Posted on 01/31/2012 8:25:34 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
What is your favorite romance movie? This might seem a bit odd coming from me, but there it is.
2nd question--how do I change my tagline??
Nice! LOL
I got my husband to admit that Colin Firth is a good actor after we watched ‘The King’s Speech’ last year. He doesn’t go for the Jane Austen stuff ;)
The story is told by his widow, Catherine Marshall, IIRC.
I liked Miss Potter too.
I forgot about the African Queen.
I have a totally different idea about what constitutes true love than most people. The scene where Mr. Allnut goes back into the water, even when he knows it is infested with leeches, to try and save them; well THAT is true love.
“That Hamilton Woman” about the love affair of Lord Nelson & Emma Hamilton. Real life couple Laurence Olivier & Viven Leigh are the stars.
Actually, I thought Moonstruck one of the most comprehensive examinations of relationships and love ever depicted in a movie. I watch it every Valentines Day, and I love to count them.
Between a woman and her deceased husband, a woman and a fiance she doesn’t love, a woman and “forbidden fruit”, two brothers who don’t get along, two sisters who don’t get along, an older man and much younger girls (students), a man and his midlife “fling”, a long time married man and woman who are still on fire, and between a long time married man and woman where the man is wandering.
Unrequited love, an older man and his dogs, between an old man and his friends, a man and his dying mother, a daughter and her father, mother and daughter, father and HIS father, and between a man and idealized love, as depicted in the opera. And of course, at the end, the most important relationship of all, the family.
I watched it with some Dutch people once, and they kept asking me if Italians were really like that. LOL.
The only scene that struck me wrong was the man letting his dog urinate on the grave at the cemetary. I don’t know any Italians that would do that.
Miss Potter is WONderful - Ewan McGregor has a lovely singing voice!
My very fave is still You’ve Got Mail.
My wife would disagree with me she thinks the movie is depressing but, “The Cooler” (2003) is my favorite. William H. Macy and Maria Bello. Bernie Lootz (Macy) luck is so bad he works for a casino to cool off winning gamblers. Natalie (Bello) a waitress ends up falling in love with him and his luck changes. The end of the movie is great, and unexpected. Great thread, I have more movies to watch!
Yep. Agree. Hanover Street. The ending is a killer.
Room with a View is stunning; Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley is also wonderful. Rebecca is superb, as is the Orson Welles Jane Eyre. These are all admittedly chick films, but I happen to be a female and thus there you are.
More from the Intimations Ode (source of prior quote; here is the end of the ode):
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
“Meanest” for Wordsworth means most ordinary—say, a dandelion. The whole poem is to show that we are given intimations of our eternal existence through our remembrance of childhood and through nature—they together show us, or at least remind us, that we “perish never.” The original poem isn’t about romantic love at all, of course, but it works beautifully in the film.
Thank you for the insight.
The original “Splendor” is an amazing movie. The last scene when she visits Bud and his wife tore me up the first time I saw it, and still does to some degree. Throughout, you could feel the angst of young love.
Re the re-make with (I think) Melissa Gilbert: Why did they bother? The original was perfect.
A good love story, but not a gushy one, is “Regarding Henry”. A Harrison Ford and Annette Benning sleeper.
Wow so right...probably my favorite movie with Annette Benning. Harrison Ford was stellar.
Ghost.
No one can replace Natalie Wood in the movie. Such a tragic end to her life. Thank you for the recommendation.
thanks for the recommendation.
I actually went to the library today to find “Splendor in the Grass”. It has been a long time since I saw it, but I am a Natalie Wood fan. It was out—so I will have to wait until next week. I bet I missed the entire meaning of the film the first time because I was really young and didn’t know that much about psychology.
Your post made me want to watch it.....Thanks (I think, LOL).
I was hunting for Shawdowland—the movie about CS Lewis. I am a big Lewis fan but the library didn’t have that either. I missed that one. :( But they have it on Youtube :)
I would rather watch movies on my TV than my IMAC. BUT ....
I watched the special edition with Maureen O’Hara narrating it-—I had watched the film first-—without narration—WHICH IS great—but then checked out the special features with her speaking over the movie, and I may have liked that even more.
She gave so much information about Ireland and her family and the director and John Wayne. It was fascinating...she would tell little stories. She has two brothers in that movie also.
That movie is an all time Classic.
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