Romantic Moments

MiniSquish

Was thinking the other day about romantic films and ones I've not seen yet and instead of asking what ones people would recommend me to see I decided to ask: What is your favourite romantic moments in movies?

One of mine is in When A Man Loves A Woman where

Meg Ryan makes her speech at the AA meeting after losing her husband and everything and then she turns around and he's standing there

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Can't find a link in english for it though!

bnt

I'm not keen on "big" romantic moments - either in life or in the movies. I get annoyed by some rom-coms in which one of the couple has to make some big public romantic gesture to win the other over: I find myself wondering about the kind of person who would fall for such tactics. Instead, I appreciate the little, thoughtful gestures, the ways in which people become comfortable and make each other happy.

For example: in Secretary, after all the S&M drama, the pivotal romantic moment is something simple:

he gives her a bath

. I've said nice things about One Fine Day (Pfeiffer & Clooney) before, which is a film with only a couple of obvious romantic moments. The ending is an example of how a couple can misjudge a situation and actually screw up a potential romantic moment, but it doesn't matter, as long as they're happy.

liah

True Romance. It's cute as all get out despite the violence :pac:

Bog

Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed...

No, seriously, I liked Amelie's

freewheel through Paris with Nino at the end of the film

krudler

liah wrote: »

True Romance. It's cute as all get out despite the violence :pac:

First thing I thought of, its way more romantic than the romcoms that try too hard, Tarantino just nails the falling for each other overnight aspect, you genuinely believe it. I love the bit when Clarence is showing Alabama the comic and she's not even looking at it, just gazing at him. Patricia Arquette is absolutely adorable in that movie. I think I might watch it now actually

I love this, Anthony Hopkins is phenomenal in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF3tJnk79Tk

liah

I fell in love with the both of them, and normally I don't rate Slater at all :pac: It was just so goddamn sweet, the dialogue was perfect. I like the scene near the airport under the tree, it always struck me as so genuine. That's the kinda romance I want, even if it is completely nuts.

krudler

liah wrote: »

I fell in love with the both of them, and normally I don't rate Slater at all :pac: It was just so goddamn sweet, the dialogue was perfect. I like the scene near the airport under the tree, it always struck me as so genuine. That's the kinda romance I want, even if it is completely nuts.

Its really refreshing instead of the usually sappy Hollywood stuff, I love the scene where

he comes back after killing Drexel and she says killing her pimp is the most romantic thing she's ever had done for her, classic

cool as fcuk movie, superb cast, great soundtrack, brillian dialogue, its the best Tarantino film that Tarantino didn't make :pac:

MiniSquish

I do like that movie, although I have to say that my tastes are more the girly chick flick type ones, considering my favourite movie is The Notebook. I also love one called Hope Floats which stars Sandra Bullock and was the movie that first made me like her. Makes me cry from beginning to end

krudler

MiniSquish wrote: »

I do like that movie, although I have to say that my tastes are more the girly chick flick type ones, considering my favourite movie is The Notebook. I also love one called Hope Floats which stars Sandra Bullock and was the movie that first made me like her. Makes me cry from beginning to end

I found The Notebook horrible contrived tbh, its like theres a list of stuff that will make women go all dew eyed and it ticks the boxes, theres a formula for it ya know:

MiniSquish

Ha, thats funny. I'd agree with that point on a Walk to Remember and on Dear John but despite being as terribly clichéd by some people I just found the Notebook really romantic, maybe because my Grandad had Alzheimers at the time and it showed it in an unrealistic light, where someone could actually come back from it.

There's also a recurring theme in most of the romance movies that I like, being that most of them are based in the Deep South, just something that appeals to me for some reason

Aside from the Notebook, as I said my favourites are Hope Floats and Titanic. I like Spanglish as well with Adam Sandler and Paz Vega too, I thought it was a really sweet movie.

Sad Professor

I always liked the final scene of Before Sunset with Nina Simone's "Just in Time" playing. I like the ambiguity of it, even though you know exactly what Hawke is going to do. It's also probably the only time in the whole film that either of them stop talking for more than 2 seconds. So much about those two films (especially the first) felt contrived to me, but the ending to the second film is perfect.