He says he loves me like a love song, and I couldn’t help myself | Caliburn

Angelica Babiera | Arts Editor

Featured image: David Miranda creates a team-up romantic comedy film many rom-com fans swoon over, but film experts don’t get the hype. | Courtesy of Pixabay

Lately, Hollywood has been creating films that consists of every big Hollywood actor of the last 20 years in the same production. Either these actors are portrayed as characters who are living their own lives with their own struggles and somehow manage to reconcile with one another by exposing to the viewers that they are all related to one another, or they’re superheroes fighting the same villain. Hollywood doesn’t seem to lack inspirations for these kinds of productions.

“To be honest, films with team ups like the romantic comedy, Love You Like A Love Song are fun to watch, but it just shows me that Hollywood writers are becoming lazier and lazier as time passes by,” says Orion Matsui, a third-year Film Production student.

“It’s like David Miranda and all these actors made an agreement that the characters will be based on their real selves but in the end, they all have a change of heart and become good, ideal people, so the viewers will fall in love with them more. It looks very much like a set-up for fame and monetary success, and not for the love of film-making.”

Love You Like A Love Song is a romantic comedy created and directed by David Miranda, who has created renowned films like The Master Plan, Mind Over Matter, and The Endgame. Miranda is best known for his work with psychological thrillers—however this year, he decided to focus on the romantic comedy genre as a venturing project.

“I wanted to expand my horizons. I don’t want to be known as the guy who does only psychological thrillers, you know? Famous and successful directors like Steven Spielberg went beyond their comfort zones, and what happened? They got Academy Awards. I plan on doing the same thing,” Miranda explains to The New York Life.

The romantic comedy who stars Penny Maurice, Dave Cluster, Tom Bruise, Chad Pitts, Elly Fawn, and Aimee Adamson follows six musicians who want to find love on Valentine’s Day. At the beginning of the film, singer Megan (Maurice) was just dumped by her boyfriend, Lucas (Cluster), because he met another girl at the bar named Emma (Adamson).

Meanwhile, womanizers, James (Bruise) and Andrew (Pitts), are unfazed by not having dates for Valentine’s Day. They are more focused on the bitter single girls who are looking for a “good time.”

However, in a comedic meeting with Megan at a singing gig in Brooklyn, James unexpectedly falls in love with her, changing the whole game plan he and Andrew set up for themselves. Megan’s best friend, Chelsea (Fawn) tries telling Megan that James is a player—but, Megan does not listen to her, because she is tired of “being lonely.” The whole film follows the messy love lives of these six characters.

Love You Like A Love Song follows every romantic comedy trope. From the bitter girl to the womanizing man, Miranda does not hold back on the stereotypical plot schemes rom-coms employ.

Unlike his psychological thrillers with plots focusing on one main character’s life, his romantic comedy contains every messy relationship, but doesn’t get into too much detail about them.

Two second-year Children Studies student, Alison Baldassarre and Lauren Lopez, both agree the film is the best romantic comedy they have seen, noting Bruise and Pitts have never performed better without their shirts before.

“We see the struggles of these couples and we know they’re not perfect, but they all get together in the end and that’s all that matters. Plus, I’ve never seen Tom Bruise cry so hard before, and if Tom Bruise can go from being a womanizer to being faithful, then I have faith in my crush,” Baldassarre says.

Love You Like A Love Song made $200 million in the box office, following The Vindicators—a team-up superhero film.