Inspired by the horror films thread...give a list of dumb things people do in love stories which irritate the !#$! out of you..lol


1) The guy has a sister that his new girlfriend seems to know nothing about...that is, until she sees him having lunch with her and hugging and kissing her goodbye on the cheek. Of course instead of going up and asking him "Who was that?", she runs off and breaks up with him, refusing to answer his phone calls, and without telling him a damn thing first...

2) When the guy finally does find out that she saw him with "another woman", instead of immediately saying "Oh, that was my sister", he hems and haw for like 5 minutes straight instead of clearing up misconceptions...

Her: "I saw you, Bill!...I saw you having lunch with that pretty blonde and kiss her goodbye!"

Him: "What? No, honey, you have it all wrong..."

Her: "I knew I should have never trusted you...my friends warned me (sob)"

Him: "You can trust me! You know I love you..."

Her: "Forget it, Bill...it's over."

Him: "But you don't understand..."

ARGH!!...For fuck's sake, just tell her it was your damn sister!!! Only liars stonewall like that, geez...!!


3) Every woman always moves to another state (or country) at the end of love stories when she and her bf break up...and it's left up to the man to catch a cab and rush to the airport--in heavy traffic, no less--to catch her just as she's boarding the plane. And it's always the woman's best friend who informs the guy..."Well, if you must know, Betsy left. She's on her way to Idaho right now."... Cue the music and the mad dash through traffic and running up the down escalator in order to grab Betsy and kiss her two seconds before she's scheduled to leave. If you're lucky, a crowd will be there to applaud them as he does.

4) Public proposals of marriage are an absolute must, apparently...that way, you get to propose in subway tunnels, on public buses and in the middle of baseball games. If you're lucky, a crowd will be there to applaud as she tearfully says "Yes!".

5) Every guy has a "special spot" that he never takes anyone. Until "her", that is. And his spot is always somewhere goofy, like a junkyard at midnight...and of course she's never bored when they do get there. Better yet, someplace that is impossible for anyone to experience after it closes--like, oh, Disneyland--but THIS guy has an uncle who's a janitor at Disneyland and lets him in after closing so he and his new gf can experience this once-in-a-lifetime moment and fall in love...

when the get in the car and itr won't start, and they keep trying to turn the motor over and it fails as the killer slowly ambles up to the car, and then the car starrts right as the killer smashes his hand through the window.

cborgman said:

yeah, that too...

When one person starts acting like they no longer love the other person--even though they're still madly in love--because "they're better off without me...it's what's best for them". This usually happens when the grease-covered mechanic is told that he's not "good enough" for the high society debutante.

ugh! when they go runnin' after them before the plane takes off!

when they fall in love with somebody who they know only has 6 weeks to live...and then get all fucking upset about it, like you didn't know they had 42 days left to live when you met them

brownsugar said:

Yeah! They should do when the plane is actually taking off.

This thread is cynical.
I am in a good mood so I refuse to participate in romance movie bashing at the moment.

althom said:

I think they did that in "Liar Liar"...lol

Sweeny79 said:

Nah...it's a comment/thread about lousy generic film making, not a comment on romance...lol...When a romantic film is done right, it's

Just don't have the guy running to the airport and chasing after the girl ALL the damn time...
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Cheesy lines like "you had me at hello" and "we'll always have paris" bug the shit out of me. Who talks like that?

When the "ugly" girl the guy dates out of pity is really just a gorgeous girl in glasses and imperfect hair -or a fatsuit.

and that the fate angle is done to death.

when they say: 'I love you too...'


that shit never happens!

abierman said:

I love you too

...Throws away the love letter...which he/she later finds while gazing, forlorn, into the trash bin...

Natisse said:

Never enough car chases or 'splosions.

the smart, well-educated, talented BUT mousy-looking woman fails to get her man; then there's a musical montage where she's shown working out and dieting, then POOF! mousy woman turns into a gorgeous barbie doll, the man thinks she's hot and poof! they live happily ever after.

meow85 said:

wel don't go see madea's family reunion--a theater full of chickenhead section sistas with 3 baby daddies were just swooning over some of that cornball shit in that movie--
MOVIE:"there's a place in my heart that only you and God occupy"
CHICKENHEAD: "i know that's right (pops gum). Mike-Mike sit back in your goddamn chair , shit!"

or how about those films where the protagonists 'hate' each other all the way through the movie, do really mean things to each other, then at the end finally realize the reason they've been treating each other like crap is because they're attracted to each other. please. get therapy you two.

Don't forget the cheesy in-law problems, and the hilarity ensues.

He takes her home and she wakes up wearing his white shirt because all of her clothes were stolen in the night by a burglar.

painting the new house together /hurl

XxAxX said:

The guy who believes that the woman he loves is "better off" without him, and thus begins to treat her like shit and make her feel as if he really doesn't love her (even though he really does) just so she'll forget him and move on. Get over yourself. You're not THAT amazing that only the complete devastation of the woman's heart and feelings will help her get over you...just freakin' break up with her and be honest about it! Besides, we all know the two of you will be back together by the end of the film anyway...

He ends up with...

LleeLlee said:

meltwithu said:

I'll have to remember to take my flask

At the end of 'Four Weddings And A Funeral', Andi McDowell after kissing Hugh Grant says, 'Is it raining? I hadnt noticed'. Not only a dumb thing to say as it clearly is persisting it down but also the weird way in which she delivers the line. A terrible actress who got off lightly just because it's a great film.

Byron said:

HAHAHA Lake Minnetonka
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