good but predictable

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2005)

has anyone else noticed that in American romantic comedies the plot has always been the same. boy meets girl at first they spar, then start falling in love and by act three every time either one or sometimes both of them does something to the other one usually out of ignorance or a misunderstanding, they fight one tries to make up the other rejects the advance only to realise a little later that he/she was wrong and that this is it, to the inevitable happy ending. now i do not know of any romance that withing its first few days/weeks/months where the couple fall out, this starts happening after the honeymoon period be it six months or over a year. but Hollywood has used the plot development in every romantic comedy for the last ten years at least. when eva mendes publishes the cruel and untrue story about albert and hitch, it is totally out of character has no basis in fact, in fact her assumptions about hitch are not based on anything, so why should she do it. up to then i really enjoyed the film, even though i knew they were going to play the last reel in the way that they did. shame really that we no have all these set formulas for each respective genre. this is marketing not movie making. but the punters lap it up and keep lapping it up.