posted August 23, 2014 06:10 PM            

Even romantic films which I like I rarely feel moved by the romance itself. A light hearted film I quite like is the break up with Jennifer Anniston and Vincent vaughn because again it's lots of games which ultimately are stripped back to a purity

posted August 23, 2014 10:48 PM            

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Originally posted by hannaramaa:
*dreamy*... but also seems draining...

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The Notebook?

I get what you mean. But what I love is that not only was the passion there between them, but true commitment. Their relationship was tons of fun yet they had an unbreakable BOND. *That* is what I dream of!

posted August 23, 2014 11:10 PM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
The Last Unicorn was romantic enough that I was worried boys wouldn't like it (I did some babysitting jobs)...though they did and even a "macho leaning guy" calls it a timeless classic that he'll still watch. They'd even sit spellbound through this song (That's All I've Got to Say):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQfhJBt0Wyk

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One thing that's cool about "The Last Unicorn" is the writer.

I mean, when I was a kid, poring through my Uncle's Tolkien Box Set, I still remember that name.

The Preface to one of them.

It was something about seeing "Frodo Lives" on the walls...

Anyway, it was Peter S. Beagle, and he signed it from the very hometown I was reading it in.

When my kids would play "The Last Unicorn" nonstop, it was a real eye-opener when I saw his name...

(Watsonville is a Very small town)

posted August 23, 2014 11:17 PM            

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Preface

It's been fifteen years at this writing since I first came across THE LORD OF THE RINGS in the stacks at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh. I'd been looking for the book for four years, ever since reading W. H. Auden's review in the New York Times. I think of that time now—and the years after, when the trilogy continued to be hard to find and hard to explain to most friends—with an undeniable nostalgia. It was a barren era for fantasy, among other things, but a good time for cherishing slighted treasures and mysterious passwords. Long before Frodo Lives! began to appear in the New York subways, J. R. R. Tolkien was the magus of my secret knowledge.
I've never thought it an accident that Tolkien's works waited more than ten years to explode into popularity almost overnight. The Sixties were no fouler a decade than the Fifties—they merely reaped the Fifties' foul harvest—but they were the years when millions of people grew aware that the industrial society had become paradoxically unlivable, incalculably immoral, and ultimately deadly. In terms of passwords, the Sixties were the time when the word progress lost its ancient holiness, and escape stopped being comically obscene. The impulse is being called reactionary now, but lovers of Middle-earth want to go there. I would myself, like a shot.
For in the end it is Middle-earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien's considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers—thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

—Peter S. Beagle
Watsonville, California
14 July 1973

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posted August 23, 2014 11:26 PM            

Same time I read "Gone With the Wind," actually.

posted August 24, 2014 01:46 AM            

@ 2:20 mark - "I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore" www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3aOrgrGEwg

"You're my personal brand of heroin"?? O M G!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9o8m1ABAGY

posted August 24, 2014 02:01 AM            

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Originally posted by Geeky:
Venus in Scorpio - H3

My favs:

Can't Buy Me Love
The Notebook
Moonstruck
It Could Happen To You
You've Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle
Titanic
City of Angels
The Proposal
Meet Joe Black
Ever After
Shakespeare In Love
Great Expectations
Excess Baggage
Sweet Home Alabama

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Yes Lady!

posted August 24, 2014 02:11 AM              

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Originally posted by Swift Freeze:
I would recommend Sliding Doors, and particularly Lost in Translation. I think those two would fit your style.

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posted August 24, 2014 03:08 AM            

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Originally posted by LovelyAries86:
Please watch!

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Actually, Edward Cullen creeps me out. After I read Twilight I actually had a nightmare that he was obsessed with me instead of Bella, and it was worse than any of my other vampire nightmares (granted, I didn't wake up terrified from the Edward Cullen one as I did many vampire ones, it was more like Edward was a psycho-stalker with super powers rather than "demon using a corpse" as vampires in my nightmares often are). And just the way he treated Bella, like a parent to a child (taking away her keys as punishment, for example, or just entering her room which really not even her own father should do)...no way could anyone treat me in that way and be considered a romantic figure, I'd actually loathe them. (In my nightmare I got frustrated with being unable to kill or escape him and was thinking of killing myself.)

I'm not surprised that most of the men who love the series were felons in prison.

There were a couple of vampires that I could see in sort of a parental role as they weren't too intense about it (the "head" who was a doctor and also the one who could see the future) but even then it wouldn't be sexy to me. And I'd probably resent it unless they were protecting me from other vampires (like say Edward...)

posted August 24, 2014 04:19 AM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:

Actually, Edward Cullen creeps me out. After I read Twilight I actually had a nightmare that he was obsessed with me instead of Bella, and it was worse than any of my other vampire nightmares (granted, I didn't wake up terrified from the Edward Cullen one as I did many vampire ones, it was more like Edward was a psycho-stalker with super powers rather than "demon using a corpse" as vampires in my nightmares often are).

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This totally made me giggle! To each their own.

