What's Your Favorite Romantic Movie?
Blockbuster issued a press release with suggestions for movies to see this Valentine's Day (there are some surprises on the list, such as Braveheart).
Romantic comedies are a safe bet, with 86% of men watching them and 92% of women, and any great film with a romantic storyline rating high with both sexes (89% of men and 94% of women.) Perhaps the most unexpected discovery in the Blockbuster survey is that close to a third of men said they like a story that's worth a good cry. Fourteen percent of men said they'll watch any love story - that they're a romantic at heart.
What's your favorite romantic movie?
Does the director's cut of 9 1/2 weeks count?
Posted by: Edward R Murrow | February 06, 2007 at 01:31 PM
Punch-Drunk Love
Posted by: Barrett | February 06, 2007 at 01:55 PM
For me it's gotta be Say Anthing. Somehow everything works just right in that movie, and John Cusack and Fiona Skye are adorable as the teenaged opposites-attract couple. Great subplot with John Mahoney too.
Posted by: slobone | February 06, 2007 at 03:27 PM
Chopping Mall & Death Spa.
Posted by: corey3rd | February 06, 2007 at 03:30 PM
Sleepless in Seattle - and my favorite moment is when the guys are sitting there pretending to be bawling their eyes out over how sad The Dirty Dozen is, because we just don't get the attraction of An Affair to Remember....and they were right, I don't.
Posted by: eazyguy52 | February 06, 2007 at 03:47 PM
Sleepless in Seattle - and my favorite moment is when the guys are sitting there pretending to be bawling their eyes out over how sad The Dirty Dozen is, because we just don't get the attraction of An Affair to Remember....and they were right, I don't.
Posted by: eazyguy52 | February 06, 2007 at 03:48 PM
I'm a classic movie lover. One of my favorites is probably Notorious, with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. The kissing scene was so steamy (for the time) that it had to be reshot (and they got around the sensors by having dozens of short kisses instead of one long one). And it's full of Hitchcock suspense which will keep any guy happy.
One of my other favorites is The African Queen, which STILL isn't out on DVD. Why not?
Posted by: kwheless | February 06, 2007 at 06:02 PM
Movie you probably never heard of... "Jeremy" from 1973. Can't explain why, which is probably why it seems so romantic.
Posted by: CJ | February 06, 2007 at 06:42 PM
"I cried at the end of 'the Dirty Dozen.' Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin [begins to cry] were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...And Trini Lopez...He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...."
Please no more, easyguy52. Oh God! I loved that movie.
Posted by: hawk5391 | February 06, 2007 at 07:39 PM
But seriously, I prefer the classics, like Casablanca and To Have and Have Not. In a more modern vein, I like You've Got Mail and When Harry Met Sally. And the Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast makes me a little misty-eyed at the end, when the Beast turns into Fabio.
Posted by: hawk5391 | February 06, 2007 at 07:43 PM
My fav is City Of Angels
Posted by: Big Will | February 06, 2007 at 07:47 PM
It's hard to pick just one. There's Moulin Rouge and Pride & Prejudice, of course. Only You is highly underrated. You've Got Mail; While You Were Sleeping; He Said, She Said.. I could go on...
That said, my current favorite is not a movie but a TV episode: "The Girl in the Fireplace" from the latest season of Doctor Who. It's a three-hanky story that gets me every time I watch it.
Posted by: Manda | February 07, 2007 at 06:39 AM
Love Actually
Posted by: zenubio | February 07, 2007 at 03:05 PM
Take your pick from Albert Brooks' romantic comedies.
Broadcast News, Defending Your Life, True Romance, etc.
Posted by: sellario | February 09, 2007 at 02:38 PM
"The notebook" is the best romantic movie ever. "A walk to remeber" is also good. -the male leads in those movies are just as my future husband are going to be like;)
Posted by: rabryki | January 28, 2008 at 10:59 AM
titanic
Posted by: | February 05, 2008 at 06:33 PM
I totally agree with Rabryki, i thought i was the only one who loved "a walk to remember" but i guess not! i absolutely love Mandy Moore. And "The note book" is great too, the love between those two is just to good to be true. lovely to watch! But there are more films like that, for example "Cold mountain" is fabulous too (love Jude) and "Chocolat" (for anyone who loves chocolat or Johnny Depp.. ) oh and "Sweet home Alabama" is a good one and i watch "Love actually" every christmass, i never get tired of that movie!
Posted by: Diana | February 21, 2008 at 03:59 AM
mine is definitely a lot like love.
Posted by: mandee | February 08, 2009 at 12:43 AM