revisiting late 90s early 00s romcoms re:capital

lately ive been interested in watching romcoms from da turn of the century. it comes to no surprise that there r lapses in politcally correct humor but what is surprising to me is the acceptance of capitalism and neoliberalism in this era of romcoms (in contrast to now with every other movie being woke whether necesarilly or not [slowly sounding like a boomer incel]).

take two weeks notice and youve got mail. two classics of the era.

two weeks notice, brought to u by hugh grants and america's sweetheart sandra bullock, is about a real estate tycoon (picture a donald trump) and a harvard gradute idealistic environmental lawyer. to someone who has had their politcal awakening in the late 2010s, the premise is wild and unimaginable. picture an AOC type politician getting together with an elon musk type venture capitalist for a romcom. what a diff world the turn of the century was.

and then the classic youve got mail. tom hanks owns a multimillion (fascinating how its just multimillion compared to the now billion) bookstore chain and he seeks to destroy a small, humble kids bookstore around da corner owned by meg ryan. classic new york story. gentrification, big corpo next so smal business, classic nyc. tom hanks was just annoying in dis movie. n meg ryan is just so charming and smart and has short hair. im also fascianted with roger eberts review of this movie "Say what you will, those giant stores are fun to spend time in"

i rewatched spiderman far from home earlier. i enjoyed it but it also really annoyed as american propaganda. i think marvel movies would be the next cultural artifact that the future generation would find weird, hopefully anyway.