On a side note...I'm actually much more attracted to Jacob (Taylor Lautner) than Edward. But those two lines Edward dropped...gave me tingles it was so hot. Yesss!

posted August 24, 2014 04:20 AM            

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Originally posted by LovelyAries86:
And here's another favorite of mine. Please watch!

@ 2:20 mark - "I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore" www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3aOrgrGEwg

"You're my personal brand of heroin"?? O M G!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9o8m1ABAGY

This is ittt for me. So sexy on every level...my Venus in the 8th *loves* this.

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+1

As hokey as the Twilight series is, I was swept up in the romance (obsession) of it. I won't lie.

posted August 24, 2014 04:57 AM            

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+1

As hokey as the Twilight series is, I was swept up in the romance (obsession) of it. I won't lie.

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posted August 24, 2014 09:49 AM            

Idk about the house+sign placement but I hate romantic movies that centre around domesticity/materialism or God forbid pregnancy (which goes directly against my Taurus Venus LMAO).

posted August 24, 2014 12:13 PM            

And a lot I don't remember.

The next one which would fit in to my favorite ones, I guess would be Fifty Shades

But this would be too mainstream..

I like rough and strong love, with lots of passionate scenes, but never forgetting a part of love. The movies with sad and crazy and super strong passionate love make the best impressions for me.

Venus in Leo in 11th.
I would mention my 8th in Aries too, for I like rough passionate scenes.

posted August 24, 2014 12:24 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
Here, I found it.

[QUOTE]Preface

It's been fifteen years at this writing since I first came across THE LORD OF THE RINGS in the stacks at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh. I'd been looking for the book for four years, ever since reading W. H. Auden's review in the New York Times. I think of that time now—and the years after, when the trilogy continued to be hard to find and hard to explain to most friends—with an undeniable nostalgia. It was a barren era for fantasy, among other things, but a good time for cherishing slighted treasures and mysterious passwords. Long before Frodo Lives! began to appear in the New York subways, J. R. R. Tolkien was the magus of my secret knowledge.
I've never thought it an accident that Tolkien's works waited more than ten years to explode into popularity almost overnight. The Sixties were no fouler a decade than the Fifties—they merely reaped the Fifties' foul harvest—but they were the years when millions of people grew aware that the industrial society had become paradoxically unlivable, incalculably immoral, and ultimately deadly. In terms of passwords, the Sixties were the time when the word progress lost its ancient holiness, and escape stopped being comically obscene. The impulse is being called reactionary now, but lovers of Middle-earth want to go there. I would myself, like a shot.
For in the end it is Middle-earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien's considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers—thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

—Peter S. Beagle
Watsonville, California
14 July 1973

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posted August 24, 2014 01:03 PM            

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Originally posted by fireopal09:
Practical Magic, Love Actually,Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragonn. Saggi Venus conjunct Scorpio IC, sextile Pluto, conjunct Neptune, sextile Jupiter.

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OH MY GOD, LOVE ACTUALLY!
How could I forget one of my favourite movies ever!!

posted August 24, 2014 01:18 PM              

I usually dislike romantic films because they're all so IDEALIZED. They just depict love as this really grand, magical, spectacular event.

BUT, my favorite film of all time is actually a romance, at heart: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. One reason why I really love this film is because it displays all the simple nuances of romance, instead of making it a fairytale. It shows the imperfections and arguments, the moments of happiness and understanding, and everything in-between.

It doesn't idealize it. Even Clementine has that famous monologue: (paraphrasing) "Guys think I'm going to save them or complete them or something. I'm just a f**ked up girl looking for her own piece of mind. Don't assign me yours." I really love that.

And analyzing why I love this movie makes me realize that there is something to this theory. Because everything I just wrote is SO Venus in Virgo (my Venus placement, in the 8th house). Kate Winslet, by the way, plays Clementine in the film, for those who don't know, and also has Virgo Venus.

posted August 24, 2014 02:06 PM            

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Originally posted by the89freespirit:
"Guys think I'm going to save them or complete them or something. I'm just a f**ked up girl looking for her own piece of mind. Don't assign me yours."

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posted August 24, 2014 03:10 PM            

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Originally posted by the89freespirit:
Ugh, this topic is making me throw up a bit in my mouth, especially those GIFs from The Notebook. lol, no offense anyone.

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Oh boooo! LOL

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Originally posted by whaaat:

Titanic, Romeo+Juliet, Hercules (Disney). Self sacrifice, complete devotion body and soul...All the Pluto issues basically.

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Originally posted by AquaTheMassaquoi:

I like rough and strong love, with lots of passionate scenes, but never forgetting a part of love. The movies with sad and crazy and super strong passionate love make the best impressions for me.

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Yesss

posted August 24, 2014 04:20 PM            

I find it hard to sit through romantic movies. I can only watch comedies, action, and sci fi.

posted November 28, 2020 04:12 PM            

for me, it has to hurt.
If the movies doesnt hurt me and make me cry and question everything i knew about love its not making my list. I also love complex love movies with many layers. ..here are a couple of my favorites:

The Lover
Nine
Jane Eyre (2011)
Romeo and Juliet (both 60's and 90s)
Unfaithful
Flashdance
Original Sin