To ask which film couples you feel wouldn't last long?

[stillusingxmaszoflora]

So many films end with a loved up couple, few would last the distance.
Here's my take:
Ariel and Eric (little mermaid): she would miss her merfamily (strange as they are) and it would be a massive culture shock for her. He'd get annoyed that she didn't understand Danish aristocracy and social protocol. She's 16 ffs! She'd realise there were plenty more men with legs out there, it wouldn't end well.
There must be loads.

Also none of the couples from Big Bang Theory. All hopelessly mismatched and divorced by 45 (well, someone will murder Howard )

Regarding Baby and Johnny (from Dirty Dancing.) The character of Johnny may have been 24/25, but Patrick Swayze was 34 when he made the film. And he looked it too. Jennifer Grey was 25/26, but she looked 16.

So they did look very mismatched. I thought there was about 20 years between them when I saw the film, and thought it was an odd pairing. Great film though.

Also Top Gun. Kelly McGillis was 29 but looked 10 years older, and was quite frumpy. (IMO.) 'Maverick' looked 12-13 years younger than her, and would never have gone for her IMO. Also an odd pairing.

Joe and Sugar (Tony Curtin and Marilyn Monroe) in Some Like it Hot. He would have left her after his next gig.

Kiera Knightley and her new husband from Love Actually, when he realises she snogged his best mate.

@TennisBunny

The worst is The Graduate. Dustin Hoffman is so creepy in that movie. He's horrible to her, stalks her, and then interrupts her wedding. What on Earth was she thinking leaving with him?

Isn't that the whole point though? That actual after the romance and the scandal and the drama of it all... Theres nothing there. That's why they have that iconic scene in the back of the wedding car, where once they stopped waving... There's nothing.

Yes, exactly. I love the ending (on the bus) where they look in different directions. It's been about helping each other to escape. Now they've done that, they'll go their separate ways (IMO obviously).

@thepeopleversuswork she should have gone for Jack Lemon's character (or his husband!)

@littlepattilou

Regarding Baby and Johnny (from Dirty Dancing.) The character of Johnny may have been 24/25, but Patrick Swayze was 34 when he made the film. And he looked it too. Jennifer Grey was 25/26, but she looked 16.

So they did look very mismatched. I thought there was about 20 years between them when I saw the film, and thought it was an odd pairing. Great film though.

Also Top Gun. Kelly McGillis was 29 but looked 10 years older, and was quite frumpy. (IMO.) 'Maverick' looked 12-13 years younger than her, and would never have gone for her IMO. Also an odd pairing.

Actually we have just watched it snd she certainly doesn’t look like any sixteen year old I’ve ever seen, she looks min twenty.

I agree he looks older, but let’s not try to dress this up as some form of paedo movie. It wasn’t. The characters Ages were appropriate as were the actors ages. 18 and 24 is fine, as is 26 and 34.

I also thought Kelly mcgillis looked far from frumpy on top gun, she was gorgeous and sexy as hell.

[quote stillusingxmaszoflora]@thepeopleversuswork she should have gone for Jack Lemon's character (or his husband!)[/quote]
That would have been the long game, yes.

But I couldn't have said no to Tony Curtis in 1959 tbf

@Bluntness100

I agree he looks older, but let’s not try to dress this up as some form of paedo movie. It wasn’t. The characters Ages were appropriate as were the actors ages. 18 and 24 is fine, as is 26 and 34.

I never said anything about Dirty Dancing being a 'paedo movie.' YOU did though.

I think Rose and Jack might have lasted actually. She dramatically changed her life after the ship sank anyway so they might have gone the distance.
Baby and Johnny wouldn't have done but then I don't think the film was supposed to be a happy ever after ending.

Also none of the couples from Big Bang Theory.

Totally agree. All the women will get sick of being the grown up in the relationship and move on. Bernadette will want to move somewhere new to progress her career but Howard will get all whiney and refuse to leave the house he grew up in. He'll end up living there with the comic book owner man and hanging around the student union desperately trying to pull with his 'I used to be an astronaut' routine.

