Comments on: 10 Movie Romances That Probably Didn’t Last

By: audrey james

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By: juno

juno — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:15:54 +0000

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By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:06:12 +0000

Wait, you do know they don’t keep the baby in ‘Juno’, right? He gets adopted by Jennifer Garner and they probably have little to do with him.

By: Joey37

Joey37 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:03:32 +0000

David and Susan from Bringing Up Baby ain’t gonna last for 5 minutes!

By: Tim R.

Tim R. — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:30:38 +0000

Glaring us in the face is one of the most notable romances, if not one of my favorite film(s). Han & Leia in star wars. Yes, I’m freakin’ serious!
What do you thing is going to happen next? After Leia comes home from screaming at the Galactic Senate she’s gonna chase little scoundrels all over the place while Han drinks a six- pack of Spacewiser Lite, working under the Falcon in the driveway in a wife beater t-shirt! Why can’t Han get a nine to fiver, and work with Chewie in the rug cleaning business? He swears, pushes threepio down a flight of stairs and tears off in the falcon with Lando to some seedy bar where he hooks up with some tenticled thing wondering where his youth went?! Thats what!
Han and Leia had heat, but he’s a smuggler for god’s sake! Really?!

By: Joseph Chastain

Joseph Chastain — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:24:01 +0000

Danny and Sandy in Grease. Do we really believe that a girl who forced herself to change her entire personality would last forever with some dumb greaser?

By: Paul Moore

Paul Moore — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:53:00 +0000

I feel funny saying it, Adslinger, but how is it possible to suggest THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS cartoon was somehow a prequel to GHOSTBUSTERS? They founded Ghostbusters Inc. in the original movie.

Unless they experimented with ghost wrangling on the side during their college years at MIT… which actually sounds like an amazing show. Hmmm.

By: Lurker

Lurker — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:04 +0000

Too funny - the first thing I said to my friend when the wedding scene popped up at the end of “Crystal Skull” was, “I give it six months.”

By: katya

katya — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:19:29 +0000

no, not chungking express in the list!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:23:43 +0000

John
Posted June 10, 2008 at 2:45 pm | Permalink
This whole list is ridiculous. Obviously it’s opinion, but what is this author basing this stuff on? Has he ever had a relationship that worked?

PS If The Graduate stuff is obvious, why include it? And the point about the book is pointless too unless we’re assuming that authorial intention is the last word on a work.

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Um, unless you believe “The Graduate” wrote itself, the author’s intention IS the last word on a work.

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:45:43 +0000

This whole list is ridiculous. Obviously it’s opinion, but what is this author basing this stuff on? Has he ever had a relationship that worked?

PS If The Graduate stuff is obvious, why include it? And the point about the book is pointless too unless we’re assuming that authorial intention is the last word on a work.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:05:31 +0000

Samantha and Jake in Sixteen Candals; Gary and Deb and Wyatt and Hilly in Weird Science - although I love 80s films no way these relationships lasted

By: Christopher Campbell

Christopher Campbell — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:22:03 +0000

I guess I never saw that episode, AdSlinger. Sounds awesomely meta.

By: MrShow

MrShow — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:48:27 +0000

Haven’t seen most of these, but I’m pretty sure that no one was supposed to believe Ben and Elaine would last in The Graduate. I’ve read some things and also discussed this with my film professor in college, supporting the view that they’re doomed right at the end of the film.

By: AdSlinger

AdSlinger — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:30:50 +0000

One point to mention is that the Real Ghostbusters cartoon was not a continuation of the movies. There was an episode in which the “Real Ghostbusters” actually sit through a screening of the movie and are perturbed by the ridiculous character portrayals.

So, in fact, the cartoon was more of a prequel than a continuation.

But I don’t think they’d have lasted anyway, for a variety of reasons.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:21:29 +0000

Did you even watch Juno?? You keep talking like they kept the baby, the thing has nothing to do with Juno and Paulie. I’m gonna have to say you are way off on that one.

By: Trevor of Doom

Trevor of Doom — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:18:03 +0000

i didn’t like Juno, solely for the fact that she and Paulie were still together at the end.
having seen the business end of adoption and being a biological father, i know that the odds of a couple staying together after giving a child up for adoption are astronomical. as in, scientifically impossible. and yes, add the fact that it’s a high school romance, which only lasts when you live in a town with a population that just barely outnumbers your IQ.
but maybe i’m just jaded.

and as for the Kermit - Ms. Piggy connection, he obviously is a fan of the attention, even if he doesn’t actually care for her. it’s been demonstrated on the Muppet show as he’ll get jealous of any other man (or bear, or pig, or whatever) who catches her attention.

By: Christopher Campbell

Christopher Campbell — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:14:53 +0000

Lambman, then I’m correct to include it, but despite what we learned from film school, it’s not certain they WOULDN’T last, either. Plus, Hollywood would try anything, as is the point of parody in Henry’s cameo in The Player. Also, Charles Webb wrote a sequel to his original book, titled Home School, which hasn’t been published. In it, Ben and Elaine are married. So…

By: Christopher Campbell

Christopher Campbell — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:08:19 +0000

DJ, I didn’t mention Temple of Doom.

By: lambman

lambman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:06:34 +0000

ps,

how isn’t there a Julia Roberts or Reese Whitherspoon or Meg Ryan character anywhere on this list? Do you really think that Sleepless in Seattle nut job ended up happy?

By: lambman

lambman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:05:06 +0000

LOL

This list is pretty ridiculous. I can’t believe anybody would even consider The Graduate for something like this. The final scene is one of the most famous scenes in film history and the entire point is to show that the two have no plans of their own for their future. They cover that scene in pretty much any freshman level film course, heck it was covered in my high school film class.

By: DJ Miller

DJ Miller — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:14:03 +0000

Actually, wasn’t Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom a prequel? It takes place in ‘35, and ROTLA takes place in ‘36. Just sayin’.

By: Nick Plowman

Nick Plowman — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:23:46 +0000

Michael, I disagree. I think their relationship only grew stronger. I guess it all boils down to opinions.

You really hit the nail on Juno and Chunking.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:02:02 +0000

I can’t believe that Alison and Ben from “Knocked Up” aren’t on this list. No way they make it as a couple past that baby’s second birthday.