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Kaylynn44
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 Posted - February 13 2005 : 11:39:34 PM
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In honor of Valentine's Day, let's have a poll and see what everybody's favorite romance movies are. 
We all know that LOTM is the #1 romance movie,  but after LOTM, what would your pick be?
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 08:39:07 AM
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Definitely "Pride and Prejudice"! I can watch that repeatedly and melt every time D'arcy gazes at Miss Elizabeth Bennett.
A new movie version is to begin filming this summer starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth. Hmmmmmmm... I will definitely be going to see this, but am wondering how Ms. Knightley will tame her sexy smoldering looks into the proper, gently dignified, Regency-era Miss Bennett. I am also concerned about how the movie-makers will pare down a superb story into a shortened 2-hour version... without ruining it. Remains to be seen. |
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 09:10:43 AM
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R&J if you are talking about the 1968 version by Franco Zeffirelli. Just can't beat Will Shakespeare as a playwright. Only love story he wrote that was better was Macbeth. I mean, Lord Macbeth did love Lady Macbeth, didn't he?
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 09:35:36 AM
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WW,
I love Pride and Prejudice too, but then I love all of the movies on the list. That is why I had to list them alphabetically, because I couldn't decide which movie I loved most!!! I didn't know that they were coming out with a new P&P movie. I will have to watch it, but I don't think that anyone will be able to play Darcy like Colin Firth!!! Who is playing Darcy in this movie?
Fitz,
Yes, I was talking about the 1968 version with Olivia Hussey. I had forgotten about the newer version which would have to be in the "worst movies" category!!!
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 10:06:55 AM
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| And speaking of Shakespeare, "Shakespeare In Love" was on this weekend. Fiennes and Paltrow. That should be on your list, too. |
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 10:36:09 AM
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Besides LOTM ?
I would have to say Lady Jane (1986) with Helena Bonham Carter as Lady Jane Grey and Cary Elwes as Guilford Dudley. Highly recommend for your Valentines Day viewing! (After LOTM, of course!) |
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 12:48:49 PM
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Kay, Mr. D'arcy is being played by Matthew McFadyen, who I have never heard of. Here's a photo. To me, he's no Colin Firth. What do you think?
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 1:08:54 PM
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Fitz,
I have never seen "Shakespeare In Love" which is odd, because I thought that I had seen almost all of Ralph Fiennes movies. Will have to put that one on my "movies to watch" list.
Caitlin,
I haven't seen Lady Jane either, but if it is a good romance movie, then I will hunt it up too!!!
WW,
Matthew McFayden looks okay, but like you said, he is no Colin Firth!!! I will still probably watch it though. 
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 1:36:38 PM
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Originally posted by Kaylynn44
Fitz,
I have never seen "Shakespeare In Love" which is odd, because I thought that I had seen almost all of Ralph Fiennes movies. Will have to put that one on my "movies to watch" list.
Caitlin,
I haven't seen Lady Jane either, but if it is a good romance movie, then I will hunt it up too!!!
WW,
Matthew McFayden looks okay, but like you said, he is no Colin Firth!!! I will still probably watch it though.
Love,
Kay
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 2:05:36 PM
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I'm with you on Pride and Prejudice!!! Being 6 hours long, I can't watch it just whenever, so I will pick cold or rainy weekend day and make a day of it! THe VHS version picture quality is SO much better than the DVD (go figure), so I tolerate the cassette changing to have the more fibrant color. Colin Firth is the king of smouldering eyes. He can run through every emotion without ever moving a facial muscle! <Need a swoon smiley with hand on fainting forehead here> I swear he can make his eye sparkle on command!
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 2:50:14 PM
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Chocolat. An endearing performance by Johnny Depp and scene after scene of chocolate delicacies. See also, Like Water for Chocolate. Steamy sex AND chocolate.
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 5:16:14 PM
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| I am a huge Jane Austen fan so I must vote for "Pride and Prejudice", although if "Sense and Sensibility" had been on the ballot, I would have chosen that as my favorite. |
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 10:28:37 PM
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Be warned, have a huge box of tissues... you will need them!
Caitlin,
With all of the tear jerkers that I watch,  I keep plenty of tissues close by!!!
