Spare us the torture

Rating: 1/10 (23 May 2016)

Do we really, really need to watch what is essentially a guy trying to pull a girl for 90 minutes? If that is a good premise for a movie, put a hidden camera in a bar, and maybe you will watch something more realistic, entertaining, and even hilarious than this "romantic" claptrap. What this teaches you is that as long as you can fill up conversation with meaningless, pseudo-profound babble, the girl will get - like - really impressed, and end up - surprise - frolicking with you in a park by night. I mean, it's OK. People, young people, travel on Interrails and have encounters. We get that. But they are treated as the meaningless sexual encounters they are. Not bloated up to look as if they are The! Most! Romantic! Thing! Ever!
Funny thing. I know several girls who DO find it incredibly romantic. Would these girls ever dream of spending the day in a foreign town with a stranger they just met? Especially if he had the same verbal skills as "Jesse", but none of the looks. Would they f... Hypocrisy at its best.