History StrangledByTheRedString / LiveActionFilms

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' films do this with Neo and Trinity. They know each other for a few days and barely interact. When they do interact, they talk about kung-fu and machines. Then at the very end of [[Film/TheMatrix the first movie]], she spontaneously declares her love for Neo despite no build-up, other than a DeusExMachina, earlier in the movie about the Oracle's prediction. Fortunately this gets fixed in the sequels.

* The ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, mainly due to their being {{Compressed Adaptation}}s, definitely lean towards the asphyxiatory side of things in regards to Harry and Ginny. The two barely interact, sharing the screen for about seven minutes combined in the last ''three movies''. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix fifth book]], Ginny [[ShrinkingViolet being able to speak to Harry]] was a big deal; in the [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix fifth movie]], Creator/BonnieWright barely has any lines. Whenever they are on screen together, they barely talk, instead just sharing a kiss and an awkward look before Harry rushes off to do something and Ginny sits down to be irrelevant to the plot. Although they ''do'' give the two a couple of lovely moments together, even the ''shippers'' often complain about this regarding the films.

** Pre-release, this was feared with the teasing of the ComicBook/BlackWidow/[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] romance in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. After release, given it's Widow's major story arc in the movie, both critics and fans were divided on how it was handled. A big factor in this is that at least an hour of footage was cut from the movie (which is ''still'' 2 1/2 hours long), which makes much of their romance (and the rest of the plot) seem to just lurch from event to event without any proper build-up. Additionally, the pre-amble to their RomanceArc in this film seems to have occurred entirely off-screen, between films.

* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian'': Pay close attention to all of Conan and Valeria's scenes together after they first meet. He doesn't say one line to her! She does talk much more to him, and he kind of emotes non-verbally when needed (which, given it is Arnold we talk about, is a feat), but their relationship is still a bit awkward due to Conan's perpetual sullenness.

* In ''Film/TheTerminator'', Reese claims to have been in love with Sarah ever since seeing her picture. Sarah is suspicious of him at first but comes to trust him. Then, thanks to the fast pacing of the movie, they suddenly have sex, followed by them being too busy fighting the Terminator to develop their relationship for the rest of the movie. In the end, Sarah says in a recording she's making for her son that she and Reese "loved a lifetime's worth".

* In ''Film/TheTerminator'', Reese claims to have been in love with Sarah ever since seeing her picture. Sarah is suspicious of him at first but comes to trust him. Then, thanks to the fast pacing of the movie, [[CoitusEnsues they suddenly have sex]], followed by them being too busy fighting the Terminator to develop their relationship for the rest of the movie. In the end, Sarah says in a recording she's making for her son that she and Reese "loved a lifetime's worth".

* In ''Film/TheWholeNineYards'', protagonist Oz meets Cynthia for about five minutes, she later comes to his hotel room, and after spending the evening together sharing stories, CoitusEnsues. The next day Oz flies home, several days later Cynthia arrives, and later that night he's proclaiming he loves her, to her ex-husband no less. The relationship between the ex-husband and [[spoiler:Jill]] is a bit better -- those several days between Oz flying home and Cynthia arriving, the two of them also swap stories and he trains her, and she's a fan of his who idolizes him and has followed his work for years. By the end of the film, it's just attraction they share, though years later in the sequel they're married.

* ''Film/{{Speed}}'': Jack (Creator/KeanuReeves) and Annie (Creator/SandraBullock). After knowing each other for all of a few hours, they're making out and about to have sex in a wrecked subway car in the middle of a street with a [[ConcertKiss crowd of people watching]]. {{Justified|Trope}} and TruthInTelevision; people bond over traumatic experiences quickly. Amusingly enough, thanks to Keanu Reeves refusing to do the sequel it turns out they really didn't last long. They both {{lampshade|Hanging}} this.

* In the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of ''Film/IAmNumberFour'', it's explained that the alien race ''works like this'', with your first love being for life. Number Four falls in love with Sarah within two days and apparently ''permanently.'' There's a long scene of overly-flowery declarations of love delivered in a manner that would make ''[[Franchise/StarWars Padme and Anakin]]'' cringe. It's telling about this trope in general: apparently, the creators considered the way romance works in movies to be so nonsensical that it needed to be {{handwave}}d with BizarreAlienBiology... yet so obligatory that saying "no, they can have the first date at the end of this movie and be the love of each other's lives by movie three" wasn't an option.

** In the prequel trilogy [[ForegoneConclusion the audience already knows]] from [[Film/ANewHope the]] [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack original]] [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi trilogy]] that Anakin and Padme are supposed to end up together to have Luke and Leia. Apparently, Creator/GeorgeLucas thought this was enough and that their relationship didn't actually need to be convincing. Without the original trilogy, they fall headfirst into this trope.

*** Immediately upon his introduction in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', despite having not seen or talked to Padme for the past ''ten years'', he's showing near stalker-esque levels of attraction to her, saying how he's dreamed about her every night for the past ten years and how "just being around her again is intoxicating". You can say that's just pure physical attraction speaking (Anakin is canonically a teenager at this point after all), but that wouldn't explain why he seems so singularly obsessed with her when as a Jedi he's surely seen and met ''many'' attractive women throughout his interstellar adventures or even just in the Temple (human or [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe no]]). Their romance [[RomanticPlotTumor dominates the movie]] and distracts from the more important war and political aspects due to the completely unnecessary decision for it to be a [[ForbiddenFruit Forbidden Love]] story (despite the original trilogy and Episode I making no mention of it being forbidden for Jedi to be in relationships, and this film not actually giving a reason other than "it's not the Jedi way" and "I'm a senator"). And Padme does a complete 180 from "We can't be together" to "Let's be together", with the only important conversation they had in the interim being Anakin confessing that he ''murdered children''.
*** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', their relationship is confined to the two declaring how much they love each other in the most cringe-worthy ways, and Anakin deciding that Padme is worth turning to TheDarkSide, killing Jedi Padawans (the guy just likes killing children), and bringing about the collapse of the Republic and replacing it with an oppressive dictatorship. As The Distressed Watcher put it:

* In ''Film/TheWholeNineYards'', protagonist Oz meets Cynthia for about five minutes, she later comes to his hotel room, and after spending the evening together sharing stories, CoitusEnsues. The next day Oz flies home, several days later Cynthia arrives, and later that night he's proclaiming he loves her, to her ex-husband no less. The relationship between the ex-husband and [[spoiler:Jill]] is a bit better -- those several days between Oz flying home and Cynthia arriving, the two of them also swap stories and he trains her, and she's a fan of his who idolizes him and has followed his work for years. By the end of the film, it's just attraction they share, though years later in the sequel they're married.

** Pre-release, this was feared with the teasing of the ComicBook/BlackWidow/[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] romance in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. After release, given it's Widow's major story arc in the movie, both critics and fans were divided on how it was handled. A big factor in this is that at least an hour of footage was cut from the movie (which is ''still'' 2 1/2 hours long), which makes much of their romance (and the rest of the plot) seem to just lurch from event to event without any proper build-up. Additionally, the pre-amble to their RomanceArc in this film seems to have occurred entirely off-screen, between films.