A few pp mentioned Pretty Woman. I think they will stay together but only because she will think it's a better option than selling herself on the streets. He'll have loads of affairs (probably bragging to his friends about them). They'll get married and have kids but he will insist on a pre-nup that means she'll be left with nothing if she chooses to leave.

Sadly Michael and Kim in My Best Friend's Wedding. Much as I fancy the actor, Michael was domineering with Kim, and waay too close to Julieann. Wealthy Kim would eventually have resented giving up her studies and young life.

Another vote for Johnny and Baby. I always think Swayze looks like he'd rather be elsewhere, so maybe that's why.

Bridget and Mark - he was too good for her, she acted like an absolute moron half the time, and her friends were horrid.

Ilsa and her husband in Casablanca. Once they stop running away from the Nazis they’d get bored.

Cher and Josh in Clueless. Her dad was briefly married to her mum, so family events are going to be super awkward. Plus having to explain the whole ‘we used to be step-siblings’ would get tiring.

Any movie where one character does the airport dash and stops the other character from leaving. They are going to resent you like crazy in a few years. I recently watched How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and those two weren’t going to last. And any show where they keep going back to their ex. Let it die already!

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle. She ditched her lovely fiance so she could chase after a guy she'd only heard on the radio. What could possibly go wrong?

@CutToChase

Maria and Captain Von Trapp. After a while I think she would start ruminating about how A) He was a real dick to her initially and B) He sacked off the Baronness pretty easily

I think she would stay for three children but would.grow increasingly resentful over the years

But this was a real story and they did stay together!

But this was a real story and they did stay together!

Gosh, thanks for that. You're the first poster to have noticed.

Cancel the cheque.

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

But this was a real story and they did stay together!

Gosh, thanks for that. You're the first poster to have noticed.

Cancel the cheque.

Actually, I'd watch the hell out of a dramatisation that stuck to the facts more closely, so Maria has a hair-trigger temper, comes from a really dysfunctional background, gets hit on by her employer who is 45 to her 22 when she's actually a postulant in a religious order, is pressured by the nuns into marrying him for the sake of the children, and spends her wedding day raging at God. After which her husband loses all the family money which had been his dead first wife's inheritance by moving it into an Austrian bank from an English one at the wrong moment, and suddenly they're penniless, letting rooms at the Villa Von Trapp and singing for cold hard cash at the behest of the slightly skeezy-sounding family chaplain, before emigrating to the US where they get held for several days on Ellis Island because one of the kids says something that suggests they're planning to overstay their visitors' visas, and end up running a guesthouse in Vermont.

Alas, apparently they sang madrigals and church music, rather than prancing about in the curtains singing 'My Favourite Things' and 'The Lonely Goatherd'. Boo.

I have to say Kristen and Rob in their twilight roles. IRL ten years of her sighing moodily and not smiling and he would be down the pub for a break, or rather climbing up trees and going hunting with the crew.

KLAXON I now know that Maria and Von Trapp were real and that they were nothing like the film. Message received loud and clear!

@VienneseWhirligig

Christine Daae and Raoul de Chagny. He was a vain, possessive and shallow drip and wouldn't have copied with her career taking off and would have demanded she stay at home as it would be more seemly for the wife of an aristocrat. He would also have been deeply suspicious that she really loved the Phantom, and that she shagged him first. She would have resented being forced to give up singing and would have missed the encouragement the Phantom gave her to succeed.

You need to watch Love Never Dies (the sequel.) You're not far off point!

Carrie and Mr Big from SATC.

Can’t see Romeo and Juliet lasting.........oh, wait....

Controversial, I know but...

...Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy (film/TV and book versions).

Ok, they would have lasted because they couldn't have got divorced, but he would have been a real PITA - slightly sanctimonious and neither them would ever have been able to forget her inferior social status. He wouldn't have intentionally rubbed it in, but the importance he placed on social distinctions would have acted as a constant reminder.

Jane would have been much happier with Mr Bingley. He's a bit of a man-child, but that doesn't matter if you've got servants to do everything for you.

And, let's face it, he wasn't the brightest. Check for a pulse, FFS.

Also Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester would probably had stayed together but she would have resented him. She never got to have her own life.