Don't go in there 2: Amor vincit omnia

This clip, from the only feature length romantic comedy parody I know of, illustrates the problem with most of these movies. Most of the behaviour associated with love in the movies are the kind of things that should get you arrested. All kinds of crazy stalker behaviour is fine, people spontaneous and quirky to the point of madness, unbelievably precious and cute and totally unrealistic relationships where no one has any flaws and there's nothing keeping two people apart except some convoluted misunderstanding. Even more horrible, because I'm the target market, are the films where some nebbishy, straight-laced loser learns to love life because he falls in love with a crazy girl. You never seem to call those back in real life, usually because you want to see other, less crazy people. It's a testament to the skill and charisma of most of these actors that you generally feel sympathetic to their plans to ruin a perfectly good existing relationship so they can have a perfectly twee happy ending with the object of their affection.