The love of chick flicks..??

Girl meets Boy.
Girl falls in love with Boy... Boy may or may not feel the same.
Girl expects marriage.... engagement may or may not happen.
Girl needs to do big event to win the Boy (some sort of trip most likely).
Trip (or something) goes terribly wrong.
New Boy is there to help... but he's an ass.
Girl fights with New Boy for 30 minutes of the movie.
New Boy makes grand gesture that changes Girl's mind about him.
Girl starts crushing/lustin' for New Boy.
New Boy starts to notice, dang he likes her too!
Old Boy comes back in the picture.... Girl remembers her love for him.
New Boy is sad.
Girl thinks she'll be happy with Old Boy.
Wrong.
New Boy and Girl live Happily Ever After.

How did we fall in love with this??? Oh how many movies I could fit into this category! Let me name a few: Leap Year, Wedding Planner, Kate and Leopold (although there was never an old guy), 13 Going on 30, The Notebook, You've Got Mail, Legally Blonde, Sleepless in Seattle, Titanic, and so forth. Obviously some "out of the box" directors like to spice this up a bit, go a little crazy if you will, but really it fits the same diagram. SOMETIMES the boy will take the place of the girl (like A Walk to Remember) but for the most part, it's the girl chasing the guy. Oye. When did we get old enough to really be annoyed by these movies? I mean sure, of some of the ones I listed, I really enjoyed. Maybe it was because I saw it when I was young and now it still has a place in my heart. But that's about it.

Well at least I only spent a dollar at midnight movies to see Leap Year! :)

Amy