Ah, please remember I never put these movies in any particular order. They are all just so horrible and hard to watch. How could anyone enjoy these for the romance alone?!
1. Maid in Manhattan
So a low income maid works at this swanky uptown hotel and meets a senatorial candidate. She's trying on a fancy dress, he thinks she belongs somehow to high class society and they go out. She tells him the truth and somehow he still wants to date this no talent crap actress, er, I mean maid? This was supposed to be some feel good movie, I guess, but the one thing you really need in a romance movie is some chemistry leading to romance. In this one, there was none. I thoroughly hated this movie, as well as all other Jennifer Lopez movies. She can't sing and and she can't act. She was better off as a fly girl on In Living Color.
2. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Alternate title for this movie while it was in production "How to Lose an Audience with a Boring Couple". So the girl makes a bet she can drop a guy who's interested in her in 10 days, the guy makes a bet that he can make a girl fall in love with him in 10 days and somehow these two just happen to meet up in a bar in a city of millions. So they have no chemistry leading to no romance. It's not funny charming or interesting to watch.....a real snooooooozer for me.
3. Valentine's Day
Wow did this movie suck! It felt a lot like another movie on this list, "He's Just Not that Into You". There are so many characters in this movie that you end up not caring about a single one. There's a ton of actors that are more likable in other roles, it just seemed like someone (I'm talking about you Garry Marshall) couldn't make an interesting movie about one couple so they threw all their ideas about couples into one movie. The main premise is to follow around several people/couples on Valentine's Day as they meet, break up, and make up. Trust me, do not waste your time, not even for Bradley Cooper.
4. Love Actually
Same idea as above with the same boring outcome. Follow 8 couples around in London (instead of L.A.) a month before Christmas (Boxing Day in England). Just as bad as Valentine's Day only without Bradley Cooper. Ugh.
5. Twilight
Do I even need to explain? I will just for the non-believers. The main male is a stoned pasty white old man vampire and has no chemistry with the plain jane boring girl from Phoenix. Even though he's clinically dead he somehow impregnates her with his vampire baby love/dead child.
What???!!!!
No chemistry, no romance, no reason to watch.
6. Letters to Juliet
I have reviewed this horrible story in a separate post. Bland, boring people from different walks of life, who at first seem to hate each other, end up together at the end. How predictable, and oh my gosh how this movie lacks a good plot and the characters have no chemistry.
7. He's Just Not that Into You
The book was awesome for single girls like me. Lots of examples and common sense approach to guys info. This movie was trying to show all the examples from the book but they just made them all very boring characters to watch. Bradley Cooper again is in this one and even though he's extremely hot, he doesn't save the movie. There's a lot of actors I don't like in here, in a movie without drama or interesting plots. Skip it.
8. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
This list is like torture. A guy treats women like crap and the ghost of Christmas (girlfriends) past comes to visit him and let him know he's a real jerk. He ends up with a really goodie two shoes girl at the end that's supposed to understand him and love him anyway, but you really don't care what happens to these two.
9. Dying Young
A rich man with terminal cancer needs a nanny/maid/caretaker. He hires a woman who has no medical background because he's attracted to her. The two fall in love, he doesn't die at the end. There. Now there's no good reason to waste your time on this movie. The two characters are lifeless (pun intended) and even more lifeless together. I was hoping this one was going to be fantastic and I was really disappointed.
10. The Holiday
I couldn't even make it to the end in this one. Jude Law at one point looks like a Ku Klux Klan member trying to make kids laugh awkwardly with a white triangular napkin on his face. Women switch houses on different continents around Christmas to get away from their dead end boyfriends. They meet new dead end guys that are boring and they fall in love. Jack Black is so unlikable already, it's impossible to really like anyone in this one. They should've called it "The Holi-snooze". I ended up making out with my date on the couch somewhere after the hour and a half point. He was much better than watching this movie. I have never finished it.
I hadn't realized there are so many bad romantic films out there. Here are a few more to add to the list.
11. The Wedding Planner
Lonely pathetic wedding planner meets doctor on street while she's about to get run over. She's planning his wedding, but falls in love with him instead, probably ruining her career, if you ask me. Both characters lack any passion and chemistry with each other. It's another snooze movie. No romance and no laughs. Can Jennifer Lopez or Matthew McConaughey have chemistry with ANYONE on screen?
12. Runaway Bride
I was actually dumb enough to go watch this in the theaters. You know when a movie starts, and you're sitting there in the dark with a whole bunch of strangers and you get that sinking feeling that you just paid for a terrible movie....? That was me, about a quarter of the way through this one. A columnist is assigned to a story about a woman who always leaves her finances in the dust at the alter. Something about she doesn't like the way they make eggs in the end. He falls for her. Maybe they get married at the end, I know I don't remember, nor do I care, but you just can't have these two in any other movie but Pretty Woman, ok Hollywood?!
13. Four Weddings and a Funeral
I heard so many people rave about how great this movie was for so long that I expected it to be watchable. This was one of the most boring romance movies I have ever watched. Five times this bachelor meets up with this woman and he falls in love with her even though he doesn't want to. You know I really used to like Hugh Grant until he cheated on Elizabeth Hurley with that ugly transvestite. Hugh Grant is really a big jerk. That's all I have to say about this movie. Oh, and don't watch it.
14. Bridget Jones Diary
Another one....everyone was raving about.....I hated it. I don't care that a stuck up British woman keeps a year long diary while trying to improve herself and find love. Colin Firth is charming yes, but he doesn't make this movie worth watching. Skip it.
15. Pearl Harbor
So technically, I wouldn't call this a romance, it's supposed to be more of a drama, but it fails at that too. In fact, whatever kind of movie it was supposed to be it fails at except for the unwatchable kind of movie. The movie follows two best friends love lives as they go into war. The only thing I did like was watching Ben Affleck get stuck in the ass twice by a needle and get loopy. That was a cute scene, but other than that this movie is really unwatchable.
16. Dear John
Another movie I already reviewed in a previous post. A guy and girl fall madly in like with each other over a short break and are separated by miles and years as he gets deeper into the military after 9-11 and she marries some handicap sickly guy with a kid. They kill time until they meet up again and he's out of the war, and her husband dies. Pretty sick movie if you ask me. Plus no chemistry, no heat, no passion, no interest from me................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Very good if you are trying to fall asleep though.
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