Movie Morals that Annoy You

[katiebear3]

Thank you, Moldy. I totally hated Kill Bill for that reason.

Lying is good! Big Fish

[Laira]

It's perfectly okay to abandon your fiancee at the altar because you fell in 'love' with a total stranger three days before the wedding. Forget the pain and humiliation you just inflicted on someone you've been involved with for some time, someone you claimed to have loved and who presumably loves you. Don't feel guilty that you essentially wasted several years of this person's youth only to kick him or her in the teeth, in public.

Forget the sheer amount of money and time wasted on the lavish wedding, and it's always a lavish wedding. Just dump them and expect them to be understanding about it and if they're not, why, your jilted ex is the bad guy.

[roxpopuli]

The quirkier you are, or the lower you are on the totem pole, the better chance that a guy (a great catch!) will fall for you! See Arthur, While you were sleeping, Pretty Woman, An officer and a gentlemen, any movie where a girl gets a prince (I guess we can thank Cinderella for this), that stupid movie where Natalie Portman names her child Americus...ad infinitum.

[monsterzero]

Any movie that says that you must go home again to find your roots and to realize that THE BIG CITY is full of evil and different people. Yeah, Sweet Home Alabama, I'm looking at you and your cornshucking Wal-Mart shopping lot.

[dwanollah]

You have two choices: you can either live a cold, shallow, meaningless existance where you might have material wealth, but something will always be missing, OR you can do the RIGHT thing have children and live a chaotic yet joy-filled life in the suburbs! (See The Family Man, Parenthood, Father of the Bride, etc.)

[materialgirl]

Laira said:

It's perfectly okay to abandon your fiancee at the altar because you fell in 'love' with a total stranger three days before the wedding. Forget the pain and humiliation you just inflicted on someone you've been involved with for some time, someone you claimed to have loved and who presumably loves you. Don't feel guilty that you essentially wasted several years of this person's youth only to kick him or her in the teeth, in public.

Forget the sheer amount of money and time wasted on the lavish wedding, and it's always a lavish wedding. Just dump them and expect them to be understanding about it and if they're not, why, your jilted ex is the bad guy.

What movie are you talking about? I mean, I know, that's like every rom-com ever, but what movie were you thinking of, specifically?

[mommybeast]

You have to totally change in order to get the person you love. (See Grease in particular). I truly enjoyed the message I learned at 10 that, in order to bag that hawt guy, you need to be a nasty, sleazy, smoking, slutbag.

Oh, also the theme that if you love somebody enough, no matter how abusive, evil, wicked, fugly, or stanky he/she is, your PureLove will change them. And you'll live happily ever after.

Oh, one more. The theme that guy & girl fall in love. One breaks up with the other one. Breakee then, through the power of his/her Deep!Abiding!True!Love continues to pursue Breaker (with ensuing embarassment, lack of pride, & probable bodily injury from friend of Breaker proving above cited !Love!) until Breaker realizes the error of his/her ways and accepts Deep!Abiding!True!Love of Soulmate.

In the real world? It's called stalking.

[Laira]

Well, Material Girl, it's not so much a specific movie, it's the entire genre, from The Graduate to Sleepless in Seattle, where someone gets left at the altar/broken engagement at the last minute and it's not seen as monstrously selfish.

Another movie moral: Young women who live in semi-squalor, don't have regular jobs, and who for example, practically force some poor schlub to blow off the big meeting at work to wander around barefoot in the park, thus causing him to lose his job, are quirky and freespirited. No they're not, they're flakes. See Sweet November as example of the genre.

[monsterzero]

And that applies to Dahmer...er, Dharma and Greg. Run, it's changing genres!

[jennipoo]

This?

Run, it's changing genres!

I am stealing. Pronto.

Topic, topic?? Ah yes, there you are...
Movies in which the heroine finds out that her fat/nerdy/ugly/underachieving friend was the right guy all along and that all the pretty people she knows are shallow, lying pigs.
That would be Hope Floats and 13 Going on 30.