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What is your favorite romantic movie?

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they're still romantic.

Fogive me if I'm wrong, but I fail to see how Gone With The Wind is romantic. Perhaps I've only seen the edited version each time I watched, with the romance removed!
I always thought it was all about a spoilt bitch who manipulates her suitors. So selfish that she tries to destroy a friends marriage. Turns her back on a man who loves her, then wants him back.
Where is the romance?
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they're still romantic.

Casablanca? I'll concede it's about sacrificed love.
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Are they romantic or tragedies? They don't have happy endings.


A tragedy can be romantic. "Romantic" really just means romantic love is somehow part of the story, not that all's well that ends well. Look at something like Love Story (which I actually detest but it works as an example) or Romeo and Juliet. Definitely romantic but also tragic. Not all romances have to be rom-coms or fantasies, there can be romantic dramas, romantic tragedies, etc. You could probably do romantic s-f but I can't think of an cinematic example (there are some s-f romance novels).

I do rather agree with Derek about Gone With The Wind, though. I don't find as much romance in it as some seem to.

As for my favorite romantic movies:

The Princess Bride

Much Ado About Nothing (okay, that's a play but there are couple good, entertaining film versions around)
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I love these too! Some more favorites would be Wuthering Heights, Roman Holiday, The Apartment, Romeo and Juliet (1968 version), Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, The Artist, Amelie, Casablanca...sometimes tragic or ambiguous ending romances are even more affecting to me.
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Brokeback Mountain had a happy ending, but it was in the middle!

That movie! Oh my god I don't think I can watch that without shuddering, sobbing, ugly crying.
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That movie! Oh my god I don't think I can watch that without shuddering, sobbing, ugly crying.

It was very intense or should that be in tents?
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I'll air my dirty little secret...I absolutely abhor "romantic" movies. I am probably the only heterosexual woman in North America who spent the entire length of "Titanic" thinking quietly to myself, Sink already, dammit. Just...fucking...sink. That was pretty much the extent of my feelings, the entire movie.

So...favourite romantic movie? Sadly, I don't have one.
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I can't really choose one... but one of my favourites is "A Walk in the Clouds".
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I'll air my dirty little secret...I absolutely abhor "romantic" movies. I am probably the only heterosexual woman in North America who spent the entire length of "Titanic" thinking quietly to myself, Sink already, dammit. Just...fucking...sink. That was pretty much the extent of my feelings, the entire movie.

So...favourite romantic movie? Sadly, I don't have one.


I would put Titanic and anything by Nicholas Sparks in the schmaltz genre, rather than romantic
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Hard to say just one, but here is a list of romantic movies I have enjoyed and watched almost any time they are playing. I also own all of these so I can also amuse myself on blah days with them. Excuse the length but tell me if any of these are enjoyable to you: The Quiet Man, The Kingdom of Heaven, 10 Things I Hate about You, The American President, The Last Dogmen, 50 First Dates, Maid in Manhattan, Sleepless in Seattle, Casablanca (My Personal Bogie Favorite), Hope Floats, While You Were Sleeping. Also have a bout 200 others of carious genres including more of these romantic ones.

Feel free to comment and criticize, but remember I cry very easly when my feelings are hurt.
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I'll air my dirty little secret...I absolutely abhor "romantic" movies. I am probably the only heterosexual woman in North America who spent the entire length of "Titanic" thinking quietly to myself, Sink already, dammit. Just...fucking...sink. That was pretty much the extent of my feelings, the entire movie.

So...favourite romantic movie? Sadly, I don't have one.


I don't abhor romantic movies but I'm fairly selective about them. Just slapping the "romance" label on a movie is not enough for me. There has to be some depth to the characters and stories beyond just "I wuvs you, baby".

As for Titanic: The script of Titanic was so cliched and wooden that without Cameron's beautiful realization of the ship and Leo and Kate's performances, it would have been a total write-off. As it was, it was tolerable at best. But I'm also an s-f fan who didn't get bouncing-off-the-walls excited about Avatar, either (beautiful world-building, but the script ). Cameron needs to get a good writer to work with and focus on directing and world-building, which are his real fortes.
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Fogive me if I'm wrong, but I fail to see how Gone With The Wind is romantic. Perhaps I've only seen the edited version each time I watched, with the romance removed!
I always thought it was all about a spoilt bitch who manipulates her suitors. So selfish that she tries to destroy a friends marriage. Turns her back on a man who loves her, then wants him back.
Where is the romance?


Whoa, calm down. I wasn't referring to every movie on every post of this thread. My first post about not every love story having a happy ending was just made in general. The movies you said were tragedies rather than romances were Casablanca and Brief Encounter, by the way. However, I do think Gone With The Wind can be considered a romantic movie. Perhaps not a traditional romance, but romantic nonetheless. Romance, especially in dramatic movies, books, and plays, is often tragic. Forgive me for being cliché, but would you not consider Romeo and Juliet to be romantic? Yes, they were rash, didn't think much through, and ultimately died because of their own stupidity, but I still consider it a love story.

But I didn't mean for my first comment to be offensive to you, and I apologize if it was.
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Whoa, calm down. I wasn't referring to every movie on every post of this thread. My first post about not every love story having a happy ending was just made in general. The movies you said were tragedies rather than romances were Casablanca and Brief Encounter, by the way. However, I do think Gone With The Wind can be considered a romantic movie. Perhaps not a traditional romance, but romantic nonetheless. Romance, especially in dramatic movies, books, and plays, is often tragic. Forgive me for being cliché, but would you not consider Romeo and Juliet to be romantic? Yes, they were rash, didn't think much through, and ultimately died because of their own stupidity, but I still consider it a love story.

But I didn't mean for my first comment to be offensive to you, and I apologize if it was.

Oops, so it was.
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I liked Shaving Ryan's Privates, but I understand it had limited appeal.
The same applies to Romancing The Bone.
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Oops, so it was.
Can you have romance in the station buffet at a British Rail station? I've had brief encounters in the loo, they weren't very romantic though.kghBCvd6BZjDApOQ


Probably why they didn't make a movie out it.
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Probably why they didn't make a movie out it.

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Dirty Dancing
Sweet Home Alabama
Titanic


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This is an oldie, but it can never be remade to be any better than it is.

"The Way We Were" with a very young Barbara Striesand and Robert Redford.
I've always loved the theme, two people can love each other deeply and know each other just as well but not be for each other.
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Now, Voyager!
Scaramouche
Under the Tuscan Sun
Casablanca
You've Got Mail
The Notebook
An Affair to Remember

Good choices, Bethany ... I forgot The Notebook
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I'd forgotten Scaramouche. And Roman Holiday. Love old movies! smile
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I dislike romantic movies, so much slush. Although I quite like, 'Lost in Translation' Is that movie romantic ? I guess so !
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I dislike romantic movies, so much slush. Although I quite like, 'Lost in Translation' Is that movie romantic ? I guess so !


I suppose it is in a rather quiet sort of way. I like it very much but didn't even think of it for this topic until you mentioned it.