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Post by queenzod on Aug 23, 2018 7:40:45 GMT
Just curious as to what you ladies fav romantic movies are. Any time, any style. What things do you look for? What kinds gets your heart really pattering and your loins worked up?
I can think of three right right off the bat.
Casablanca. Swooningly romantic, high Hollywood style. Bogie’s bitter gruffness, Ingrid’s confusion, the humor, the sad (but appropriate) ending. All the co-stars are perfection, especially Claude Rains.
Camille. With Garbo. The most boneless performance ever, filled with sadness and regret. Stunning. The costumes (Adrian, I think), were gorgeous! Robert Taylor was a little too wide eyed, but still earnest and handsome.
Shakespeare in Love. I know gobs of people hate Gwynth (I normally do), but she was very winning and charming in this. It was lush, and sexy, funny and sad. Colin Firth was hilarious! I also loved all the Shakespearean in-jokes, and again, the supporting cast was fabulous, even Ben Affleck as the narcissistic lead actor.
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Post by roverpup on Aug 23, 2018 11:20:07 GMT
What a great idea for a thread!
I have almost as hard a time as BC choosing favourites, but a few of my favourites are...
The Way We Were: with Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand. That one really gets me sighing and crying no matter how many times I see it.
Before Sunrise: with marvelously natural performances from Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. I love that whole series of films with those two actors in them.
Doctor Zhivago: not David Lean's best film but still very romantic and epic.
Reds: Warren Beatty's film with Diane Keaton shining as Louise Bryant. It reminds me of Doctor Zhivago but it is still wonderfully romantic in its own right. I could watch this one a hundred times.
Love Actually: one of my fav Xmas movies too!
The Bridget Jones movies: I love all of them!
Sense and Sensibility: Emma Thompson's beautifully lush adaptation of the Jane Austen's romantic story.
Three Weddings and a Funeral: love it thoroughly!!!
That's just some... I'll probably have more as we go along with this thread.
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Post by mllemass on Aug 23, 2018 20:50:30 GMT
I agree with many of the movies mentioned already. I would add another oldie - The Sound of Music. I find it incredibly romantic! And although it’s not really a movie, I loved the PBS mini-series of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth.
I actually watched something new today on Netflix - To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Although it’s really a teen (or tween) movie, I thought it was just lovely. I knew in the first couple of minutes that it was my kind of movie. It was very sweet and romantic, and also completely predictable - but in a good way! In fact, it felt like an updated version of Some Kind of Wonderful or any other John Hughes movie from the 80s. I could totally picture a young Molly Ringwald starring in this. I used to love those movies, even though I was too old for them even back in the 80s!
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Post by mllemass on Aug 24, 2018 20:01:04 GMT
How could I forget Notting Hill? I thought of it today when I was listening to the soundtrack. It’s the perfect romantic comedy and it’s almost a perfect movie of any genre. It has Hugh Grant at his rom-com best - so dreamy and hilarious! My one tiny complaint about it has always been that Julia Robert’s character isn’t really good enough for him. I remember that when I first saw it, I was surprised that they actually had him turn her down after what she had put him through. But then of course he changes his mind and they get their happily-ever-after ending, which I loved.
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Post by roverpup on Aug 24, 2018 20:51:10 GMT
Ooo, I thought of another one of my most favourite romantic comedy films - Groundhog Day!! I love this movie so much.
And another one - Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour. A beautiful and very sentimental romance filmed on Mackinaw Island in Michigan. Gorgeous!
And another one - Enough Said, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini. Excellent mature film about falling in love.
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Post by mllemass on Aug 24, 2018 22:24:04 GMT
Ooooh - another TV movie came to mind! When I was in high school, I fell in love with the movie Sooner or Later! It starred Rex Smith, and it was the ultimate girly fantasy - a 13-year-old girl pretends to be in high school when she falls for her cute guitar teacher. The song You Take My Breath Away came from this movie (one of the first songs I bought in iTunes), and I’ve even managed to find the movie on DVD!
I have such a vivid memory of sitting in class the day after the movie aired, and a massive discussion broke out about it (the teacher had apparently left the room?) Everyone had watched it! It was so exciting! And then a couple of months later, Rex Smith made a personal appearance at a record store in one of our malls. It was a Saturday afternoon, and my friend Kerry and I showed up ready to meet him and get his autograph. We both had the fantasy of the movie plot coming true - he would spot us across the crowd and fall in love with us. But there was a sign posted at the record store saying that they had moved the event to the rooftop because too many people had shown up. So we went up to the roof and joined a million other screaming girls. I didn’t get an autograph, but I had my camera and I did take a picture!
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Post by roverpup on Aug 25, 2018 2:55:05 GMT
I've never heard of this actor. Or that movie.
I feel very out of it.
My fav teen love movie probably was Say Anything.
Just going by memory but I think that was a John Hughes film, right?
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Post by mllemass on Sept 8, 2018 19:40:19 GMT
I was watching Cher on James Corden last night, and it reminded me of another favourite romantic movie - Moonstruck. I saw it when it came out in 1987 and I’ve loved it ever since. I’ve watched it many, many times, and I never miss it when it shows on tv. There are so many things that I love about it! I love that it’s about an Italian family, and that the whole thing takes place in less than two days. I love Cher’s princess-type makeover and her “Snap out of it!”. And it’s so, so romantic!
When Moonstruck came out, the studio famously thought that it would be a small movie, so instead they spent their money promoting a movie they thought would be a blockbuster - Overboard, with Goldie Hawn. I saw Overboard when it came out, and it was terrible. Moonstruck found its success through good reviews and word of mouth!
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Post by queenzod on Sept 8, 2018 21:37:38 GMT
Oh, I love Moonstruck, too! One of Nic Cage’s (few) good roles. New York, the old guys at the cemetery, their dogs pissing on the graves, Olympia Dukakis! So perfect. So well written and funny, but with heart.
I actually really like Overboard. Yes, it’s cliched and stupid, but a good, stupid movie can be great fun. Of course, I adore Kurt Russell. Goldie’s line :”I was short AND fat?” Always has me in stitches. But out of these two, Moonstruck is definitely the superior choice.
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 10, 2018 2:06:20 GMT
TBH I’m always have been very cynical about romantic movies. I have always said that my favorite romantic movie is Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses but thinking about it must be extremely polically incorrect movie nowadays: I mean the main character visits prostitues like crazy and it ends with a “romantic” stalker declaring his love to a young woman. Still it make me laugh and it’s about ridiculous crazy passions: unfaithful wives, gay relationships that end bad and yes, a crazy stalker who let everything for a girl who doesn’t even know he exists RIGHTLY considers him crazy.
I also love The Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy. I think the first two are indeed very romantic but the best one is the last one which it’s very bitter and mature. Maybe even anti-romantic. They are all wonderful.
Hollywood did a bunch of good friendly romantic comedies in the 80’s and 90s. I enjoyed Lawrence Kasdan movies (The Accident Tourist, French Kiss), James L. Brooks (Broadcast News, As Good as it Gets, etc.), Cameron Crowe (Say Anything), etc.
Four Weddings and A Funeral was very good but as one critic said at the time it’s more about the group of friends than about the romance. Andie McDowell’s character barely has a personality! In that regard Muriel’s Wedding is also great but “the romance” is between the two female friends and they gaining their independence from patriarchy.
Confession: I never like Nora Ephron’s movies!
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