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Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:41:30 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/16/2017 02:41

Currently Pre-1930's is the favourite for the next poll 😄

Whatever has the most votes by next Sunday will be the winner.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 04:46:01 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/13/2017 09:46

Hayden wrote:

I added up what DBZ sent in, but he didn't add anymore :(

sorry bout that, just didn't find the time 🙁

great work though Hayden (as usual). Good list this time around. Fair bit I haven't seen in there

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:30:25 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/12/2017 20:30

Mercury wrote:

so did skinny and DBZ send in their lists or did that not happen? I was so looking forward to seeing their lists. Also, as an avid The Apartment fan, I was hoping for Skinny's list to bolster it.

I added up what DBZ sent in, but he didn't add anymore 🙁

Skinny never pulled through 🤐

But don't worry, there was a good handful of last minute lists. Filled out the list quite nicely.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Mercury — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:55:43 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 02/12/2017 19:55

so did skinny and DBZ send in their lists or did that not happen? I was so looking forward to seeing their lists. Also, as an avid The Apartment fan, I was hoping for Skinny's list to bolster it.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:35:36 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/12/2017 19:35

Ok, thaaaaat'll be the cut. List will be up shortly.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:31:19 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/12/2017 16:31

dividesbyzero wrote:

ok in the event that I don't get a list up in time (which is entirely likely), here have a top 10 if that's useful

1. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
2. The Magic Flute (Bergman)
3. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
4. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
5. Freaks (Browning)
6. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
7. The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
8. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Mizoguchi)
9. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau)
10 Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondô)

if La Jetée isn't eligible (being a short and all that) then just toss in Jules and Jim at the end there

Hoping you can whip up a list 😄 I'm going to give everyone 3 or 4 more hours.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 06:25:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/12/2017 11:25

ok in the event that I don't get a list up in time (which is entirely likely), here have a top 10 if that's useful

1. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
2. The Magic Flute (Bergman)
3. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
4. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
5. Freaks (Browning)
6. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
7. The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
8. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Mizoguchi)
9. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau)
10 Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondô)

if La Jetée isn't eligible (being a short and all that) then just toss in Jules and Jim at the end there

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 05:36:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/12/2017 10:36

gonna see if I can muster one of these up last minute brb...

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

benpaco — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:31:21 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 02/12/2017 05:31

Hayden wrote:

benpaco wrote:

8. 50 First Dates
It's a Wonderful Life
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Thanks for the list Ben, I'm just going to need you to clear up what position you wanted It's A Wonderful Life to be in. Also, due to this, you actually have 101 films listed. If you want to place the film at #9 and just knock off your #101, you don't have to worry about editing the entire post, I'll just put it in the tally.

Definitely do this, George of the Jungle being left off my list shouldn't break any hearts (also sorry about that issue)

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 22:23:29 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/12/2017 03:23

benpaco wrote:

8. 50 First Dates
It's a Wonderful Life
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Mercury — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 22:19:05 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 02/12/2017 03:19

Lol! The last 20 or so are interesting, Ben. But the list as a whole is very nice. Cast Away I forgot about. The beginning and end where Hanks and Hunt are together are great.

Also, Harold and Maude is very clearly a quirky rom com. No doubt.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

benpaco — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 22:10:19 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 02/12/2017 03:10

Quick note that Lily and Jim by Don Hertzfeldt and Please Say Something by David O'Reilly are better than most of these but are less than 15 minutes. Also Dr. Horrible shows up as a mini series in most places I looked so I'm not counting that but it'd be on here too.

Number of these may be "on the edge" if Harold and Maude is but I'm just going off of IMDb's/letterboxd's tags at this point. Also if you couldn't tell by the quality dip a number of these are just here to get the list as large as possible.

