Thankfully, my wife has many of the same taste in films as me - James Bond, Jet Li, and the occasional war, superhero, sci fi, or drama film. I think she tried to sit through a chick flick once and didn't enjoy the experience.

Oddly enough, she does like romance novels, but not on screen girlie stuff.

+100000000!

I watch a wide range of films.

I have favourite films in all genres and do not discriminate. That said, if a film sucks it sucks. Most films that suck are ones that are formula driven that don't do anything interesting within the formula. As others have noted, just because it follows a formula doesn't mean it's going to suck, some of the best films are formula films. People don't like to watch films that break from form too much because they like to see their expectations met (this happens in all genres by the way). We are, generally speaking, slaves of the narrative form.

I'm over 50 and I like a good cry now and again. My kids get a kick out of it.

Indeed. I hate the genre in general because there is so much crap that is passed off as a movie. There are many that I do like, and that's because regardless of the fact that they're "romantic comedies", they're actually quality movies.

Most "romantic comedies" aren't worth the film they're captured on. The plot is severely lacking in most cases, the men are either flat/stupid or amazingly heroic, and the women are always enlightened but at least slightly vulnerable- in fact, the harder they come off at first, the more they fall to goo by the end (I'm looking at you, Miss Congeniality).

So no, i don't like them- because most all of them are just poor excuses for a movie.

(I'm also curious to know if this study was conducted with both the man and woman of the relationship in the same room. If so, that would seriously skew the results. Odd that it's not mentioned.)