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Susannah Elf

(140 posts)
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 05:11 PM Apr 2015

What movies have done the best job of depicting dating?

I was chatting with someone the other day who was talking about a terrible movie he'd just seen. The man in it behaved like a piece of cheesecake and when he actually spoke it was ridiculous dialogue. Unfortunately the movie wasn't named.
I told him about "Enough Said" because there were similar plot points but it was a really good movie. Both characters (played by Julia Louis Dreyfus and James Gandolfini) were decent and sympathetic, they made mistakes and then handled them like adults.
So what are your favorites? Which depict the person of your sex most accurately? Any nominations for the Hall of Shame?

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What movies have done the best job of depicting dating? (Original Post) Susannah Elf Apr 2015 OP
Fifty First Dates. Loved it. JimDandy Apr 2015 #1
High Fidelity n/m ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2015 #2
Love high fidelity! Susannah Elf Apr 2015 #3
+1 n/t FSogol May 2015 #9
My dating experience before I met my wife... hunter Apr 2015 #4
Eraserhead? Susannah Elf Apr 2015 #5
That wasn't the first or last time I mistook dark and deeply twisted... hunter Apr 2015 #6
It's a fine line... Susannah Elf Apr 2015 #7
hmmmmm.... unionthug777 Apr 2015 #8

hunter

(38,933 posts)
4. My dating experience before I met my wife...
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 11:28 PM
Apr 2015

... or what I presume is a "normal" dating experience?

I had a girlfriend who thought Eraserhead would be a good date movie.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraserhead

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486

That relationship did not end well.

My wife leans more to The Princess Bride sorts of movies.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_%28film%29

I do like to think of myself as a retired pirate sometimes...


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