Top Ten Most Romantic Movie Moments That Would Never Actually Happen In Real Life

Posted at 5:00 AM Jul 06, 2009

By Jennifer Mathieu

Sure, we all drooled over Lloyd Dobler's boom box-carrying, love-professing moment in Say Anything.  But it's high time we realized that romantic movies have been messing with our minds for years now.  Here are our top ten romantic movie moments...and why they'd never happen in real life.

10. The beach scene in From Here to Eternity


First of all, have you ever tried to make out on a beach?  Three words.  Sand in crotch.  As dreamy as Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr's scene is, I sincerely doubt that you could really get down and dirty like this in real life.  There's the aforementioned sand in crotch problem as well as the fact that your canoodling will most likely be stumbled upon by various tiny toddlers holding sand pails.  Decidedly unromantic.

9. The factory floor scene in An Officer and a Gentleman


Would Richard Gere's character actually have been able to get past factory security to grab Debra Winger and sling her over his arms and carry her out?  Frankly, I think there would have been serious factory rules in place ensuring that outsiders were not allowed on the floor during production hours.  This is a safety issue we're talking about, people.
 
8. Lloyd's boombox scene in Say Anything

Would the boombox actually have been loud enough to reach Diane Court's room?  Also, why didn't Mr. Court come out and tell Lloyd to get lost?  And finally, the biggest reason this scene is not realistic is that there is no way on God's green earth that any man would think of something this romantic and enticing in real life.  Diane, why didn't you go to your window, you undeserving jerk??

7. The birthday cake scene in Sixteen Candles

They would have caught on fire in real life.  As they leaned in, Samantha and Jake Ryan would have totally caught fire.  That bridesmaid's dress looked very flammable.  Also, would your dad have let you just walk off with some random dude when you were supposed to be at your sister's wedding reception?  I think not.






6. The sex/pottery scene in Ghost


I think that Demi Moore's character would have been too focused on her work in real life to allow Patrick Swayze to just interrupt her sculpting like that.  And honestly, do you know how hard it is to throw a pot?  Patrick just sat down and started working it like he'd been hanging out at the pot shop all his life.  Completely unrealistic.  Also, clay is messy.  Would you want to do it while covered in clay?  Whipped cream, maybe.  Clay?  No.

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5. Basically every scene in Titanic

I don't think Her Majesty herself could have arranged for anyone from steerage to have gotten close to someone like Kate Winslet and her first-class passenger status.  Yet the entire film is based on the idea that Leo's character seduced Kate's character.  And at the end, when they're suspended above the boat and Kate's character goes on about how this is where they first met and blah blah blah?  If you ask me, I think she would have been freaking out about how she was about to meet her cold, sad death in the middle of the ocean.

4. The bus scene in The Graduate


I don't know if our public transit system would allow two people dressed as a bride and groom and who were running from an angry mob to just get on a city bus.  And once they got on, sure ... they're all dreamy-eyed and swoony as they escape into their future, but don't you think it's going to be a little weird for Dustin Hoffman's character to sleep with his new wife seeing as he slept with the girl's mother just a few weeks previous?  That's gonna make for some super awkward pillow talk.  I'm just sayin'.

3. The spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp


Most dogs would refuse the idea of eating at a table complete with a burning candle, preferring instead to consume their dinner from a bowl on the floor.  And as sweet as Lady was, do you actually think she would ever stoop to going out with someone as directionless and troubled as Tramp?  She had more dignity than that.

2. The hair washing scene in Out of Africa

So we're supposed to buy into this notion of Robert Redford washing Meryl Streep's hair while he recites poetry?  Men wouldn't do this.  Ever.  EVER!  Wash hair and recite poetry?  Maybe one of those things would have been believable.  But both at once?  Come on, now, filmmakers.  Don't insult our intelligence.




1. The marital rape scene in Gone With the Wind


See, here's the problem with this iconic scene.  Women don't like to be sexually assaulted, even by their husbands.  Call us crazy, but it's true.  We don't want to be raped even if we do get to be carried up some red-carpeted stairs.  So that pretty much makes this scene totally unrealistic.  And definitely unromantic.