Whether it be walking past a store, or looking through magazines, I have found that I am beginning to feel a little too content. Not with the joys that make up the wonders of life, no, I am feeling a little too content with the approaching Valentine’s Day. Of course this never happens, there’s always a scrunch of the face, a roll of the eyes, and a smack of the lips as I walk by the blood red and bubblegum pink colors displayed in a store window or through magazine advertisements. But this year something is different.<\/p>\n
So when I began scrolling through my Netflix feed, searching through every category for a good film to procrastinate my time with, I noticed that there aren’t any recent, emotionally-ripping, heart-wrenching, throw-your-popcorn-at-the-screen-as-you-scream-muffled-teary-words-of-disgust, romance movies out on the market.<\/p>\n
What has happened? The Notebook has been the long-standing, sappy, movie we hate to love, that we’ve gone to whenever in need of a little cry. If you haven’t seen the film, there’s a lot of love, pain, Ryan Gosling with a beard\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust watch it you won’t regret it. \u00c2\u00a0But, my point is, where is my modern sappy romance? The Notebook was released in 2004, so it has been awhile, and a few feeble attempts, since that annoyingly beautiful, sappy love has crossed our movie screens.<\/p>\n
I think it is time we viewers set up some criteria for what we are looking for in a sappy romance:<\/p>\n
Let’s have a movie with two leading actors that are kind of known, but not so popular that it becomes hard to decipher the actor from the celebrity. Let these actors have the best chemistry known to man.<\/p>\n
Then, \u00c2\u00a0let’s make one movie. One amazingly, emotional movie, and let’s leave it there. No sequels, prequels, fourquels, fivequels\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnone of that. Just one movie that will leave us longing for more until the point where we have to watch the film 178 times to feel sufficed.<\/p>\n
After that is established, let’s make a storyline that is relatable! Give us a context that we could put ourselves in as viewers, we’ve done out-of-this-world, let’s give us humans something to be hopeful for please.<\/p>\n
The last, and possibly most important component, is to let the couple be together in the end. I don’t care how messy the road is to get there, but after all our emotions have to go through, let the couple have the love that we want them to have.<\/p>\n
With these vital components, I think a good sappy romance will be on its way to winning us over, and I can go back to rolling my eyes at red and pink hearts again.<\/p>\n
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