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30-04-2025
- Entertainment
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23 Movies That Are Considered Romantic But Are Actually Low-Key Soooooooooooo Toxic
Reddit user phantom_avenger recently asked the members of r/moviecritic, "What movie is considered 'romantic' when in reality it's very toxic?" People quickly filled the thread with their hot takes on beloved rom-coms and other supposedly "heartwarming" films (that perhaps didn't age so well). Here's what they shared: 1. " 50 First Dates. She's incapable of having any romantic relationship because of her condition, and he basically took advantage of a woman with a mental disability. Imagine the absolute torture she endures daily, waking up to realize she has a husband and child she's completely incapable of remembering. She will have to endure that torture the rest of her life." 2. "How about While You Were Sleeping? She literally allows the man and his family to think she is his secret fiancée, and then she falls for his brother. WTH?" — Animated-Opinions24 " Sandra Bullock works for mass transit and saves a regular rider, whom she has a crush on, after he was mugged, but he ends up in a coma. His family thinks she's his fiancée, and she just goes with it. She falls in love with the coma guy's brother after spending so much time with his family. After the coma guy wakes up, they work up to his wedding while everyone thinks he has amnesia since he doesn't recognize Bullock, only to have her back out last minute confessing everything, and she ends up with the brother in the end." — ManateeGag 3. " Mrs. Doubtfire. It turns out that Daniel was always capable of being a good parent and taking actual care of the family; he just chose not to until his wife got fed up. Then, instead of accepting that being a lazy man-child has consequences and trying to prove himself the right way, he commits fraud and deceives this entire family and the court. Still one of my favorite movies though." 4. " Never Been Kissed. A teacher has feelings for a student, yet is angry she 'lied to him' about being an adult undercover in the school." 5. " Big. It's a young boy trapped in a man's body. He kisses and has sex with a woman, and then, after she learns the truth, she still wants to be with him when he's older. I enjoyed the story when I was younger, but it left a bad taste in my mouth after rewatching it. Who thinks of and writes that stuff?" 6. " Overboard. Kurt Russell kidnaps Goldie Hawn and forces her into domestic slavery." — AdWonderful5920 "This. I remember watching that movie when I was a kid (I was born in 1993, so I saw this movie sometime in the 2000s), and I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that he kidnapped her, and she stayed with him?" — mh0326 7. " Four Weddings and a Funeral. Carrie (Andie MacDowell) is awful to Charles (Hugh Grant). She invites him wedding dress shopping when he clearly fancies her, and this is after they have slept together, and then invites him to her wedding too. Then she shows up to his wedding, assuming this is unexpected based on his reaction, and then blows that up. She is a horrible, self-absorbed, narcissistic person. 'Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed.' WORST line delivery EVER!!" 8. " My Best Friend's Wedding. I'm glad she didn't get him in the end." — cbunni666 "I just feel bad for Cameron Diaz, who DOES get him in the end. Dermot Mulroney's character is awful. He continues to openly flirt with Jules, and one of his marriage conditions for his 20-year-old fiancée (he's 30) is that she quit college to follow him around as he writes about baseball. While Jules is terrible, she's kind of doing the girl a favor by trying to split them up." — DumpedDalish 9. " Dirty Dancing. Baby was like 17, and Johnny was like 25. It was completely inappropriate, and whether he knew it or not, he was taking advantage of an extremely naive teenage girl who was still in high school. I get that it was her coming-of-age story, but what parent wouldn't be trying to keep their teenage daughter from hanging out with a bunch of adults almost 10 years older than her, who were hanging out all night drinking and partying?" 10. "The two main characters of Serendipity are lucky to be played by John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale who have so much chemistry because they are awful people screwing over their committed partners for a second chance at capturing the magic of a single evening years prior." — GonzoJackOfAllTrades "It irritated me that both dumped partners seemed like good people, but the movie makes them appear boring to justify the cheating." — TheKidintheHall 11. " The Time Traveler's Wife. An extradimensional time-traveling nudist cat burglar grooms a child to marry him when she comes of age, then traumatizes her by getting himself shot while breaking into somebody's home to steal their clothes." 