posted March 14, 2008 05:00 AM            

These lines from the movie stuck with me...

Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: [pauses] Okay.

I liked the maturity of it and the acceptance that no relationship will be perfect b/c we carry our imperfections inside us. Well, they're not so much imperfections as our own quirks that make maintaining relationships challenging.

posted March 14, 2008 03:17 PM              

quote:

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I wanted to add this a while ago, but forgot to do so. It's from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Not really a romantic movie, but it is about love.

These lines from the movie stuck with me...

Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: [pauses] Okay.

I liked the maturity of it and the acceptance that no relationship will be perfect b/c we carry our imperfections inside us. Well, they're not so much imperfections as our own quirks that make maintaining relationships challenging.

But the uplifting thing is that we can accept those parts of ourselves and still love another even when we have those traits. We don't have to be perfect people to love, although I do think being loving helps us become better people.

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posted March 14, 2008 10:09 PM            

Wedding Date with Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney...I like that he teaches her to stop running away from a perfectly good relationship

French Kiss - one of my top 5 favorite movies

Pride & Prejudice - The A&E version will always be my #1 favorite version; the recent remake with Keira Knightley is okay, but not as good.

Love Affair with Annette Benning & Warren Beatty
Bridget Jones's Diary "I like you just the way you are"
Under The Tuscan Sun - it has romance, but I like how some of life's truths are woven throughout this movie. My girlfriend Mitzi didn't think it had a 'happy ending' but I definitely think this movie teaches us to make it through the tough times and the ending is more realistic about how life is.
Chocolat
Ever After
Notting Hill
You've Got Mail
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pretty Woman
Gone With The Wind

posted March 21, 2008 05:49 AM            

Some lines stuck with me. They're not romantic lines in the conventional sense, but they're honest and real and to me, that's romantic. (Venus in Cap. )

I'm going by memory, so I'm probably not quoting this verbatim. If anyone knows the lines, please correct me.

Dan: It was the moment of my life.
Alice: This is the moment of your life.
Dan: You were a vision.
Alice: I still am.

Larry: What do you have to do to get some intimacy around here?!
Alice: Maybe next time I'll have worked on my intimacy.

Some other good ones...

Dan: I fell in love.
Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There's a moment, there's always a moment, "I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it", and I don't know when your moment was, but I bet you there was one.

Alice: Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words.

LTT- If you haven't seen it yet, ESotSM is an excellent movie.

posted March 28, 2008 03:49 PM              

Do you love him Lorena?
Oh Ma, I love him somethin awful.
That's too bad.

I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either. But love don't make things nice, it ruins everything, it breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We're not here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. We are here to ruin ourselves and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die! The storybooks are bull**** .

Someday you'll drop dead and I'll come to your funeral in a red dress! (My personal fave)

And finally, one that actually flew out of my mouth while arguing with my ex 4 years after our divorce:

What's the matter with you? I mean, you think you're the only one to ever shed a tear?

posted March 30, 2008 05:05 PM              

of course it was YOU, who had to mention "Closer".
It was the movie that started my whole Jude-Law-madness.
Not becuase I particularly liked it or him, but because it and he just didn`t leave my mind afterwards, no matter how I tried.
Still trying. And it`s been 3 years, that I have seen that film. Maybe I should just give up.

"Dan: I fell in love.
Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There's a moment, there's always a moment, "I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it", and I don't know when your moment was, but I bet you there was one.

Alice: Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words. "

I love these quotes, well not really love them, but they strike a chord within me, mostly a painful one. lol
I also loved the quote: "Dan: I hate hurting you. Alice: Then why are you?"

And something else from another film(s) got stuck within my mind somehow.

"You are attracted to me, aren`t you??"
Don`t ask me, why this one. Maybe the way he looks there, or t he way he sais it. Dunno.

"This kiss which I kissed every day on my walk."

*Deep sigh*
I`ve seen far too many films, I guess.

posted March 31, 2008 04:23 AM            

Why is it such an addictive movie?
You don't want to be any of them and yet I find myself riveted and repulsed at the same time.
Watch it every single time it's on. Bizarre!

posted March 31, 2008 04:25 PM            

Hmmm... I watched Closer a long time ago and I have a vague feeling that I found something slightly worthwhile in it, but I don't remember what it is... I'll have to watch it again.
Oh, my mind is playing snippits of scenes in an apartment. Cheating is involved.. maybe by both people, oh, art gallery, yah, that weird guy Jude Law (hehe sorry girls) yes, creepy is a good word. It ends in a creepy way too I think. But there's a message about being true to your heart but making sure it isn't just momentary or something. Is that right?

posted April 01, 2008 06:59 AM            

I have no idea what message it tries to portray.

