I’m glad I’m not the only person who was thinking about the way superhero movies have affected the market share of other genres outside of the obvious ones
While Sandra is over here doing The Lost City getting $20 million so it isn't about the market, it's just she's not putting stuff worth that much I guess?
Its funny, I watched Notting Hill last night, and there's this scene where she completely predicts the trajectory of her actual career, as she plays a version of herself.
I mean it's funny that someone at the center of the most successful genre of the 90's feels that the most successful genre of the 90's wasn't appreciated enough...
Her "disappearance" from hollywood could be because she had plastic surgury that changed how she looked and didn't look like Meg Ryan from her earlier film roles.
Meg was my 1st crush and always will be. I fell for her with "Addicted to love", "You've got mail". But "When Harry meets Sally" is the classic of romcom. Julia Roberts was fine but Meg Ryan is the icon of this genre, and the movie industry late 80s, early 90s. I miss the old days
Meg Ryan fell victim to Hollywood ageism. She was absolutely everywhere during her twenties and thirties, and then after You've Got Mail she wasn't wanted as much anymore as she was now in her forties.
That’s like Brett Michaels saying we didn’t appreciate the hairspray rock boom enough in the 80’s. No, Brett, we appreciated it just fine. Until it became a formulaic and stale parody of itself.
And then gets pissy and hurt when authentic music like Nirvana knocks them off the charts. Like you’re really that surprised nobody wants something young and fresh that doesn’t smell like old AquaNet and eyeliner?
‘Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts are getting a divorce. People close to the couple say the reason is because he’s Lyle Lovett and she’s Julia Roberts.’ - Norm MacDonald
You butcherd it. "Julia Robers said yesterday that her marriage to LylenLovett has been over for some time. The key moment, she said, was when she realized she was Julia Roberts and she was married...to Lyle Lovett."
I tried watching a new rom com on a plane called Marry Me... It was unwatchable, unredeemable. The writing and premise are so bad. I made it halfway and had to turn it off.
I'm a middle aged man, and I actually miss the genre. They were just light-hearted films that made you feel good. When done well, they promoted great dialogue and acting. They were also so easy to re-watch, as they required very little investment from the viewers.
I think you exactly hit the nail on the head with your assessment. There are most definitely classics like When Harry Met Sally that were super strong in the dialogue and acting skills department that will always be good but yeah it just became a formulaic money suck and they just went downhill.
Julia was so popular. Younger people might not know how radiant and singularly dominating her celebrity was. People would wonder who the next Julia was and she never emerged. Entertainment weekly’s sales would go up by 40% when she was on the cover in the 90s. She’s the gold standard and she spent many years after Pretty Woman struggling to find a hit. And I think it’s agreed that her comeback movie My Best Friend’s Wedding is the peak of the 90s romcom, maybe even the greatest of all time. It has a 70s style downer ending, it’s a meta-critique of the genre itself. A protagonist in a romcom is a bit of a crazy person.
I've noticed that a lot of things people complain about in romcoms were popularized in the 90s. Stopping someone from getting on a plane, only hearing an unflattering part of a love interest describing you, these weren't mainstays in romcoms at one time but with how people talk about the genre you'd think that's all there ever was.
More like those techniques were used in a lot of successful rom-coms, then endlessly parroted by knock-offs to the point that the formulas because ubiquitous. They get used in some way, shape or form by any and all comedies, dramas, and action films and feel comfortable to a wide range of audiences. That being said, a lot of those techniques are not new to 90s rom-coms either, some go back to Shakespeare or earlier.
What are you talking about? She was the biggest actress in the world and consistently racked in record-breaking pay cheques at the time. Couldn't go to a grocery store without her face plastered on every magazine for like half that decade. You were probably just born afterwards and don't remember but she was everywhere.
I love watching the trailers for 90's rom coms. "Jimmy French is a BIG TIME BUSINESSMAN, who's unlucky at love." Reminds me of the South Park episode with "RoB sChNeIdEr Is A sTaPlEr"
every time I see the trailer for that new movie she’s in with George Clooney I can’t help but think to myself “this is a movie my mom would rent on Redbox.”
