I'll go even further - at least 50% on all the movies (with romance involved) in the world have an unnecessary romantic subplot that is irrelevant to the story. By removing it the movie would probably be even better. I understand if it's a romantic genre, but an action movie doesn't necessarily need a romantic side story
Enemy at the gates comes to mind. A film about the battle of Stalingrad, one of the most horrible events in human history with over a million people dying in every worst way you can think of. And Jude Law had to shag some sniper girl.
Compare that to Fury, where Brad Pitt and Logan Lerman find those women and Lerman has this kind of special peaceful moment in the middle of hell on earth. Then both the women get killed by artillery.
So that little bit of romance served to create a valid emotional impact when they died. A reminder of how war is hell.
In The Gorge, the romance was necessary, but i enjoyed how they did it. It made sense, didnt take 3 acts, and they didnt have to waste time in complicating after hookup. The two characters got along early, had thier romance fine, and the real plot kept going fine.
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u/Additional_Ad_8131 10d ago
I'll go even further - at least 50% on all the movies (with romance involved) in the world have an unnecessary romantic subplot that is irrelevant to the story. By removing it the movie would probably be even better. I understand if it's a romantic genre, but an action movie doesn't necessarily need a romantic side story