Now, shes done something really bad, and Gary knows about it.
Over the last several years, theres been much lamenting the disappearance of the rom-com.
But is this classic Hollywood genre really dead?
Scenes from ‘The Idea of You,’ ‘Hit Man,’ and ‘Fly Me to the Moon.‘Alisha Wetherill/Prime; Brian Roedel / Netflix; Dan McFadden/Sony Pictures
My answer: Its complicated.
Its going to take a lot more than a few fallow years to kill it.
A survey of the past year in rom-coms tells this rocky story.
Despite (or maybe because of?)
They meet cute when she accidentally walks into the bathroom of his private trailer during Coachella.
(Ah, love.)
Hathaway is a holdover from a previous era of rom-coms.
In Powell, I see shades of Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch films likeBluebeards Eighth WifeorDesign for Living.
He can do slapstick as well as stunts.
They adapt to the times during which they exist.
But those pairings end up feeling like pale imitations of what came before.
Both are about throuples.
