Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant Are Destroying Your World

9:44 am EST December 18th, 2008 | Movies | 7 Comments

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Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed.

Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.

They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner.

Many held the view if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want without you telling them.

Psychologists at the family and personal relationships laboratory at the university studied 40 top box office hits between 1995 and 2005, and identified common themes which they believed were unrealistic.

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7 Responses to “Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant Are Destroying Your World”

  1. Dr. Squid says:
    December 18, 2008 at 9:48 am

    What about zom-rom-coms?

  2. sedum says:
    December 18, 2008 at 10:05 am

    The early on winner is the inimitable Dr. Squid. Kudos

  3. Pete says:
    December 18, 2008 at 11:54 am

    @Dr.Squid Damn! You beat me to it!

  4. ed says:
    December 18, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    What about those acceptable RomComs cranked out by Judd Apatow?

  5. PattyP says:
    December 18, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    If you’re watching a movie to begin with, then by definition, aren’t you failing to communicate with your partner?

  6. Duros62 says:
    December 18, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    “Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant Are Destroying Your World”

    This is news? I’ve known that since The Big 80′s went off the air.

    Doc Squid FTW.

  7. bryan says:
    December 19, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Another thing: Notting Hill hosts the biggest African-Carribean Carnival in Europe every year, but how many black people do you see in the film “Notting Hill”? Not even a black face in the fruit market (Heaven knows where else you can but Plantain).