I haven't seen half those movies but I will say this-- A Perfect Couple was a total crapfest and it was the first movie I actually walked out on and asked for my money back. Even my date hated it.

/Terrible music too
//Musician

The Shop Around the corner wasn't schmaltzy? How'd they figure that? It may not have quite as much as its remake (You've got Mail) but it's still pretty high on it. Just because it has a tsundere female love interest doesn't mean it's not soppy.

/yeah I used tsundere in a non-Japanese context

Seen three of 'em, liked too and have none to recommend be added to the list. I'm such a romantic.

Actually, I love 'Love, Actually'

Jules and Jim is one of those movies I saw too young. I didn't get it. I watched it again later and now it's one of my favorites.

How about '10 things I hate about You'?

Only smaltzy bit is the poem but other than that it's pretty decent. Only 'bet' romantic comedy I can stomach

What, no "L.A. Story"? Feh!

I personally thought "40 Days and 40 Nights" was a good romantic comedy. Good for dates..it's silly and stupid in premise, but it's got some funny moments that can appeal to both sexes and it keeps a very sexual undertone for dates.

I'm so tired of seeing Brokeback mountain on these "good movie" list. It is a horrible movie. oh look at us we are gay cowboy who cheat on our wives. why is it that hollywood feels a movie in which someone cheats on their wife is okay?

some good movies on the list. I would add Danny Deckchair and Kinky Boots to the list

Waldo Pepper: I'm so tired of seeing Brokeback mountain on these "good movie" list. It is a horrible movie. oh look at us we are gay cowboy who cheat on our wives. why is it that hollywood feels a movie in which someone cheats on their wife is okay?

some good movies on the list. I would add Danny Deckchair and Kinky Boots to the list
good to know you're not the only one that missed the point of the movie, you loveless puritan.

No Amelie?

Other than that a good list (based on the few movie there that I have seen).

I'm also glad to see Say Anything on there.

If by "hipsters" subby means "pretentious film snobs"...

uptonogood: Waldo Pepper: I'm so tired of seeing Brokeback mountain on these "good movie" list. It is a horrible movie. oh look at us we are gay cowboy who cheat on our wives. why is it that hollywood feels a movie in which someone cheats on their wife is okay?

some good movies on the list. I would add Danny Deckchair and Kinky Boots to the list
good to know you're not the only one that missed the point of the movie, you loveless puritan.

what to further promote the hollywood gay agenda to everyone. It is not a great movie and should have never won the Oscar.

Just have to come in and say that "Before Sunrise" was one of my all time favorite movies when I was a teenager. That movie alone made me want to fall in love with the next scruffy looking dude walking down the street. Now that I'm older and married, the sequel "Before Sunset" also really hit close to home. No romance movie has ever been more real to me, IMO.

/end swoon.

See My Az Go: Just have to come in and say that "Before Sunrise" was one of my all time favorite movies when I was a teenager. That movie alone made me want to fall in love with the next scruffy looking dude walking down the street. Now that I'm older and married, the sequel "Before Sunset" also really hit close to home. No romance movie has ever been more real to me, IMO.

/end swoon.

Does this mean i can come over to your house and listen to Nina Simone?

/one of the hottest scenes ever, in any movie

See My Az Go: Now that I'm older and married, the sequel "Before Sunset" also really hit close to home.

Hopefully for you and your hubby, if you have kids, this never hits home:

"It's like we're two friends who are running a daycare together."

(When you feel that happening, run, don't walk, to couples counselling, is my only advice).

towatchoverme:
Does this mean i can come over to your house and listen to Nina Simone?

/one of the hottest scenes ever, in any movie

Agreed...and yes.

towatchoverme:
Hopefully for you and your hubby, if you have kids, this never hits home

"It's like we're two friends who are running a daycare together.":


Yeah...I was married to someone else before I met my current husband. But I agreed with this sentiment. Not to be all schmaltzy or girly, but when I fell in love with my husband, was when we stayed up all hours of the night just talking about everything...and nothing. So yeah, I definitely have a special fondness for this movie.

/Hubby is a huge Linklater fan, but prefers "Waking Life" over everything else.

I got my hardened action stuff blowing up movie loving boyfriend to watch Love Actually w/ me over the holidays. He liked that one...

/He also confessed to me that Eternal Sunshine... is the most perfect date movie ever

Fano: Isn't love actually the one with hugh grant cheating on his wife and getting busted? along with about 3 other depressing stories?

It's a series of interlocking love stories. Some are sad while others are whimsical and endearing. There's Liam Nieson who's late wife leaves him w/ a love sick step-son, or Hugh Grant playing the Prime Minister who falls in love w/ his secretary. Alan Rickman who struggles w/ a dilemma to having an affair or stay loyal to wife Emma Thompsan. Some horn,y unlucky in love Brit who flies to the US convinced that he'll land the love of his life on account of his cute accent, and Colin Firth who over comes something as silly as a language barrier to marry the girl of his dreams.

It's a really really really sad movie.

Ok, I finally read the list. Disappointed that Amelie Love Actually aren't represented. I would like to highlight my personal faves that were mentioned though along w/ my Netflix rating.

Once 5 stars
Roxanne 4 stars
Roman Holiday 5 stars
West Side Story 5 stars
and my all time favorite Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 6 stars

Fever Pitch really wasn't a bad movie at all, at least up until the end where they actually try to tie the movie into the events of the Red Sox making the comeback. But, for a Farrelly brothers movie, I found it tolerable, which is more than I can say for anything else they ever did.

No True Romance = crappy list

romantic movies even the AV Club can get behind

Rear Admiral?

ahem...

the princess bride anyone?

Fano: Yea, I remembered the cute story with the guy holding up cue cards for the girl expressing his love. The movie was depressing to me.

Love sucks. Why else would poets and songwriters still be in business thousands of years later?

Waldo Pepper: I'm so tired of seeing Brokeback mountain on these "good movie" list. It is a horrible movie. oh look at us we are gay cowboy who cheat on our wives. why is it that hollywood feels a movie in which someone cheats on their wife is okay?

Of the one's I recall seeing:

Say Anything - Yes, it should be right up there.

Brokeback Mountain - Neither the woman or I could get into this film at all. Really disappointed.

Sideways - Good movie and all, but not a great love movie to me.

Wall-E - Just saw this Friday night. Absolutely hated it.


Not on the list, but should be:

PS, I love you. - I don't know what it was, but I actually enjoyed that movie.

/Will be turning in my penis on my way out
//Gotta get ready for my soaps today too.

Princess Bride, Garden State, Nick and Norah's infinite playlist.

One more, Me and You and Everyone We Know

The Philadelphia Story should replace Romeo and Juliet, there.

You're slipping, Red.

Fano: Apparently hipsters don't care about people with eyes as blue as the sea after a storm.

While watching the movie in the theatre (yeah, off my damn lawn), my then-g-friend leans over and whispers to me:

"And you have eyes as brown as a field after a cow."

Spat my New Coke over the next two rows.

Shakespeare in Love.

Sucketh it, haters.

Mugato: What about Splendor in the Ass (1986)?

incredible it took this long for such a reference. maybe there's hope after all?

When Harry Met Sally... one of my favorites.

"You made a woman meow?"

Bull Durham. A romantic comedy disguised as a baseball movie. What could be better?

I don't recall Sideways being a love story, but I don't remember anything about it.

I_Approve_Of_This_Message: Bull Durham. A romantic comedy disguised as a baseball movie. What could be better?

A romantic comedy disguised like a football movie. Like the original and the book.