So romantic comedies have become code for a sappy movie that has a few jokes.
I mean, I love the story of romance as much as the next person — I hope to have someone that can look past my horrible personality flaws someday.But there are some rom-coms that have some cringeworthy plots when you think about it...
1. Alright, so let's start with an easy one: The Notebook involves a dude in the 1950s threatening to throw himself off a stopped Ferris wheel unless she goes on a date with him.
2. Avatarhad that one scene where Jake Sully and Neytiri essentially have a one night stand that has the added social pressure of being partnered for life.
But, like, she found out later that he was kinda out to steal the planet's natural resources and wreck her home...
3. Then there's Love Actually, which is a hot mess because it involves a man cheating on his wife and seemingly not paying any consequences AND a dude literally hitting on his best friend's wife...
Not to mention that the Prime Minister of England fires his secretary because of how attracted he is to her...
But we're just getting started.
4. Remember how Pretty Woman is about some rich dude who has a thing for expensive things and dates a prostitute?
So as long as he keeps making money, they'll both be happy for a looooong time.
5. Jasmine from Aladdin TRIES to reject a dude who straight-up creates a fake life but then is won over by him anyway?
Why? Because he's charming as hell.
6. Any Muppets movie where Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog end up together because he's neglectful and passive-aggressive and she's physically abusive, manipulative, and egotistical.
7. In Ocean's Eleven, Tess Ocean dumps Danny because she has morals or whatever and Danny is a master thief who robs people... but then she falls back in love with him because he robs someone:
The dude she's dating.
8. The Bridget Jones Diary when Colin Firth's character remembers that Bridget used to run around his yard naked...
9. 10 Things I Hate About You is basically her INTENTIONALLY being crazy.
10. P.S. I Love You was about a dude getting a terminal illness and leaving her a bunch of notes to move on with her life... by reminding her of her dead husband.
Nice.
11. Jurassic World was about Claire and Owen hating each other because one was uptight and the other kind of a jerk. But they fall in love with each other when the park falls apart...
Because... not sure?
12. The Breakfast Club is the love story of Bender hitting on Molly Ringwald's character by bullying her, looking up her skirt, and humiliating her and until she calls the cops.
Wait, no. They date because it's the 80s.
13. The Little Mermaid is the story of a dude who falls in love with a woman who can't talk...
...and a woman who falls in love with someone who isn't her species and who has to changes species to be with him.
14. And the Twilightseries, which involves a 200-year-old vampire dating a high school girl and trying to make her a vampire so they can do it.
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