Anyway, The Ugly Truth was pretty fucking hilarious.

There’s even a part where Mike Chadway (Butler) gets a TV talk show called “Monday Madness with Mike Chadway”.

At this point I expected Gerard Butler to go:

Unfortunately, he didn’t kick the TV producer down a gaping hole.

Personally, I have a rather strong preference to seeing Mr Butler murder his fellow human beings with sharp sticks or assault rifles.

He’s got the Leonidas face, and that doesn’t work exceedingly well in a romance film, unless it involves him kicking the shit out of a small nation’s army to get to his woman.

An action romance film. That’ll sell.

Oh yeah back to the movie. Go watch it if you want some fun entertainment. That is all.