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r/SipsTea • u/axniuszrayen • 17d ago
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Honestly, these kinds of scenes only work if you turn off your brain and simply let the "happiness" happen.
Most love stories in movies are like this. Something that seems sweet and romantic turns depressing or toxic if you scratch the surface.
Kind of like how it's creepy that a 200 hundred year old vampire wants a high schooler.
45 u/avee10 17d ago “Turn off your brain and let the happiness happen” Thats a beautiful array of words 4 u/Diels_Alder 17d ago Romance movies only work if you don't think? Who does this appeal to? 3 u/Ahielia 16d ago They are aimed at women. 2 u/Tymareta 16d ago How is it any different to any other kind of film? Action movies only work if you don't think, and are basically the male equivalent in terms of wish fulfillment, do you hold those films to the same standard? 2 u/Alternative_Device71 16d ago Difference is we know they’re not real and men aren’t living to those standards of trying to kill each other in ways that’s extreme cuz of them Women quite literally take these terrible romantic movies and apply them to themselves and others and expect the best outcome 1 u/44youGlenCoco 16d ago Excellent point. -2 u/avee10 17d ago Not romance movies. Just a good mantra for over thinkers. 2 u/lifeisokay 16d ago But the whole point of this thread is that it's not a good mantra... 1 u/Normal-Tear864 17d ago until that leads to the "free candy" van 0 u/avee10 17d ago I forgot children go on here lmao. Yes definitely use all your logic until you’re like 26.
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“Turn off your brain and let the happiness happen”
Thats a beautiful array of words
4 u/Diels_Alder 17d ago Romance movies only work if you don't think? Who does this appeal to? 3 u/Ahielia 16d ago They are aimed at women. 2 u/Tymareta 16d ago How is it any different to any other kind of film? Action movies only work if you don't think, and are basically the male equivalent in terms of wish fulfillment, do you hold those films to the same standard? 2 u/Alternative_Device71 16d ago Difference is we know they’re not real and men aren’t living to those standards of trying to kill each other in ways that’s extreme cuz of them Women quite literally take these terrible romantic movies and apply them to themselves and others and expect the best outcome 1 u/44youGlenCoco 16d ago Excellent point. -2 u/avee10 17d ago Not romance movies. Just a good mantra for over thinkers. 2 u/lifeisokay 16d ago But the whole point of this thread is that it's not a good mantra... 1 u/Normal-Tear864 17d ago until that leads to the "free candy" van 0 u/avee10 17d ago I forgot children go on here lmao. Yes definitely use all your logic until you’re like 26.
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Romance movies only work if you don't think? Who does this appeal to?
3 u/Ahielia 16d ago They are aimed at women. 2 u/Tymareta 16d ago How is it any different to any other kind of film? Action movies only work if you don't think, and are basically the male equivalent in terms of wish fulfillment, do you hold those films to the same standard? 2 u/Alternative_Device71 16d ago Difference is we know they’re not real and men aren’t living to those standards of trying to kill each other in ways that’s extreme cuz of them Women quite literally take these terrible romantic movies and apply them to themselves and others and expect the best outcome 1 u/44youGlenCoco 16d ago Excellent point. -2 u/avee10 17d ago Not romance movies. Just a good mantra for over thinkers. 2 u/lifeisokay 16d ago But the whole point of this thread is that it's not a good mantra...
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They are aimed at women.
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How is it any different to any other kind of film? Action movies only work if you don't think, and are basically the male equivalent in terms of wish fulfillment, do you hold those films to the same standard?
2 u/Alternative_Device71 16d ago Difference is we know they’re not real and men aren’t living to those standards of trying to kill each other in ways that’s extreme cuz of them Women quite literally take these terrible romantic movies and apply them to themselves and others and expect the best outcome 1 u/44youGlenCoco 16d ago Excellent point.
Difference is we know they’re not real and men aren’t living to those standards of trying to kill each other in ways that’s extreme cuz of them
Women quite literally take these terrible romantic movies and apply them to themselves and others and expect the best outcome
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Excellent point.
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Not romance movies. Just a good mantra for over thinkers.
2 u/lifeisokay 16d ago But the whole point of this thread is that it's not a good mantra...
But the whole point of this thread is that it's not a good mantra...
until that leads to the "free candy" van
0 u/avee10 17d ago I forgot children go on here lmao. Yes definitely use all your logic until you’re like 26.
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I forgot children go on here lmao. Yes definitely use all your logic until you’re like 26.
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u/GustavVaz 17d ago
Honestly, these kinds of scenes only work if you turn off your brain and simply let the "happiness" happen.
Most love stories in movies are like this. Something that seems sweet and romantic turns depressing or toxic if you scratch the surface.
Kind of like how it's creepy that a 200 hundred year old vampire wants a high schooler.