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What Do You Think is the Most Romantic Movie Ever?

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February 16, 2015
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I know it's the day after Valentines but what the heck. What movie do you feel is the perfect romance and why? I would have to say "Gone With the Wind". Funny because it was my mother's favorite too. I remember as a teen she took me to see it for the first time. Of course it didn't really do too much for me then. She also passed the book on to me. That was much better and after a few years I saw the movie again and now I understood the characters.

Pity crushing on Leslie Howard and Clark Gable when they've been gone for so long. But Clark Gable stood the test of time. Even compared to sex symbols of the present day...Clark as Rhett Butler, MWWWRRRROWWR. The thing I love about this movie besides the stars is it was the way great movies used to be. No shades of gray or people being crazed weasels. They left things to the audiences imagination.

Like when Rhett hauls Scarlett up that staircase, you just know the house was a rockin', they didn't have to be graphic. Scarlett all happy the next morning said it all. Yes the portrayal of blacks in this movie is an abomination...But just concentrating on Rhett and Scarlett...Oh and IMHO he does ultimately go back to her. They knew each other too well. He probably goes to town and Belle Watling talks him into going home.

So whats your favorite romance?

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retiredtraveler

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Doctor Zhivago........

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Tonya! Can you play the balalaika?

David: Can she play? She's an artist!

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Who taught you?

David: Nobody taught her!

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Ah... then it's a gift.

Now. the saddest romantic film I've seen, or saddest, period, is Tess of the D'Ubervilles.

"...Why is everyone a victim? Take personal responsibility for your life..."

TravelledOne

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@retiredtraveler wrote:
Doctor Zhivago........

Prior to clicking to open this thread, that is exactly what I came up with and then thought, nobody could relate.

Now that IS a movie. Whatever hapened to the movie industry?

But there are so many others in my collection:

Serendipity
While You Were Sleeping
Sabrina
Sleepless In Seattle
The Lake House
French Kiss
Notting Hill

...just to name a very few.

Alex

loveabullAuthor

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I realize how out of the loop I am. I've heard of but never seen so many of those movies. The last one I saw all the way through was "The Hurt Locker".

nctarheel

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Nightmare on Elm Street.

Freddy loved them teenagers!

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smarthu

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Romancing the Stone: Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner (whatever happened to her?)

TravelledOne

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I missed one in my list....

The Sound of Music.

Alex

loveabullAuthor

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Not romantic but another good one was "The Kingdom".

catwoman500

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I'll agree with Notting Hill..."I'm just a girl standing here asking..."

And Captain Corelli's Mandolin... "You think you can come here and turn my whole world upside-down?"

Ahhhhhhh! Nancy

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intersan

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I don't watch many romantic films, but Dr. Zhivago and A Beautiful Mind have always moved me.

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al882

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I have three - Gone With the Wind, Doctor Zhivago and Meet Joe Black.

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chewman1

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Going back in time:

Love Story (Ryan O'Neal) and Jazz Singer (Neil Diamond) are favorites

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dkscrazyman

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"Casablanca" would be to me. Maybe "Sleepless in Seattle" also.

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JohnAllenLogan

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I thought 'Casbanca' or possibly 'The African Queen' but then not Quite.

I have to vote for "The Sterile Cookoo"

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JLB47

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My vote goes to "The Enchanted Cottage" starring Robert Young as a disfigured war veteran who lives in seclusion in a cottage. There he meets the plain housekeeper, Dorothy McGuire. As the two get to know each other and fall in love, they are physically transformed by that love. When his mother, Spring Byington, visits, she doesn't "see" the two beautiful people. The question for me is "What is real?"

The movie speaks to the transformative power of love and that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. The film was made in 1945. I saw it as a young child and I've never forgot it!