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).
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!
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.
Sweet Home Alabama - Patrick Dempsey’s character was really nice and was even gracious in defeat.
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.
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.
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?
In You’ve Got Mail isn’t the apparently very slatternly Meg Ryan actually living with a character played by Greg Kinnear?
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.)
Meg Ryan again in French Kiss dumps Timothy Hutton for criminal Kevin Kline. Sacre blu!
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).
MJ comes across as a total bitch in those final scenes. It almosy ruins a very good movie.
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).
