What we lost: Romantic comedies
Who took it: Audiences, Gerard Butler, Tucker Max, Netflix, sequel-based franchises. Vulture charts the steady decline:

And for me! Because I love chick-flicks. The premise of the show is as follows: a (barely) geeky girl is taken under the wing of a style/life adviser, made over, and forced to tell her crush she likes him.

About half of the people in a recent survey said the schmaltzy happy endings of chick flicks have ruined their idea of a perfect relationship. Remember this when you have to weasel out of seeing a shitty Katherine Heigl movie.

Other the standard rom-com plot problems with Notting Hill, like two strangers falling in love, the biggest hole in this movie is Hugh Grant's job as the owner of a travel book store. I suppose it's endearing, but really it just makes no sense. His inventory would need to be restocked constantly. And who would even…