5 Most Generic Romantic Comedy Titles
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Life as We Know It is a new romantic comedy in theaters this weekend, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as two single adults who are thrown together to raise an orphaned child when their mutual best friends die in an accident. But you'd never know any of that from the title. Romantic comedies tend to be formulaic by nature, which in theory is part of their allure: You know the guy and the girl will end up together in the end. It's all very safe, familiar and comforting. But these movies also tend to have safe, familiar, comforting titles. Not so much the classics, such as "It Happened One Night," "The Philadelphia Story" or "The Apartment," which have some clever relevance to what actually happens in the film. "When Harry Met Sally ..." is about ... when Harry met Sally. More recent rom-coms, however, have had titles that tell you nothing and are essentially interchangeable. The following five are so bland, it took me a while just to remember them, much less recall what the movies themselves were about:
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5 Most Generic Romantic Comedy Titles