Julia Robert’s should look at her past box office success to see we did appreciate them. Also she wasn’t in every rom com and we got so many. Kate Hudson was in a shitload of them.
Wtf?! Julia Roberts is feeling under appreciated for her feminist take on hookin’ and shoppin’? What was really under appreciated was the 70s’ dystopic flicks. Give me more earnest social commentaries like Escape from New York and The Warriors!!!
Rom coms of that era were terrible for sexism and setting up terrible expectations and ideas of romance, sexuality and relationships. I like my pre code romcoms the best.
LOL "even though I made a bajillion dollars off of this genre, I wasnt appreciated enough and you should have enjoyed me to the tune of TWO bajillion dollars"
I've gotten tired of all of the nihilistic violence in recent popular media, so I've been watching romcoms that my girlfriend loves and it's been a nice break from serious people whispering at each other.
Uh, yes we did? It was called the 90s? Rom cons were popular and heavily discussed and loved? And then naturally time went on and other genres became big?
How can you have a proper rom-com when people can’t even say what a woman is anymore? We need to get back to using logic before comedies and romances can ever be great again.
I literally have seen every movie from her and I absolutely have loved her since I was a little kid,she has always been my favorite actress. Gorgeous and funny.
after i began dating a lot i completely lost interest in rom coms. so the demographics for it cant be that big. it's like early teens-late 20s at most.
I'm liking the new ones with unknown players but I keep going back to the 90s romcoms because they're comfortable and now that I'm an adult, I understand them a little better.
As a kid to a single mother in the '90s, Julia Roberts needs to shut up lol, she got plenty of screen time in plenty of houses and theaters across the USA and the world 😂
I feel like if you’re going to include Julia Roberts and not also put forth Meg Ryan…you don’t know rom-comes. Kate & Leopold is my guilty pleasure when I feel sick movie. That and You’ve Got Mail because it makes me laugh at how far we’ve come.
Hallmark showed you could do the formula on a shoestring budget and still make money. You don’t need a big budget to do a movie of just people talking while walking or eating a pizza.
Who is honestly writing shit like this? I'm 33 and everyone very much appreciated this era, which stretched well into the 2000s as well. These articles are so fucking stupid. Next you're gonna see some bullshit about how we took Wedding Crashers and that comedy era for granted when literally everyone I know still quotes those movies.
I didn't give a rat's ass about her insipid films back when they were new, and I care even less now than I did decades ago. The Simpsons covered the idiotic wave of Julia Roberts fever very aptly with
TV has more than made up for the lack of movies. Almost too much good tv to keep up with. In the 90's their would be 2 good movies a month. Now i can watch 2 good hours of TV a night.
I think your bank account appreciates it just fine, Jules. Also - On Cinema At The Cinema continues to appreciate the 90s romcom popcorn classics on the regular in their retro reviews.
They were in our face every single week... most of them starring her. I don't know how she thinks we didn't 'appreciate it' enough but she's a dinosaur doubling down by trying to make the only thing she's ever known for a thing again.
Where we go from here: realistically unattractive guy approaches dating with the same level of confidence and bravado as a 90s rom-com male lead, ends up going to jail and shunned by society after months of failures on Tinder and OK Cupid. Gen Z would love it since they adore shitting on everything 90s (don't even mention Friends around anyone younger than 30, it has a laughtrack and fat shaming).
We didn’t have a choice. Rom coms were the superhero movies of the 90’s.
I’m glad I’m not the only person who was thinking about the way superhero movies have affected the market share of other genres outside of the obvious ones
I resent that I still struggle to find just a plain, old, regular comedy without some shoehorned romance in it...
and court room dramas. I miss a good court room drama. Which Legal Eagle would tear apart easily in one of his videos.
I’d argue that mafia movies were the former superhero movie
Superhero movies were played out 5 years ago. At this point, it’s just obnoxious. That being said, I love the Batman movies.
