Thursday, 01 December 2011
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Best and Worst Movie Girlfriends
They have qualities we wish our real life girlfriends would have. Then there are those, ‘Movie Girlfriends’, that we are glad only exist in a fictitious universe. Take a stroll with me as I recount a brief look at some of the best and some of the worst ‘Movie Girlfriends’.
Best of the Best
Gabrielle Union in Bad Boys 2. Not only is she hot, but she can totally put you in handcuffs and man handle you if necessary (If you’re into that sort of thing). But don’t run away just yet. She can be vulnerable and will need a strong man by her side, like when a Mexican drug cartel kidnaps her and holds her hostage in a mansion and nothing short of a small army can rescue her. Or just Will Smith in a Hummer. She’s a badass girl with a bad ass. Fortunately for us, she maintains just the perfect amount of wholesome girliness as she is admittedly scared to tell her older brother (Martin Lawrence) that she has a boyfriend. We respect her for fearing her older brother. We ride together, We die together, Bad Boys for Life. You guys are more than welcome to do that. Just don’t take Gabrielle with you.
Jennifer Connelly from The Hulk. You are a woman like no other. You see the man behind the monster. I could never fault you for continuously loving a giant, grotesque, green beast. Sure this may call into question your sanity, but I'll overlook that. I like to believe you see beyond the large powerful muscles and impeccable facial bone structure of the Hulk and see straight into the heart and soul of Bruce Banner—a broken man, a man searching for a purpose. You see a man in need and you stay by his side, mood swings and all. Jennifer Connelly, you’d like him even if he was angry, wouldn’t you?
Rachel McAdams in The Time Traveler’s Wife. I'm slightly biased because I am actually in love with Rachel McAdams. It was hard for me to decide between Rachel McAdams from Wedding Crashers (The softspoken, idealistic, care-free, rich, but not spoiled, dreamer) or Mean Girls (Hey, sometimes you want that feisty, dumb-as-a-rock chick). In the end, I had to go with Rachel McAdams from The Time Traveler’s Wife. What did it for me was the unfaltering loyalty she had for her man even after death. A quality that was lost on Kate Beckinsale and Natalie Portman in Pearl Harbor and Brothers. Come on now, you are convinced that the love of your life has just died in a war and you respond by falling for his best friend/brother?! You are a disease! Rachel McAdams is my kind of girl. Any girl who is willing to torture themselves for the rest of their lives with that whole “Will he or won’t he reappear in the woods behind my house, in the nude, to tell me he loves me” deal, is a girl worth keeping around.
Worst of the Worst
I’m sorry to do this to you Mandy Moore from A Walk to Remember. After all, I know you had cancer and stuff in this movie. But, if we just put that aside and look at your girlfriend qualities, you really can't blame me. You fall for a guy with cheap gimmicks. All this guy had to do was buy you a star. I mean, he didn’t even buy you a star, did he? He just bought you a piece of paper that told you to look up into the sky. Really? Alright, I won’t be too harsh. He did drive you in his pick-up truck to the local border of 'desert' and 'nowhere' so that you could “be in two places at the same time.” Congratulations. You are easily impressed.
Oh, Denise Richards. I hate to do this to you, too. But, you were just the worst girlfriend in Starship Troopers. How could you do that to Johnny Rico? So what if you guys were in different branches of the military? Johnny was out there being a hero—a hero for his planet and for his girlfriend. That is, until you started boning your co-pilot. Honestly, the war didn’t even last that long. You two could’ve rekindled your love after you saved the world. Why must you give into being lonely and vulnerable so easily? Your new boyfriend got his brains sucked out of his head by the end of the movie anyway. It should have been you.
Now, as much as I am a fan of you, Rachel McAdams, I have to say that you were not girlfriend material in The Notebook. Besides the fact that you started dating that other jerk (coincidentally Johnny Rico), there are several reasons why you just will not do. I can understand you wanting to be a hopeless romantic. You had once told Noah (Ryan Gosling) that you enjoyed painting. He then proceeded to build you a house with his bare hands that contained your own personal art room. This, somehow, caused you to fall back in love with him. Are you out of your mind? You should have responded by calling the town sheriff! This is not sweet or romantic. If a former boyfriend ever disappears for years on end and mysteriously reappears one day having built your childhood dream house and is also sporting an ungainly beard, you should most likely run. Run and never look back. You have a Stage Five Clinger on your hands. Why couldn’t he do something normal like buy you paintbrushes or an easel or something? I think that's pretty thoughtful. Don’t you? Well, I guess that’s asking a lot considering you are the same girl who followed this guy to an abandoned house where you lost your virginity on a dirty rug by the fireplace. It’s no wonder you pretend to have Alzheimer’s in your later years when its actually Post Traumatic Stress. I can only imagine the horrors you must have endured by living with this creep.
