Romantic Movies

[girlnamedcarl]

On another board where I post, someone had posed the question: What movie, or scene from a movie, do you find the most romantic? What says the most to you about love, and says it in either the utter truth, or a beautiful lie?

What movie would you guys pick to be your Valentine?

[susyhomewrecker]

While You Were Sleeping is probably my favorite movie, like...ever. It's one of those unusual romcoms that doesn't feel too forced or unnatural--no huge leaps of logic, and charming main characters who you want to end up together (and who make sense together.) Plus it's funny--my family quotes it nonstop. Even my brothers.

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I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I'm a sucker for Titanic. The scene that always sets off my crying is when Jack gets Rose onto that raft-like thing and realizes it won't hold the both of them. You can see the knowledge that he won't survive flicker across his face, but he doesn't for a second hesitate. You can see that her survival is more important to him than his own.

Damn, I've actually got tears in my eyes.

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I love While You Were Sleeping. I think it's so cute and it's probably Sandra Bullock's best movie. However:

It's one of those unusual romcoms that doesn't feel too forced or unnatural--no huge leaps of logic, and charming main characters who you want to end up together (and who make sense together.)

I'll give you the last point on the characters but I will say that I think it's a huge leap of logic to believe that a CTA worker can convince a coma patient's family that she's engaged to him and in the process falls in love with his brother.

But that's part of the reason it's such a cute movie.

I still say that When Harry Met Sally is probably the most romantic movie out there. And I think that it's message is that friendship is the root of all great love is pretty true.

[plush]

eeee, that scene from The Last of the Mohicans when he's about to jump in water and he tells her: 'I will find you, no matter what it takes, I will find you'. The music that goes with the scene gives me shivers, it's one of my favorite movie soundtracks.


God, I need to rent it again, it's been such a long time since I've seen it I can't even get the characters' names right.

[Baby Fish Mouth]

Oh yeah, Last of the Mohicans is a good one! I really liked the subtle, understated romance between Madeline Stowe's sister and Daniel Day-Lewis' brother. I think their names were Alice and Uncas.

Somewhere In Time is probably my favorite romantic movie of all time. Yes, it's schmaltzy, but I can't think of anything more romantic than traveling through time to be with the person you love. Plus you get to see Christopher Reeve in his prime and Jane Seymour when she's never been lovelier.

I also love When a Man Loves a Woman for its very realistic portrayal of the effects of alcoholism and recovery on a marrriage. And Andy Garcia gives some of the most smoldering looks around.

[kostgard]

I also love While You Were Sleeping.

It does have some silliness, but other parts are pretty realistic. I just love the scene at the dinner table where all the family members are talking over each other while Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman just sit there and kind of chuckle at the whole thing.

And I just love the whole silliness with Joe, Jr. - buying her a wreath of flowers you normally find around a horse's neck, wooing her with tickets to the Ice Capades, trying on her shoes...

[susyhomewrecker]

I'll give you the last point on the characters but I will say that I think it's a huge leap of logic to believe that a CTA worker can convince a coma patient's family that she's engaged to him and in the process falls in love with his brother.

But that's part of the reason it's such a cute movie.

Yeah, I was referring more to crap like Serendipity, which is so...lame. And would never happen in a million years. Or other movies where they've got great designer clothes even though they own a tanking children's bookstore (You've Got Mail, I'm looking at you!)

I just love the scene at the dinner table where all the family members are talking over each other while Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman just sit there and kind of chuckle at the whole thing.

At Christmas in my family, someone will inevitably start reciting the dialogue from this scene. "These mashed potatoes are so creamy!"

[Ripley]

One of my favorite romantic scenes is at the end of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with this exchange:

Joel: I don't see anything I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will, and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.

Oh, my God. They know they will break each other's hearts again, and they are willing to try anyhow.

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Believe it or not, the Disney animated version of Beauty and the Beast. Who cares if the characters are two-dimensional (both literally and metaphorically); it is just sheer romantic perfection. Fantastic outfits, dancing candlesticks, two burly guys battling to the death over the "weird" girl...I loves it!

And I have a couple of others, but they're guilty pleasures that I can't admit to liking.