Posted by Haiqal Sari
Online Content Manager
Online Content Manager
Okay, before I start, let me just get one thing straight. I do NOT abhor romance flicks. In fact, I love them. Love them to the point that I proudly place (500) Days of Summer in the top five of my “all-time favourite films” list. I’ve watched everything from Titanic (overrated, but yeah, it fits the description) to 2011 Taiwanese hit “You Are the Apple of my Eye”. In short, romance films are very much in my system.
Alright, big-screen adaptations of books are fine. Harry Potter, Hunger Games and The Lord of the Rings are just some of the many not-so-original works that have graced cinema screens and squeezed out my lunch money over the years. Yeah, you’re all pretty much verbally abusing me with the same old “humans are visual people, these movies have given life to my favourite characters” and all that fluff. But if there’s one thing that I can’t stand, it’s movie studios producing the same old “man-meets-woman” love story.
Alright, big-screen adaptations of books are fine. Harry Potter, Hunger Games and The Lord of the Rings are just some of the many not-so-original works that have graced cinema screens and squeezed out my lunch money over the years. Yeah, you’re all pretty much verbally abusing me with the same old “humans are visual people, these movies have given life to my favourite characters” and all that fluff. But if there’s one thing that I can’t stand, it’s movie studios producing the same old “man-meets-woman” love story.