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

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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.

Re the Graduate, I once watched an interview with Dustin Hoffman where he said that they’d been talking about making a Graduate 2. He and Elaine stay together (not particularly happily) and are raising children and looking after Mrs Robinson, who is now very elderly. Ben’s son brings home a girlfriend and Ben ends up getting off with her - so he becomes the next Mrs Robinson.

However I don’t think it ended up getting made.

@CruCru

However I don’t think it ended up getting made.

Thank the Lord. The premise sounds God-awful.

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

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.

Yes! Mr Darcy would have been HARD WORK. No empathy whatever, judgemental as hell and always in the right. After a while, he would have found Elizabeth less and less charming, and then annoyingly frivolous. Elizabeth would have come to the realisation that he was a total stuffed shirt and arrogant with it, and they would have ended up living in separate wings at Pemberley. Though he would have adored the kids.

Not sure if it’s been said already but absolutely the parents from The Parent Trap. No idea how they expected things to work the second time when they were on separate continents, with very established lives there. Although their judgement is obviously terribly poor, having come up with ‘each take a twin and never mention the other one ever again’ as a viable custody arrangement

If you haven't already check out love actually 2 on you tube. It was done for Red Nose Day shows you what has happened ti the characters 14 years after the original film. I liked what they'd done but I'm an old romantic.

And in fairness to Darcy, even the most saintly man might have had an ongoing issue with the rotter who almost seduced his baby sister for her money AND whose marriage he had to force through at the expense of his own purse and dignity becoming his brother in law.

@Respectabitch yes I've considered that possibility myself, often the case with Dick's work that there are ambiguous endings and unreliable narrators, love his work

Op again I'm open to suggestions many theories re bueller. Sloane is just a typical high school "princess" though isn't she? Just immature and narcissistic in the way teens are

I'm shocked how many didn't know the Von trapps were real people!

Do you know Anna leonowens (the king and I) was too?

And that a few good men is based on a true story? And steel magnolias?

There are loads.

Amy and Laurie in Little Women. Sooner or later he would have called her Jo in the throes of passion.......

Another true one, I believe they were very happy together but sadly she died through childbirth and the child initially raised by her sister Louisa.So who knows? Louisa never married. Much speculation that she may have been a lesbian.

@littlepattilou I'm a little obsessed with friends and have some ideas on how to do a "catchup" movie or something

Maybe a mini series like with Gilmore girls?

I can tell you that at this point:

Ben is now 25
Phoebes triplets are 22
Emma is 18
Monica and chandlers twins are 16

Monica and chandler have been married 19 years.

Phoebe and Mike 14 years

Ross and Rachel remarry sometime in 2005 and have another child, according to Joey in his spin off series.

Chandler and Monica meant to be from the beginning, I'm sure the writers intended it so, there were hints even very early in the 1st season, they were the real couple of the show not R&R

Matthew Perry has often said he was hugely attracted to Courteney in real life but it wasn't reciprocated.

I do think phoebe would have been better suited to David, much as I love Paul Rudd mike was too normal for phoebe

There's ALWAYS rumours of a friends reunion I'll believe it when I see it

Re dirty dancing Johnny is supposed to have just turned 24 and baby is 18 so an age gap but not really one of remark at that time. Even now it wouldn't be considered that bad by many.

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

Oh definitely! But then Marilyn was never really cast as a "wife" type

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

I actually know a real life couple who are step siblings, but they didn't grow up together, met in their late 20's at the parents wedding, very happy together.

As an antidote, I like to think that Rhett and Scarlett would have got back together and had a long ,mostly happy but a bit turbulent, marriage. And more babies.

The couple in Groundhog Day. I. Love that film but I think if the relationship carries on back in real life Bill Murray’s character would swiftly realise that Andie MacDowall is incredibly boring and he would slip back into his old cynical ways.

Pretty much any movie where the parents have divorced or separated and then disaster strikes, the parents and the child work together and then the child asks if they are a family again. They separated for a reason and a few days working together will not make things right again.

@VienneseWhirligig don't worry about watching Love Never Dies, the songs are not as good and you've nailed the plot

Haha sounds like my Phantom opinions aren't that unusual then!!

Re groundhog Day: no. I'm sorry but no. The entire point of that film is that Bill Murray has reached Nirvana. It doesn't matter how he got there, it doesn't matter who he is (was). He has attained the higher plane. He's there. Don't fuck it up for him.

Han Solo and Leia - they only made it to the end of the trilogy because he was ossified!
Ron and Hermiony - can you imagine Mrs W as your MIL? Also Ron is an utter man-child and sulky to boot and would drive anyone mad after a while.
Mal and lnara - l never figured out why she fancied him in the first place, he's overbearing, borish and keeps calling her a whore - he's a skeevy, thieving smuggler ffs! I actually have a very soft spot for everyone on Serenity but it's just as well they never actually get together as it would be a disaster! I never really bought Wash and Zoe either ...

Of course you are right lake - Groundhog Day is not about a relationship at all. But this thread is about cold hard reality shattering the apparent happy ending.

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

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.

Death Comes To Pemberley is exactly that, with a fairly silly murder plot bolted on

@chomalungma

Pretty much any movie where the parents have divorced or separated and then disaster strikes, the parents and the child work together and then the child asks if they are a family again. They separated for a reason and a few days working together will not make things right again.

Like the parents in The Parent Trap. They separated their twins and kept them apart from each other. They’re both monsters and obviously broke up for a reason. But it’s all cutesy when they get back together.

My first thought was Romeo and Juliet. It’s seen as some big love story but really, they’ve only met a couple of times when they agree to get married and they’re both really young. It wouldn’t have panned out if they had run off together.

Caraticus Potts and Truly in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. When you watch and track it, I think they’ve been around each other twice before they get engaged? Bonkers.

One of my favourites as a teen was While you were sleeping. I watched it at a Christmas. In retrospect - Jack and Lucy never even date! She spends a few weeks with his family, pretending she’s engaged to his brother. Even when Peter comes out the coma she pretends he has amnesia.?She’s about to get married to Peter when she confesses! Then a few weeks later he pitches up and proposes! They’ve never dated and she’s persistently lied to all the family. No way they would trust her after that.

@CruCru

Re the Graduate, I once watched an interview with Dustin Hoffman where he said that they’d been talking about making a Graduate 2. He and Elaine stay together (not particularly happily) and are raising children and looking after Mrs Robinson, who is now very elderly. Ben’s son brings home a girlfriend and Ben ends up getting off with her - so he becomes the next Mrs Robinson.

I used to really love Dustin Hoffman. I was so surprised to see his name in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book, but then it came out from some of his co-stars that he is a sexual predator and often targets teenagers, so I can definitely see him pitching to get that movie made. Glad it didn't!!

I'm guessing none of the relationships from The Breakfast Club worked out. Also, Gossip Girl. All the characters were just toxic and horrible.