12. " Sweet Home Alabama. She chooses the man who refused a divorce for 15 years and was disrespectful to her for most of the film. The same could be said for The Notebook. They agreed on nothing, and Ally was slapping him regularly. Very toxic love that was packaged as a fantasy." 13. "I can't stand The Notebook. It's just a horrible movie that portrays toxicity as romance. I had a friend in college who was shocked that I hadn't seen it (I'm a big fan of romcoms), and we watched it together. I was stunned the entire time, and afterwards she told me she felt like her relationship with her boyfriend was like the one from the movie. I expressed concern because of how toxic the relationship in the movie is, and she got so defensive of the movie. I was shocked." 14. " Almost Famous. You can 'different time' me all you want. Penny Lane and other 'groupies' were 15, 16, and 17 years old and were being groomed and preyed upon by much older men. Penny Lane was literally sold in a poker game. That's sex trafficking. William is a 16-year-old who is also being groomed and preyed upon for the band's positive PR. But we ignore all that because of the music and the 'romance.'" 15. "(500) Days of Summer. I can't believe people still think it's a cutesy romance flick." — snapchatofdoriangray "Anybody who gets that from it isn't paying attention. He's in love with Summer as a concept, not a person, and she goes along with it after making it clear that they're looking for totally different things in life. It's a bad idea from the get-go." — Iron_Infusion_ "I was a senior in high school when this came out and was taken in by the twee hipster aesthetics, and was disappointed by the ending at the time. I think it's an excellent movie because it plays with viewers' expectations of romance and romantic comedies. Like many of us, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character seems like someone raised on romantic comedies and projects their idealized expectations onto the people he dates. Looking back, it's interesting to see how his expectations (and the viewers) colored the perception of his and Deschanel's interactions." — PothosLeaves 16. " Notting Hill. Hugh seems to like to play these men in toxic relationships. Julia's actress character treats him like crap too, ghosting him, lashing out, cheating on her boyfriend with him, and faking being a meat eater. Red flags everywhere." — waldo-doggie "It has its cute moments, but when he had to act like an interviewer when he was supposed to be meeting up with her was absolutely cringe. No guy would tolerate even half the crap he put up with." — HeatCompetitive1556 17. " You've Got Mail. Tom Hanks is a catfish." — omega_grainger69 "It wasn't enough that he bankrupted her, but he also used her own information to manipulate her and then love-bombed her into saying yes to a relationship. Like, how many more red flags do y'all need?" — Paperspeaks 18. " Crazy, Stupid, Love. The 'never take no for an answer' messaging of that movie is really hard to watch in hindsight." 19. " Sleepless in Seattle is a horror movie." — Several_Oil_7099 "Meg Ryan's character throws away her fiancé because she fell in love with someone she'd never even met in person and never even spoke to until the very end of the film?" — Immortalyti 20. " Love, Actually. The movie is just 90% limerence, stalking, fat-shaming, workplace harassment, and general misogyny. There's a 'fat joke' approximately every two minutes of the movie, most about a slim, beautiful young woman, with the rest said as cruel insults directly to overweight characters' faces. The two plots involving lead female characters are depressing — a wife with a cheating husband, and a woman who is dumped by her date when she takes a call from her unwell brother. Echoing the other men, even the little boy doesn't actually know the girl he 'loves' and has never spoken to her. It's just so toxic, and it's depressing that it's so beloved." 21. " Something Borrowed. Who knew that infidelity and betrayal were cute? Damn weirdos." — Perplexed_n_stressed "It's about best friends where one friend lusts after the other friend's man. I didn't think Kate Hudson's character did anything wrong, but they made her out to be the bad friend." — Klutzy-Chocolate710 22. " Runaway Bride (1999). Julia Roberts's character was such a pick me girl; it was awful. And she did it to her best friend, too, flirting with her husband unapologetically just because he was her ex. She even gets called out by Richard Gere's character. She loved to feel loved and special, but she didn't care who got hurt once she grew tired of them. She ran away from them before the wedding because her character had a strong fear of commitment. The worst character ever. Extremely selfish." 23. Finally: " Grease. Danny disrespects Sandy to her face, cheats on her in the dance competition, forcibly kisses her afterwards, and never apologizes or acknowledges what he did wrong. And then at the end, Sandy is the one who's supposed to change for him?" What do you think? Do you agree? Do you vehemently disagree? Are there any movies you'd like to add? Explain your reasoning in the comments or tell us about a "romantic" movie you think is toxic in this anonymous form here.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Drew Barrymore Says She's Had No Work Done to Her Face — and Wants to 'Stay That Way'
