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Top 10 Worst Movies for a First Date
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7/30/2024
These movies ensure there won't be a second date. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the bad choice cinematic entertainment for that first date.
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Danny, whatever you're thinking about doing, please don't do it."
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Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the bad-choice cinematic
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entertainment for that first date.
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We're focusing more on movies that you might actually see on a date, not necessarily movies
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with the most gruesome or unromantic content.
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Number 10.
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The Notebook.
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What's that?
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Why wouldn't you want to see a movie as sweeping and romantic as The Notebook on a first date?
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Because who wants to try to live up to what Ali and Noah had going on?
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The romance here is just off the charts, storybook perfect.
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At the same time, we also get to see their entire relationship from its sweet beginnings
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to its complicated middle, and ultimately to its bittersweet end.
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It's a lot.
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A first date is when you're still feeling each other out.
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Seeing The Notebook would be the cinematic equivalent of talking about moving in or having
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kids together.
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Number 9.
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Funny Games.
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What do you want to do now?
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Would you be so kind as to go make us something to eat?
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A horror movie can be a great choice for a first date.
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When you get scared, you can just cling to the other person and get cozy.
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But Funny Games is not the one.
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Before you know it, you're watching a nice family being tormented by a pair of sadistic
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criminals who enjoy testing their devotion to each other.
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Instead of grabbing for each other, two people on a first date might find themselves inching
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further and further away from each other.
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It's enough to put you off marriage, family, and home ownership for years.
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Number 8.
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American Psycho.
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Patrick Bateman is an anti-hero to the nth degree.
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The Wall Street sociopath with yuppie aspirations doesn't really do much to make you want
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to root for him.
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He hates his fiancée and is generally soulless, and that's before he starts offing people.
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American Psycho takes you on a journey through Bateman's savage and relentless psyche.
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He goes on a lot of dates himself, but his way of ending the evening with the women he
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takes home is pretty unconventional, graphic, brooding, and completely disorienting.
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The movie makes you wonder what the virtual stranger sitting next to you might be hiding.
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Number 7.
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Oldboy.
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This stylish adaptation of a Japanese manga at first might appear to be a straightforward
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action film, but things get very, very weird very, very quickly.
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A man is kidnapped and imprisoned for several years, and then upon escaping from this group
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of mysterious captors, swears revenge on them.
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And things get even weirder and more shocking still after he meets a younger woman he begins
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to fall in love with.
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By the end, things have gotten so out of hand in ways that need to be seen to be believed,
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but we can guarantee it's gonna zap the romance right out of any date.
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Number 6.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet star in this non-linear and cryptic drama about two exes who participate
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in a program to have their memories of each other systematically erased.
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Eternal Sunshine is heartbreaking and mournful.
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It poetically communicates the beauty, sadness, confusion, and mixed emotions of the end of
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a relationship.
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That's exactly what makes it a cursed first date movie.
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It's not exactly the kind of thing you want to be thinking about at the start of something
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new.
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This is a perfect post-breakup movie, and maybe even a perfect date movie for further
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on down the road in a relationship.
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Number 5.
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Midsommar.
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Traveling to rural Sweden for a Midsommar festival, partners Christian and Dani are
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not exactly in a great place when they arrive.
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She's traumatized by her family's deaths, and he's decidedly unable or unwilling to
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help her cope.
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It's a doomed relationship, even under the best of circumstances.
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The strange and increasingly violent customs of the festival only drive them further apart.
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Ultimately, Midsommar's divisive conclusion draws a line in the sand for viewers.
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If you and a first date come away on opposite sides of that line, the relationship might
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just be a no-go.
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Number 4.
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Gone Girl.
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You don't know if she has friends, you don't know what she does all day, and you don't
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know your wife's blood type.
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Sure y'all are married.
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Some people will do anything to put the spark back in a relationship.
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The sociopathic protagonist of 2014's Gone Girl decides getting revenge on her husband
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and showing him just how good she was to him is worth staging her own murder in framing
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him.
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If that doesn't spell romance, then what does?
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This movie is a searing and twisted look at a marriage turned poisonous.
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And while that absolutely may be some couple's vibes, it's not everyone's.
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If it's enough to make you look at the person next to you and wonder if they're
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capable of this, it can put a real damper on the attraction.
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Number 3.
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Fatal Attraction.
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You never really know a partner until you date them for a while.
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What can draw you to someone can just as easily turn ugly if the conditions are right.
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Intense passion might look attractive on screen, but as fatal attraction shows us, there can
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be another side to that.
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In the film, Glenn Close's character can't accept not having Michael Douglas to herself,
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despite the fact that he is married to someone else.
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So when he ends their brief extramarital fling, she believes it gives her full license to
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destroy his life.
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Far-fetched as it may seem, it just might color how you think about someone new in your
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life.
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Number 2.
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Blue Valentine.
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Sitting through this movie with a first date is sure to keep expectations low, which might
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be a good thing, depending on how warped your perspective is.
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Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star as a married couple whose relationship has rotted
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away.
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Jumping back and forth in time to the beginning and end of their relationship, we get to watch
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as all they loved about each other gets whittled away by life.
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All that's left is resentments and bitter reminders of how in love they used to be.
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The last thing you need on a first date is a reminder that all the things you like about
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each other right now can turn toxic in just a few short years.
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Number 1.
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Antichrist.
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This polarizing horror film is a surreal and emotional rollercoaster of violence, grief
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and trauma.
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While this may make it a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience, it doesn't get a relationship
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off on the right foot.
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Marriage never looked uglier and less appealing than in Antichrist.
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It blurs all the lines between reality and fantasy and straddles the fence between art
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and exploitation.
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It would take a certain kind of couple with a pair of strong stomachs to walk away from
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this one wanting a second date.
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For the rest of us, it's probably best to avoid this one until a relationship is on
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more stable ground.
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What's the most unfortunate movie you ever saw on a first date?
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Let us know in the comments.
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