I feel confident that I appreciated it exactly enough.
She’s bonkers.How could we have appreciated it more? It was 3/4 of what lined the shelves at every Blockbuster and Video Update.
I resist attempts to encourage me to appreciate mediocrity.
I think by “we” she means “me and hugh grant.”
Let's say it moved me ... TO A BIGGER HOUSE!
Pretty Woman had heart but Football in the Groin had a football in the groin...
Oh no, I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.
She misses getting 20 million a movie.
While Sandra is over here doing The Lost City getting $20 million so it isn't about the market, it's just she's not putting stuff worth that much I guess?
Her net worth is $200M so I think she’s doing fine.
Its funny, I watched Notting Hill last night, and there's this scene where she completely predicts the trajectory of her actual career, as she plays a version of herself.
Julia in the 90s: why won't the paparazzi leave me alone? It isn't fair. I am being treated poorly.
Really? We didn't appreciate the most successful genre of the 90s enough?
I mean it's funny that someone at the center of the most successful genre of the 90's feels that the most successful genre of the 90's wasn't appreciated enough...
She was the hottest actor when it came to Rom Com. Meg Ryan too before she disappeared
Her "disappearance" from hollywood could be because she had plastic surgury that changed how she looked and didn't look like Meg Ryan from her earlier film roles.
Hugh Grant?
Julia Roberts: "we didn't appreciate the movies I was in enough".
Meg was my 1st crush and always will be. I fell for her with "Addicted to love", "You've got mail". But "When Harry meets Sally" is the classic of romcom. Julia Roberts was fine but Meg Ryan is the icon of this genre, and the movie industry late 80s, early 90s. I miss the old days
Meg Ryan fell victim to Hollywood ageism. She was absolutely everywhere during her twenties and thirties, and then after You've Got Mail she wasn't wanted as much anymore as she was now in her forties.
And in the 2000s, we got Katherine Heigl...
Meg Ryan's plastic surgery is a travesty.
That’s like Brett Michaels saying we didn’t appreciate the hairspray rock boom enough in the 80’s. No, Brett, we appreciated it just fine. Until it became a formulaic and stale parody of itself.
And then gets pissy and hurt when authentic music like Nirvana knocks them off the charts. Like you’re really that surprised nobody wants something young and fresh that doesn’t smell like old AquaNet and eyeliner?
The other problem is that for a couple of good and enjoyable rom-coms there are hundreds of generic boring copy cats.
“Please keep watching my old movies so I can get royalties.”
Julia Roberts: I wish I was in more movies.
Sandra Bullock was great too. While you were sleeping is one of my favs if all time
I love that movie! It’s rare that I find other people who’ve seen it, much less enjoyed it.
Well that's untrue
Given how many times my wife and I fall into watching one of these movies again I'd anecdotally agree.
‘Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts are getting a divorce. People close to the couple say the reason is because he’s Lyle Lovett and she’s Julia Roberts.’ - Norm MacDonald
You butcherd it. "Julia Robers said yesterday that her marriage to LylenLovett has been over for some time. The key moment, she said, was when she realized she was Julia Roberts and she was married...to Lyle Lovett."
Lyle Lovett is amazing.
We’re good.
I tried watching a new rom com on a plane called Marry Me... It was unwatchable, unredeemable. The writing and premise are so bad. I made it halfway and had to turn it off.
Translation: we didn't appreciate my career enough
Wait…two time Academy Award Winner Julia Roberts’s career didn’t get enough recognition?!?
Thanks for nothing
I'm a middle aged man, and I actually miss the genre. They were just light-hearted films that made you feel good. When done well, they promoted great dialogue and acting. They were also so easy to re-watch, as they required very little investment from the viewers.
I think you exactly hit the nail on the head with your assessment. There are most definitely classics like When Harry Met Sally that were super strong in the dialogue and acting skills department that will always be good but yeah it just became a formulaic money suck and they just went downhill.
