Welcome to your weekly ticket with Valentine's Day Just around the corner, we're taking a look at some of our favorite romantic films of all time from classic cinema toe modern love stories.

There's something for anyone, whether you're coupled single anti Valentine's Day or just don't even know what day it is Today.

I'm joined by film journalist Candice Frederick to help give us, um, personalized recommendations from our list of most watched romantic comedies across voodoo.

Candace Romcom seem to have hit like a stale period, but films like crazy rich Asians they like, really proved that the genre still is super popular.

What do you think Rahm calms need to do, moving forward to remain popular?

Well, I think one of the reasons why Crazy Rich Asians was so well received is because it was not the typical hetero white romance, and that's only like a single romance that goes throughout the entire film.

It was something that we haven't, and it's also not.

It's an American film that's not primarily set in America.

It's primarily set in Singapore, and so it was a film that I think I mean to answer Your question is essentially what people are looking for.

And I think yes, to some extent, big blockbuster Rahm coms have gotten stale.

But I think once we look outside the box once, we think outside of like, white, straight, hetero and you know, one single couple than I think that there's crazy for station show that there's a lot more land to still be discovered within the genre.

Yeah, sure, definitely.

Give us a different perspective and really accessed a part that we hadn't been, you know, like showing.

So yeah, absolutely.

What are some of your favorite wrong calms?

Oh, my gosh.

I have a list E that's gonna have a list.

Well, the one I watch primarily, like all the time every time it comes on is pretty woman.

I've seen that a lot, countless times, probably over 50 times.

I watch it every it often comes on TV, like every week.

So I watch.

Do you have that ended that fantasy to get rich and walk into a place and tell them they made a huge mistake just for that reason and e o like like that is extreme high fantasy and I feel like a lot of wrong comes have that kind of like makeover.

Just like clueless, I think also has that makeover, which is not often revered as a as a romcom, but it does have romantic aspects in it.

But it just Oh, yeah, so yeah.

Pretty woman Pretty in pink boomerang I really, really like because it's very interest.

I think it's very It's a very smart way of kind of getting into the mind of, ah, you know, black hetero man.

Um, which, as we saw in the film, is not always wonderful, but it's a very incisive And he also has challenged throughout the film.

So and by the women is life by the women.

He dates so that I think have knocked up Oh, foods Russian.

I really love Jerry Maguire And the break up.

Yeah, I did, I guess.

Yeah.

Jerry Maguire, You complete me?

Yes.

Yes.

It takes them a while to get there.

Yes, he realizes that.

E think I've think I've seen guys try that line.

You just can't e But that that says something about how romantic comedies kind of play in reality.

Like a lot of people consider romantic comedies like Romantic fantasies Are You?

Do You think that that's true?

Or have you witnessed a sort of romcom situation in real life?

I believe that fantasies can happen.

I don't think that they happen exactly the way that we've seen them in Romcom is like the most for good ones.

Like I mean, pretty woman immediately jumps to my head because I can recite the lines of that movie.

And there's a lot of just, of course, like the makeover scene and, you know, getting all this money for a week with, you know, this really rich guy.

She comes from like the streets literally, and you know, things like that.

I think there are definitely certain elements that are heightened in thes like classic Rahm comes.

But I think generally they're generally fantasies fantasies.

But I think that there is some reality within just like, you know, being able to like, uh, you know, having a relationship kind of change your outlook on life and how how it could, you know, elevate you to another social class, things like that.

But I think, uh, I think what we're seeing in, like the some of the best romcom.

Some of the ones that are kind of coming out today are ones that are like the break up, I think, is really good because it also doesn't end on a good note because they actually do break up.

But But there's a lot of romance and because it's really about repairing or at least looking at what is irreparable in their relationship.

So there's so that has, you know, kind of romantic elements because you have to love someone in order to do that.

And so that's why I kind of go to that one, because I do think there's a lot of reality within the conversation that they have in the break up.

Um, so, yeah, I do think I think there's a lot.

There's been a lot of fantasy and I think a lot of the older romcom wrong cons.

But I think Aziz, we move forward.

We've been starting to now challenge what we've seen, and it's starting to look different.

So I do think there's it's not all the way.

Stay on.

It's not all the way fantasy.

Yeah, it's way funnier when it's closer to reality because you're just like Oh God Yeah, that's how it is sometimes.

Biting.

Yeah, absolutely.

Alright, Well, Candice, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Where can people find you?

I don't think Find me on Twitter.

My profile.

Israel Talker r e l t A l k E r Awesome.

Thanks again.

Thank you.

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