What's a movie that heavily features a Significant Other where the writers forgot to give them a personality besides "is the SO"?

Submitted by thatdani t3_10m00m6 in movies

No one-scene-ers, cause that'd be cheating.

I watched War Dogs last night and Ana de Armas was like the 4th most prominent character in that film (playing Miles Teller's gf/baby mama) and by the time the movie was almost over I realized... there's not a single thing that she said or did that wasn't in direct relation to Miles Teller's character. She was just "the girlfriend" and that's it. And the perfect one at that, I might add. She only >!leaves him after like, the 5th major lie she catches him in!<

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PropJoe421 t1_j601gxc wrote

Matt Damon's girlfriend in Rounders.

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TheMSthrow t1_j60kl37 wrote

Agreed, she's a singularly awful character and is in the movie purely to make everyone absolutely miserable.

It is funny though that you could easily make a movie from her POV where she's the good guy, desperately trying to keep her loser gambling-addicted boyfriend from throwing his promising legal future away in card rooms or getting himself killed by the Russian mob because of his idiot best friend Worm.

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PropJoe421 t1_j60mdhx wrote

Damn, that actually sounds like a solid movie. Only more relevant today too with sports gambling and crypto.

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IJacoby t1_j63134p wrote

Came here to say this and it’s the top answer. Good job /r/movies

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Galac_tacos t1_j60ybsb wrote

Baby Driver. Love the film, but it's widely considered that the romance is the worst part of it, spent a bit saying she liked music then bam, she waits years for him while he's in prison? (yeah ik its probably a dream). I'd also argue Minnie Driver's character in Good Will Hunting, but she went to school with my mum so I'm not gonna dis her character.

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Pozukyo t1_j605axg wrote

One of the best example would be the woman in Ocean Eleven. She is literally there to be a prize SO men fight for. She's part of the heist and it's not even hidden

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Owasso_Landman t1_j6075oc wrote

Julia Robert’s? I think she’s also Danny’s conscience but she definitely doesn’t have much to do. Is she in the sequel? I can’t even remember.

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AsimovLiu t1_j60jz8g wrote

In Ocean Twelve? You mean the movie where Julia Roberts' character passes as the actual Julia Roberts to mess up with Bruce Willis? Yes she's in it :D

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[deleted] t1_j60qys7 wrote

Every cop movie of the girlfriend of the single cop who does things his way, while his cop partner is the married "play by the rules" stable one whose wife is also without a personality.

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HPmoni t1_j604b93 wrote

Delivery Man with Vince Vaughn. His girlfriend is Colbie Smolders and she's a cop for no apparent reason.

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[deleted] t1_j600woe wrote

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garrisontweed t1_j60rtgw wrote

“Bobbie go watch tv.”

“ Bobbie don’t sit so close to the tv.”

That was his only plot points.

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PastMiddleAge t1_j62pu0v wrote

Not what I’d call a significant other. He was really young, too. I’m fine with them not fleshing that character out much. And I think they wrote good stuff for Sally.

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stanley_leverlock t1_j61wrkh wrote

I'm pretty sure it was deliberately written that way, but Maya Rudolph's fiance in Bridesmaids is treated like a prop. I don't think he even has any lines.

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Due-Preparation5104 t1_j62ms5s wrote

Lol I think he might say "thank you" at some point but that's it. The blankest slate known to man.

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Nimble-Dick-Crabb t1_j61duaj wrote

The wife in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Sure it’s a movie about the two guys, but I feel like John Hughes could’ve given her something to do

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bellestarxo t1_j62qi7v wrote

Originally she had a bigger storyline. She thought Steve Martin was having an affair and that John Candy was not an obnoxious oaf, but was the other woman.

Her look at the end is so emotional because she realizes Del is a real person.

The original was too long though, so it was cut to focus on the Martin & Candy.

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autoposting_system t1_j60fsbn wrote

The recent version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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DoubleTFan t1_j60lbi1 wrote

Well his fiance in the original Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a cardboard cutout too.

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bravesgeek t1_j62096a wrote

My only gripe with the movie Like Crazy is Jennifer Lawrence's character is given absolutely nothing to do other than to be the "other girl"

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theyusedthelamppost t1_j62f75c wrote

Claire Forlani in Mystery Men

there's no reason for her to be in the movie other than to tick a box to say that the movie had a romantic subplot

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Nightrider119 t1_j64dmbp wrote

The blonde girl in Texas chainsaw massacre 2022. I don't think her name is ever even mentioned.

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closeface_ t1_j669ck8 wrote

Great example, I don't think her name was ever mentioned at all.

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HOBTT27 t1_j64wtm4 wrote

Chris Pratt in Bride Wars.

We learn nothing about him whatsoever, except that he likes American Idol, which could be said about millions upon millions of people in the mid-2000’s.

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