Hallmark movies?
Julia was so popular. Younger people might not know how radiant and singularly dominating her celebrity was. People would wonder who the next Julia was and she never emerged. Entertainment weekly’s sales would go up by 40% when she was on the cover in the 90s. She’s the gold standard and she spent many years after Pretty Woman struggling to find a hit. And I think it’s agreed that her comeback movie My Best Friend’s Wedding is the peak of the 90s romcom, maybe even the greatest of all time. It has a 70s style downer ending, it’s a meta-critique of the genre itself. A protagonist in a romcom is a bit of a crazy person.
I've noticed that a lot of things people complain about in romcoms were popularized in the 90s. Stopping someone from getting on a plane, only hearing an unflattering part of a love interest describing you, these weren't mainstays in romcoms at one time but with how people talk about the genre you'd think that's all there ever was.
More like those techniques were used in a lot of successful rom-coms, then endlessly parroted by knock-offs to the point that the formulas because ubiquitous. They get used in some way, shape or form by any and all comedies, dramas, and action films and feel comfortable to a wide range of audiences. That being said, a lot of those techniques are not new to 90s rom-coms either, some go back to Shakespeare or earlier.
And so much stalking.
It’s not just rom com, the 90s Hollywood was a special time
I recent watched and really enjoyed The Lost City. It really captured that 90s-00s Rom Com magic for me.
She's just mad because those rom-coms were the last time she was actually relevant.
What are you talking about? She was the biggest actress in the world and consistently racked in record-breaking pay cheques at the time. Couldn't go to a grocery store without her face plastered on every magazine for like half that decade. You were probably just born afterwards and don't remember but she was everywhere.
No no... Julia Roberts said that herself
Hi Julia,
crickets
I love watching the trailers for 90's rom coms. "Jimmy French is a BIG TIME BUSINESSMAN, who's unlucky at love." Reminds me of the South Park episode with "RoB sChNeIdEr Is A sTaPlEr"
every time I see the trailer for that new movie she’s in with George Clooney I can’t help but think to myself “this is a movie my mom would rent on Redbox.”
Julia Robert’s should look at her past box office success to see we did appreciate them. Also she wasn’t in every rom com and we got so many. Kate Hudson was in a shitload of them.
Wtf?! Julia Roberts is feeling under appreciated for her feminist take on hookin’ and shoppin’? What was really under appreciated was the 70s’ dystopic flicks. Give me more earnest social commentaries like Escape from New York and The Warriors!!!
I don’t like hetero rom coms. That was tip off to myself that I’m queer 😂.
Coming from the person that is partly to blame for milking the rom-com.
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They’re not dominating the streaming services and Julia Roberts wants another ten million dollars.
Insufferable drivel
The human equivalent of a "live laugh love" throw pillow is hoping pumpkin spice season comes early this year.
Rom coms of that era were terrible for sexism and setting up terrible expectations and ideas of romance, sexuality and relationships. I like my pre code romcoms the best.
Counterpoint: it was indulged too much
I definitely did not appreciate having to take girls on dates to see these stupid movies in the 90s.
i.e. "I don't want to act anymore but want you to remember me."
Yes we f’ing did.
Yeah we did.
She should make her own rom com where the plot is about how she looks EXACTLY like Julia Roberts. That’s a clever premise for a movie, right?
Didn’t appreciate? We drowned in that garbage.
Bet you that Urkel says we didn’t appreciate family sitcoms enough
...Says someone with a personal financial stake in the '90s rom-com industry.
I was there, we appreciated them more than enough. Thank you Julia, you can sit down.
it was appreciated sufficiently
I miss ‘90s cinema in general.
I, too, wish the shit things I did in the past were better received.
It's difficult to imagine wanting to go see any romcom set in 2022.
Yeah.
I did! It was a blast!
I think we appreciated it just enough
…says actor who peaked during the 90s Rom-Com Boom
LOL "even though I made a bajillion dollars off of this genre, I wasnt appreciated enough and you should have enjoyed me to the tune of TWO bajillion dollars"
"We didn't appreciate that which we were inundated with" come on.
