The Best Romantic Comedies

Kate Beckinsale's performance in Serendipity
is one of my all-time favorites
Photo: Karen Seto

Paste magazine did a story recently about the 17 Best Romantic Comedies This Decade. I’m a connoisseur of the romantic comedy, so I ate this up. Unfortunately, not all of it stayed down.

I won’t dwell on the duds that made the list (Waitress, Knocked Up) or even wonder about the movies I’ve never heard of that made the list (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunset, Amelie).

But somebody must stand up for the great romantic comedies of this decade that didn’t make the list.

I volunteer:

• Any list chronicling best romantic comedies that doesn’t include Serendipity is automatically suspect to me. I’m just sayin’.
• Same goes for The Notebook.
• And no Elizabethtown? Come on! You’re killing me Paste magazine. You’re killing me.
• Music and Lyrics should be on this list.
• And who wasn’t swept away be the magic of 50 First Dates?
• Garden State was left off? How?
• C’mon, who didn’t shed a tear or two when watching Dan in Real Life?
• Definitely, Maybe. Definitely, definitely should have been on the list.
• A Walk to Remember was a beautiful teal jerker that was shunned, but shouldn’t have been.

Can you think of any others? Remember, they had to have been released this decade.