What is your favorite LOVE movie? (chick flicks)
By Bee1955
@Bee1955 (3882)
United States
16 responses
@jajatisalgoe (646)
• Belgium
28 Jan 07
I think from all I've seen, She's the man, was one of the best. Funny and quite a good picture, more kind of an original story if you look to the others.
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@dutchess67 (917)
• United States
28 Jan 07
My favorite romantic movies are Love Actually, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Bridget Jones' Diary and White Christmas.
I love the way all of these movies feel. All but Bridget Jones have a very traditional approach to love and treat it with a great deal of respect, which I love.
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@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
28 Jan 07
for me, my favorite love movie (so far) is 50 first dates of drew barrymore and adam sandler. it's a funny film and so romantic, too. adam sandler is always best in everything he does. in this film, i cried and laughed at the same time. i love the feeling that even if one can't remember you, you still love that person no matter what and that everytime she/he forgets you, you're willing to make him/her remember your love everyday of your life.
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@AJ1952Chats (2332)
• Anderson, Indiana
29 Jan 07
With Justin Chambers being one of the sons of one of my second cousins, you KNOW that I would just HAVE to say, The Wedding Planner.
Seriously, even without Justin in it, it's a great movie, and it has that element of all of those twists and turns to get to where the man and woman making up the couple who is truly meant to be together finally get together.
However, I'll not spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched it yet. You will have to find out for yourself whether Mary ends up with Steve or Massimo.
This to me--and call me biased if you wish--is probably the best contemporary movie of this sort.
I think that the best older movie of this sort is An Affair To Remember--that is, where it's about roadblocks in the way of a couple that's meant for each other getting together.
There's another movie where the couple simply grows to love each other and become beautiful to each other, even though the woman is very plain-looking and the man's face is actually mutilated by war (Hard to decide who has the creepier face--him or Michael Jackson!). The movie is called The Enchanted Cottage, and you don't find out until the last whether there's something about the cottage that has turned both of them into a breathtakingly-beautiful woman and a prince-handsome man or if the magic comes from another source.
This movie is narrated by a blind concert pianist who was so inspired by their story that he has written a song in their honor. This is one that you've GOT to watch!
Of course, a wonderful and bittersweet take on this is the novel-based miniseries, The Thorn Birds. Meggie never actually completely captures Father Ralph, but there are beautiful days when she gets to experience this kind of passionate love from him.
Here's one where the man wins the woman over. He's a developmentally-challenged, illiterate, and childlike gardener, and she's a well-educated and sophisticated widow some 20 years his senior who is a businesswoman in the original version called Tim that stars a young Mel Gibson and is part-owner of a bookstore in a later version called Mary & Tim.
In this next one, there's no hanky-panky (although one of the roadblocks in this movie is that some adults suspect that there is), but it involves a gifted fifth grade girl and a developmentally-challenged man of thirty. At one point, they even get "married." Again, there's nothing perverted about this movie. It's one of the most beautiful shows I've ever watched, and the name of it is Digging To China.
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@cajundharma (641)
• United States
29 Jan 07
After Sunset with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphey, I think it's one of the most romantic movies I've ever seen. Mozart and the Whale, it's not your typical love story but it's very sweet. Return to me with Minnie Driver and David Duchovny, it's a really romantic movie. Made in Heaven with Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGills, it's an unusual love story but so touching. And while it doesn't have the typical love story ending, Truly, Madly, Deeply is a really fantastic movie.
@prabhakar_aset (52)
• India
28 Jan 07
my favouite love movie is one called when lucie fell. very simple very sweet but the story successfully captures the essence of a complicated emotion such as love.
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@hitzphillygirl (1235)
• United States
29 Jan 07
One Fine Day is probably about as close to a chick flick as I get. But it's one of my favorite movies.
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@sweetrala (1436)
• Philippines
29 Jan 07
Here's some of my fave chick flicks:
50 first dates
The wedding singer
Never been kissed
10 things I hate about u
Untamed heart(a must see)
Ever After
The Prince and Me
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@entrepreneurgirl (273)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Sweet Home Alabama is my favorite. I love the entire story. Reese Witherspoon is so much fun to watch - she's loveable! I think she really is America's Sweetheart. She's just fun to watch. She's what Meg Ryan used to be like in Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail.
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
29 Jan 07
I think my favorite would have to be "Mrs. Winterbourne" with Brendan Fraser, Ricki Lake, and Shirly Maclaine. Funny movie with love and romance. Very much like a Harlequin put to film. I enjoy watching it when ever I have a chance.
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
28 Jan 07
Good question - I love Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan - so Sleepless in Seattle and You've got Mail and The American President.
I also enjoy The First Wives Club, Hope Floats, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Notting Hill.
Further down on the list is Serendipity and Kate & Leopold.
A few years ago, I had surgery, the surgery damaged my auditory nerve resulting in my being deaf in one ear and really bad balance problems, and then to make things more complicate I had double vision for about a month after the surgery. So I could do was lay around, unless someone was around to help me walk. So I just listened to the top 3 movies over and over since I did not need the visual for them, I could do it with my eyes closed, preventing nausea and vomiting all of the time.
Amazingly enough I still love those movies
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@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
29 Jan 07
I like all the adaptations I've seen of the classics like Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, they're classic love stories with great scenery to boot.
For contemporary stories, some of the ones others have mentioned--Bridget Jones' Diary (very funny writing, and Renee Zellweger is a riot to watchin that role). Also While You Were Sleeping (Sandra Bullock is very endearing, and her boyfriend's dysfunctional family is wacky but lovable).
And while I'm talking about 'a few of my favorite things,' there's also The Sound of Music--drama, romance, humor, a Rodgers & Hammerstein score, and magnificent scenery. Sappy, yes, but still very enjoyable.
@scooby_13 (175)
• Italy
28 Jan 07
I prefer Ghost, the movie with demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, it's romantic and also drammatic
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