Romance

Here is my list of top five romance films. Some of these may have funny moments, but I don't necessarily consider them to be "comedies."

1. Mansfield Park
2. Sweet Home Alabama
3. Return to Me
4. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
5. The Upside of Anger

Comments

[Deborah]

I have 7, I know that is more, but please understand that I haven't been able to participate in most of the other discussions!

1) When Harry Met Sally
2) Say Anything
3) Regarding Henry
4) Untamed Heart
5) Can't Buy Me Love
6) Pretty Woman
7) Mystic Pizza

[Just Me]

Love Story - sickening but ...
My Fair Lady
When Harry Met Sally
Natural Born Killers
Shall We Dance
Romeo and Juliet - 1968 version, no Leo
It Happened One Night

Debbie - Thanks for reminding me that I wanted to put Regarding Henry on the Drama list

[Bill]

Wait...Natural Born Killers?!? Are you trying to see if I'm awake?

I don't particularly like Leo, but I do have a lot of admiration for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet.

[Just Me]

Forgive my ignorance, but is that the Leo version? I actually rather like it, it's Leo I can't stand. And yes, I was trying to see if anyone read my comments.

[Bill]

lol...wow...you totally threw me off on the Natural Born Killers thing. I was thinking, "What am I missing here?" I even went to IMDb and it IS listed as a romance among other things!

[Just Me]

Jen reminded me of when we watched it together and it was the most beautiful love story - maybe we can have a family night viewing?!?!? on vacation.

[Deborah]

I forgot Forest Gump.

[Just Me]

Do you think of Forest Gump as a romance? Interesting ...:)I hadn't thought about it, but I guess in some ways it is.

[Deborah]

If NBK counts.....

[Valerie]

I LIKE SO MANY!
Romeo and Juliet
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Say Anything
Sweet Home AL
Dirty Dancing
Sense & Sensiblity

[Bill]

Valerie, you're not playing by the rules!

[Tom]

I enjoyed Sleepless in Seattle and Say Anything.

(Maybe Jen and I can start a John Cusack fan club) ;-O

[ken]

I am a child of the 80's:
1. Casual Sex (again not a dirty movie)
2. 10 things I hate about you
3. Some Kind of Wonderful
4. Wedding Singer (movie about the 80's)
5. Fatal Attraction (the ultimate in passionate love- just kidding)
6. High Fidelity (John Cusack again)
7. Chasing Amy

[Just Me]

Deb - Got me there!!!:)
(After all my kidding about NBK, I hope no one thinks I've actually seen it!) I told Bill this category was confusing - in Romance, where does Comedy stop and Tragedy begin?

[Just Me]

10 Things I Hate About You
really came out in the 80s?
Man, I'm getting old.

[ken]

no, 10 things was a 90's or early 2000 movie. A lot of the movies I have been listing have come from the 80's though.

[ken]

So you aren't quite THAT old. lol.

[Just Me]

:)

[Adam]

1) Princess Bride
2) Il Postino
3) Much Ado About Nothing
4) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5) Aladdin*
(*I had to get at least 1 Disney film on here)

[Bill]

Adam,

I was talking with Mom on the phone the other day and she said you guys were saying I don't respond to your comments so I would just like to say that your list is complete and utter crap. You wouldn't know a romance movie if it bit your bottom, you son of a silly person. I blow my nose at you and your so-called "Princess Bride," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts.

[ken]

So Bill, you decided to upset your brother and your mother (son of a silly person) all in one post. Kudos to you. lol.

[Bill]

Let's see if Brave Sir Adam runs away this time.

"When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Adam turned about, and valiantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat. A brave retreat by brave Sir Adam."

[Jennie]

Wow! This is a hard one!

Say Anything
High Fidelity
Someone Like You
Bridget Jones
Pride & Prejudice (BBC version) not the stupid Pirate of the Caribbean girl!
(Sorry, can you tell I didn't like the latest version?)

Oh, and DEFINITELY Natural Born Killers
ha ha ha ha ha ha
Can you tell Mom's been hanging out with me a little too much??? LOL!

[Adam]

Bill,
If by "danger" you mean YOU, then yes:
When you rear your ugly head,
it is true, what you said.
I turn and run with so much haste,
so that I will not see your face.
It truly makes me want to hurl.
Why did Mom unleash you on the world?
For this I guess she had no choice;
At least you have a pretty voice!

(Maybe not as good as yours, but I AM at WORK [what's that, you say], so it was the best I could do on short notice)

[Bill]

Adam,

I can't take credit for the poetry above. I was quoting from The Holy Grail. and I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

[Just Me]

EXCUSE ME - do you dare repeat that?

[ken]

Cool!!!! Fight, Fight, Fight!!
(Feel like I'm back in grade school)

Like the poem Adam.
Bill, always like quotes from Monty Python

[Just Me]

How about: "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"???

[ken]

I use that one all the time.

That and:
"She turned me into a newt.
A newt?
(pause)
I got better."

or: "Run away!"

[Just Me]

Usually when they're trading insults I hear: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.