The Search for Truth (about Rom Coms)

Since the peak of the Ancient Greek empire, humans have been searching for the best ways to rank romantic comedies. While humans have made significant strides in technology, we were still far from perfection in measuring this fine genre as it's meant to be measured. Until now.

The brightest minds in the film industry have come together on this site to rank romantic comedies on a new scale. Can you compare masterpieces across genres, styles or mediums? Would it make sense to compare a Van Gogh with a piece from Mozart? Can you compare film masterpieces like Fast Five and Forgetting Sarah Marshall on the same scale? Romantic comedies shouldn't be scaled against films of other genres. This is why we developed a new scale for ranking movies to find the best of the genre.

In a fictional poll of one hundred thousand film-goers, 94% said that they feel empty without having a ranking of rom coms based on a scale that is designed to the genre specifically.

The Ranking Scale

Rotten Tomatoes has long been poisoning the minds of people trying to find out if a movie is good or worth watching. Let's take an example. 50 First Dates is a romantic comedy featuring the dynamic combo of a prime-ish Sandman and Drew Barrymore. The Rotten Tomatoes "Tomatometer" has this film at a 45%. If you think 50 First dates is a 45/100 as a romantic comedy you have the smoothest brain on earth. Giving a movie a percentage score based on whether a review is positive or negative leaves no room for nuance. Instead, romcomrankings.com has broken down five categories to score each rom com on before aggregating each category into a final score.

Romance - 30 possible points

Comedy - 30 possible points

Plot and Cohesion - 25 possible points

Intangibles - 5 possible points

Feel Good - 10 possible points

60% of the total score is purely how good are the rom and the com of the film itself. It's not rocket science. It's important to realize the scale values both equally and there are some movies that are strong in one category and not the other, which hurts the overall score.

Plot and Cohesion is how well the movie is constructed and how the movie flows. Intangibles is pretty loosely defined but its other components like the soundtrack or cast that make the movie good. Perhaps there's a side character who adds a lot to the movie. Or the lead actors are elite. Perhaps you have a Netflix movie starring the JR Smith of rom coms, Noah Centineo (volume shooter), you could add or remove points here based on your feelings about his work. Feel Good is exactly what it sounds like. There were riots in the streets outside of the rom com rankings corporate HQ when the masses found out this was included in the scoring but it adds to how well the movie aligns with the genre.

Bribery + Contact

Bribery is frowned upon... but certainly not off the table. If you want to grease the wheels, reach out to the e-mail below. If you work at Netflix and want us to write a Rom Com that sits in the meat of the rankings bell curve, also reach out. If you have other questions or grievances, I guess you can e-mail too.

E-mail: pat@romcomrankings.com