# Movies where a nice guy loses his girlfriend to a nicer guy?(spoilers in op) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184 "2006-01-09T18:13:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/21 "2006-01-09T21:49:19Z")
What really bugs me about _Serendipity_ is that he ends up with the other woman _because of_ how nice his fiancee is (she finds the book for him with the number in it). ---
**Author:** ![Ty\_Cobb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ty\_Cobb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ty_Cobb)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/22 "2006-01-10T01:13:18Z")
I just want to see the girl run off with the “dangerous” guy, the one we’ve already seen cheating on her and stealing from her purse. Serves her right for trying to use him as a backup until the better guy comes along! ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/23 "2006-01-10T04:09:58Z")
In _Spiderman 2_, Mary Jane was going to marry John Jameson (J. Jonah Jameson’s son), but she leaves him for Peter Parker. John wasn’t a bad guy, and I actually felt sorry for him. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/24 "2006-01-10T04:14:01Z")
**Sweet Home Alabama** - Patrick Dempsey’s character was really nice and was even gracious in defeat. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/25 "2006-01-10T04:32:40Z")
Sometimes after the woman has chosen the _new_ good guy, something bad befalls the _previous_ good guy. I can only think of one example at the moment. In “ **Forbidden Planet** ”, Jack Kelly and Leslie Nielsen were both vying for Anne Francis. Eventually, Jack Kelly realizes he has lost and concedes: “It’s all right skipper. She chose the right guy”. When he says that, you \*know \*Jack Kelly has just become the “dead meat” character. About a minute later he is torn apart by the “Monster From The Id” creature. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/26 "2006-01-10T04:46:26Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > If sex reversal is allowed, there’s Sound of Music. Granted, the Baronness isn’t all that of an evil witch, but I wouldn’t say she was _nice_, per se… My vote: Shaw’s _Pygmalion_. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/27 "2006-01-10T10:17:13Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Granted, the Baronness isn’t all that of an evil witch, but I wouldn’t say she was _nice_, per se… Granted, she isn’t all that of a perfect saint, but I wouldn’t say she was _unnice_, per se… No, seriously, I don’t remember anything bad about her. What was wrong with her? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/28 "2006-01-10T10:28:04Z")
In _You’ve Got Mail_ isn’t the apparently very slatternly Meg Ryan actually living with a character played by Greg Kinnear? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/29 "2006-01-10T10:32:08Z")
Maybe _Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines_, or even _The Last Valley_. (Just try watching either one o’ those right after the other one, though. Yikes.) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/30 "2006-01-10T10:35:10Z")
Meg Ryan again in _French Kiss_ dumps Timothy Hutton for criminal Kevin Kline. Sacre blu! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/31 "2006-01-10T11:43:47Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Plot-ending spoiler for My Best Friend’s Wedding: > > IIRC, she fails to do this at the end. Moreover, Jules (Julia Roberts’ character) hardly qualifies as nice, at least not in her behavior towards Michael & Kimmy. She is, by her own admission, lower than pond-scum. The story is about her getting her comeuppance (or growing up). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/32 "2006-01-10T12:23:29Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > In _Spiderman 2_, Mary Jane was going to marry John Jameson (J. Jonah Jameson’s son), but she leaves him for Peter Parker. John wasn’t a bad guy, and I actually felt sorry for him. MJ comes across as a total bitch in those final scenes. It almosy ruins a very good movie. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184/33 "2006-01-10T12:36:42Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > Meg Ryan again in _French Kiss_ dumps Timothy Hutton for criminal Kevin Kline. Sacre blu! IIRC correctly Meg Ryan’s character was travelling to Paris to find her fiancee who had run off with a French girl. He’d dumped her for a French hottie. Not exactly “nice guy” material (although perfectly understandable). 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-a-nice-guy-loses-his-girlfriend-to-a-nicer-guy-spoilers-in-op/339184.md?page=1)