Anyone else hate shoehorned love stories in genre films?

DerekG

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Sat Jul-31-10 11:09 AM
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Anyone else hate shoehorned love stories in genre films?

Shadow of a Doubt
Red River
The Searchers

These are just a handful of near-masterpieces tarnished by some bizarre need to cram in a dopey romantic subplot. Can't I have my tales of obsession served straight-up, without this make-nice crap?

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NV Whino

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Sat Jul-31-10 11:22 AM
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1. Naw, they have to stick to the formula doncha know

I hate it in novels as well. Got a nice exciting plot going, but damned if they don't interrupt it to throw in a hackneyed love scene... or two.

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mitchum

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Sat Jul-31-10 07:32 PM
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2. Yes, especially in porn films

I just want to watch people have casual recreational sex without all that emotional bonding

Seriously, I definitely agree with you about your three examples

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GoCubsGo

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Sat Jul-31-10 08:24 PM
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3. Almost as much as I hate shoehorned romances in TV shows

House-Dr. Cameron
Gil Grissom-Sara Sidle
Hawkeye-Margaret Houlihan

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rrneck

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Sat Jul-31-10 08:33 PM
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4. Oops Dupe

Edited on Sat Jul-31-10 08:34 PM by rrneck

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rrneck

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Sat Jul-31-10 08:33 PM
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5. Pearl Harbor

Ebert called it a Japanese attack on a love triangle.

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Jokerman

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Sun Aug-01-10 07:08 AM
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6. "The Caine Mutiny"

An excellent movie, if you fast forward through the goofy scenes between Ensign Keith and May Wynn.

Speaking of May Wynn, how weird is this:

"Actress May Wynn (real name: Donna Lee Hickey) adopted the name of her character in this movie, May Wynn, as her stage name, and made eight more films under that name. In the novel, May Wynn is itself a stage name."

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UTUSN

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Sun Aug-01-10 09:58 AM
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7. Like when Sofia LOREN pounced and bounced on top of the dying Quixote's body

One might argue that the love story was integral to the original: Uh, no, the FANTASY of the love story was. So, when the "real life" character/inspiration of the fantasy character physically *responds* to the corpus Quixote, it's an INTRUSION!1 Like a fly in the soup or a hair in the scrambled eggs, where you can see the Denny's cook through the slot, with stringy, sweaty hair... ----but I digress!1 Live-Laugh-Love: Meh.

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Bucky

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Sun Aug-01-10 10:39 AM
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8. Sticking a love interest in a movie is really about creating a context for on-screen boobies

Otherwise the on-screen nudity is just exploitation. (Cf., Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008))

Still, there's something oddly puritanical in the American movie trope that the hero is the guy who gets laid, sex being the standard reward for on-screen virtue. Male characters are morally actualized by sex in much the same way that female characters are actualized by lip syncing pop songs into their hairbrushes at a pajama party.

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MorningGlow

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Sun Aug-01-10 10:45 AM
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9. Titanic

Yeah, fangirls be damned. The real stories of the real people on the real Titanic were much more interesting. Too bad they were vaguely referenced in the background (cf the elderly couple who chose to die in each other's arms instead of trying to get on a lifeboat--that was one of the true stories) while Kate and Leo hogged the screen.

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