Stupid Boy likes Girl angle lowered my rating

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 2010)

Maybe it's just me but boy likes girl plots cheapen movies especially when they are not romantic comedies but rather movies like Zombieland or thrillers or action films or whatever. It's such a cliché, eye roll worthy angle to play and I was disappointed when Zombieland decided to go that route having Jesse Eisenberg's character crush on Emma Stone's character.
I still rated the movie 6 out of 10 b/c overall it was enjoyable but the boy likes girl unoriginal garbage and a few WTF moments as well as a stupid video game like action sequence at the end prevented this movie from really taking off into amazing territory.
Basically, Zombies have taken over the world and the 4 main characters (Harrelson/Stone/Eisenberg/Breslin) are the last remaining humans ... or are they? ;) The movie is about their adventures to survive and find a place that is zombie free.
I will say that I found the 2 female characters extremely unlikable and it bothered me the way no matter what kind of crap they pulled, the 2 male characters would help them. If it was the other way around, the 2 women would probably have walked over their bodies and kept going. Was their snark and bitchery supposed to be endearing because it wasn't.. at all.
SPOILERS
There were a few WTF moments, obviously not including the ridiculous humans vs. Zombies shootout at the theme park at the end, but 2 that bugged me were:
1) Why did the 2 women need to wait for people to show up so they could run a con and steal their car? 1st of all, the chance of anyone showing up that wasn't a zombie was slim to none and 2nd of all, there were perfectly good, abandoned cars all over the place. Why not just take a car and go West like they wanted? Why hide out in a store randomly? That was dumb.
2) The men want to go East. The Women steal their car and start heading West. The men, hours later after getting a yellow Hummer come across the women... umm.. they wanted to go East. They would have gotten the Hummer and traveled East, not West so how the heck did they just so happen to run back into them? Insanely DUMB.
Ugh...
...and for the record, I am a female. Just thought I had to point that out given how much I couldn't stand the self entitled females in the movie.
6/10