1. Harold and Maude
2. (500) Days of Summer
3. The Princess Bride
4. Safety Not Guaranteed
5. Better Off Dead...
6. High Fidelity
7. Tarzan
8. 50 First Dates
It's a Wonderful Life
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas
10. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
11. Forrest Gump
12. Doctor Zhivago
13. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
14. Happy Feet
15. Juno
16. Bedazzled
17. Elf
18. Claire's Knee
19. Perks of Being a Wallflower
20. World's Greatest Dad
21. Horse Feathers
22. Moonrise Kingdom
23. Vampire's Kiss
24. As Good As It Gets
25. Deadpool
26. Hercules
27. Midnight in Paris
28. Shakespeare in Love
29. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
30. Fiddler on the Roof
31. Cassablanca
32. The Sound of Music
33. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
34. Groundhog Day
35. Getting That Girl
36. French Kiss
37. Aladdin
38. Tootsie
39. Big
40. Music and Lyrics
41. The Terminal
42. Annie Hall
43. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
44. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
45. Phantom of the Opera (1943)
46. Gone with the Wind
47. Bruce Almighty
48. The Family Man
49. Shrek
50. Moonstruck
51. Edward Scissorhands
52. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
53. Cast Away
54. The Pink Panther (1963)
55. Sleepless in Seattle
56. The Great Gatsby (1974)
57. Titanic
58. Shrek 2
59. You've Got Mail
60. Robin Hood (1973)
61. Amelie
62. Chocolat
63. The Little Rascals (1994)
64. The Little Mermaid (1989)
65. The Karate Kid Part II
66. Tangled
67. Jerry Maguire
68. Weird Science
69. City of Angels
70. Lady and the Tramp
71. Sleeping Beauty
72. Hitch
73. Fever Pitch
74.The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
75. Look Who's Talking Too
76. Click
77. Cinderella
78. The Road to El Dorado
79. The 40-Year Old Virgin
80. Pretty in Pink
81. Top Gun
82. Yes Man
83. Sixteen Candles
84. Pocahontas
85. King Kong (2005)
86. Drumline
87. Air Force One
88. Grease
89. Miss Congeniality
90. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
91. Freaky Friday
92. Gidget Goes Hawaiian
93. Legally Blonde (2001)
94. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
95. The Mask
96. Enchanted (2007)
97. The Nutty Professor
98. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
99. The Love Guru
100. George of the Jungle (1997)

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

CA Dreamin — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:06:03 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 02/11/2017 22:06

I wonder if anybody listed any documentaries. Probably not. Some of the most interesting love stories actually happened. I know my list here has one or two (and of course, they're documentaries so there's a 100% chance they end in tragedy):

1. The Apartment
2. Annie Hall
3. The Graduate
4. Casablanca
5. There's Something About Mary
6. When Harry Met Sally
7. Bonnie and Clyde
8. City Lights
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Slumdog Millionaire
11. High Fidelity
12. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
13. Wuthering Heights (1939)
14. Vertigo
15. It Happened One Night
16. Can't Hardly Wait
17. Atonement
18. Tabloid (2010)
19. Before Sunset
20. Big
21. Coming to America
22. Broken Blossoms
23. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
24. Manhattan
25. Aladdin
26. Say Anything
27. Arthur
28. Trouble in Paradise
29. Sherlock Jr
30. Groundhog Day
31. Lars and the Real Girl
32. A Life Less Ordinary
33. Before Sunrise
34. Before Midnight
35. Body Heat
36. Fatal Attraction
37. 500 Days of Summer
38. Deadpool
39. The Philadelphia Story
40. The Heiress
41. Bound
42. The Artist
43. Brokeback Mountain
44. Forrest Gump
45. The Wedding Singer
46. Cafe Society
47. The Princess Bride
48. Midnight in Paris
49. The Purple Rose of Cairo
50. L'Atalante
51. The African Queen
52. A New Leaf
53. Silver Linings Playbook
54. Heathers
55. Wristcutters: A Love Story
56. Talhotblond (2009)
57. 10 Things I Hate About You
58. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
59. Marty
60. The Moon is Blue
61. This Property is Condemned
62. Lolita (1962)
63. Whatever Works
64. Her
65. Benny and Joon
66. The Manxman (1929)
67. Grumpy Old Men
68. A Matter of Life and Death
69. Lost Lagoon
70. Sixteen Candles
71. Roman Holiday
72. The Lady Eve
73. Love Story
74. Romancing the Stone
75. Play it Again, Sam
76. Corpse Bride
77. Crazy, Stupid, Love
78. Yes Man
79. Bitter Moon (1992)
80. The Sure Thing

I gave up trying to rank them after #40.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:22:54 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/11/2017 20:22

Skinny wrote:

Hayden wrote:

Final day for lists. 😄

We have a runaway #1 at the moment.

(Aaaaand only 95 films that appear on more than one list 8-[). Need five more to have an eligible top 100.

Give me about 18 hours pretty please? If not, no worries.

