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*WARNING* Very Girly Thread Follows! Jatraqueros with an overactive shudder reflex may want to stop reading.
OK, if you know where the quote in the title of this thread came from, I'm talking to you.
My roommates and I have been working on a little project lately. Keep in mind that we are all a little boy-crazy at this point in time (five girls in a BYU apartment...what do you expect?). Inspired by the final scene in the movie "Never Been Kissed" (man, is that teacher hot!), we have started a list of the most romantic moments (mostly kisses, but others are welcome too) in movies. The plan is to make a video of them so that we can watch it when we are feeling especially sappy and/or depressed.
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The first kiss in Raising Victor Vargas and Victor's confession of his love leading up to the kiss. In one of the most truthful and romantic moments in movie history, Victor (a fifteen year-old boy) tells the girl he likes that although the family dinner he invited her to was an absolute disaster (Victor's grandmother accused her of being a slut), he would not have it any other way. "I want you to see me as I am, with my crazy family, my crazy grandmother, all of it." She melts, they kiss, and he held her for a very long time.
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Say Anything ~ When Lolyd warned Diane not to step near some broken glass in a parking lot. Of course, the scene with him holding up the boombox is pretty classic too.
OK, I'll stop making these suggestions before I get my manhood revoked by the union.
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A group of Mormon girls is making a compilation video of a slew of voyeuristic romantic encounters and they're worried about R-ratings?
In any case, John Cusack holding a boom-box over his head and playing music to his one and only in "Say Anything" was purty romantic...though also vaguely stalkerish, which shouldn't be a problem for your group.
Actually, that movie had quite a few "Awww" moments...for ME, anyway.
Um. I should be able to tell you more movies. Meh. Maybe I'll get mack to ya.
Edit: stoopid Beren, beating me to it. And by "mack", I mean "back".
It is rated R for strong language. Although it is a movie about teenagers in love (and lust), there is very little sexual content. The main character's first kiss comes at the end of the movie. Maybe someday I will edit a G version for you gals. Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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That would be great, Beren. Actually, there's a pretty big market for edited movies here in Provo. Methinks I should get a membership for one...
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I am for bad movie rating system that prevents people from watching good films. For example, my aunt would not let me take my cousins to go watch Whale Rider because it is rated PG-13 (the little'uns are only 9 and 10).
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It may be because the uncle was smoking a joint. The scene was really brief and I think young kids will just think it is a regular cig.
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I definitely think the union would take away your manhood if you moved into an apartment at BYU with five girls... We would girlify (nice word!) you before you knew what hit you.
By the way, you two are cracking me and my roommate up!
Obviously you have not read the handbook. Any man who lives in a an apartment with five young college girls automatically gets promoted to president of the union (with nightly appearances on the Howard Stern show).
One more recommendation:
In A Beautiful Mind
quote: Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data. Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance. Alicia: How big is the universe? Nash: Infinite. Alicia: How do you know? Nash: I know because all the data indicates it's infinite. Alicia: But it hasn't been proven yet. Nash: No. Alicia: You haven't seen it. Nash: No. Alicia: How do you know for sure? Nash: I don't, I just believe it. Alicia: It's the same with love I guess.
*speaking to hansenj* That's only because you're both manflesh-starved, and me and Beren are the only ground-dwelling apes who are talking to you at the moment.
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The end of Notting Hill where they're in that press conference is about the sappiest thing I've seen in my life.
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My favorite scene from that movie was when the husband of the handicapped woman made everyone get out of the car and rearranged the seats so she could ride in the car and wouldn't be left behind. The scene took like five seconds, but it was really poignant because even though that couple were not the main characters of the movie, the movie stopped long enough to show that the husband always had his wife's best interest in mind.
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You simply *must* include something from Benny and Joon ... I can't remember exact scenes though. I would suggest a scene from Hedwig, but it's most probably rated R. :/
That scene in Some Kind of Wonderful when Mary Stuart Masterson sits on the hood of the limo and cries, having driven the man she loves to another date.
"I love you." "I know." -- From The Empire Strikes Back.
The dinner scene in Beauty and the Beast.
New Year's Eve in When Harry Met Sally.
The scenes post-marriage in Lady Jane, in which Helena Bonham-Carter and Cary Elwes discover they do actually love each other.
The night seductions in Roxanne.
Walking across the crowd in Crocodile Dundee.
That bit in The Last of the Mohicans where Day-Lewis is asked what he's looking at.
Bruce Willis crying to the radio in Twelve Monkeys.
Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in the record store in Before Sunrise.
Jon Cryer showing up for the prom with Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink.
In that vein, Andrew McCarthy finally declaring his love for Ally Sheedy in St. Elmo's Fire.
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The scene by the fence in Strictly Ballroom.
The Mr. Darcy stare!!
The final skate in Cutting Edge.
(I love, love that book. I was dizzy for a month after reading it. I think some romantic corner of me is still in love with Gilbert.)
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You've Got mail has some pretty sappy points to it. Of course I'm a sucker for a dog so I like the ending. There is also the ending to Pretty Woman with the Balcony Scene.
