Going the Distance Review: The RomCom Principle

I have a secret to tell. I actually like romantic comedies. Ok, let me rephrase that. I like GOOD romantic comedies, of which there are very very few. Hollywood has a tendency to find a successful formula and then rehash that formula with blatant disregard for anything approaching artistic merit, and the romcom genre is especially susceptible to this tendency. After all, one of the things that makes a romantic comedy so appealing to its target demographic (i.e. women) is the idea that...