Top 100 Movie Romances (?)
Jun. 12th, 2002 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Interestingly, a really large number have unhappy endings. I think there's really something to the resonance of the lost love idea... I mean, Shakespeare wrote lots of happy endings, but no one mentions those couples. It's always Romeo and Juliet instead. (Though a lot of the happy couples [i.e., Beatrice and Benedick] seemed more believable to me than Romeo and Juliet, but I digress...)
Still, I'm happy to see some favorites of mine on here... Casablanca, The Princess Bride, Beauty and the Beast, Titanic (yes, I liked Titanic, and I'm not afraid to admit it ;) ).
Interestingly, a really large number have unhappy endings. I think there's really something to the resonance of the lost love idea... I mean, Shakespeare wrote lots of happy endings, but no one mentions those couples. It's always Romeo and Juliet instead. (Though a lot of the happy couples [i.e., Beatrice and Benedick] seemed more believable to me than Romeo and Juliet, but I digress...)
Still, I'm happy to see some favorites of mine on here... Casablanca, The Princess Bride, Beauty and the Beast, Titanic (yes, I liked Titanic, and I'm not afraid to admit it ;) ).
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Date: 2002-06-12 06:55 am (UTC)And, um, much as Double Indemnity may be one of my all-time favorite movies, it really doesn't belong on this list.
And where the hell is There's Something About Mary? Seriously.
On the plus side, I was happy to see that The Shop Around the Corner was here, and that You've Got Mail wasn't (now if only Sleepless in Seattle had been excluded as well).
As AFI lists go, it's better than most, I guess.
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Date: 2002-06-12 06:57 am (UTC)You've Got Mail is the only movie I've seen in a theater that I've almost walked out of. I'll rant on that next, I think...