I AM NOT A ROMCOM GIRL!

[raeschae]

So what is with my current obsession?

We saw this trailer for No Strings Attached with Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman last weekend, before Love and Other Drugs. Now I want to see it, too! What is wrong with me? Should I blame J2 AUs for making me romcom-hungry again? I thought I was passed this!!!!

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[blondie-lottie.livejournal.com]

I am more enamoured with Love and Other Drugs than I am with No Strings Attached but I have no agree with you on the WTF!ery regarding romcoms. As a rule I don't do rom-coms. They make me angry, question the true meaning of relationships and generally want to spit up whatever sugary fizzy drink I am consuming at the time over their all-too-perfect moments. In all they are prefectly summed up in the dearblankpleaseblank comment of:

Dear Romantic Movies,
Please stop making my ordinary life with my ordinary boyfriend seem boring.
Sincerely, I was happy and satisfied until I watched you.

Yet here I am texting my friend asking whether we can get tickets to see both of these.

[raeschae.livejournal.com]

Everything you said, I totally agree.

I get frustrated with the obvious inevitability of it - like when a couple starts in a 'sex only' relationship, you know they're going to end up falling in love with each other and they're going to get their happily-ever-after. That being said, I'm readily willing to admit that I get irrationally angry if it doesn't end up that way.

It's exactly the same way I feel about J2 fic and I know it doesn't make sense but it's like any other vice, I guess. My logical brain says one thing and my feel-good place says another and, in the end, I'm paying eight dollars to watch Ashton Kutcher have sex with Natalie Portman while trying not to fall in love with her.

*sigh* I might as well just surrender to the love. It gets me every time. Even if it's totally unrealistic.

[blondie-lottie.livejournal.com]

Oh totally. I tell myself time and time again that just because it makes me feel good for those deliciously sweet few moments doesn't mean that it's going to keep me on that perpetual love high for long.

Usually, after watching a rom-com, I convince myself that I'd love a movie to be realistic for once. For the "hot" guy to choose the "pretty" girl over the "decent, intelligent, slightly less than stereotypically perfect and not a size zero" girl and then for her to bounce from failed relationship to failed relationship until she ends up with a guy who is probably the best thing since sliced bread to happen to her, yet she still questions whether there isn't something more romantic, more perfect and more 'rom-com' out there...

Ahem. Then again maybe there is a reason I don't want to be reminded of why my life shouldn't be a movie.

So you are right. As much as I too get frustrated at the obvious route that it will take and the inevitable "It was you all along!" I do still yearn for it. Perhaps because I do love love I read J2 rom-com fic, tell myself that I prefer to watch movies that involve explosions or sci-fi and yet still pay to see those wretched rom-coms after all of that.

Oh frailty, thy name is woman