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'Romantic' films that you don't find at all romantic...

FalseHeartDothKnow

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Are there any so called romantic films that you don't find romantic at all? Here's your chance to rant.

Sorry in advance to anyone who loves these films, I really don't want to offend you :)

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The Piano: Even though Michael Nyman's score is wonderful, if Harvey Keitel dared to even try perving on me, and trying to make me win back my one cherished posession through sexual favours, I swear to God, no matter how heavy it was, I would pick up my piano and smash it over his head. It'd do more damage to his head than it would my piano, and I would still be able to play it. I definitely would not fall in love with the guy, move to a lovely little cottage and begin learning to speak...(I might have learnt to do that for my little girl, who I left outside his house in the pouring rain whilst I went to have sex with some guy who I kinda just met.)
 

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Haha! I can't agree with you more about that movie. I spent most of it going "Okay, am I a prude or is this friggin' movie just plain skeev-tastic?".

Most movies with the word 'romantic' in the description make me want to gouge my eyeballs and ear canals with a fork to the point I rarely bother with them anymore.

When I was 17 a friend forced me to watch "Love Story" and I was throwing my hands up throughout that entire film. She kept saying "But wait, watch this next part!" - like suddenly I was going to change my mind and adore it. I just wanted to shake the crap out of her like "Don't you understand what a cloying piece of s*** this movie is!??!?!?".

I've gotten harassed for my opinion of that movie, cries of 'sacrilege!' and all, but I don't care. That movie hurts my soul.
 

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I rarely find movies romantic, I don't even find most romcoms romantic. The movie I thought was the most romantic I've ever seen, was Sweeney Todd, and that was a musical/thriller. I mean, killing tons of innocent people as a revenge for your wife's rape and death, isn't that just romantic? But that's my weird feeling for romance.
 

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Most of those type of movies don't work for me on a romance level.. but I might like the actors and chemistry and total storyline.. Roman Holiday, for example. Which doesn't end on a romantic note anyways.

Knight's Tale is awesome. Kind of romantic. I don't know if I'm sappy about his badass jousting or him getting the girl. :thinking:
 

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Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Some women find it charming but I call it for the tripe it is.
 

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sigh.. I liked the Notebook.

In fact, I teared up towards the end... When he was an old guy (James Garner). Those parts were the better parts of the film. How much of that is romantic is hard to say.. the part that got me is when she freaked out on him, and slipped back into her Alzheimer's/dementia.. and the guy just wouldn't give up on her. How can you hate that?
 

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I hate "Pretty Woman". I thought it was incredibly stupid. Ok, some highly educated woman is going to shop for johns on street corners? Seriously? The writers treat Richard Gere as if he's some sort of cavalier or something, but a cavalier would never have touched her. He feels free to have sex with her because he paid for it, but OH NOES! I'm falling in lovez?!

No way. Just. No way.
 

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As an ENFJ, I thought you'd be inclined to rescue strays all the time. That movie seems perfect for your type :p
 

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Most of the stuff they've been coming out with lately. It's as if movies are just getting worse and worse and the romantic ones are becoming too cheesy to bare
 

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As an ENFJ, I thought you'd be inclined to rescue strays all the time. That movie seems perfect for your type :p

There has to be a sincerity or genuineness about it though. Like I really enjoyed that John Cusack movie where he adopted a little boy who thought he was from Mars. Not romantic, but very redemptive. There's nothing redemptive about "Pretty Woman". She was slumming and he was opportunistic. Yay?

I found the part in "Mad Max" where Goose is carefully retrieving a frightened and violated woman from a derelict car to be WAY more cavalier and moving.

For romance, give me "Mrs. Brown" any day.
 

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Martian Child.. yeah, great movie.

Point taken though :)

Speaking of Cusack, I can't seem to hate any romantic comedy he's in. He kind of makes them cool...even the ridiculous ones (like Serendipty.. Kate Beckinsale's character is far too cruel).
 

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The notebook.

Eurgh. I'm wretching just thinking about it.

That is all.

Yes, that movie is nausea-inducing :sick:

Speaking of Cusack, I can't seem to hate any romantic comedy he's in. He kind of makes them cool...even the ridiculous ones (like Serendipty.. Kate Beckinsale's character is far too cruel).

So true...so true. "Grosse Pointe Blanke" is such a romantic movie. Professional killer returns to win back his high school sweetheart :wubbie:


I watched "The Way We Were" because my mom told me it was a great romantic movie....I HATED it. I just saw Barbara Streisand as this annoying woman desperately clinging to a guy too good-looking for her.
 
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sigh.. I liked the Notebook.

In fact, I teared up towards the end... When he was an old guy (James Garner). Those parts were the better parts of the film. How much of that is romantic is hard to say.. the part that got me is when she freaked out on him, and slipped back into her Alzheimer's/dementia.. and the guy just wouldn't give up on her. How can you hate that?

Ya I cried too. Mostly cause I have a fear of getting Alzheimer's when I'm old and wrinkly, which would mean I would lose my memories, they are probably the most important thing to me. I also know how it feels to have a family that won't accept someone you love just because they are different. So I empathized with the characters, something I never usually do. :blush:
Basically, the movie spoke to me, on multiple levels.
 
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There has to be a sincerity or genuineness about it though. Like I really enjoyed that John Cusack movie where he adopted a little boy who thought he was from Mars. Not romantic, but very redemptive. There's nothing redemptive about "Pretty Woman". She was slumming and he was opportunistic. Yay?

I found the part in "Mad Max" where Goose is carefully retrieving a frightened and violated woman from a derelict car to be WAY more cavalier and moving.


For romance, give me "Mrs. Brown" any day.

that reminds me of the scene from CRASH. I actually found that scene really touching and sad; which is weird, considering it was the same cop who "violated her" in front of her husband the night before. O_O
 
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I see right through romantic movies! Never cry. You'll have to get me when I least expect it
 
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I see right through romantic movies! Never cry. You'll have to get me when I least expect it

THATS what I used to think. Until I watched The Classic(korean movie)

Motha effin director/writer needs to be squeezed with my bare hands, until he cries the amount I cried.

ps: notebook doesn't count, I was like in highscool, and totally in love with someone I couldn't have!!!! >: /
 

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Well, English Patient was a complete snoozer for me :)
 
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