12 Rom-Com Plots That Are Actually Nightmares

Julianne (Julia Roberts) is in "My Best Friend's Wedding".My Best Friend's Wedding is listed among 12 Rom-Com plots that are actually nightmares.The film aims for charming goofiness. Instead, Julianne proves despicable.Julianne is despicable.The movie has moments. Julianne's klutziness is funny. But expert pratfalls cannot save her rotten character.

Julianne realizes she loved her best friend (Dermot Mulroney) for years. Julianne decides to stop his wedding. She plans to destroy the wedding and the lives of her supposed best friend and his fiancée.Julianne destroys the wedding and the lives of her supposed best friend and his fiancée.Julianne puts everyone through hell during one wedding weekend. She leaves emotional wreckage behind. Yet, she gets forgiven by the time the credits roll.

If "My Best Friend's Wedding" were a Lifetime movie...My Best Friend's Wedding is listed among 12 Rom-Com plots that are actually nightmares.If "My Best Friend's Wedding" were...If "My Best Friend's Wedding" were a Lifetime movie, it becomes a bad thriller. It stays a bad rom-com.If Julianne played by Tori Spelling, it would be a bad thriller. It remains just a bad rom-com.

What Women Want is listed among 12 Rom-Com plots that are actually nightmares.What Women Want troubles you before you remember it stars Mel Gibson.Mel Gibson stars in What Women Want.Gibson plays a man who reads women's thoughts. This trait seems scary in real life. Imagine how Mel Gibsons could terrorize women with mind-reading.

Other odd things happen in What Women Want. Many female characters cross the line.What Women Want is listed among 12 Rom-Com plots that are actually nightmares.Many female characters in What Women Want are offensive. Gibson's character cannot read the thoughts of his two female assistants because they have no thoughts. How did this movie gross over $374 million?Over $374 million, My Best Friend's Wedding earned money.?

In Never Been Kissed...Never Been Kissed is listed among 12 Rom-Com plots that are actually nightmares.Josie (Drew Barrymore) is a journalist. She is a fully-grown woman who returns to high school to research an undercover story. The plot lacks originality. However, Josie has a romantic relationship with a teacher who thinks she is a high school student. Also, Josie agrees to go with a popular classmate for prom. That classmate is a teenager.

There is much wrong with Never Been Kissed.Never Been Kissed is listed among 12 Rom-Com plots that are actually nightmares....Elle stars in Never Been Kissed.Elle called it "the weirdest, most screwed-up romantic comedy of all time."

A rich heiress (Goldie Hawn) falls off a boat and loses her memory. A local carpenter (Kurt Russell) she previously cheated on sees her story on the news. He tells her she is his wife. To get revenge, he enslaves her, making her keep house and home while raising his children.

Seen this way, is Overboard romantic? Or even a comedy?Overboard is listed among 12 Rom-Com plots that are actually nightmares.Overboard is much more sinister than its rom-com look suggests. A man turns a woman into his personal slave as twisted revenge. Worst of all, they fall in love at the end. Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?Overboard is much more sinister than its rom-com façade would have you believe. A man turns a woman into his personal slave as his own brand of twisted revenge. They fall in love at the end. Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?A man turns a woman into his personal slave as his own brand of twisted revenge. They fall in love at the end. Stockholm Syndrome, anyone?

Mark (Andrew Lincoln) loves Juliet (Keira Knightley), who is his best friend's wife. This sets up a very uncomfortable dynamic. Love ActuallyLove Actually is listed among 12 Rom-Com plots that are actually nightmares.The character tries to spin Mark's actions as sweet. Mark pretends to be a caroler and then shows Juliet cue cards on her stoop, telling her he loves her. This behavior is more stalkerish than endearing.

That is your best friend's.wife.Do you have such little regard for both of them that you would choose this path? Even Andrew Lincoln thought the character was aa creepy stalker."

Yes, it is an Academy Award-winning movie everyone adores. WhileSilver Linings Playbook.The movie has good parts. Pat (Bradley Cooper) has bipolar disorder. This condition has damaged his mind, his life, and his family. But when he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), his conditionseems to clear up magically. It must have been the 24-hour kind.

Tiffany has an unspecified mental illness that makes her sexually promiscuous. The film treats this as an appealing quirk, not a serious problem.

While You Were Sleeping.This film made Sandra Bullock American rom-com royalty. The movie is patentlyridiculous., and it features a main character with a huge lack of principles and decency.

Lucy (Bullock) fixates on Peter (Peter Gallagher), a man she never spoke to. After he comas, Lucy tells Peter's family she is his fiancée and joins the family. Then she loves his brother Jack (Bill Pullman), and things get worse.The happy ending of While You Were Sleepingfeels wrong. Who wants this unhinged liar as a relative?

Both the 1954 original and the 1995 remake of SabrinaSabrina.These versions show class differences and immature thinking. There is much of the old idea that "people from this class shouldn't mix with that class."At one point,Sabrina's father tells her, "I like to think of life as a limousine. Though we are all riding together, we must remember our places. There's a front seat and a back seat and a window in between."

Yeah, Sabrina, be happy with your "place." Good fathering there, Dad.

Sleepless in Seattle.The movie follows Annie (Meg Ryan), who falls for a widower named Sam (Tom Hanks) after hearing his son on a radio show. Annie is engaged and lives across the country. Still, she flies to Seattle to watch him from across the road, making a plan to meet at the Empire State Building, even though she has never met or spoken to Sam.

This situation puts anyone involved in danger. These two are strangers. It becomes creepier when you considerAnnie's stalker-like actions. In real life, most of what happens inSleeplesswould only happen to crazy or stupid people.

Vivian (Julia Roberts) is a tacky hooker. Edward (Richard Gere) is a humorless businessman. Opposites attract; they fall in love and live happily ever after. This follows a typical rom-com formula. But wait.

Did Edward only fall for Vivian after he changed her into the woman he wanted? Or did Vivian willingly change everything about herself to please Edward?Pretty WomanThis is not a love story; it isThis is a power story.It is fantasy material for many straight guys. A man reshapes a woman into his perfect female ideal. He saves her from prostitution, making her a kept woman. That is prostitution just called another name.

After 16-year-old Cher (Alicia Silverstone) likes a new classmate who is gay, she finds love withShe has a stepbrother. (Paul Rudd). He is her former stepbrother because their parents are divorced. Cher and Josh likely shared a sibling bond previously. This makes their falling in love more unsettling.

Cher is 16 and Josh is in college, which is against the law. Why Cher's family or her trendy friends do not interfere remains a mystery. Such interference would ruin the rom-com feel.

Lucy (Drew Barrymore) has short-term memory loss.Lucy (Drew Barrymore) has short-term memory loss.Lucy loses her memory after a car accident. Each day, she must relearn her life. Henry (Adam Sandler), who loves Lucy, must make her fall for him daily.

That sounds sweet, right? Not so fast. Picture waking up with a man you've never seen and him trying to make you believe you love him. That is brainwashing. Surely there are better, helpful ways to support someone with a brain injury?