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But ifBrosfeels so obligated to be a rom-com, then what kind of rom-com is it trying to be?
But its an assumption that feels increasingly common within any major romantic comedy released at the moment.
Its as if the rom-com has both withered and been fetishized in equal parts.
Yet, simultaneously, theres been an online embrace of the concept and what romantic comedies can provide.
(I found it grating; you may disagree.)
2014sThey Came Together, meanwhile, put all those ideas in a blender to hilarious effect.
I wont deny the Pavlovian comforts of a story beat like that one.
The characters, supposedly the reason were getting invested in these romances, get left in the dust.
Why must Billy sing a song at the end ofBros?
Because thats whats supposed to happen in a rom-com, not because its earned.
Or they have shied away from obvious lamp-shading entirely.
Nonetheless, movies continue to announce that they are here to save the rom-com.
I wish they would kill it instead.
The Hollywood of today seems to have little interest in fostering stars with personalities of their own.
A genre that used to be light and breezy feels like it is suffocating itself with its own expectations.
Im not going to congratulate you for Frankenstein-ing together some gestures toward a received idea.
Thats making a movie backward from the marketing.
Unfortunately, going off ofBrosslimitedopening-weekend sales, that marketing doesnt even seem to work.
Its the things that were inside it: chemistry, sexiness, wit.
Actual personalities, not imitations thereof.
What wouldBrosbe if it werent trying so hard to fit into what we now expect a rom-com to be?
Theres so much going on in Bobby and Aarons dynamic that I wish it could have lingered on.
Eichners acting tends to be wooden throughout the film, but his speech about this is the most impassioned.
