Romantic comedies are classics. Even though they all seem to have the same plot, they're still our guilty pleasure and we can't help coming back for more. Whether it be the generic plot or the extremely unrealistic events in the movie, the genre is very easy to make fun of. Another thing we love doing when it comes to this genre is yearning for the rom-com lifestyle when our lives are unfortunately anything but. The rom-com comes up on Twitter plenty, and naturally, we documented the best tweets about rom-coms from this week. Scroll down to check 'em out.
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It's almost Valentine's Day, and I'm getting ready for my yearly tradition: a scented bath, a bottle of vintage wine, feeding my crows and preparing the effigy of Clark Gable which I will burn in a forest with the rest of my coven as the clock strikes midnight and the spectre of St. Valentine bids us farewell. This is what we must do every year, as it is written. But recently I can't help wondering about the couple across the hall from my apartment. Charlotte and Mark have lived across from me for a few years now, and they're pretty nice and clearly in love, but they have some WEIRD traditions. I'm talking sh*t that you only see in movies, like going to the store to buy food instead of summoning it from the great beyond, or using electricity instead of lighting candles. Who doesn't use candles?? Anyway, I've just been thinking about all the crazy stuff they probably do for Valentine's day. Like…
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Valentine's day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than by finally confessing to your crush? You know, your crush Matt who doesn't know you exist because you carefully stay hidden when you watch him through his windows with binoculars? It's time for him to meet the love of his life: you. Nothing is more romantic than a heartfelt letter on his doorstep handmade with words cut out of magazines and pasted to paper—it's creative and it won't lead back to you! Until you want it to, that is. You already know all of his interests and friends from hacking his social media, so it'll be easy to say something that will instantly stop his heart! Er, melt his heart. Here are some ideas!
Hollywood has done us a disservice in the way they dramatize romance. Life isn't full of cute random men declaring their love for us or dancing in the street singing their hearts out about how they can't live without us. Alas, if only real life were a romantic comedy. But did you ever stop to think about just how messed up some of the things that Hollywood portrays as 'romantic' in movies are? If half of those things happened in real life—I'm talking about stopping weddings, breaking into people's houses to leave flowers, and casual stalking— then they would be creepy AF and probably lead to arrests. Here are some of the things that are romantic in movies but creepy in real life.
All women hope for grand romantic gestures from their men, which lets them know exactly how much they love them. But men appreciate acts of love too and the men of Reddit have shared the most romantic things that the women in their lives have done. We may or may not be wiping away a tear!
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