Going to the movies? Beware of the choice you make!

People that have seen romantic movies like Bridget Jones' Diary and Notting Hill look may not have realistic and even unhealthy ideas about what a relation should look like in real life.
Research conducted by Brittish pro's reveals that although romantic comedies are often thought as being the perfect type of movie to pick on a first date, they create false expectations and therefore are deemed a bad choice.
It appears that those that fancy movies of another genre have a better chance of finding their 'perfect' partner, than people who love to watch romantic movies, for the latter are convinced that that 'ideal relation' will knock on the door unexpectedly and they do not realise that to make a relation work, one has to invest time and energy to keep the flame burning.

Conception of love
Just by seeing one movie about romance people's view on what love is can change completely. Dr. Bjarne Holmes stated "We don't want to be the spoilsports here - We don't want to tell people that they should not watch these type of movies. What we want to stipulate is that people should be watching with a healthy doses of critisism and not take the message that is carried out for granted. The problem is that, eventhough most of us know that the 'perfect relation' does not exist, the media has a strong influence on some people and we're just learning this."

Love at first sight
The first part of the exercise that was done by the researchers was to watch about 40 successfull film titles such as The Wedding Planner, You've Got Mail and While You Were Sleeping. Most of these movies are all about love at first sight and the idea that there is only one man or woman on the globe that is made for the other. Striking fact was that cheating was a lot easier forgiven by people than in real life. According to Dr. Holmes the movies are all about destiny and that people are well attuned to and completely understand eachother. "Believing that this is a true reflection of love in real life could be very disappointing for some people."
In the second part over 100 students were asked to watch the move 'Serendepity', THE romance of 2001. When being
questioned after seeing the film, more participants believed in fate than those that had choosen a non-romantic movie.
The third part of the research showed that fans of comedies/romantic movies had stronger believes in a predestinated love.