“‘Sleepless in Seattle’ (1993) is a literal stalker movie.”

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"The female lead is set to marry a super-sweet, nice guy who's also wealthy, but she doesn't tell him about her Southern roots and childhood. I think she even keeps her last name from him since she changed it when she moved to New York.

Even after finding out she was still married to her hometown sweetheart as a teen, this new guy is still willing to marry her. It doesn't help that they try to make it seem like HIS mom is the bad person because she doesn't like the woman he's going to marry, which I say is logical. This woman wasn't completely honest about her upbringing or previous marriage.

And then, despite all that, on the day of the wedding, when they are ready for the 'I do's,' she won't go through with it because the first guy she married actually pulled his life together while she ran off to reinvent herself with a whole new name and persona, and she still loves him. So the rich guy's mom is upset, which she should be. Her son was left at the altar, she gets punched in the face by the not-to-be bride anymore, and that's somehow supposed to be okay?

The hometown couple is back together. The nice, rich guy wasted time going to Alabama. His mom got punched."

"Threatening suicide to get a date is so manipulative and not romantic."

"Not to mention the whole 'fighting with each other during dating means we love each other so much!' Um. No. Fighting, especially in early dating, is a huge red flag."

"Also, she hits and pushes them when they're arguing. That's not passion, that's abuse. Neither person should lay their hands on you in anger or frustration."

"It's about a dorky, anal-retentive, and slightly frumpy journalist who was chosen to go undercover as a high school student to see what high school is really like and uncover dramas, which is a nonsense premise. She's unable to become friends with the popular crowd, but stuff happens to change that. Eventually, the big story that her newspaper wants to pursue is getting a teacher who is seemingly interested in her to act on or confess his attraction to her, all the while the journalist is presenting herself as a student! This is hard to watch because she feels bad for him and doesn't want to damage his career or reputation, but he's literally falling for a person who he knows as a student! This is so inappropriate! The conclusion is her revealing her true identity as he's about to confess, so he storms off, but the last scene of the movie is them reuniting and the newspaper being like, 'We're so happy they ended up together!'"

"I can remember seeing it in the theater, and after the movie, my mom looked at my sisters and me, ages 6, 8, and 9, and said, 'Never change for the boy!'"

"It's a literal stalker movie. Meg Ryan's character hears a man's voice on the radio, becomes convinced they're meant for each other, hires a private investigator to look into him, travels to his city, and spies on him and his son."

"It pisses me off sooooo much. The girl and her male best friend have a deal that they won't date each other's siblings, except she doesn't have any siblings, so she just can't date his brother. Then some jerk slaps her ass because her skirt was too short, and they BOTH get detention. And in detention, the perv starts flirting with her, and she AGREES TO GO OUT WITH HIM! Then he stands her up because apparently the older brother has a school-wide rule that no one is allowed to date her! And she finds that cute for some reason?! And then she starts secretly dating him, but her best friend finds out and gets mad, and somehow she's in the wrong? But he's not mad about the secrets. He's mad because his brother gets everything he wants, and she was the one thing that was 'his.' So yeah, literally every guy is possessive and controlling and weird, and it really upsets me that anyone finds it romantic in the least."

"When the leads are already in steady, healthy relationships, their partners do literally nothing wrong, or maybe something minor, but they meet each other and fall in love, and it's like their partners don't even exist. We're supposed to completely ignore the fact that they are cheating, or at the very least flirting and having an emotional affair, simply because they click so well or their partner is a bit boring."

"If she wasn’t famous, there’s no way you’d make excuses for someone that treated you like that."

"Harry is literally the worst. He’s condescending, callous, argumentative, and just simply an asshole we’re meant to be rooting for? He spends an entire scene telling Sally how pretentious she is for…liking her food a certain way. Goes on a huge sexist rant and learns literally nothing at the end of the movie."

"That movie romanticized falling for the bare minimum. Not even that."

"While this is a really great movie, the creep factor is when he tells the woman he worked with that he was a child AFTER sleeping with her. Then he transforms back into a young teen, and she's sad and going to miss him."

"He takes advantage of a woman who has a severe TBI."

"Drew Barrymore's character has a condition and loses her memory every day. So Adam Sandler's character knocks her up and forces her to live on a boat where they will continue to raise their child she'll never remember having."

"I hate this movie so much. Colin Firth tracks down someone who doesn't speak his language, and when he meets her dad, the dad wants him to take his less attractive daughter instead, and everyone is like, 'LOL!' Another guy in the movie hits on his best friend's wife. Laura Linney's character hooks up with a crush, spends two minutes talking to her brother on the phone, who has some problems, and her crush is like, 'WTF, BYE,' for that? Not to mention poor Emma Thompson, whose marriage is falling apart. Like, every scenario in this movie is depressing, and it's played off as touching and beautiful in the end, and it's all crap."

"The whole thing creeps me out. Muuuuch older guy falls for a high school girl with zero personality? Causing her pain is how they're intimate? 'It's okay that he hurts me, it's only because he loves me.' Ew. Let's not forget she has to literally die and change everything about herself."

"Maybe people recognize that the age gap is creepy, but I know it’s beloved by many."

"Put your best friend in the friend zone and then use him when you're having a falling out with your crush, only to use your friend to get back with your crush and then abandon said friend at prom." 

"It is straight up about a family of mountain men going into a village, kidnapping six girls, who are actual teenage children, fleeing with them back to the mountains, and keeping them there for months. The girls develop Stockholm syndrome and eventually believe they have fallen in love with their captors. When their fathers eventually are able to make it past the avalanche to rescue them months later, they convince the parents that one of the girls is pregnant to force them to allow a 'shotgun wedding.' It is treated as a win for the girls since now they want to marry the men who stole them, but think about that. If that really was the scenario, they would have been forced to marry their abuser and raise his child. I loved old musicals as a child, so I enjoyed this one, but I was horrified when I understood the implications of the storyline."

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