No double dipping

I spent much of the holiday weekend catching up on various movie releases and was quite pleased that all were pretty good, after such a dull year so far. One of them was the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line.

While I enjoyed the movie overall, one of the difficulties I had watching this movie (and others) is when a main character -- that is married -- pines for another and we're supposed to somehow "rally" around this love that is "meant to be." I couldn't help but think, like when I watched Ray, about how the poor wives, who married their husbands when they were nobodies, were back at home with the kids.

I honestly don't know if I'm alone with this one, but I have a hard time watching movies where the primarily plot point is to break up a couple that is married or engaged. I was even turned off by watching America's Sweetheart, Julia Roberts, try to break up her friend's engagement in My Best Friend's Wedding. While I realized that she didn't get him in the end, I never wanted her to at any point in the film.

I could go on with many examples, but I think you get the gist already. It's just a challenge for me to watch any kind of a film and care about the character when I can't respect him/her (and even more so when it's based upon actual events). Is that really unusual or can most of you just let it go for the sake of entertainment?