Movies - I'd forgotten about those - for a reason too...
...my first and most nightmarish 'serious' girlfriend at ages 15-17 made me watch:

* Gone with the Wind (I'm surprised that my man-bits didn't disappear into my body during that one)
* Big Business (Lily Tomlin/Bette Midler 80's power-dressed rom com, or as I prefer to describe it, utter wank)
* Working Girl (as above but replace Tomlin and Midler with Sigourney Weaver and some squeaky bint whose name escapes me)
* And not forgetting Dirty fucking Dancing. Oh, but I hate that movie.

True enough, she was my GF, I was her BF, we were teens and so were at it wherever/whenever folk weren't looking anyway but fuck, why did she torture me like that? Especially Dirty Dancing - I hate that one so much because she used to come out with cheesy lines from it and play the soundtrack all the bastard time. I now hate any and all disenfranchised-young-person-gains-credibility-and-{insert pubescent desire here}-by-dancing-then-dancing-and-dancing-some-fucking-more-type movies because of that crock of shit. I steadfastly refused to do actual Dirty Dancing with her too - I had my pride even then.

As for the likes of Bridget Jones, 10 Things, Love Actually etc - reasons to be glad that I'll never have a girlfriend again. Or indeed a girly boyfriend.

EDIT - yes, The English Patient - I watched it when it was on TV because I fancied Ralph Feinnes but I remember at the time pitying every bloke that got arm-twisted into it by his missus - the movie itself was as boring as hell and had a stupid cop-out end. BAFTAs/Oscars be fucked - it sucked.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Thu 19 Apr 2007, 13:44, Reply)