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Movies for advice

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Are movies good for advice? I know a lot of them have some impossibly good/bad senerios. Some though, seem to have good advice for dating or trying to meet women or men. a couple of them that I thought were good for this were: Hitch, and, uhh... I haven't seen enough romance movies yet. :oops: Bad ones: macbeth, James bond ( :P ), and most kiddy love stories. So are there any bad, or good ones, and which ones?
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You're not seriously looking at movies as a source of relationship advice, are you? You might as well look at porn. That reminds me of a conversation I had with Rebecca a while ago:

REBECCA: "So ... those guys are just delivering that little TV?"

MIKE: "Looks like it."

REBECCA: "And she doesn't have any money to pay the delivery charge?"

MIKE: "Yup."

REBECCA: "So now she has to have sex with all three of them?"

MIKE: "Yup."

REBECCA: "I love porn."
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ha ha. thats funny. and no, I won't use movies for advice mainly, I just was curious if there are any movies that are uh (forgive me) truer than others.
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Movies can actually be pretty good for demonstrating what the right kind of body language looks like. Bond (especially Connery) and George Clooney flicks are good for this.
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Dude, don't sink so low as to use movies for advice on that shit. You're more likely to get good advice from an online forum full of star wars nerds. Seriously.
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Zero132132 wrote:Dude, don't sink so low as to use movies for advice on that shit. You're more likely to get good advice from an online forum full of star wars nerds. Seriously.
Hey... The denizens give pretty good advice :D
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As I see it, fiction in any form is completely unsuitable for seeking advice from. No matter what you look at and how you look at it, on the basic core level absolutely nothing about it is real: the settings, the characters, their emotions, reactions, etc... all created by an author to perform in a predetermined way to a planned, engineered conclusion.

Hell, one of the key "rules" in the majority of film analysis is that you're not supposed to treat characters as if they were real people...
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