These are my answers to the Valentine's Day Movie Meme, from Meredith @ Forever Classics
Romantic films are certainly not my speciality but this looked fun so I thought I'd give it a try. Bare in mind I really don't watch a lot of romantic films. I dislike most rom-coms and I hate weepie melodramas. I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to see Titanic but funnily enough loved it. And from the answers below, you might think I've got a pretty wierd idea of romance. Don't hold it against me...
Kevin Smith’s Mallrats is all about two guys getting their girls back. Fortunately one of the guys is Brodie (Jason Lee) and he’s been too busy playing video games and collecting comics to notice that his girl has been spending hours in the toilet crying over their relationship. She dumps him and so begins a mission to the mall to get the girl back. Along the way there is an angry father, the antics of Jay and Silent Bob and Ben Affleck’s asshole from the ‘Fashionable Male’ shop to contend with.
Then there’s 500 Days of Summer starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and featuring a great non-linear narrative and some bruising truths about real life romance.
And one last one that made me laugh my ass off. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson crash weddings in the appropriately titled Wedding Crashers. Rachel McAdams is charming and Isla Fisher is deliciously nuts but the boys steal the show with motor-mouth dialogue and a crude, lewd take on romance and the lengths men will go to bed women.
2. What is your favorite romantic drama?
Titanic is the one to beat. Tragic, short-lived, passionate, crossing classes, forbidden, doomed. Everything you want from a romance.
Sticking with the early heart throb days of Leo, Baz Lurhman’s Romeo & Juliet is another one that has all the essential ingredients and serves them up to perfection.
3. Worst romance film you've seen?
3. Worst romance film you've seen?
Don’t think this counts as romance but it’s the worst film ever anyway. Sex Lives of the Potato Men
4. How do you feel about the majority of romantic films being labeled "chick flicks"?
4. How do you feel about the majority of romantic films being labeled "chick flicks"?
Annoyed for the huge amount of ‘chicks’ who hate the stuff. Emasculated when I have to admit to liking some of them… especially Titanic.
5. Favorite on-screen couple?
5. Favorite on-screen couple?
Leo and Kate as Jack and Rose in Titanic. Rich, uptight, trapped and miserable Rose learns how to live, love, spit and screw when she meets poor but happy, free-spirit Jack.
6. Favorite off-screen couple?
6. Favorite off-screen couple?
Brangelina the sexy, naughty buggers.
7. Best kiss in a movie?
7. Best kiss in a movie?
Human Traffic
Check the clip from 8.46 (but you really need to see the rest of the film to get it)
or Titanic on the prow
8. Favorite romantic scene?
The sex scene in Team America. Especially the uncut version.
Also the moment Ed Norton’s narrator grabs Marla’s hand as the buildings fall in the last shot of Fight Club.
Jack draws Rose wearing ‘only this’ (her necklace). Sexy, romantic and perfect foreplay for the main event in the back of a steamed up car.
9. Who are 2 film characters you wished had gotten together, but never did?
Patrick Swayze as Bodhi and Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah in Point Break. Is it wrong that I’d have loved to see them just make out at the end of that movie before Bodhi surfs into oblivion? Soaking wet from the sea with a pair of handcuffs.
Or Borat and Pamela.
10. Two actors you think would have great chemistry, but have never done a film together?
10. Two actors you think would have great chemistry, but have never done a film together?
Isla Fisher and Amy Adams. Keep your thoughts pure.
11. Favorite romantic song in a film (doesn't have to be from a musical)?
11. Favorite romantic song in a film (doesn't have to be from a musical)?
Don’t hate me but I love Aerosmith’s ‘I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing’ from Armageddon
‘Only a Woman’ from Team America
12. Best score from a romance film?
12. Best score from a romance film?
Love Titanic’s apart from the actual Celine Dion song which is a bit blah. The rest, though extremely similar to the main song, is stunningly wonderful.
13. Most romantic film quote?
13. Most romantic film quote?
‘You met me at a very strange time in my life’ Fight Club
‘I promise I will never die’ Team America
‘Put your hands on me Jack’ Titanic
14. A film you'd recommend to watch on Valentine's Day?
14. A film you'd recommend to watch on Valentine's Day?
You might as well join in, go on! What's the move's that get in you in the mood for love?
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Are you serious ?
ReplyDeleteIncredibly serious.
ReplyDeleteA Lot of love to Titanic man!! heheh
ReplyDeleteI like this meme, wish I had seen it and had a go. Ah well good effort dude
What can I say, I genuinely love Titanic! I know it has faults but real love means loving something despite this! It's not too late Scott, go for it!
DeleteGood choices.
ReplyDeleteThanks Robert!
DeleteThanks for doing the meme! Good to know someone else likes "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for writing it! Was very fun! And let's keep the Aerosmith thing our secret!
DeleteNumber 9 had me laughing my ass off. I'll see you in hell, Johnny!
ReplyDeleteIt's so good isn't it? There's a 5 minute definitive version on Youtube which is even better but I couldn't embed it so go check it out!
DeleteWhat an entertaining post, Pete. Man, you really love Titanic, eh? I liked it the first few times I saw it, but I feel like I'm beginning to outgrow it.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm laughing about you liking Bragelina. It just cracks me up.
I liked the set-up of this post. Very appropriate for Valentine's day. Now go watch Titanic.
I do I'm really serious! Titanic rocks. Even if you can't stand the love story, you've got 40 mins to an hour of full-on action set during an epic real-life tragedy! Sounds a bit sick what I say like that. Love Brangelina. Two of the sexiest people on the planet. They make my heart bleed.
DeleteI'm holding off for Titanic 3D to see it again on the big screen! I'll NEVER outgrow it!!!! haha
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