The things movies and television says is romantic is just creepy in real life (girlfriends, women)

[Brown Leather Jacket]

Anyone agree with this? I'm just thinking of all the movies and television shows I've seen through the years (and the ones I didn't see but know the plot to) and it seems like they've created this idea of romance that's so distorted that if it were practiced in real life, it either would not work or even be repulsive and creepy to a woman.

Like I know women's hearts melted when they saw John Cusack standing in the rain outside his ex girlfriends house with a stereo over his head in "Say Anything," but in all serious, how would you react in real life if your ex was standing out in your backyard with a stereo over his head.

Another example is Lost. Lost told us that if you're even a handsome, nice-guy doctor, but some bad-boy fugitive steals your woman, they thing to do is to sit idly back for 4 seasons until she comes back to you on her own.

I mean it's just ridiculous.

Anyone got any other examples of ridiculous TV/Hollywood "romance?"

[Jason28]

No, because I stopped watching tv years ago and the movies I do watch don't typically have romance scenes in them if I want to keep vomit off the floors.

[Coolhand68]

Most of television is an escape from reality. Even the the so called reality genre of television is scripted and over the top. Fantasy sells very well.

[gwynedd1]

Originally Posted by Brown Leather Jacket

Anyone agree with this? I'm just thinking of all the movies and television shows I've seen through the years (and the ones I didn't see but know the plot to) and it seems like they've created this idea of romance that's so distorted that if it were practiced in real life, it either would not work or even be repulsive and creepy to a woman.

Like I know women's hearts melted when they saw John Cusack standing in the rain outside his ex girlfriends house with a stereo over his head in "Say Anything," but in all serious, how would you react in real life if your ex was standing out in your backyard with a stereo over his head.

Another example is Lost. Lost told us that if you're even a handsome, nice-guy doctor, but some bad-boy fugitive steals your woman, they thing to do is to sit idly back for 4 seasons until she comes back to you on her own.

I mean it's just ridiculous.

Anyone got any other examples of ridiculous TV/Hollywood "romance?"

Hi Brown Leather Jacket,

I can tell you how it works in real life. My X-girlfriend returned the key to my car in my car but also loaded that same score on a cassette tape. It was a good tape. I just recorded over it with some Front 242. It was a Hollywood moment for me because I thought I wouldn't get anything else out of it.


Also that nice Dr story is true. It will often happen that a woman will dump a boring doctor for the bad boy and eventually come back to the doctor when she's knocked up.


The moral of the story is to be a bad boy doctor. I'm not all bad, but I can get bad enough.

[le roi]

Originally Posted by gwynedd1

The moral of the story is to be a bad boy doctor. I'm not all bad, but I can get bad enough.

Oh yeah.. Gray's Anatomy is full of those.

[cdubs3201]

Anyone using Hollywood as a reference for how romance or relationships should begin/develop is out of their minds.

These are made up stories for your entertainment. Hollywood is a terrible representation of the real world.

[Mr.Cat]

I just watch Nickleodeon.

[seeniorita]

D*mmit!! Now I'm gonna have to get divorced because he is NOT prince charming like they show on TV!!

[NewGrad2009]

Sex and the City, and Grey's Anatomy are the worst.

These women in perfect relationships ruin it over the dumbest problems that can be solved by talking it out. But because the sex wasn't great everytime or whatever, they ended it. It drives me nuts.

Hence why I love that movie. "He's Just Not that Into You". It's honest, unbias, shows different stages of different relationships, and its REAL.

[cpg35223]

Well, my brother is a screenwriter. I have to say that those people are about as far removed from reality as possible.

In fact, given the loopy plot twists of Hollywood, here's a thread for you:

10 Things I've Learned From The Movies