Who are some other 'Movie Girlfriends' that you think deserve to be put on this list?
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Comments (41)
I can't believe Bella Swan didn't make this list.
I was going to list Denise Richards in ST as the worst ever. lol Good call.
'' It’s no wonder you pretend to have Alzheimer’s in your later years when
its actually Post Traumatic Stress. I can only imagine the horrors you
must have endured by living with this creep.''
omg. LOL. This is seriously the best post ever written! bahahahahhaa LOVE!
lol this is great
ohhh i love time travellers wife! Both the book and the movie
@AsToldByKatie@xanga - and she belongs on the worst of the worst.
@AsToldByKatie@xanga - I hope its in the worst girlfriends list! I do not like her character at all!
I am somewhat but not really shocked for Mandy Moore.
but she is so lovely.
well this is odd...usually any remotely hilarious post by a guy is flamed within 15 seconds by every girl on datingish. what happened?
@AsToldByKatie@xanga - i want to recommend this like 9235820398520398409342 times.
"Well, I guess that’s asking a lot considering you are the same girl who
followed this guy to an abandoned house where you lost your virginity on
a dirty rug by the fireplace."
Actually, they didn't actually DO it that first time in the abandoned house. There was some sort of interruption... but their first time together was after all the years they'd be apart.
@AsToldByKatie@xanga - Agreed. The worst of the worst of the worst of the worst of the...
Nice post! I know you're only talking about Movies, but one really psychotic tv show girlfriend who i thought was a wacko: has anyone ever watched One Tree Hill's Peyton Sawyer?
Her fans don't think it's creepy that she wrote lyrics to some band they both supposedly liked on the river court in chalk for hours trying to get her ex back.
What about Summer Finn in (500) Days of Summer? She was just a bitch. A completely hypocritical selfish bitch.
I just recently watched Sid and Nancy.... Nancy literally yelled for the entire movie. Even when they weren't fighting, she was yelling. She also got Sid addicted to heroin, which, you know, isn't the best.
@juliamegan@xanga - in the book, they did
Can we use disney movies? If so Belle would easily make the list as a good girlfriend. She, like Jennifer Connolly, saw through the beasts appearance. Even after what he did to her father nonetheless.
@juliamegan@xanga - I agree but there was a deleted scene that showed them uninterrupted.
ohhh. i love the time travellers wife.
Women are very complicated creatures. I feel like I need to explain that if she wasn't still in love with noah, his whole building a house thing would have been creepy. But she was still in love with him so instead, it was romantic. You see, we don't want ex-boyfriends that we can't stand to do stuff like that for us. We want the one that we never really stopped loving to do that for us (but usually it's the one we can't stand that does it lol). It's cold. It's harsh, but it's the truth. Just like for guys, you want this hot chick to come in dirtied up from battle but still gorgeous and soft and feminine. These people that we want...they don't exist, which is why we want them in the first place. Kind of off subject...but to me still relevant lol.
@mtk101@xanga - You read my mind! :)
This post was great, however I am a fan of the Notebook and Rachel McAdams and just can't help myself, but love the movie anyway. :)
Eh.
ryan gosling can cling to me as much as he wants.
and mandy moore is the best :( he changed because of her! and it wasn't even like he was trying to get laid; i think she was too sick for that. he just loved her!
ok i need to go do something cool and/or productive to make up for the fact that i just sat here defending mandy moore's character in a walk to remember... (but i still maintain that she's awesome).
I can't stand all those movies where the girl/guy leaves this loving person they were with for another character...and then its supposed to be happily ever after? They were a shitty girlfriend/boyfriend to the original person....
yes! i can't believe someone else actually agrees with me about Rachel McAdams in The Notebook! especially when all my friends think it's the most romantic movie ever! the book was actually ok though. probably because i wasn't seeing Rachel McAdams running every single time she saw that Noah guy.
That was great. Should add Bella Swan though. My god does that girl have issues. She's a stage 5 clinger from the beginning.