Both structurally and in its level of sophistication, it reminds one of those romantic comedies in which disparate, loaded moments are collaged to create a larger world, a world in which, as it says in the "Valentine's Day" trailer, there is "always a chance for romance or disaster".
Grown-up romance "CATASTROPHE".
The yoking of romance to the disaster narrative began with "Saved from the Titanic," the 1912 movie with the weirdly prescient "reality" angle — it's the one that starred an actual survivor.
Meanwhile, most executives believe that office romances end in disaster and wreak havoc in the workplace, reports the Society for Human Resource Management.
In 2017, there are simply not enough disaster romances.
Martijn Sjoorda, who runs his own consultancy business, entered into an office romance that became a "disaster", but insisted that the workplace "played no role whatsoever in the making of said disaster".
She may have been a disaster in romance, and she had even worse judgment in best friends, but she wasn't the one who went public with her story or splashed the intimate details of her life across the news.
In this week's box office chart, Cameron's nautical disaster-romance relegated dystopian drama The Hunger Games into second spot, while Mirror Mirror was a new entry at three.
With wham-bam timing and unisex jokes, Mr. Roberts races us through a jam-packed tale of erectile reluctance, brotherly betrayal, Internet disaster and accidental romance.
Driven gently by these tensions, and a few Nancy discovers in her own impetuous romance, the story creeps toward disaster, which arrives with the great hurricane of 1938.