I'd tell you the Thomas Crown Affair, the entire movie, but I'm sure that is rated R. OSC watched it though. The sex scene is one of my all time favorites, and there is just so much repartee with undertones the entire time. Another favorite part is where she burns the picture up, and then find out it was a Renior or something.
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Speaking of Shakespeare, 10 Things I Hate About you, has a lot of cool moments. One of my favorite scenes is when Heath Ledger tracks Julia Stiles down while she's dancing in a basically all girls club and actually begins to like her, and realize she's not just a witch.
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I know it's rated R, but despite the general lack of chemistry of the principals, the scene where Uma Thurman confronts Ethan Hawke's character about exactly who he is, I always find romantic, and beautiful, in more than simply a lustful way.
It's stupid that Gattaca is rated R, I think there is a brief shot of Ethan's butt, and there is no swearing that I can recall, and very little on-screen violence (a couple of concussions).
The last real scene, starting with the "captain's" announcement. Dunno, something about that movie makes me watch it every time I see it on.
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Older sappy movies that I'm sure are g rated since my parents let me watch them as a kid.
Sound of Music (original sap if you don't include the 16 going on 17 song there is something majorly wrong)
South Pacific
The Happiest Milionaire (a disney?) I remember loving it as a kid though, it might have been for the Irish butler, the eccentric father and the alligator named Crusty rather than the romance. But there were some good romance scenes too as I recall.
There was another related Disney called either Family Grandstand or Family Band with most of the same actors aswell that was also sappy for a kids movie.
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Actually, I think the most romantic scene in Notting Hill is AFTER the press conference (which is sappy, I agree ). The end scene, with them walking and then ending up on a bench, happily pregnant.
Great scene in Phenomenon: the shaving/hair cut scene.
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Well, I don't know if this is romantic or just plain lustful...
But that scene in Ghosts where she is doing the pottery and he comes up behind her and they are both molding the pottery on the wheel together (just before it evolves into great sex to the tune of Unchained Melody) was really really wicked for me..
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this thread just gave me the best warm fuzzies. I have often thought of making a compliation of these fun romantic moments. Onefriend and I rewound the last five minutes of Never been kissed so much that we actually broke the tape
All my suggestions have been suggested already, but I'll try to think of more. My all time favorite though is Pretty in Pink when Andy makes her dress and then goes to prom....and Ducky is there to escort her. (did you know the original screenplay had them end up together?)
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You know, I like the pottery scene, but I have this, like, congenital fear of ick of any kind -- and so the whole time they're rolling around in that clay, I'm thinking, "Eeew. Wet clay. In their HAIR. In their OTHER hair. Drying. Crumbling. Peeling off. Getting in the carpet. *shudder*"
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Sandra Bullock and Aidan Quinn in "Practical Magic".
Boy that movie sucked, but I would have watched it again to see that kiss if I were single.
I'd be willing to edit the Keanu Reeves section for you:
"Point Break" on the beack with Lori Petty.
"Speed" in the traffic cones with Sandra Bullock.
"The Matrix" the ending of the first one. I didn't watch the cave part of the second one.
Even "A Walk in the Clouds" has that awesome scene when they almost do it, but then remember that he's married.
"Legends of the Fall" where the Brad Pitt character and his wife are waking up and their little baby is curled up with them. It's not kissing or anything, but the "awwww" factor is major.
Anyway, I sympathize with the whole rated R thing, but these have all been on TV.
But while we are on the subject of R rated, Aliens had some great moments. Like when Vasques and that guy she always teases are about to go out and they grip the grenade together. That was cool. I don't know if Ripley and Hicks have a single moment, or if it was an ongoing chemistry thing. I guess he's like unconscious and she's strapping him into a seatbelt and kisses him. But the prior scenes are much better.
I'm a sucker for Gone with the Wind. That has two really good kisses.
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I'm sorely tempted to start posting “Hey Farmgirl! Remember never to have sex with Tom D” in random threads.
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While You Were Sleeping is my fav romantic comedy of all time. I love the scene where he brings her the snow globe of Florence, and she asks him if he can give her any reason not to marry her brother and he says he can't.
And the wedding, where she explains why she did what she did because she was in love with having a family, something she hadn't known or felt for a really long time.
I love that movie.
Almost every bit of Ladyhawke is incredibly romantic to me. One of the lines that always catches me in the heart and makes me tear up is when Philippe tells Navarre about Isabeau "She loves you more than life, Captain. She's had to."
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I like love stories with a weepy edge to them.
Was it ... Somewhere in Time? The one with Jane Seymore and Christopher Reeve? Loved that (and Not just because Ron always told me I looked like her in that film.
That kiss in A Life Less Ordinary (R rated for violence, mostly perpetrated by angels) just before Ewan jumps in front of Cameron Diaz to keep her from getting shot. Also like that bit at the end of MR in which he cries like a baby.
Oh, that scene in Return To Me where David Duchovny comes home and collapses inside his front door, with his wife's blood still on him from the car accident that took her life. It was just an illustration of love in one of its purest forms: grief.
Yeah. I know I warped sense of what's Romantic. I think it's because I'm so happy with my love life that the sad things are more interesting to me.
Tom's list was also great.
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