When is the last time you sat down and said, "Wow that new rom-com looks soooo good!"
Today's movies consist of pure comedies (sometimes with a happy ending), horror films, jam packed-action-thrillers, and movies based on books broken up into two movies when that is clearly so not needed.
Only Harry Potter had a valid reason to do this, and they still cut scenes out of the movie.
Gone are the times of classic rom coms taking over the lives of young girls and women alike, gone are our expectations of chivalry and dreaming of our night in shining armor. Where is Drew Barrymore standing on a baseball field waiting for her first kiss or her living the same day over and over falling in love with the same guy every day?
Watching these movies as a kid had me dreaming of being an adult, or even just being in high school, and falling in love. I expected real life to be boys serenading girls out their windows, or the "cool" senior boys to fall for the shy freshman. Now I know that they probably never really did that, but why couldn't they?
It feels like the expectations we hold of boys and men nowadays are too low, and lack of romantic comedies where a man waits on top of the Empire State Building for you on Valentines Day plays into that.
With Netflix and chill, and rom-coms like Knocked Up, it is easy to feel like a man in your life doesn't need to try beyond sending you a text to gain your love (or body idk). Since when does sending someone a purple emoji heart mean you really care about someone and send butterflies through the girl receiving it? Where is my bouquet of flowers, that's what would really make me feel special.
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Let's ask for more of the men in our lives, and then maybe the return of these movies that our moms, sisters, friends and future children love could be real. If we demand this of society and media, it will start showing up in the mainstream and it won't be mind-blowing if a guy shows up to your dorm, apartment or house by actually walking up to the door and not texting you "here".
