On Valentine's Day, it's common to see articles about heartwarming meet-cutes.
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We lusted over their meet-cutes and we sobbed when they shattered.
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I vowed I'd line up a few meet-cutes and force myself out.
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Am I happy for the women who have meet-cutes on European train rides?
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And nowadays, it feels like meet-cutes are a near-extinct species within dating.
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While Hollywood movies are full of meet-cutes, in real life, they're a little rarer.
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We promise these meet-cutes will make you smile while simultaneously restoring your faith in dating.
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Netflix Not all rom-coms need to be meet-cutes and will-they-or-won't-theys.
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In traditional rom-com form, they just can't seem to keep it together during their meet-cutes.
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Generally, modern day romance movies feature meet-cutes, marital woes, misunderstandings that are eventually resolved with a kiss.
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Modern Love is dripping with romantic optimism and gooey meet-cutes that put a smile on my face.
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Settings include the F train and Tulum, Mexico; and there are references to indie rock concert meet-cutes.
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Except instead of meet-cutes in townhouses, it's happy hour wine specials with a dude I met off Tinder!
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The courting of Brides magazine had none of the meet-cutes and grand gestures often described in its glossy pages.
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Though my dating calendar is rarely full, I've still managed a couple dozen first dates, meet-cutes, and dance floor make-outs.
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He has the confusion of a brandy soaked professor and the cutes of... well, a puppy struggling to understand what the hiccups are.
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Before we depart this most-adorable of meet-cutes, the show's two most prevailing beardos bond over their mutual attraction to Brienne of Tarth.
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It's no news that romantic comedies are unrealistic — meet cutes and chases through the airport after your beloved just aren't part of a normal courtship process.
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The internet has made meet cutes a digital affair, and working 10+ hour days has a profound effects on finding someone while balancing a professional life.
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There aren't choreographed dance numbers, or meet-cutes with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, but after living here for three years, New York still feels like a miracle.
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From whimsical mishaps to charming meet-cutes, here are the 10 best and 10 worst Netflix romantic comedies of all time based on critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
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This was so different from the easy, breezy meet-cutes and witty banter that encompassed six seasons of Sex and the City (not to mention two very lengthy feature films).
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While these celebs might not have known they were meeting their future spouses, their adorable meet-cutes and chemistry were evidence enough for fans to start shipping them early on.
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Then, in one of the most classic Hollywood meet-cutes of all time, Mary gets her Gucci heel stuck in a manhole cover as a dumpster barrels in her direction.
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Forget the days of old-fashioned meet-cutes or looking for love on popular dating apps like Tinder — the new place to find romance seems to be on college Snapchat stories.
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Hollywood rom-coms make meet-cutes look almost unattainable, but Viola Davis' actual first meeting with her now-husband Julius Tennon may be better than those over-the-top fictional situations.
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For all the critique of the genre they contain—the meet cutes that aren't, the Carey Grant types whose drinking is excessive—the demands of the rom-com are simply unavoidable.
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They found that newborn puppies were least attractive, but increased in attractiveness as they got older and fluffier and less mushy-looking, hitting the max cutes before 10 weeks of age.
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Everything they plan for bosses Kirsten (Lucy Liu) and Rick (Taye Diggs), like meet-cutes and grand romantic gestures, they end up organically performing for one another as their own relationship blossoms.
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Ahead, six real-life online meet-cutes of the non-catfish variety, all of which prove how boring it is that I met my own boyfriend the old-fashioned way — on Hinge.
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Meet-cutes become the introduction into the characters' most defining personality traits—a disarming moment revealing them at their most shy, quirky, sassy, damaged, cynical, ambitious, fussy, arrogant, or maybe even kind of slutty.
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Mostly we expect celebrity love stories to involve red carpet meet cutes, but Mandy Moore, star of the hit ABC show This Is Us, met her now-fiancé Taylor Goldsmith in a much more relatable way.
