Let me start this off by I love and appreciate the talented work of John Cusack. That aside, he has really screwed over the gents. You ask any girl what they are looking for from a guy, I assure you that the word romance pops up. And what is our shining example of romance? John Cusack. Sixteen Candles. Say Anything. Serendipity. The dude has been in the romance business for decades.
What I have taken away from these movies that any fuck up in a relationship can be surely glossed over with a killer Peter Gabriel, some sweet words, and a winning smile. The problem here is that girls want big romantic gestures, but the actuality of these wouldn't go your way in real life. If I held a boom box over my head to a girl, at best, she'd chuckle at the reference, but it wouldn't win her over.
Another shining example I would like to give for this is How I Met Your Mother. There is an episode where our hero Ted, after 10 weeks of consecutive "no"s from a girl, plans an extremely elaborate date in just over 2 minutes. You can glance that here:
Incredibly sweet to watch, would be grounds for a restraining order in real life. If i went through the trouble of having an appliance store play a cut together movie, my waitress acquaintance to serve us 10 seconds of dinner and another 10 of dessert a minute later, and got a cab driver to circle the block constantly for 2 minutes, I'm pretty sure I would scare the bejesus out of a girl. All this, I reiterate, is following ten weeks of rejection.
So what does this mean? Do we not attempt the big gestures? My assumption is always ere on the side of caution. We live in a jaded world these days. I can't imagine a girl not getting creeped out at any romantic gesture that grand and meticulously thought out. Maybe romance is dead, or maybe we just have to dole it out in perfectly pint sized doses, and not have it shoved down there throat. Maybe a spoonful a day. In this modern-day, mixed-up, crazy world we live in the days of romantic cliches are gone. After 9/11 we can't chase girls down to the gate anymore, what a stunning blow to. romance.
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