The whole “everything will be fine if we just keep lots of secrets” thing drives me crazy in a variety of genres. It’s just so lazy. It’s also like “Chekov’s secret”. You know that any secret will be revealed by the third act.

A more skillful movie could use the dual cheating to show that this relationship really wasn’t working, while also not letting the best friend off the hook for her behavior. This...is not that movie.

I’m sure we’ll hear about how he was a troubled young man and that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions about his motivations. Also:

OMG, YES! And I gotta say, if someone runs up to me and says, “There’s no time to explain,” I’m going to say, “You’d better make time, because I’m not going anywhere or doing anything until you do.” Most likely because I’m either at work, and I take my job responsibilities too seriously to just leave, or I’m in my…

I’ve lost almost all of my tolerance for the sort of lazy contrivances screenwriters resort to when they haven’t figured out a way to maintain conflict and drama in the story without denying the characters all the information they need to act in their own self-interest. I hate it when all a character has to do is use…

Then writers need to try harder. Seriously, romance does happen in real life and it doesn’t take 2 mins.

Most rom-coms would be 2 minutes long if effective communication and emotional intelligence were involved.

My 13 YO and I regularly yell at the screen, “FOR GOD’S SAKE, JUST OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND TALK TO EACH OTHER!!!” My daughter is a smart cookie, and when there is tension between her friends, she sits everyone down and has them talk it out. She has no patience for bullshit, thank God!

Also, biggest bugbear about rom coms is that no one ever just sits down and explains themselves. They storm off, or hold it in because it’s the right thing to do, or because they’re a man and they don’t talk about feeling.

This is well-argued but I just don’t think I can accept a 2011 movie about people cheating on each other being the best superhero film of 1994.

Right, in Sleepless in Seattle the bland guy (No offense Bill Pullman) is the one Meg Ryan is not supposed to be with. In the later Rom-Coms the bland guy is the so-called prize.

To explain exactly what makes Something Borrowed so egregious, it’s helpful to compare it to another bad, factory-produced 21st-century rom-com that pits Kate Hudson against a brunette best friend, 2009’s Bride Wars.

I understand what you’re saying with this example, and I agree with you, but. . .

After having lived in the netherlands for a while I have grown used to an addition to mayo that will blow your mind because it’s so good, even though it doesn’t sound like it should be.
Mayo and chopped, raw onions.

This is the very definition of a shit post.

You are not making any sense. You understand facebook is not a TV show or movie, correct? Also, the goal of one individual (especially someone not in the entertainment industry) does not determine what drives content in TV shows and movies.

Counterpoint: It does. Unlike your comment.

We’re closing the nudity gap faster than the pay gap.

Sure it does. It is a bit rounded and squishy of a point, but it is there if you pull the foreskin back.

...and the “blacks.” The idea is that THEY deserve welfare, while those lazy blacks do not. Nevermind reality, that’s the image Reagan painted 30+ years ago and it’s the image they keep.