Who TF is "we"
Nah, if anything she was overappreciated or overexposed and overpaid. Never liked her as both an actress and a person.
"julia" is the larval form of "karen"
Maybe because they fucking sucked
These article titles keep telling me we got it all wrong on shit we gobbled up
I recently watched Pretty Woman for the first time ever and loved it!
ITT: Everyone dick measuring about who can be the most hardened, literal film expert. Nothing gets by them god damnit. You hear me? Nothing.
Julia Roberts: Please stream Rom-Com's.
There were plenty of good RomComs in the 90s, but I can't think of any great ones.
Groundhog Day, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, and Clueless are all bangers.
Ten things I hate about you. Sleepless in Seattle.
You’ve Got Mail
Notting Hill You've Got Mail
"As good as it gets" is a very good one
Yknow what’s interesting in response to this question?
Shakespeare In Love, for one.
“My Best Friend’s Wedding” is my personal favorite. My buddies and I still quote the hell out of it nearly 25 years later.
I've gotten tired of all of the nihilistic violence in recent popular media, so I've been watching romcoms that my girlfriend loves and it's been a nice break from serious people whispering at each other.
There are so many great underrated rom coms from the 90s like French Kiss, Forget Paris and While You Were Sleeping.
Julia Roberts: look at me again!
Thats because it was awful, Julia. Awful 🤣
90s rom coms are some of my favourites.
Stop telling us how we should feel. These headlines are so annoying...
I'm just happy they stopped trying to convince me I miss avatar
Fuck Julia Roberts
Eh, I'd say the reason they're not as "appreciated" is because you could find just about any type of problematic issue happening in every one of them.
We were too busy listening to grunge.
This just in: CEO of Google says we didn’t appreciate Google Glass enough
Insufferable.
I did.
I'm happy to leave them in the past and forget about them.
if you say so
Everyone knows we got these movies because no one could have sex in the 80s
Uh, yes we did? It was called the 90s? Rom cons were popular and heavily discussed and loved? And then naturally time went on and other genres became big?
I did. I watched a ton of them. So many classics from those years. I miss going to Blockbusters with my mom as a kid and borrow VHSes.
Barry Gibb: We didn’t appreciate disco enough
As someone who doesn’t like romcoms. I think we have appreciated it quite enough.
Julia we don't miss you and most of those movies were pretty bad. Thank you for Erin Brockovich now do something else.
Probably because rom-come are usually not too good. At least, not good enough to warrant long-standing praise and that many rewatches
I feel like we did.
I’m acting as hard as I can!
She wants people to go see that new Rom-Com she’s in with George Clooney.
i hate these kinds of posts.
I feel like they were appreciated lol
I think I appreciated it just enough, which was not at all.
I hated her and her stupid movies. I like her in dramas but to me she's not charming it pretty enough for rom coms like day Meg Ryan.
I was too busy thinking about how Julia Roberts bullied her mentally ill sister into suicide.
How can you have a proper rom-com when people can’t even say what a woman is anymore? We need to get back to using logic before comedies and romances can ever be great again.
Hated these movies in the 90’s.
Wow a self-centered attention whore Hollywood actor, what a news story.
I didn't appreciate it at all. Never liked that genre.
sorry julia i was four
She would say that, she was in most of the fucking things.
I love Julia Roberts but this is her basically saying “y’all don’t realize how good I was!”
Aka “YOU didn’t appreciate ME enough”
"Y'all didn't give me enough money."
Yes we did, they were super popular and we watched them. What more do you want?
I literally have seen every movie from her and I absolutely have loved her since I was a little kid,she has always been my favorite actress. Gorgeous and funny.
Post 90s romcoms that seem to be appreciated more than most 90s romcoms:
What kind of absolute loser puss bag wrote this? Pathetic.