Drew Barrymore is getting candid about what it means to age gracefully. In a behind-the-scenes moment on The Drew Barrymore Show, one fan asked the talk show host, "Can you let us know your secret to aging gracefully and being so comfortable in your own skin?" Barrymore, 50, offered a heartfelt response to the question, and revealed that she hasn't had any cosmetic procedures done to her face — but urged the women in the audience to not judge those who do. Related: Drew Barrymore Says She'll 'Grow Old' with Adam Sandler, Wants to Do Another Movie with Him Soon: 'We're Running Out of Time' "I haven't done anything and I want to try and stay that way ... but I also am like, do whatever works for you. The only thing I do know is don't judge other people because they do things differently," the Charlie's Angels actress told the crowd. "We're all on our own path and we have to support each other," Barrymore said, noting that she on occasion struggles with flaws of her own. "I see a lot of turkey neck or I have a lot of other time where i'm like 'Oh Wow, we're there now.'" Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. While the actress doesn't have a secret to being confident, she instead offered a suggestion to to herself and the attendees listening in the audience. "I want to tell myself not to be so mean to myself. How many beautiful moments do we even get the privilege of seeing our reflection and that person looking back at us is us?" Barrymore suggested. "So the kinder, more patient, more resilient, more loving, embracing, less dismissive that we can be, the better it is for our mental game and spiritual game, which affects the face." Related: Drew Barrymore Says She 'Truly Lost Everything' at 13: 'Nobody Wanted to Work with Me' The 50 First Dates star added, "A smile is better than any lipstick you'll buy, and internal dialog that isn't so eviscerating of ourselves and so quick to catch a flaw — who says that's the flaw, by the way, that might be someone else's favorite thing about ironic. It isn't how you look, it's how you feel." is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Barrymore celebrated her 50th birthday this year on February 22, and ahead of the landmark birthday, she expressed excitement gratitude while gracing the cover of AARP The Magazine's February/March 2025 issue. "My whole life I've been worried and stressed and, like, happy and having the best time ever. I would have never guessed that I would feel peace," Barrymore told the outlet. "This last decade has been the most ass-kicking and furthering of my life, and it is finally bringing peace." Read the original article on People
Express Tribune
20-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Spot the Jackie Sandler cameo: Adam Sandler's wife has appeared in over 20 of his films
Many fans of Adam Sandler are only now discovering that his wife, Jackie Sandler, has acted alongside him in more than 20 of his movies. Jackie, who transitioned from fashion modelling to acting in 1999, often takes on minor roles in her husband's films. Her first on-screen appearance came in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, a film by Rob Schneider. Reports suggest Schneider introduced Jackie to Sandler, leading to her casting in Big Daddy, where she played a waitress in a sports bar. Sandler starred as the film's lead, Sonny Koufax. -Sony Pictures. Rather than frequently portraying leading roles or love interests, Jackie, 50, typically appears in smaller parts. Notable examples include playing a dentist in 50 First Dates, an angel in Little Nicky, and making a cameo in Just Go With It. In Grown Ups, she portrayed Richie Minervini's wife. Sandler has also cast their daughters, Sadie and Sunny, in several of his projects, reflecting his preference for involving family in his creative work. -Sony Pictures. Fans on social media have expressed surprise and admiration upon learning about Jackie's recurring roles. One user called it 'legend behaviour,' while another commented, 'Only a good man wants his wife to succeed.' Some have compared her appearances to Easter eggs for viewers to spot. Sandler, 58, has previously spoken about working with Jackie, whom he married in 2003. While promoting Murder Mystery in 2019, he addressed how his wife reacts to his on-screen kisses. Speaking to the Associated Press, he shared: 'The only awkward part is hearing my wife on the side going, 'Harder! Harder! Kiss her harder! Deeper!'' He added that Jackie and their daughters enjoy watching his films and support his co-stars. 'They love Aniston, and they want her to have good things and they say, 'Give her something nice,'' Sandler said.
Express Tribune
04-04-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Red alert!
