Oh romantic movies how am I a sucker for you…
Why is that?
I just love how the characters are introduced all strong willed with dreams and lots of issues. And I do love pairing them up in my mind and watching every step of their little dance of “i hate him- i sort of like him and (finally) I am madly and desperately in love with him” (although sometimes that is not the order and they don’t hate each other at the begging of the little dance).
I love how you can always tell when a romantic moment comes along and you need to hug the pillow, have some Kleenex nearby.
The music slows down, the lights diminish … everything slows down even the words that are coming out of the actors mouths seem to be in a time loop. And you just stand there gripping on every single moment and go all “awwwwwww”
You always know in the movies when something like that happens and you can enjoy every moment of it. You know who will end up with whom and the obvious “they lived happily ever after” (sure in some movies someone
the boy or girl got killed off till the end but not all romantic movies end with pink flowers everywhere).
In real life everything is trickier. There is no special recipe to help one in the quest for mind boggling romance. There might not be a Richard Gere coming to you’re rescue in a white limo like in Pretty Woman or a Noah that will build you a freaking house with a special room just for your passion and that will love you till the end even if , at the end, you don’t know who he is because of a disease like in The Notebook. Or the classical Romeo & Juliet where their love overcomes time and space.
Take the English Patient where Ralph Fiennes ( Count ….whatshisface) betrays his country and everything just to try to reach her only to find her dead in the dark and creepy cave. Sure they plane goes boom and his pretty face suffers but that is a good story with the pace of a classical novel that keeps you gripped in the the whole shebang till the very end.
If you can’t tell by now I am a hopeless romantic and I always watch them when I am sick.
I’ve just kicked my flue out of my system and re watched those movies while drinking a nice and warm cup of tea. They did quicken my recovery ![]()
Some watch Star wars some watch romantic movies.
I found a cute list here
and you could listen to this while you look that over