Stars War: The Karens Strike Back
after i began dating a lot i completely lost interest in rom coms. so the demographics for it cant be that big. it's like early teens-late 20s at most.
Nora Ephron is why. She wrote the best books that because timeless rom-coms.
What’s to appreciate?
I just want original content again
Multi-multi-millionaire actress thinks people didnt appreciate the movies that got her there "enough". Yawn.
What an out-of-touch moron.
"We didn't appreciate these wildly successful and iconic movies enough" lol
Yes… we did.
Good Rom Coms are some of the best movies.
"Dont forget about me"
Julia Roberts is a bad tipper and smells like patchouli. Source: used to live in a small city she also lived in.
We absolutely fucking did and it better not come around again
I'm liking the new ones with unknown players but I keep going back to the 90s romcoms because they're comfortable and now that I'm an adult, I understand them a little better.
Notting Hill is one of my all-time favorite movies and I’m no RomCom fan.
I didn't appreciate it at all.
We got saturated with her.
Hmm i wonder if this has anything to do where she was most successful
Toho man says you all didn't watch enough Godzilla in the 80s. (I agree with him though)
If that's what you were into. Personally I think they were hogging up real estate that could have been spent on more creative stuff.
As a kid to a single mother in the '90s, Julia Roberts needs to shut up lol, she got plenty of screen time in plenty of houses and theaters across the USA and the world 😂
No, we did.
I feel like if you’re going to include Julia Roberts and not also put forth Meg Ryan…you don’t know rom-comes. Kate & Leopold is my guilty pleasure when I feel sick movie. That and You’ve Got Mail because it makes me laugh at how far we’ve come.
Uhm I think people do too much! Our whole life and romantic relationship standards are based on the toxicity from the 90s Rom Com boom wtf
Hallmark showed you could do the formula on a shoestring budget and still make money. You don’t need a big budget to do a movie of just people talking while walking or eating a pizza.
Only seen 2 rom coms in my life, one had julia roberts in it, but would never watch one again.
Julia Roberts, looks like a pretty horse 🐴
Who is honestly writing shit like this? I'm 33 and everyone very much appreciated this era, which stretched well into the 2000s as well. These articles are so fucking stupid. Next you're gonna see some bullshit about how we took Wedding Crashers and that comedy era for granted when literally everyone I know still quotes those movies.
Hardly. It was appreciated to an extreme, quite frankly. You couldn’t even escape the genre in the 90s. So wtf are you on about?
I feel like the millions of dollars people made in a few weeks of playing pretend disputes this claim
I didn't give a rat's ass about her insipid films back when they were new, and I care even less now than I did decades ago. The Simpsons covered the idiotic wave of Julia Roberts fever very aptly with
TV has more than made up for the lack of movies. Almost too much good tv to keep up with. In the 90's their would be 2 good movies a month. Now i can watch 2 good hours of TV a night.
Yes we did.
What does that even mean?
Didn't she get very rich off 1990s rom-com boom? Seems to me, the public appreciated the boom well enough.
She had her time
Home wrecker.
Speak for yourself, Julia.
I think your bank account appreciates it just fine, Jules. Also - On Cinema At The Cinema continues to appreciate the 90s romcom popcorn classics on the regular in their retro reviews.
Pfft
Oh because it was terrible right
God these movie nostalgia articles are so bad
Shakespeare in love won a fucking Oscar, if anything, we appreciated the rom com boom too much
They were in our face every single week... most of them starring her. I don't know how she thinks we didn't 'appreciate it' enough but she's a dinosaur doubling down by trying to make the only thing she's ever known for a thing again.
I think we appreciated it too much.
Where we go from here: realistically unattractive guy approaches dating with the same level of confidence and bravado as a 90s rom-com male lead, ends up going to jail and shunned by society after months of failures on Tinder and OK Cupid. Gen Z would love it since they adore shitting on everything 90s (don't even mention Friends around anyone younger than 30, it has a laughtrack and fat shaming).
I think they were appreciated TOO much. But then again i hate rom-coms