An interesting article

I read a very interesting article by Nick Harris entitled "Why Romantic Comedies are bad for love." In addition to explaining why young women have unrealistic expectations of romantic relationships (in other words, Harris criticizes the unrealistic effects of things such as fights and cheating, in addition to the fact that the main characters are always beautiful and are always destined for each other), Harris also included a list of the top ten most realistic Romantic Comedies and the most surprising movie on that list was the 2008 Disney-Pixar film "Wall-E!"

It's actually interesting because the research experiment that was referenced in Harris's article was also referenced in quite a few other articles and documents published in years ranging from 2008-2010, one such being an article in The Telegraph. The project was set forth by a team from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. They watched 40 box-office hits, summarized their findings and then interviewed hundreds of people to find out their expectations of relationships.

Dr. Holmes, a leading psychologist of the project said something very interesting. And I quote:

"Marriage counsellors often see couples who believe that sex should always be perfect, and if someone is meant to be with you then they will know what you want without you needing to communicate it.

We now have some emerging evidence that suggests popular media play a role in perpetuating these ideas in people's minds.

"The problem is that while most of us know that the idea of a perfect relationship is unrealistic, some of us are still more influenced by media portrayals than we realize."

Definitely gives you something to think about the next time you watch a romantic comedy!

The link to The Telegraph article is here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3776923/Romantic-comedies-make-us-unrealistic-about-relationships-claim-scientists.html

Why Romantic Comedies?

My research project is an investigation on the portrayal of unrealistic relationships in Romantic Comedy films and its impressions on young women in heterosexual relationships. This is important because throughout the years of Romantic Comedy history, women have constantly found themselves disappointed because their relationships do not live up to those portrayed on the silver screen. My group has decided that it was important for us to let women of all ages, everywhere that the relationships portrayed in romantic comedies are completely unrealistic for a vareity of reasons. We've research our topic and have found quite a few interesting facts about the effects of romantic comedies including studies we've found and professional articles on the subject. We hope to use these resources and our knowledge of Romantic Comedies to answer the question, "How do you Romantic Comedies effect young women in heterosexual relationships?"

Hello Everyone!

I've recently discovered a romantic comedy filmed near my house called "Out of Sight." The film is from 1998 and stars JLo and George Clooney (sigh!) After watching a clip of this movie for my film class, I realized how perfect their love scene looked and how flawless JLo's hair was the whole time...
Talk about unrealistic expectations!
What do you think??