Never try and transpose a stage play onto a film without altering the dialogue?
I mean, who talks like that???

Vile people deserve one another?
We are all basically cheats and liars?

British people are weird and can't act?
Let's be honest the girls acted them off the screen.

And please! That bit were Julia has sex with husband so that he will sign divorce papers.
Has she never heard of 2 yrs separation?
Julia! Just say NO!

posted April 03, 2008 01:49 AM            

.

There is a place
you can touch a woman
that will drive her crazy...

...her heart.

posted April 04, 2008 08:24 PM              

Eternal Sunshine (was just a good film, anyway)

Legends of the Fall (just one I remember I need to see again)

Great Expectations (the version I read in high school, sorry not a movie...but it brought to life my take on relationships at the time, the way Pip struggled to improve himself so he'd be good enough for his love interest)

Meet Joe Black (the two in this movie had a good love, a good connection...one I think I'd wish for, and one I'm not sure I believe is possible)

quote:

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QUINCE
C'mon, have a drink. You look like
you need one bad as me.

JOE
Do I? I'm a little confused.

QUINCE
Confused, huh? About what?

JOE
Love.

QUINCE
'Love'? Oh, man, I've got troubles
of my own.

JOE
You love Allison, don't you?

QUINCE
Oh yes, I do.

JOE
How did you meet?

QUINCE
I was a world-class loser and she
was a happy, little rich girl --
and for some reason she took me in.

JOE
But she loves you?

Quince smiles, nods embarrassedly.

JOE (cont'd)
How do you know?

QUINCE
Because there's nothing we don't
know about each other and it's okay.
I mean the deeper, darkest secrets
-- they don't matter.

JOE
'The deepest, darkest secrets --'?

QUINCE
Yeah, it's like you know every inch
of each other's souls -- and then
you're free.

JOE
What do you mean 'free'?

QUINCE
Free to love each other. Com-
pletely. Totally. No fear."

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Swingers (the two who were smitten in this movie also had a good connection)

Smallville (again, not a movie, lol but the first two or three seasons of Clark and Lana, aka Clana...haha...they had great chemistry on this show!)

posted April 05, 2008 12:55 AM              

Ones I own:
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (I have a quote on my MySpace page: "I'm just a ****** up girl who's looking for her own peace of mind."
- The Wedding Singer
- Serendipity
- Say Anything
- Punch Drunk Love
- Moulin Rouge
- (believe it or not) Pay It Forward

and one I don't own that's one of the biggest tearjerkers of all: The Notebook

posted April 05, 2008 01:04 AM              

Your signature... from "Drops of Jupiter", right?

I used to hang out with Train. And, umm, kissed a couple of them. But was "in love" with the drummer. Kissed him three times.

It's hard to listen to their music at times, now.

posted April 05, 2008 01:17 AM            

Now, if anyone else said something to me and I forgot to reply, blame it on yinyang7 for bringing up kissing singers and guitarists and drummers 'n stuff. hmmm.... floating away in thought...

posted April 05, 2008 01:40 PM              

I felt a connection to it. And then, at the very end, it says, "For Dawn".

posted April 05, 2008 01:41 PM              

I felt a connection to it. And then, at the very end, it says, "For Dawn".

posted April 16, 2008 03:25 PM            

Here is the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H_fmBCS5tU&NR=1

I would post all of Morgan Freeman's character's quotes if the screenplay was available at this time, but it is not. The above trailer has a couple of the quotes I love.

posted April 21, 2010 09:57 PM            

Hope Floats
August Rush

The first one has been my favorite since I saw it LOL.. Oddly enough, both have Leo's in the starring role, although Harry Connick Jr (HF) is a Virgo and Keri Russell (AR) is an Aries. The shows just appeal to me because of the tragic start followed by a wonderful ending. I think all Saggies like when a movie has a positive ending.

posted April 22, 2010 07:41 AM            

Harry Connick Jr... mmmmmmm

posted April 22, 2010 09:08 AM            

From Waitress:

"Jenna: Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness in it. "