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But I was (am) horny, and in need of someone to split an chocolate lava cake with on Valentine's, so I changed tack, and headed for a record store, where meet-cutes always happen in films.
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With such a vast group of overlapping characters, The Last Summer is poised to deliver all the rom-com points we've come to expect: awkward meet-cutes, snarky best friends, dramatic arguments, and, of course, summer romance.
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As Legend croons lyrics like "Everything's gonna be alright/I think I just met my wife," we watch as two people at a party "swipe" on each other, bringing together the ideas of online dating and IRL meet cutes.
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In a new interview with U.K.'s The Sunday Times, Efron said that it's hard to have a normal dating life in Hollywood, as his recognizable name leads to a lot of assumptions and not a lot of meet-cutes.
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"I never joke about money," streetwalker Vivian tells billionaire investor Edward Lewis during one of the most celebrated meet-cutes of all time: he, lost on his way to Beverly Hills; she, a down-and-out sex worker trying to make rent.
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The monster is an apt metaphor for that kind of destruction, and it's clever of Vigalondo to cloak this ambitious idea within a genre movie that itself feels like a riff on the meet-cutes and love triangles of a romantic comedy.
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It is one of the most delightfully absurdist depictions of what NYC aspirants think the city is like, complete with potential meet-cutes, a Gucci namedrop, and blacking out from bliss due to a rhinestone-encrusted egg purse in a store window.
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"For generations, this peaceful island has been home to our family, but beyond our reef, a great danger is coming...." So starts the trailer for the film, quickly followed by a series of platonic meet-cutes between Moana and her supporting cast.
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When Crowe's fist first meet-cutes Gosling's face, The Nice Guys still holds all the promise of a spirited disco-period caper, complete with a mismatched-buddies-duo worthy of Lethal Weapon (which Black famously wrote as a twenty-something, his VIP ticket to Hollywood).
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After the mother of all meet-cutes in a Los Angeles traffic jam at the start of the film, Mr Gosling and Ms Stone's love affair blossoms before hitting the sort of rocky patch that has become a standard plot beat for so many modern screen romances.
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By showing a successful Manhattan doctor — with an enviable closet and a string of adorable (albeit unrealistic) meet-cutes with hot men — as a truly imperfect human, Kaling allowed her protagonist to be the source of the show's comedy, a role often reserved for best friend sidekicks.
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Pitt is direly blank in Meet Joe Black, both as an unnamed young man who has meet-cutes with Claire Forlani and some motor vehicles, and as the incarnation of Death who takes over his body (the movie is not nearly as enjoyably weird as this makes it sound).
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This also plays into the huge dominance of fanfiction culture's sincere embrace of tropes, where fans are very upfront about wanting endless repetitions of coffee-shop meet-cutes and high school teen romances and office rom-coms, and there's no high/low cultural divide, or any shame attached to loving these tropes.
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It's the moment Hollywood star Anna Scott walks into William Thacker's bookshop in Notting Hill; Natalie's incessant potty mouth when shaking hands with her new boss, the dashing Prime Minister of the UK, in Love Actually; and possibly the most meet-cutest of meet-cutes, the moment in The Wedding Planner when Steve saves Mary from certain death after her Gucci pump gets stuck in a manhole cover just as a dumpster barrels down the street in her direction.
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The heyday of "meet cute" in films was during the Great Depression in the 1930s; screwball comedy films made a heavy use of contrived romantic "meet cutes", perhaps because the more rigid class consciousness and class divisions of this period made cross-social class romances into tantalizing fantasies.
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Certain movies are entirely driven by the meet-cute situation, and contrived circumstances throw the couple together for much of the screenplay. However, movies in which the contrived situation is the main feature, such as Some Like It Hot, rather than the romance being the main feature, are not considered "meet-cutes". The use of the meet-cute is less marked in television series and novels, because these formats have more time to establish and develop romantic relationships. In situation comedies, relationships are static and meet-cute is not necessary, though flashbacks may recall one (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mad About You) and lighter fare may require contrived romantic meetings.
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