Online dating has become extremely popular over the past several decades. With many people living busy, globe trotting lifestyles revolving around their work, it has become increasingly hard for singles to meet their mates. The question remains, however: What do you do when you finally meet?

I’ll tell you what you don’t do – Choose an awful film for a cinema date.

Dates with films are a strange thing: You can’t really talk since you’re both facing forwards, you feel bad reaching for the last M&M and the silence is only comfortable if you’re both too enthralled in the film to notice. So please don’t ruin it by making it a cinema or TV date with one of these badly picked flicks – Promise you’ll thank us later.

1. American Psycho:

Especially if you/he’s/she’s American.. Or in that case, a Psycho.

2. the Notebook:

Not only is it the most cliche date movie of all time scoring you negative points in originality, but also because even if you marry her, there’s about a 0.5% chance you’ll build her a house.

3. Predator

Tagline: “If it bleeds, we can kill it”… Well I think we’ve said enough.

4. Date Movie

A pathetic satire where cinemas full of people sat in stunned silence. Don’t do it to yourself, or your date. You won’t score points for being ironic.

5. Apocalypto

Although it’s brilliant, it will make your date wish you a) were fitter b) threw javelins and c) were Mel Gibson.

6. Mean Girls

No, guys do not want to be confronted with questions about Lindsey Lohan’s weight fluctuations and no matter how much you can relate the plot, they really don’t want to spend the rest of the night listening to your high school sob story.

7. Irreversible

You won’t even get a handshake out of her after she gets out of the car with this one.

8. Che: Parts 1 & 2

Can anyone really sit next to someone for 5 and a half hours without speaking, only to be followed by a heated political debate? Let’s leave Marxist ideology to the lecture theatre.

9. Boogie Nights

Will put addictions, broken relationships and empty sex into your mind. So bad. But good of course, if that’s what you’re looking for.

10. Driller Killer

Please, please just don’t.