Who is up for a romantic movie?

Ever seen a romantic movie and felt a huge relief that your life doesn’t quite mirror the hero-heroine’s picture perfect relationship? Of course not. Even if the leads are playing a looney bunch, you’ll find something to associate yourself to them. Just enough to snare you into thinking it could be you with the guy who waltzes you around the supermarket or the kind where you don’t mind smashing good china for a passionate episode of love making. Admit it. You paid tons for those crystal glasses and even though doing it on the kitchen counter is totally up your alley, you are more likely to neatly clear everything off it first. A plastic salad bowl which doesn’t have too much dressing (which you know is a pain to get off the floor) in it is OK for that swipe off the table and jump onto it in one motion moves. But only once in awhile, mind you.

Who can’t relate to the stuff you see in these love flicks anyways? Everybody, atleast deep down, will wish that their own life mirrored some part the movie. I say some part only ‘cos very few movies achieve that - I want it all - feeling. Sensible people would stay away, ‘cos most couples have enough problems as it is, without having to compare to these fictional characters. Too much mills and boons has the same effect on you.

There is a reason movies aren’t made about the mundane stuff that happens to most couples. It’s just not interesting enough. Something crazy had better happen to you, if you want your ass to be portrayed on a 40 foot screen. That’s probably why horror and thriller movies are so popular. You don’t walk away from those movies with a nagging feelin of living a sub-standard life… even if that feeling only lasts with you till you throw that empty popcorn box away.