So, I give into the Dark Side and take an online quiz...

[kellinator]

"You must remember this, a kiss is still a
kiss". Your romance is Casablanca. A
classic story of love in trying times, chock
full of both cynicism and hope. You obviously
believe in true love, but you're also
constantly aware of practicality and societal
expectations. That's not always fun, but at
least it's realistic. Try not to let the Nazis
get you down too much.


What Romance Movie Best Represents Your Love Life?
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Of course, this leaves out the main way Casablanca resembles my love life:

-- They both happened a really long time ago

Seriously, Casablanca is one of my very favorite movies, one of the few I can watch over and over again (though you should NEVER, EVER watch this movie with someone you don't want to end up making out with by the end of the night). You'd better believe I'll be throwing down for the special edition DVD. It works perfectly on so many levels: love story, Allied propaganda, allegory for the end of American isolationism ("it's December 1941 in Casablanca, Sam..."). And further support for my theory on unhappy endings being more memorable than happy endings, as much as I love happy endings. There's just no other way it should end. Though of course they'd never end it that way today.

There are very few romantic comedies I like -- you've been subjected to my You've Got Mail rant. But here are a few I like (mostly British, interestingly enough):

Truly Madly Deeply
Sliding Doors
Much Ado About Nothing
Four Weddings and a Funeral

Pretty short list. Love sucks.

And a couple of choices that may not usually get mentioned, but which I think work beautifully as romances:

The Wedding Singer
Shrek

I think I made a post just like this one about a year ago.

Basically, I made this whole post so I could use that one-liner about my love life. Yes, I'll do anything for a laugh.

Comments

[unanon.livejournal.com]

Sliding Doors
Much Ado About Nothing
The Wedding Singer
Shrek


*adores*

I still don't have a copy of Sliding Doors, but my love for John Hannah is deep and wide, baby. AND it's one of the very few movies in which Paltrow is tolerable at all!

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten a copy yet either, but yes, John Hannah is wonderful. I loved how when he first appeared in the movie, I didn't think he was really that attractive, but pretty soon I was falling in love with him too. :)

[crowyhead.livejournal.com]

My favorite love story is "Harold & Maude." :)

No, I'm serious. And it figures into some very squishy romantic stuff when Dave and I first started dating, but I won't subject you to that.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Harold and Maude RULES!!

[kittybecca.livejournal.com]

I adore Harold and Maude!!

[ardentdelirium.livejournal.com]

thoguht you'd laugh about this

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's beautiful!! I want to go!!

How are you? I've been wondering if things were okay with you.

[ardentdelirium.livejournal.com]

things are all too confusing to condense into an lj comment. there's lots of self distraction going on but its starting to not work so well.

I made a post asking everyone who wanted to stay on my friends list to reply by last sunday (I made it last thursday) and then I took off everyone who didn't reply, which is why you haven't seen any me-posts. most of the people who got removed were people I wasn't feeling connected with but I missed you so you're back on.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

I don't know how the hell I missed that post. I was traveling last weekend and didn't have much time for LJ, which was probably how I missed it. Rest assured that I would have replied.

[ardentdelirium.livejournal.com]

that's reassuring :)

For what it's worth...

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

I got the same result. Here's looking at you, Kel.

[mizdandylynn.livejournal.com]

Pretty good list.. but I would add to that Rob Roy with Liam Neeson.... though it has more to it.. it is still a story about love and honor... *snif* I need to go watch it now

[solsistr3.livejournal.com]

I got Casablanca, too.

I think my favourite romantic comedy is When Harry Met Sally. Partly bc when I first saw it, I was so innocent and really belived that love was always like that, but partly bc I still think love can be like that....it's just more rare than I imagined it to be.

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Ever since you did me the great good favor of recommending that I see Mystery Men, I've owed you one. And at long last, my chance has come!

Rent, beg, borrow, or steal Tea With Mussolini. Trust me. You'll be so very glad you did. :-)

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Yeeks, I almost forgot to suggest two deliciously romantic movies starring Johnny Depp, who has the distinction of being one of only two male actors who Carbonate My Hormones(TM)!

Chocolat

Don Juan DeMarco

Go. Rent. Carbonate. :-)

Love Stinks!

[spiritchaser1.livejournal.com]

I ♥ ♥ ♥ Shrek, Wedding Singer, and Much Ado About Nothing. :)

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

Grosse Point Blank

that is all.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Truly Madly Deeply is a wonderful movie. Although it has funny lines, I really don't think it's a comedy. I cried all the way through it. I cry when I even think about it.

How about Sense and Sensibility? Lovely movie -- and Alan Rickman is to die for.

And what about Tootsie? Or Moonstruck? Or The Philadelphia Story?

[idioticpoet.livejournal.com]

What? No Breakfast At Tiffanys?

tsk tsk tsk.

I've never seen all of Shrek, but have only seen bits of it here and there, but so far I've liked what I've seen.

Four Weddings And A Funeral...I didn't quite get all of the humor in it, until the second time i'd seen it.

The Wedding Singer rules, and is one of the better of the recent Adam Sandler flicks.

[sujata.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I suppose I really must be a freak, after all. I appear to be the only woman in the world who not only didn't think Four Weddings and a Funeral was romantic, but in whom Hugh Grant induces nausea.

Now there was a scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral that I found extremely moving, and I can see how it would be considered romantic, since it was a eulogy given by one lover in honor of another. But I spent the rest of the movie, both before and after that scene, merely desiring to throw bricks at Hugh Grant. Preferably, Great Pyramid-sized bricks. :-O