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Favourite Romantic Flick!!

  • 11-03-2002 8:45pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭


    Heres one for all you hopeless romantics out there. Vote for your favourite love story. The one that pulled those heart strings most!!!!

    More than one can be voted for!!!!!!

    Which love story pulled those sentimental strings for you? 64 votes

    Casablanca (1942 - Michael Curtiz)
    0% 0 votes
    Love Story (1970 - Arthur Hiller)
    23% 15 votes
    Romeo & Juliet (1996 - Baz Luhrmann)
    3% 2 votes
    Titanic (1998 - James Cameron)
    35% 23 votes
    Moulin Rouge (2001 - Baz Luhrman)
    10% 7 votes
    When Harry Met Sally (1989 - Rob Reiner)
    10% 7 votes
    Always (1989 - Steven Spielberg)
    15% 10 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    I voted for Cassablanca.

    But for best Romantic flick, I'd have to say Bram Stokers Dracula, or Interview With The Vampire.
    But you dont actualy have those on the poll, do you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭dccarm


    I voted Casablanca but would have gone for 'Before Sunrise' given the option. Mmmmmmm Julie Delpy...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Mistakill


    Wheres "Some like it Hot" agus "Romancing the Stone"?


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,815 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    or "Tron"?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    How can you possibly choose from such a short ... eh... shortlist?

    Where's Ghost? My Fair Lady? Sleepless in Seattle?

    ... oh, and it'll have to be Ghost for me, for deeply personal reasons, - natch.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Actualy, that's a ****ing stupid post.

    There's nothing actualy 'Romantic' in the love & kisses sense.
    More of a romantic atmosphere.

    So that probably doesn't qualify at all.

    Dont really know much about romantic films as such, so I'll leave it at that seeing as none really spring to mind.


  • Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭Frenzy


    How is Titanic a love story its just a big pile of digested food extracted from someones anal cavity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Spiffing


    Where the hell is Hellraiser?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Smurfie


    True Romance :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭alb


    Originally posted by Smurfie
    True Romance :)

    Why not suggest natural born killers while you're at it


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Natural Born Killers :)








    honestly though... Ghost.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Smurfie


    well tbh my favourite is Shadowlands, and also Remains of the day

    not really my style of movies but one way or another....i like em very much


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Originally posted by Clain
    One of the most bizarrre moments of my life has to be sitting in a room with Armagedeon on and everyone else in tears...bah! humbug.

    i had a similar experience in my house a few years back except the film was Terminator 2 (when Arnie is lowered into the hot stuff). it was horrifying


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭chernobyl


    My fav is not there: 10 things i hate about you.

    thats a cool film.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    Bambi. *snifflez*
    or
    The Lion King


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭krankykitty


    Im not a great fan of romantic films, but my favourite one would have to be the Wedding Singer, I know its supposed to be a comedy but I thought it was really cool, the bit when Adam Sandler sings the song on the plane when shes going off to marry the dickhead in Vegas

    I used to like that one Untamed Heart, the one where Christian Slater had a baboons heart :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    I'd have to go with either

    The Big Blue (version longue) by Besson

    or

    Le Fabuleux Destain d'Amelie Poulain by Jeunet.

    Two very differently romantic movies.....both by Frenchmen strangely.

    If I stick to the options on the list, its probably Love Story.

    jc


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭shotamoose


    Before Sunrise and Annie Hall. And I cried buckets during 'Deep Impact', for some reason, so let's include that too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭plastic membrane


    Say Anything. Either that or Cannibal Holocaust..


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Thanx 4 The Fish


    The Mirror has Two Faces. What a movie...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 735 ✭✭✭beardedchicken


    none of the above!

    where was The English Patient?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭mrblue


    Top Gun. The point has been made before, but Maverick & Ice Man have a love that's eternal ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Bob the Unlucky Octopus


    When Harry Met Sally. Watched it in high school and it struck a real chord with me. Billy Crystal's character was very easy for me to identify with- my second choice would probably be Casablanca or the Graduate. There's something about impossible love that's captivating I guess :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Kix


    I picked Romeo and Juliet off the list, but if had been there, I'd have gone with Bonkey and picked Amelie. It scores far higher on the feelgood scale as well :)

    K


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭mise


    thought moulin rouge was very good but my favourite is Untamed Heart, thought it was a relly sad at the end


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    Amelie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭Kalina


    Sleepless in Seattle is my favourite love-story movie. I really like Tom Hanks anyway and I thought he and Meg Ryan were brilliant together.
    My other favourites are Legends of the Fall, The Horse Whisperer and Dirty Dancing.


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Originally posted by chernobyl
    My fav is not there: 10 things i hate about you.

    thats a cool film.

    Yeah tis good. LOL at the dopey guy when he punches the car steering wheel with glee when the blonde lass kizzez him! What dya call the girl with the main role (the i-hate-everyone lass)?

    Also liked Son-in-law, City of Angels and even Hackers!!:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    Gone in Sixty Seconds.
    The relationship between Nicholas Cage and Eleanor was very touching. They had so much history together, and such a struggle too. :p

    TBH, I don't watch Romantic films. I couldnt help but find Casablanca extremely boring.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭jonno


    Originally posted by Makaveli

    TBH, I don't watch Romantic films. I couldnt help but find Casablanca extremely boring.

    Maybe you should look at it as more than just a love story. Just because it's universally regarded as a romantic flick, it doesn't mean that it hasn't many other different levels in it too. It's about one man's struggle to put the past behind him (and not his just his ex-lover).

    It's also about a man with issues hiding behind a 'mask' of cynicism.

    Granted it is blatently a love story but there are more levels in the movie.

    Oh yeah sorry for those classics I missed out on. I just went with my favourites. Its too broad a genre to have a poll on anyway. My mistake.


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