Top 100 U.S. Screen Romances List

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[flying Elvis]

What about the Dirty Debuatantes series?

[MHT]

The "bra" scene with Janet Leigh and her handsome lover in Psycho is almost as memorable as the murder scene--"less" really was "more" in the good old days. The best fantasies aren't necessarily based on the most photographed realities.

[Wyatt's Torch]

"No more hanky panky. Donger need food!"

Man, that's beautiful writing....

[Wyatt's Torch]

"With his 'international language of love.' He can't keep his testicles off of me."

"Ummm, don't you mean tenticles?"

Pure romance....;-)

"Uhhh, sorry your Mom blew up Ricky..."

Great movie.

[MHT]

Another movie I watch every year is COME TO THE STABLE, which has a romantic undertone but it more about falling in love with a dream than a person.

One of my favorite stories of redemption, however, is PULP FICTION. Like END OF THE AFFAIR, it is shot out of sequence but when you put the segments in order, you realize that the bad things have happened to bad people and the main character has abandoned his old ways to "sin no more". My husband saw only the violence but, to me, it was more like a tale of pilgrim's progress.

[eleni121]

No Splendor in the Grass??

This list is a big yawn made up by a bunch of moviecrats.

[codebreaker]

I've always thought they could have made a prequel or sequal, but then Chris Reeve had his accident..

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I saw one just last week that I thought was a real good, good feeling, nice, movie for being "new". "keeping the faith" with Ben Stiller and Edward Norton, and that girl that plays Dharma.

Becky

[rintense]

"Man, that's a damn shame, people throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."

ROFLMAO! I love that movie!

[Contra]

What, no "gay" love stories on the list? What about that movie out not that long ago that all the gays were raving about, where the man had a thing for a 15 year old boy? Maybe there should be a top 100 list of all-time gay love stories (of course 90% of them would be all-male XXX porno movies).

[drc43]

"That was based on The Shop Around The Corner (which is on this list)."

Thank you...did not realize that..pay more attention to credits.

Sounds like another movie that I might like.

[Aliska]

I meant to get back to your comments and I get to hopping all over this forum. This thread was a refreshing change, wasn't it.

Jane Austen is difficult reading because events transpire so slowly, as they must have in that period.

I wanted to make two points, the first being that there are other novelists I have enjoyed more such as Thomas Hardy and George Eliot. Of Jane Austen's works, somehow I did manage to read Northanger Abbey and I really liked that, although I'd be hard put to remember anything about it now!

My second point is the revelation that of the films I have found the most romantic, with the exception of Sound of Music, all involved either adultery or non-marital sex. Somehow they seem to have more passion. So maybe that isn't so good. Oh well. I loved Dr. Zhivago, Somewhere in Time and Ryan's Daughter as my top three.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. I'm having a real challenge with my new computer, but it's a lot of fun and I'm slowly getting a handle on it.