# Most doomed movie romance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620 "2014-02-06T00:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/21 "2014-02-06T19:54:48Z")
**Pretty Woman** I have the feeling Edward isn’t going to change all that much. One day, after him being gone for collectively several months out of the year on some corporate raiding jobs, Vivian’s going to realize her fantasy romance isn’t living up to expectations. And I wonder if she ever got her GED. No need to if you are the Princess in your own fairytale romance. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/22 "2014-02-06T20:02:56Z")
I don’t see how Phil can be at all functional after **Groundhog Day**. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/23 "2014-02-06T20:10:03Z")
> [@Miss\_Woodhouse](#): > > **Along Came Polly** : No one can be happy with a manic pixie dream girl for very long and he’s too uptight to enjoy her antics once the newness has worn off. That was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, not least because the whole premise makes ZERO sense. I mean, the guy’s wife cheated on him during their honeymoon… but EVERYONE he knows keeps telling him to get back with her because she’s perfect for him??? NOBODY would tell a guy to forgive and forget something as big as that!!! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/24 "2014-02-06T20:20:28Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > That was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, not least because the whole premise makes ZERO sense. > > I mean, the guy’s wife cheated on him during their honeymoon… but EVERYONE he knows keeps telling him to get back with her because she’s perfect for him??? > > NOBODY would tell a guy to forgive and forget something as big as that!!! If I knew him our conversation would go like this: Him: “Get back together with Debra Messing, or Jennifer Aniston - what should I do?” Me: “You should go fuck yourself.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/25 "2014-02-06T20:26:00Z")
Star Wars (ANH) Incest is not the best ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/26 "2014-02-06T21:15:02Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Star Wars (ANH) > > Incest is not the best Meh, it’s all relative. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/27 "2014-02-06T21:19:45Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > “The Graduate” > > I don’t even know if they’re going to make it til the end of the bus ride. LOL > [@Cuckoorex](#): > > **Peggy Sue Got Married** > Strudel ain’t gonna fix that one, lady. The marriage couldn’t be any worse than the movie, but horror of horrors, it might last longer. > [@terentii](#): > > Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins in both _ **Pygmalion** _ and _ **My Fair Lady** _. Yeah, no kidding. But no, Freddy isn’t right for her either. She could get a job in a flower shop until Mr. Right gets flowers for Miss Wrong, and then it’d be just like a million other rom-coms. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/28 "2014-02-06T21:22:46Z")
**Sid and Nancy** ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/29 "2014-02-06T21:33:49Z")
> [@Doyle](#): > > **Sid and Nancy** I disagree. Since they are already both dead at the end, they can’t actually kill each other any more. And maybe the whole murdering your girlfriend then dying in an OD might actually have helped Sid overcome some of his worse tendencies. If not, at least in the afterlife thy can go at each other all they want with no repercussions. They’d be a great couple! ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/30 "2014-02-06T22:31:40Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > **Across the Continental Divide.** She’s a nature-loving, wilderness-living environmentalist. He’s a cigarette-smoking, big city journalist. They separate before the movie’s over without, as a little old lady points out, consummating. Just [Continental Divide](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082200/). ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/31 "2014-02-06T22:45:28Z")
> [@Roundabout](#): > > **Grease** > > Sandy won’t be able to stand the greaser lifestyle forever. Likewise, Danny won’t attempt to change who he is again. > [@xizor](#): > > This is my vote as well, but it only lasts until Danny realizes that Sandy is still never going to put out no matter what she dresses like. Are guys aware of **Grease II**? That is indeed the premise of the sequel, and no, you do not need too check that one, it was a commercial and critical failure (with no John Travolta nor Olivia.) And Sandy does leave the bum. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/32 "2014-02-06T22:50:01Z")
**Freddy vs. Jason.** It’s fine for one film, but, a long-term relationship?! No way! (1) Jason’s obviously gentile, and (2) Freddy’s obviously an Ares! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/33 "2014-02-06T22:54:08Z")
**Airplane!** Stryker’s PTSD will return (probably over and over again) and Elaine won’t have any more luck at helping him overcome it than she originally did. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/34 "2014-02-06T22:59:52Z")
> [@Learjeff](#): > > Yeah, no kidding. But no, Freddy isn’t right for her either. Shaw’s epilogue, not mine. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/35 "2014-02-06T23:02:13Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > I don’t see how Phil can be at all functional after **Groundhog Day**. I’d say, “Does he even remember how to have sex”…but I’m sure he spent several years trying to seduce every single person in town. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/36 "2014-02-06T23:05:17Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I’d say, “Does he even remember how to have sex”…but I’m sure he spent several years trying to seduce every single person in town. Pretty sure he bagged that hot chick he shmoozed at the restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/37 "2014-02-06T23:12:05Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Are guys aware of **Grease II**? That is indeed the premise of the sequel, and no, you do not need too check that one, it was a commercial and critical failure (with no John Travolta nor Olivia.) And Sandy does leave the bum. That doesn’t sound anything like the [Grease 2](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084021/) I saw. It involved Michelle Pfeiffer straddling a tall stepladder and Sandy’s younger cousin being a straight-laced young man who leads a double life as the “cool rider”. Oh yea, and bowling being something that only cool kids do. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/38 "2014-02-06T23:30:31Z")
Jeff Jeffries and Lisa Fremont (James Stewart and Grace Kelley) in _Rear Window_. She gave up a brilliant career as a fashon magazine journalist to marry him. He has a traveling news photog job, which probably pays chump change. Yeah, with her expensive tastes and both of them trying to live on his income while on the road constantly, I can see that lasting about six months or so. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/39 "2014-02-06T23:33:02Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Deckard and Rachel, _Blade Runner_ director’s cut. I’d give them five years, tops. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-doomed-movie-romance/680620/40 "2014-02-07T00:13:48Z")
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