Best Rom-com for this Valentines Season
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Every year when February rolls around the debate of what is the best Valentine’s Day movie fires up.
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
At the top of the list is the well-known movie How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) a magazine columnist tries to write a new piece of how to get a guy to leave you in 10 days, in hopes that this new story catches the attention of her editor. Her editor, Lana, absolutely loves the idea, sending Anderson off to hunt for a guy. While on the hunt, Anderson runs into Ben Berry, a charming guy who thinks he is all that. Little does she know, he thinks he can get a girl to fall in love with him in 10 days after betting his friends that he could. While she is trying to drive Berry crazy, he is trying to make her fall in love with him.
Sophomore Anna Pelds expressed, “I like How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days because I actually thought it was really funny. In the basketball scene she would ask him to go get drinks for him during the end of the basketball game. And I thought that was really funny because that’s something that girls do too, but they don’t realize that.”
After the movie comes to an end it leaves the audience in vain of the ending. Leaving the song “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simpson in your head for weeks to come and the hunt for the iconic yellow dress that Kate Hudson wore.
10 Things I Hate About You
Another admired movie 10 Things I Hate About You stole the heart of many young viewers. Taking the setting of a high school, Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is a smart teenage girl who is not interested in anything to do with guys. Kat has a sister, Bianca, who wants a boyfriend, however, rules set by their protective dad say she is not allowed to date until Kat does. This sends the two sisters into a spiral, making Bianca pull some strings. In comes Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger), the charming bad boy of the school. Kat has to decide whether she wants to let her guard down or lock him out as he tries to win her over. Throughout their journey, the audience is sent through whirlwinds of emotions, especially at Kat’s heartbreaking poem “10 Things I Hate About You” or at the comical scene when Kat is trying to break Patrick out of detention.
On Rotten Tomatoes, an American Review Regression website, Bob Ross said, “[Ten Things I Hate About You is a] marvelous set of pieces contribute to this lively romantic comedy. You don’t have to be a Shakespearean scholar to enjoy it. You don’t have to be a teenager, either.”
To All The Boys I Loved Before
To All The Boys I Loved Before dropped on Netflix in 2018 and instantly became popular across the nation. The main character Lara Jean (Lana Condor) wrote five love letters to all the boys she had loved before with the intention of them never being sent out. However, one day, all of them did. As she thinks her life is going to be ruined she learns a lot about her family and closest friends while going back and forth between guys.
Pelds stated, “I liked [the movie] because it was like a newer version of rom-coms. I felt like Ten Things I Hate About You and How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days were kind of older, but now [To All The Boys I Loved Before] was kind of like a newer rom-com that a lot of teenage girls could relate to.”
This movie is followed by a sequel To All The Boys: Always and Forever. The movie turned out to be an immediate hit, one due to how popular the first movie was. Grace Gucfa, a sophomore, expressed, “To All The Boys I Loved Before was interesting, but still a rom-com because sometimes they can be boring or overused.”