a rant about the dearth of happy endings.

when i sign up to watch a romantic comedy i expect there to be a happy ending. people need to fall in love. they need to go through the necessary trials of being in love. but then it all has to work out in the end. i'm sorry, but i do not watch a romantic comedy to see something realistic... like... jennifer aniston wanting to win back vince vaughn all throughout the break up, but then when he has his breakthrough moment and realize that he will change for her, oh no, whoops, she's had a change of heart. there is nothing romantic about that. no! they are supposed to fall back in love again, buy their apartment back for a ridiculous price, and find a way to compromise about the pool table and the dining room. i am woman in her mid-20s (soon to be late 20s) with no boyfriend. i have enough realism in my own relationships and i look to romantic comedies as a way to escape the lack of romance in my own life. i want grand sweeping gestures of love. i want impossibilities to work out. i want flowers and violins and risk-taking in the name of love! i do not want a story where two ex-lovers meet in the street at the end and realize that even though they didn't work out in the end, everything is all good. no! i saw prime and i saw the break up and it ended with that exact same scene!!! where are the stories about love-against-all-odds? i am disgruntled with the entire romantic comedy industry. make something that will make single women everywhere hopeful, you assholes.

nora ephron... where art thou?