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Day Zero - Project Parameters

Over the next 30 days I will watch one Romantic Comedy (henceforth  known as a rom-com) per day.  I will then blog my reaction and interpretation.  I will also post a viewing schedule, should anyone reading wish to join in on the anthropology of the genre. The 30 films have been carefully curated by crowd sourcing (ie. asking people I know to name their top rom-coms) and then weighted by the number of duplicate mentions, so films with one vote float to the top of the list and are then sorted in strict alphabetic order.  Films with more votes get weighted down and are shown closer to day 30, with the "heaviest" film at the very end. I love movies and tend to watch movies where someone gets killed within the first 10 minutes.  I love Tarantino, and have long considered "True Romance" or "Natural Born Killers" to be my top "romantic" movies, though I wouldn't append the selector "comedy" to either.  In high school, my favourite boo...