Opinion | Ani Bundel: 'The Long Shot' is exactly the kind of sexist male fantasy that killed rom-coms. - NBCNewsTHINK
behaved as if the genre’s disappearance was the result of mysterious market forces, unicorns that slipped away but are now returning to bless us with their magical presence. This is nonsense. The genre was doomed, like the Dodo, by producers in Hollywood who stopped recognizing that the films needed to be fantasies for women, and not just men.
Trend pieces heralding the return of the rom-com behaved as if the genre’s disappearance was the result of mysterious market forces. This is nonsense. Worse, almost all of these films suggested that the real problem here was that women need to stop being so ambitious — especially if they want to find true heterosexual happiness — and that imperfections in their lives had been caused by a selfish inability to settle for male mediocrity. It’s a message that's bad for movie plots, but it’s also a really terrible moral for moviegoers.
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