The story revolves around his research, competition from other engineering firms, corporate espionage, government interference, complex financial problems and looming deadlines. Main character is a materials engineer who's developing a new kind of ceramic coating for rocket nozzles. Even the mid-century hard sci-fi that I love so much will often have a superfluous romance subplot. This is a valid and good and wildly unpopular opinion. The way I see it, if you can remove the shots where the romance happens and the film makes sense, the romance is uneccessary. Spiderman is allowed because it's woven into the main plot rather than just added in last minute. Romance especially bothers me in superhero films. Main Male Character shows 10 seconds of romance after saving the day/completing the main plot of the story and Token Female Character falls in love with Main Male Character. Token Female Character cannot date Main Male Character for X reason. Main Male Character sees Token Female Character from afar and likes her as shown by a beauty shot of her looking up and smiling. Token Female Character (usually blonde with a bob, often wears a fitted suit with heels) is either taken by or works for Asshole Male Antagonist that takes a sudden disliking towards Main Male Character. It's one of my biggest irks about films (especially 90's-early 2000's films) is that they often follow this same subplot: It's kind of why I'm a fan of the new direction Disney and Pixar have taken where they just remove the romantic subplot entirely and there's no "gets the girl" at the end any more. I really dislike romance in films really.
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