Esther Zuckerman

The McConaughey run was quite bad and kept getting worse.

And he knows it.

And that era was the death of it.

It was.

And it felt very cynical.

And the McConaissance was all about him being like, yeah, I agree.

Those movies sucked.

Yeah.

which kind of left those movies even further in the dirt without anyone stepping up to try to reclaim or recontextualize.

There's also just the big thing, which is basically like, Knocked Up skewed everything.

When Knocked Up hit, people went, oh, can you make a rom-com that's dude perspective first?

and has this kind of like harder comedy edge in it.

And women will be more willing to see a dude rom-com than dudes are to see like a more female perspective driven rom-com, which I think had always been seen as a bit of a hurdle.

And then that leaves you with like nothing.

When that goes down.

They did.

Yeah.

And they felt like they had contempt for themselves, were like embarrassed to be rom-coms and had to be like, but it's not really a rom-com.

Okay.

But I'll say 500 Days of Summer.