Listen to article "If you ask me what Pakistan's real tragedy is, I'd say it's this: those whom the state loves don't love it back. Its greatest beneficiaries — the elite — have never truly cared about the country. Keep showering us with perks and privileges, they demand, or we'll walk. And the state keeps obliging, thanks to elite capture. It's the ordinary people — the ones who suffer most during crises — who have kept the idea of Pakistan alive." These are the words of a foreign friend who has studied Pakistan's politics closely. Despite my decade-long efforts to flag every major challenge, strange things keep happening. If you think raising concerns with those in authority might help, please don't kid yourself. It takes too long to bring them up to speed. And once they've been briefed, they respond with a cluelessness that is anything but endearing. Try following up and you'll find they've forgotten the entire exchange. It's like that movie 50 First Dates, where Drew Barrymore's character suffers from short-term amnesia. Or like what the hyperintelligent beings say to Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, when they try to convince him to sell them his brain in exchange for a simple electronic one - rhetorically asking who would miss it - and he says he would. Their chilling reply: You'd Be Programmed Not To. The phenomenon I'm referring to is the exponential rise of centrifugal forces across all smaller provinces at once. It seems those who want to see the country unravel are either growing desperate or believe the goal is within reach. If online subcultures are any guide, a concerted effort is also underway to plant seeds of doubt in the Punjabi mind. KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's summation of Soviet ideological subversion merits attention. He said: "Ideological subversion or psychological warfare is the slow process which basically means to change the perception of reality to such an extent that, despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their communities and their country. It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being demoralisation. It takes 15-20 years. Demoralisation is the great brainwashing where you sow demoralising seeds of doubt in the minds of the citizens of your enemy country. They are programmed to think and react in a certain pattern. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behaviour. The next stage is destabilisation which takes two to five years." It is followed by a crisis stage that lasts six weeks, and then comes normalisation - meaning invasion. Now let's revisit a document that captivated our chief detractor — India — twenty-five years ago and became its go-to guide for dismantling Pakistan. So much so that the four intelligence agencies which brought the incumbent party to power, and the party that has ruled India for the past decade, reached consensus on it. Only recently has Prime Minister Modi started focusing on peaceful coexistence, for which he may now come under fire. These are direct quotes from the US Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) 1999 Summer Study Final Report titled ASIA 2025, organised by the Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Net Assessment, 25 July-4 August 1999, Newport, Rhode Island. "Pakistan is near collapse. Ongoing economic crises, internal ethnic conflict, and increasing inability of the government to provide law and order make Pakistan increasingly unstable. Sindhis, Baluch, and Pathans, who have long resented a Punjabi-dominated Pakistan, rebel. Mohajirs (Muslims who emigrated from India after the 1947 partition) take to the streets. Islamic extremism adds to the instability in two forms: Taliban destabilization efforts and the growing power of the Jamaat-i-Islami party. China's resurgence and belligerence in East Asia prompts tacit US-India cooperation." "Pakistan's government is paralyzed and losing control of Islamic forces in the country. Islamic extremists infiltrate Kashmir in growing numbers and escalate violence. India demands that Pakistan end the Islamic incursions. When Pakistan fails to respond, India moves into Azad Kashmir and amasses forces on Pakistan's borders. Pakistan issues a nuclear ultimatum. The Chinese echo the ultimatum and mobilize along India's eastern flank to sever the Mizoram-Nagaland-Assam-Sikkim outpost and threaten to use 'all available means to stop Indian aggression.' The United States urges restraint. It sends naval forces to the Bay of Bengal and warns China to stay out." "Fearing Pakistan may use nuclear weapons, India launches an unsuccessful conventional strike. Driven by a 'use it or lose it' syndrome, Pakistan launches nuclear strikes. Based on reports that radical Islamists in the Pakistani military, joined by the Jamaat-i-Islami, are seizing the remaining weapons, the US launches conventional strikes on Pakistan's nuclear sites - to preempt a full-scale nuclear exchange." "The US strikes by deploying deep-penetration warheads launched from B-2s. Faced with US-Indian cooperation, China backs off." "Total anarchy prevails in Pakistan. The Indian army