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.
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How about “Star Wars 1, 2 and 3”? Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, girl dies in secret childbirth, man becomes machine.
What can be more romantical than that? :D
“She had good taste.”
The More the Merrier.
Funny,sweet and when Joel McCrea kisses Jean Arthur on the steps outside her apt.Hot cha cha cha.
How about “HeartBeeps”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeeps
Yep, she got me two holiday movies this year -- Love Actually and the latest (Disney) version of A Christmas Carol, which is also quite good.
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Moonstruck. It’s got everything.
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Interesting that you’d mention THE VILLAGE. I, too, have always felt it was a love story first. The spooky stuff helps add needed tension to the story. (I believe the director, M. Night Shyamalan, stated that somewhere during filming he also realized it was a love story).
My favorite romance movie is STARMAN with Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen. Super sweet movie and doesn’t hit a false note.
While it’s not a “romance movie” per se, AUGUST RUSH has a deep strain of emotion running through it, and culminates with what I consider to be the best final 10 minutes of just about any movie I’ve ever seen. Bring a tissue.
I just saw a low-budget Christian movie the other day called NO GREATER LOVE that caught me by surprise. The first hour is particularly strong, as the story builds. It loses some steam toward the end, as the movies message gets a little heavy-handed, but overall I enjoyed it.
It’s way more than a romance movie but it’s got that in there too.
But it’s also got james woods in his best brilliance, it’s got corrupt NFL, it’s got corrupt lawyers, murder, betrayal, spoiled daughter, racism, my hometown, and a really cool car chase on my favorite car chase street. Oh, and a kickass song that actually goes perfectly with the scene.
Favorite romance movies, “The Quiet Man,” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” the Kenneth Branagh version.
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And I forgot to include the movie’s name! It’s “against all odds.”
(funny, two jeff bridges movies in a row )
“Well, I’d certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste. “
Oh, it’s got to be Brokeback Mountain.
Try watching Shadowlands with Joss Ackland as Lewis. I really think Ackland’s own life connects with the role perfectly.
My thanks to all of you for the great comments. Wow—I have never posted anything that drew so many rapid responses.
What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
William Wordsworth
Untamed Heart. That one always gets me.
Saw Rocky the other day and that is as much a romance as a boxing movie. Who could forget the line “Adrianne!!”?
My wife votes for Valley Girl, (Romeo and Juliet story) Nicholas Cage’s first big movie.
Fandango, (Kevin Costner’s first starring movie)not really romantic until the end, but a great ending.
Say Anything, John Cusak and the boombox, a modern day serenade.
I had forgotten about Shadowlands..It is a wonderful movie and I am such a fan of CS Lewis.. Good recommendation.
I also recall Pearl Harbor(the most recent one). Yes, it is a war story but woven into many other stories & a sweet love story among them
A note.. women & men will have entirely different ideas on what makes or breaks a movie to be a love story. Men, If they dislike one of the men in the movie, they will nix it overall.
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