I've considered this many times -the most recent during my break at 11pm in an empty hospital - the total ridiculousness of most romantic comedies, and the obvious point that the plot has, and probably never will, happen to anyone. Mainly I think about these things after watching a movie and swooning over the luck of the main character, and how I wish things would work out so well for me. The reality though, is that no one hires a male escort to fly with them to another country to attend a wedding as their date, causing them to then fall madly in love (not lust, which is more believable) with them over a course of days. The first part might be believable, but no male escort is going to suddenly see the light over a weekend with one client and then drop his entire life for her. And c'mon. He was a male escort. Maybe some STD testing would be in order? Also, no one is miraculously saved from a runaway dumpster by a gorgeous pediatrician. It just doesn't happen. And even if it does, the chances that he's single and available are very slim. In the case of The Wedding Planner, he actually is engaged to be married.. and yet he goes on a date with Jennifer Lopez, and leads her to believe he has no one in his life. Real winner you've picked there, girl. And yet it somehow works out in the end. Because people really do call off a million dollar wedding at the last minute to marry someone who also didn't get married on the same day (to a rather attractive Italian, might I add.. b/c she's just that lucky to have both Matthew McConnaughey and gorgeous Italian guy in her life.)
These are just a few examples, but they are obvious flaws in the realities of love. They tend to skip over the actual construction of a relationship, and make everything work out for everyone, all the the time. While most woman realize this is total BS, I think a part of us all really wants these stories to be true.. and wants to believe that it might someday happen to us. Maybe we'll be the one lucky person to experience the fairy tale, and never have to worry about anything ever again. But sometimes those thoughts are dangerous ones, and in reality, we just have the movies to fuel our imagination to think, "wouldn't it be nice?"