moves in to restore order. As the country disintegrates, its regions accede to India. The Sindhi, Baluch, and NWFP parliaments vote to join an Indian-led confederation. Punjab, isolated, is compelled to follow." "The disappearance of Pakistan and emergence of the Indian Confederation have cascading effects across Central Asia. Afghanistan is pushed over the edge and dismembered by its neighbours. Regional powers extinguish the Taliban's power. The remaining Pashtun rump state joins the Confederation. Iran, the big winner, aspires to create a greater Persian state and aligns more closely with the Indian Confederation." As I keep pointing out, since the publication of this report, the US may have moved on — but the Indian mind has not. And while the cast of characters may evolve, the endgame always resembles the chessboard laid out above. The question is not why this future looms — but why we keep rehearsing it with such alarming precision.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Peter Segal remembers how 'happy' a sober Chris Farley was making 'Tommy Boy': 'It was a really nice time'
As Tommy Boy turns 30, director Peter Segal feels a 'mix of emotions' about the odd-couple buddy comedy starring Chris Farley and David Spade. 'It warms my heart and sometimes makes me sad,' Segal tells Yahoo Entertainment about seeing Farley, who died in 1997 at age 33, on the big screen again. 'It brings me right back to those days.' Tommy Boy — which is getting a new 4K ultrahigh definition release from Paramount in honor of its anniversary — was the second film Segal directed, after 1994's Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. It was also 'definitely the hardest production I've done' out of his 12 movies. The film, produced by Saturday Night Live's Lorne Michael, had an incomplete script — just 66 pages — that was rewritten on the fly throughout production. They ran behind schedule, which meant Farley and Spade had to pull double-duty filming, in Toronto and flying back to New York to shoot SNL. 'When I look back … it looks so nice and sweet and innocent on the big screen, but it wasn't getting there,' he said. 'I think it was the most chaotic [film] that I worked on and I hope I never have a process that difficult again. I don't recommend it.' Segal added, 'It's a mix of emotions looking at it now.' Segal, who went on to direct The Longest Yard, 50 First Dates and Anger Management, had previously worked on a Farley comedy special and was excited to helm his first leading film role — about lovable but dim-witted nepo baby Tommy Callahan III, who inherits his dad's auto parts business in Sandusky, Ohio — amid his breakout success from SNL. Farley had already been dealing with substance use disorder at that point but was sober while making this film. Segal remembers how happy Farley was while filming and how the star's biggest vice at the time was drinking 27 coffees a day on set. 'I was fortunate to have worked with Chris both when he was not clean and sober and then during this movie where he was,' Segal said. 'He replaced his other substances with caffeine. So, yeah, he drank a lot of coffee. Too much. But that was his process. Seeing how happy [Farley] was during filming, even though it was a hard shoot, it was a really nice time. So I was like: Fine by me if you want your 28th cup. All good.' While the film is a comedy — with the still hilarious sparring between Tommy and his father's overlooked assistant Richard Hayden (Spade) — it also showed Farley's range. The film ends with him in a sailboat, talking to the spirit of his late dad. Segal said that scene, like the rest of the film, wasn't easy either. The film 'didn't have an ending," Segal said, and it was a last-minute suggestion by Stripes screenwriter Len Blum to shoot the final scene back at the lake. They had to scramble to get back to that set and hope for calm winds that day, and they shot the scene. 'Chris was on his way home and there was an accident with the film and it got ruined,' Segal said. 'We had to have Chris make a U-turn, come back and do that emotional scene a second time,' adding to the "arduous process' of completing the film. Bo Derek played Farley's deceitful stepmother in the film and Rob Lowe his conniving stepbrother. While Lowe played the role to a tee, it was almost a very different actor in that role: Matthew McConaughey. 'Matthew had just done [1993's] Dazed and Confused, so he was very young in his career,' Segal said. 'He's awesome — it's just as casting goes, you're looking for certain things and Rob seemed to fit that. Now, you can almost never imagine anybody but Rob in the role. But that's usually how it goes when you realize how close someone else was to that role.' Meanwhile, Derek and Lowe, who turned out to be a money-hungry couple in the film, made for a fetching pair — even with Lowe's character getting beaten up throughout the movie. 'Let me just tell you that when you go to dinner with Rob Lowe and Bo Derek, I could be on fire and no one would notice me,' Segal said. 'But we struggled through that.' Paramount's 30th Anniversary 4K UHD is now available.
