# Best (and worst) date movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043 "2009-03-11T05:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/1 "2009-03-11T05:27:30Z")
Inspired by the thread on worst movie going experience, what are the best, and worst, date movies? **Best:** [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/) - Combines heartbreaking romance with martial arts ass-kicking! Something for everyone! **Worst:** [In The Company of Men](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119361/) - You are _so_ not getting laid after this one. ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/2 "2009-03-11T12:29:11Z")
I once went to see _In the cut_ which is pretty much the least romantic movie imaginable. This was in Prague and except for me and my buddy, the place was filled with guys and their date…none of whom got layed that night, I’m sure… ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/3 "2009-03-11T12:55:25Z")
John Carpenter’s The Thing. I was already going out with my girlfriend at the time for a few weeks, but after seeing that I could hardly bear to have her touch me in bed, the thoughts of all those tentacles and such flying everywhere (The Thing’s, not hers. Or mine.:o ) ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/4 "2009-03-11T12:56:33Z")
I’ve told this story before on these boards… My first boyfriend took me to see Silence of the Lambs as a first date movie. Second boyfriend took me to see Se7en. Third boyfriend took me to see Toy Story. I married the third boyfriend. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/5 "2009-03-11T12:57:56Z")
I can’t imagine _Schindler’s List_ was a popular date movie. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/6 "2009-03-11T13:15:26Z")
Many, many years ago, I went to see the Jack Nicholson/Jessica Lange remake of _[The Postman Always Rings Twice](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082934/)_ on a first date. Right around the time they started fucking on the kitchen table, I thought, “Yanno, this might not have been the best choice.” ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/7 "2009-03-11T15:33:48Z")
First movie seen with the ex-wife: Romeo + Juliet (the Leonardo diCaprio one). First movie seen with the last ex-girlfriend: Sin City. I’m thinking there’s a reason the first married me, the second didn’t. When I was on a jury sequestered for a few months, we were given access to a DVD player and a decent list of films we could have a sheriff run out and rent. The women on the jury selected, sight unseen, True Romance, thinking it was, well, a true romance, the way Love Story is a love story. They were a wee bit disappointed; I imagine it ruined more than a few dates out there, too. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/8 "2009-03-11T15:47:17Z")
Good: Ju Dou Better: Life is Beautiful Best: Shakespeare in Love Not a date movie at all, but possibly a poor choice to bring the kids to: The Emerald Forest No, ma’am, it’s not Disney. But feel free to expose your kids to the wonderful world of cannibalism. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/9 "2009-03-11T16:09:42Z")
Speaking from unfortunate experience, [Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/) did not impress a certain cute young woman I was out with. Let us just say that Mr Creosote is not my favorite Python character and leave it at that. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/10 "2009-03-11T16:28:37Z")
Back during the Kennedy Administration, anything with Paul Newman in it rolled the present Mrs Gelding into estrus in pretty short order. _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_ was especially effective. It may have been the Burl Ives-Paul Newman combination, as if Ives was a catalyst for the resulting heat. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/11 "2009-03-11T16:34:35Z")
I personally don’t believe in the idea of a “date” movie. Just see something good, like 친절한 금자씨 [“Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUFaDj3mBCI). ---
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/12 "2009-03-11T16:46:41Z")
“Blue Velvet” - in hindsight - was not a good date movie, even though she married me. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/13 "2009-03-11T16:51:21Z")
I posted this before, but I say it again as a warning. My wife and I went to see _Monster_. On Valentine’s Day. Least Sexy Valentine’s Day Ever. ETA: It was a great movie. Just not when you’re hoping for romance later on. Or any time in the next couple of days. Or weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/14 "2009-03-11T17:11:49Z")
_Eraserhead_. Best date movie _ever_. 😃 [Warning: do not attempt]. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/15 "2009-03-11T17:13:17Z")
If a scene [like this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s-SSz59E9c&feature=related) can’t make a grown man cry (which usually works on dates)–where a woman has to force the man who kidnapped her daughter (and effectively alienated the two, because she was adopted by an Australian couple and now can’t speak her own mother’s language) while she hand to spend 13 years falsely imprisoned in jail–translate her reasons for becoming a “sinner,” well what else can? ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/16 "2009-03-11T17:16:09Z")
Bad date movie: _Irreversible_ Good date movie: _50 First Dates_ My first date with my future wife was seeing _Jacob’s Ladder_. It seems to have worked out OK. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/17 "2009-03-11T19:11:47Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > I can’t imagine _Schindler’s List_ was a popular date movie. Great make-out movie, though. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/18 "2009-03-11T19:27:57Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > First movie seen with the ex-wife: Romeo + Juliet (the Leonardo diCaprio one). > > First movie seen with the last ex-girlfriend: Sin City. > > I’m thinking there’s a reason the first married me, the second didn’t. > > When I was on a jury sequestered for a few months, we were given access to a DVD player and a decent list of films we could have a sheriff run out and rent. The women on the jury selected, sight unseen, True Romance, thinking it was, well, a true romance, the way Love Story is a love story. They were a wee bit disappointed; I imagine it ruined more than a few dates out there, too. I managed to buck the trend somehow. First date was 300, and we’re taking the plunge anyway 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/19 "2009-03-11T19:30:14Z")
I was out on a date with a guy, and after dinner we were deciding what else to do that night. He said he had just a handful of movies at his place and rattled off their names. One was **Caligula** and I had a non-sexual reason for wanting to see it. So I suggested we go back to his place and watch that. No penis ensued that night, because I was into watching the movie as a movie and not a porn. We ended up having a long, crappy relationship based on nothing but sex and I ended up being more of a bitter old lady because of it. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043/20 "2009-03-11T19:40:04Z")
> [@BlueOhio](#): > > “Blue Velvet” - in hindsight - was not a good date movie, even though she married me. Oddly enought, that was the first movie I thought of when I saw the title to this thread. It’s a good movie but if you saw this back in 1986 with a girl on your first date, not only would there not be a second date but she’d probably want to get a restaining order against you. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-date-movies/489043.md?page=2)