Comments on: 8 Romanceless Movies and TV Shows to Watch on Valentine’s Day

By: Ham Boner

Ham Boner — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:24:00 +0000

Merida wasn’t gay. She just didn’t want to marry the men she was offered. Plus she was just a kid. No kid knows what they want.

By: Raven Jennifer Demers

Raven Jennifer Demers — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:48:00 +0000

While it’s a kids movie, I was just saying to my daughter how much I liked that in “Finding Nemo” the relationship between Marlin and Dory never becomes romantic, yet they end up bonded together in a close, platonic relationship where both get their needs met and take care of one another. The romance is already over in the first few minutes of the film when explaining Marlin’s back story and losing his mate.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:58:00 +0000

Late to the party, but I’d like to mention the recent horror movie “Mama”. Not just zero-romance, it also very very nearly fails the reverse Bechdell test … I also have a love / hate relationship with it as it scared me witless, yet I also found it compelling.

By: Viperswhip

Viperswhip — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:20:00 +0000

I would have expected The Sarah Connor Chronicles to be the show. There is not a single major female character in Sherlock. Sarah doesn’t not care about Men, she doesn’t have time for that aspect of her life, and the one relationship she does enter is to get information on the guy’s project and maybe kill him.

By: Natalie Willoughby

Natalie Willoughby — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:13:00 +0000

OMG THANK YOU FOR GIVING THE LITTLE GIANTS A SHOUTOUT!!

/end yelling excitedness

By: Meg P. W.

Meg P. W. — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:30:00 +0000

I had never heard about a romantic subplot involving Dorothy and the Scarecrow. That’s so nutty!
I always thought she missed him most of all because she met him first and spent the most time with him – especially since it would be harder to get attached to a heartless Tin Man and a Lion who threatened to kill you when he met you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:30:00 +0000

Love this list. I get into a lot of moods where I can’t handle romance, and I always watch Alien or Hot Fuzz depending on the amount of humor I want.

By: Joe G

Joe G — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:56:00 +0000

Re: Romance subplots in action films–my understanding is, they weren’t originally included to cater to female demographics, but to

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:26:00 +0000

I get NO “will they won’t they” tension from Sherlock. I mean, from John and Sherlock. I’m frustrated that no one on television or in movies seems to be able to have very close friends without having sex with them at some point. People talk about the romantic tension between Frodo and Sam in LotR as well, but honestly, are people not allowed to have friends? If they wanted to introduce a boyfriend for either character, that’d be one thing, fine, but if they were to put John and Sherlock together, it would be wrong, that’s not the point of their relationship.

By: Mark Brown

Mark Brown — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:07:00 +0000

Ditto the “secondary couple,” Claudia/Jinks (because Jinks is gay).

Arty, of course, is confused by this human emotion called “love” and has no time for it.

By: janna roam

janna roam — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:48:00 +0000

This is a very interesting movie list, you a have a little of everything in here. I won’t be able to watch any of these for Valentine’s Day today since I’m working late at DISH, but I could rent one and watch it as a belated celebration next week. I think I’ll rent Brave from Blockbuster @Home through DISH, which has over 100,000 titles to choose from, so it’s always easy for me to find the movie I’m looking for.

By: Christopher Holden

Christopher Holden — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:14:00 +0000

Great Article! I’m going to throw in my favorite romance-less movie just for kicks; Hidalgo. No love there except that between a man and his horse (minds out of the gutters people)

By: Magic Xylophone

Magic Xylophone — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:08:00 +0000

“a same-sex cast didn’t equal no romance 95% of the time.”

Well, I mean… isn’t that demographically accurate?

By: Magic Xylophone

Magic Xylophone — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:04:00 +0000

Perhaps the deferred romance is a silver lining of modern Hollywood’s penchant for franchise-baiting?

By: Rebecca Pahle

Rebecca Pahle — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:12:00 +0000

It can be hard sometimes to separate shipping from canon, but I tried. :)

By: Electrical Rat

Electrical Rat — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:58:00 +0000

I recommend “The Replacement Killers”
It’s about two people shooting other people and kicking butts and one happens to be a man, the other one happens to be a woman. The End
It was so refreshing having a film with that kind of plot that was about a growing friendship not about having some random and lame sex scene.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:43:00 +0000

Hmm, would Warehouse 13 count. The expected pairing (PeteMyka) has more of a brothersister-relationship than a romantic one.

By: Ash Ketchum

Ash Ketchum — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:25:00 +0000

Well, thanks for contributing to the dumb as fuck idea that all a lesbian needs is the right man. And I have to concur with T, that’s one ugly motherfucker.

By: Liz Baker

Liz Baker — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:24:00 +0000

*any LESS prominent
*the, not he

Stupid cell phone typing.

By: Liz Baker

Liz Baker — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:21:00 +0000

Also a lesbian, but I didn’t think it was relevant, because very few people are 100% either way in real life and we all have exceptions. Exceptions which, when they exist, do not make our 99% orientation any more prominent.

That’s real life, though, and THIS is representation in the media, an incredibly damaging representation that tells viewers that gays and lesbians can be “changed” and all we need is the right straight person to apply their genitalia.

If you don’t see he danger there, congratulations on having never been exposed to “ex-gay” “therapy”, but shit like this only encourages it.

By: T

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:15:00 +0000

Joke post because that fucker has to be one of the ugliest human beings in existence. You are not a lesbian.

By: Liz Baker

Liz Baker — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:14:00 +0000

The agreement makes me happy (feeling insulted by showrunners ruins things for me, and Moffat’s baiting is absolutely insulting) and do! Joan Watson is a super-interesting take on the character, and I loooove the inclusion of minor characters like Gregson, who I’ve never seen in an adaptation before. It’s such a different look at the world and I love it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:58:00 +0000

You may be right. I only saw it once in theaters some time back.

By: The Shipper

The Shipper — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:20:00 +0000

Silly Mary Sue, no romance? Please GUUURL! The shipping and sexual tension are strong on your selections. The imminent feeling of shipping will crawl in your body and make you think on romance as twice as much as regular romance. Have you learnt nothing about fandom? Silly innocent blog!

By: Megan Gotch

Megan Gotch — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:47:00 +0000

ENG one of my top fav movies EVA! LAMHA FACE!!!! THX for giving it some love!!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:45:00 +0000

Wizard of Oz (1939): Sure Dorothy may miss the Scarecrow most of all, but they cut the romantic subplot that would have made that line make more sense. As a result it’s just a movie about a girl trying to get home with the help of her 3 awesome best friends.

Reservoir Dogs: There’s only a handful of women in periphery roles and all of the men are presumably straight.

Also, Silence of the Lambs was always my favorite movie to watch on Valentine’s Day while I was single.

By: Carly Hunter

Carly Hunter — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:19:00 +0000

Its funny how different peoples interpretations of things are. I thought Merida was a decendant of the cursed bear making the same mistake he had.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:53:00 +0000

Lol no.

By: Lady Rainicorn

Lady Rainicorn — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:04:00 +0000

As a straight-up lesbian with an absolutely massive crush on Benedict Cumberbatch, I would like to say that I actually found the ‘straight for Sherlock’ thing pretty realistic and put in my application for his healing cock to turn me straight.

By: Travis Fischer

Travis Fischer — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:02:00 +0000

Sherlock and Adler are romantic in that their relationship really the only kind of relationship they could ever have with each other.

They are on opposite sides of the law. They are both paranoid about each other. They express themselves mainly through emotional manipulation. She’s gay and he’s… Sherlock.

There is absolutely no reason they should even like each other. But at the end of the day, they make it work in the best way they can. If that’s not romantic, I don’t know what is.