Top 10 romance movies
 

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. What Dreams May Come
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Punch Drunk Love
5. Titanic--i'll turn in my man card for that admission
6. Leaving Las Vegas
7. Castaway
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's
9. Casablanca
10. An Affair to Remember

honorable mention: LOST--Desmond and Penny story

You turned in your man card when you started this thread.

Jay, Jay, Jay.....

At least I didn't include Brokeback Mountain.

You may as well have.

Titanic?

Give me a break. I hate Titanic and I hate Celine Dion.

Where is Bridges of Madison County?

Return to Me with Minnie Driver and David Duchovny (Why won't you love me?)

Of course, Say Anything

When Harry Met Sally

I think jay is brave ... though I don't like his list. Here's mine:

1. Dr. Zhivago
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. South Pacific
4. The Princess Bride
5. Forest Gump
6. Notting Hill
7. Sense and Sensability
8. Gone with the Wind
9. Shakespeare in Love
10. Chocolate, Sabrina (old & new), Pretty in Pink, When Harry met Sally

Why do people think that pride and prejudice is about love? She doesn't find D'Arcy marriage worhty until she finally goes to his mansion and grasps just how wealthy he is. Suddenly he is her kind of guy. Romance indeed.

Clint Eastwood is the man but BOMC was embarrasing. 1970's Clint Eastwood would have blown 1990's Eastwood's head clean off with a 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun on earth. Horrendous movie.

Leaving Las Vegas was romantic? Which part? the scene where Elisabeth Shue gets raped and beaten or the one where Nicholas Cage burns all his stuff in his backyard?

I don't disagree that she is undeserving of him. But she had already come to the conclusion that she loved him before seeing his digs ... seeing the digs only served to seal the deal.

Yea, it sealed the deal all right. SHe was willing to have feelings for him but to leave him without further contact unbtil she sees the house, and what a house it is! Wait, maybe she has been too hasty!

I don't disagree with your putting it on the list, becasue women love the story, but it has always bothered me.

Hey, my wife married me in part for my Volkswagon beattle -her dream car!

That shows your wife had modest expectations (a beatle is a dream car? this is a humble woman) which is a very positive trait. Lizzie (wasn't her name lizzie?) pretends to be true to her feelings and love, blah, blah blah, but finds D'Arcy's house to be Ab Fab and succumbs to the allure of wealth. That is not romantic, to me.

10.Forrest Hump9.Pulp Friction8.Romancing the Bone7.Snow White and the Seven Sailors6.Saving Ryan's Privates5.Buffy the Vampire Layer4.Teenage Mutant Ninja Dildoes3.Rambone2.Monty's Python and the Holey Girl1.E-Three: The Extra Testicle

Denigrade Elizabeth Bennett all you want, but if you say one bad thing about Catherine Morland then there will be hell to pay.

High Fidelity has to be on the list.

Seriously, Leaving Las Vegas maybe should have been #1 on my list. When she gives him the flask as a present, that is one of the most powerful moments in any movie I've seen.

Why in the hell is "16 Candles" not on anyone's list?

I thought No. 6 was "Shaving Ryan's Privates." I'll have to check my DVD collection tonight. I'm also disappointed by the absence of "On Golden Blonde." The closest I ever came to attending a porn movie was when that movie was playing up the street from my office in SF. But I kept imagining Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn in the leads, and my ardor was cooled.

Well, if you want to shave your privates, you go right ahead, but as for me and my clan, I'm all for saving my privates.

I'm much more impressed with Viking's list than Jay's. The only good a romance movie begets is a good nap in the interim.

As a kid in high school, we would drive down the 405 to the LA Temple for baptisms for the dead. The exit is Santa Monica Blvd.

One the way back home, you can pass under the 405 and keep going a few blocks where there used to be this ice cream shop. Unfortunately, you also passed the infamous Pussycat Theater on your left hand side.

Over a few visits, I remember seeing on the marquee: "Indiana Joan and the Black Hole of Mamoo," "Sexcalibur," and "Star Whores: The Empire Strokes Back."

