BellaOnline Forums Relationships Married No Kids Some movies are so irritating

It seems a romantic movie can't end these days without a baby theme being tossed in for good measure. My husband and I actually sort of like watching romantic comedies together but a couple of them we've watched recently have this obvious, out-of-place baby moment tossed in at the end as though it would be somehow incomplete without "and baby makes three". It's really sickeningly contrived. I don't want to give spoilers away for people who might be about to watch these films, but I just had to vent about it. They are truly "spoilers" in every sense because the films were decent before the baby endings. It must be bad if it even drives my husband who is not easily bothered nuts because it's so overdone. Apparently you simply can't have a happy ending without procreation.

So true. Any time there's a couple, there just has to be talk about babies.

I personally hate most romantic movies because most tend to be about some beautiful woman chasing around after some man-baby loser who doesn't want to fully commit. But eventually she wins him over and he suddenly becomes the perfect man.

For once I'd like to see a movie where not only is the couple non-dysfunctional but also child free. I think that would make a great, interesting movie people will definitely yap about.

good topic to bring up.
I dont want to spoil anything for anyone but few months back we watched Four Christmas's and it started out with 2 people who wanted to be child free. I was totally digging the movie and then all of a sudden, they do a 180 and then they want kids! I was so disapointed.

My husband likes to watch Hispanic soap-operas, which are really good and I even like them myself, but ALL of them have as a central theme at some point in the soap some woman getting pregnant. And then it is this huge mystery as to what's gonna happen now, omg who's the father, how's he gonna react, blah blah blah. As if getting pregnant and having a kid and all the twists and turns it creates for a storyline is the ONLY thing that can keep ppl interested. Or now that the main actress is pregnant, all of a sudden she gains value and is to be watched! GRRRR!!!!

I must be older than you because I might find the "180" disappointing, but I myself wouldn't have been surprised at all. My cynicism would have been very disappointed if it had been different, lol.

We watched another one last night which seemed to be heading toward an adoption ending. We discussed it throughout and I was saying hopefully, "No this one will be different, they're going to adopt." While still child-centric, it would have been a nice change of pace. Yet just as was sickeningly expected, it turned out the lead adopted but was also pregnant in the final scene. My husband said "I will shoot the TV if she's pregnant at the end." Luckily he didn't, but we're really getting peeved to say the least.

I agree. The CFC's in movies are always portrayed to be lonely and miserable. But then they have a kid and everything becomes wonderful and they live happily ever after. We should make a romcom with an ending us CFC's like lol

Ellavemia - I think I know the second film you talked about. The thing that bothered me most about it (apart from the completely unnecessary pregnancy at the end)was that all the marital problems they were having earlier in the film was pretty much blamed on the stress of infertility - like having a baby would miraculously solve all the other problems they quite clearly had in their marriage! Another one that really irritated me was where the lead was happily engaged to the perfect man, met someone she hated at first sight and wound up with him despite being wildly incompatible. In the very last scene, just to prove how happy they really were, she turns around and looks about a million months pregnant, still in perfect clothes and heels and grinning like an imbecile! Totally agree with what everyone's saying though, once upon a time the film ended with the 'happy ending' of a wedding, now it seems necessary to point out just how 'successful' the marriage was by having a sprog.

Exactly the film, Capybara! The other one you described was one of the movies that inspired my first post. It was cute movie but I felt bad for the original fiance and the end made me want to scream. The other which inspired the first post starred Meg Ryan and again was filled with extreme marital problems pre-baby ending. I think that's the part that disturbs us the most; the notion that a baby will magically fix everything even though reality proves the opposite is more often true.

hi I couldn't agree more, it just aint the movies tho all I read in the magazines just now is how desperate it seems every celebrity on this planet is to become a mom and how their life isn't complete without a baby in it.Even the ones who are in the most unstable of relationships are advocating their need to feel complete within the family unit...what a laugh their relationship has so many holes in it that it resembles cheese and they think a baby will solve all their problems, oh how naive these people are. It would be so refreshing to read a quote from even one of these celebrities that they are CF and happy to be so and that they intend to saty that way.....Or is that just me being naive now?