Yeah, course. That wouldn't be an issue. The more the merrier. It probably won't be posted for another 24h anyway.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Skinny — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:17:28 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 02/11/2017 20:17

Hayden wrote:

Final day for lists. 😄

We have a runaway #1 at the moment.

(Aaaaand only 95 films that appear on more than one list 8-[). Need five more to have an eligible top 100.

Give me about 18 hours pretty please? If not, no worries.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:04:15 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/11/2017 20:04

Final day for lists. 😄

We have a runaway #1 at the moment.

(Aaaaand only 95 films that appear on more than one list 8-[). Need five more to have an eligible top 100.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Mercury — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:54:14 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 02/11/2017 02:54

Just a note on one of my more weird picks, The World of Apu. I was wondering if I overweighted the romantic aspect of the film. So I decided I'm gonna revisit it again.

I watched it tonight and I see that while the romance between Apu and Aparna only officially lasts from about 35 minutes to 65 minutes in the film, it's pure poetry. There's something truly profound and heartbreaking about the origin of the marriage. And every shot of the couple builds up its own comfortable and recognizable space. It's a masterpiece.

Obviously from then on the whole basis of the film drifts away from that tragic relationship. But it's all tied back to it. He's broken finally and the film examines how he tries to come back from this seemingly never ending tide of heartbreak he has experienced, culminating with his wife.

But again, I am completely enraptured by every moment of interaction between Aparna and Apu, the banter and button pushing and sweet comfort. Also the early despair and confusion of them both as they get thrown into this relationship. Followed by their very tangible love and admiration with each other. The actors'connection as actors or "chemistry" is flawless. I think Satyajit Ray with these 30 minutes of World of Apu along with Charulata and also The Big City has created some of the most interesting and thought-provoking cinema about love and relationships between husband and wife I've ever seen.

So there. I know no one will include the world of Apu on their list, and I totally understand. But those are just my thoughts.

Also yeah The World of Apu is top 10 all time for me as a film and the Apu Trilogy is a step above probably every film trilogy I've seen. It's astoundingly good.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:26:43 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/10/2017 16:26

Thanks CryingGame, list looks good 😄

Just want to remind everyone that tomorrow is the last day for lists. Even if it's a short list, they'll be appreciated.

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

cestuneblague — Thu, 9 Feb 2017 20:24:38 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 02/10/2017 01:24

Im assuming this can be romance in all it's different stages: yearning for love, actually fallen in love and then the moment you fall out of love. Or just generally suggesting romance I guess. Anyways here's a list, whatever's eligible:

Show Me Love
City Lights
Children of Paradise
My Summer of Love
Carol
The Crying Game
Shame (Bergman)
Weekend
Madchen in Uniform
Moonlight
Sid & Nancy
Red River
Amour
His Girl Friday
Scenes from a Marriage
Harold & Maude
Before Sunrise
Boys Don’t Cry
Lost in Translation
Blue is the Warmest Color
Brokeback Mountain
In the Mood for Love
Bound
Breaking the Waves
The Remains ofthe Day
Turkish Delight
Greenberg
The Incredibly True Story of Two Girls in Love
Lolita
Eyes Wide Shut
Moonrise Kingdom
Sherman’s March
Definitely, Maybe
Torment
Black Orpheus
Head On
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Breakfast at Tiffanys
The Matador (1986)
Rebecca
Late Marriage
Badlands
Wild Reeds
Ninotchka
Everyone Else
Jules & Jim
Somersault
Obvious Child
Annie Hall
The Spectacular Now
Broken Blossoms
Pride & Prejiduce
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Mala Noche
In the Realm of the Senses
Bend it Like Beckham
Portrait of Jennie
Lucas
Your Friends & Neighbors
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Year My Voice Broke
Humpday
Casablanca
The Piano
Happy Together
Claire’s Knee
Climates
Imagine Me & You
Maurice
All the Real Girls
Sunrise
Un Chant d’ Amour
Savage Nights
Lady Chatterley (2006)
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
She’s Gotta Have It
Basic Instinct
Dance of the Damned
High Art
Love & Basketball

Re: Best Ever Romance Films [Deadline February 11th]

Hayden — Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:47:30 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/09/2017 16:47

Aight, I feel like I need to disclose that right now we have 353 individual films submitted so far, with only a fairly skimpy 76 of those appearing on more than one list.

I think we might have bit off too vague of a genre to define 😨 Either way, I'm hoping for more lists to show up.

(If there aren't anymore submissions, the final list will have to be capped at 75 rather than 100)