We never stopped to see any of the movies, but we always had a good turnout for baptisms.

Remind me to take never take movie advice from you. Pride and Prejudice and Forest Gump that is just wrong.

Was this list written by jay's wife? No man could have composed that list, and if his man card had not been burned, he would have forgotten the horror of those films.

I'm a bit worried that monkey man from the creek knows enough about P&P to argue about it.

You're way off creek. It wasn't until Mr. D'Arcy saved her sister did Elizabeth begin to feel affection toward him. It just so happened that this coincided with her visit to his home. She's well aware of his fortune prior to her tour of Pemberly.

On Pride and Prejudice, the fact that none of you knows how to spell Darcy undermines your credibility as analysts of Austen's work.

No offense, of course.

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So far I'd say Marsupial is the only one with a firm grasp of the romance genre. Any list without Say Anything is simply beneath acknowledgement.

I was going to say something, but wanted to give these folks credit for at least being influenced by the Smashing Pumpkins.

You're both wrong and so is Austen. Darcy is obviously of French derivation, where De is used to indicate origin, as in de = from. Wonderful Mr. Darcy is from Arcy, or at least his ancestors were, but because De ends in a vowell and Arcy starts with one, they are properly abbreviated so: D'arcy. Being some sort of nouveau riche trying to hide from his heritage, he obviously dropped the apostrophe. I was merely trying to help he and Austen out, but you two just couldn't let it rest.

In fact, Arcy is the location of one of the knights Templar temples in Picardie in France. See: http://www.ordotempli.org/picardie.htm Perhaps this is no coincidence?

It just so happened. Remarkable that. Of course he saved the sister by forking over a bunch of dough, so I guess it did prime the pump a bit.

This thread forced me to go and buy the movie --Pride and Prejudice-- and force my wife to sit and watch it with me. On Valentines day I purchased Roman Holiday for her (me).

I love Say Anything but could only add it to my list as 'a' #10 ... it doesn't merit a higher ranking because of John Cusak, though it is easily his best performance and that's not saying much.

Creek is off? If you want to see the face of being off, take a look in the mirror my friend. Everyone knows that Mr. Darcy is perpetually unemployed and being taken care of by Marcy and all he has to do is pleasure her when he's not hanging with Al at the shoe store or the strip club.

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Here's my list:
Say Anything
Grosse Pointe Blank
Better off Dead
America's Sweethearts
High Fidelity
Sixteen Candles
Must Love Dogs
Anastasia (1997)
Serendipity
Being John Malkovich

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Creek: Nice try.

Punch Drunk Love is a very good movie.

I can't think of 10 Romance Movies I really like, but West Side Story belongs on any list. I'd also add Wedding Singer.

You really are perplexing. You're a football fan, but you like girly girl movies.

Be careful or I'll zap your computer again. Capiche?

Well, I do understand, but please don't hack the Italian language again. That hurt my eyes and ears. It's spelled c-a-p-i-s-c-e.

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Well, that list was actually a joke, though a rather obscure one.

This is my real list:

< 1960
Affair to Remember
Casablanca
Sabrina

1960s
Breakfast at Tiffany's
West Side Story
The Graduate

1970s
Love Story
Rocky

1980s
Arthur
Say Anything
Princess Bride
Pretty Woman

1990s
My Girl
Regarding Henry
While You Were Sleeping
Jerry Maguire
The Other Sister

2000s
Shrek
Lost in Translation
Brokeback Mountain


I left off a few of my favorites, though, because they probably don't belong on an "all-time" list, but they remain guilty pleasures nonetheless.

Some of those are respectable films, but I swallowed my vomit upon seeing Brokeback Mountain. I assume that was an absurd joke.

I have never heard of Say Anything. Does anybody die in it horribly with bullets flying or something blowing up?

I actually lied about reading Austen in high school and somehow talked myself into an A without ever having to have tortured myself. So although I may have inadvertently read Jane Austen, if the The Secret Garden is one of hers, I would never knowingly tread there, unless there were a hefty payoff in store.