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 10:37:16 PM
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Colin Firth is the king of smouldering eyes. He can run through every emotion without ever moving a facial muscle! <Need a swoon smiley with hand on fainting forehead here> I swear he can make his eye sparkle on command!
GG,
I agree wholeheartedly. I love just watching his eyes!!! This is the best that I can do for you about swooning. The picture below is Colin Firth and our very own GG.
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 10:43:07 PM
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Chocolat. An endearing performance by Johnny Depp and scene after scene of chocolate delicacies. See also, Like Water for Chocolate. Steamy sex AND chocolate.
I sense a pattern here...
Ann,
Yes, I sense a pattern too. Just as long as you don't add Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Love,
Kay
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 10:57:35 PM
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I am a huge Jane Austen fan so I must vote for "Pride and Prejudice", although if "Sense and Sensibility" had been on the ballot, I would have chosen that as my favorite.
Carter,
Sense and Sensibilty was good, but I preferred Pride and Prejudice. I wonder if it has anything to do with a guy that can make ladies swoon just by the look in his eye.
Really, any of Jane's works are brilliant!!! I love them all!!!
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Posted - February 14 2005 : 11:15:20 PM
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GG,
I agree wholeheartedly. I love just watching his eyes!!! This is the best that I can do for you about swooning. The picture below is Colin Firth and our very own GG.
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Has anyone ever seen "Murphy's Romance"? I really like this one. It stars Sally Field and James Garner, in a May-December, unlikely-couple romance. Really cute!
Another one I enjoy watching is "While You Were Sleeping." This stars Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman. |
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Posted - February 17 2005 : 11:29:17 AM
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WW,
I have never seen "Murphy's Romance", but I have seen "While you Were Sleeping" and I really liked it!!! I love comedy romance almost as much as I do the tear jerking romance films.
Another one of my favorites that I just saw yesterday for the umpteenth times is "Jane Eyre." I should have put that one on the list too!!!
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I'm not really a 'romance' movie watcher. Howsever, my most favourite HAS GOT TO BE 'Wuthering Heights'! I just LOVE the psychological dynamics of the characters and surely, when you consider all the things that Heathcliff did for love of Cathy, can that depth of passion be equalled??
My second favourite would be 'The English Patient'... there was such a dream-like quality to it that had me entranced. I just LOVED the story and, of course, I just LOVED the location where the film was set. (I have to admit to being in love with Middle Eastern scenery and a lot of it's culture (though I recognise and dislike it's bad points too).) Tunisia is beautiful and I had a wonderful time there and in Morocco, where it was filmed.
One of my favourite 'Colin Firth' roles was in the movie 'Tumbledown'. That certainly wasn't his most handsome rôle (note I have learned how to put a circomeflex in!! Yay!!  ) but his portrayal of his character was just amazing!
I guess I'm just more into the mysteries of why someone feels as they do toward another, and where those feelings take him, than 'how long it takes him to get the girl'...
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Posted - February 19 2005 : 8:29:44 PM
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Fitz,
I have never seen "Shakespeare In Love" which is odd, because I thought that I had seen almost all of Ralph Fiennes movies. Will have to put that one on my "movies to watch" list.
Because it's his brother Joseph who is in Shakespear in Love. :) It's still very worth seeing.
I didn't vote because none of those listed stirred the romantic side of me enough. Shakespeare in Love, Ever After, LOTM of course, and a few others do though. I *hated* The English Patient.
If anyone has watched MI-5 (aka Spooks in the UK), Matthew MacFadyen used to be on there as a main character.
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Posted - February 19 2005 : 9:52:31 PM
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Because it's his brother Joseph who is in Shakespear in Love. :) It's still very worth seeing.
AHA!!! That is why I haven't seen it then, but I am going to have to watch it, even if it doesn't have Ralph in it.
Hated "The English Patient"??? Say it isn't so!!! It has Ralph Fiennes and Colin Firth in it!!! I just love Juliette Binoche too. Not the same way that I love Ralph and Colin, but you know what I mean.
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Posted - February 20 2005 : 7:12:40 PM
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| Aye, sorry, I just couldn't get into TEP. I'm not a big fan of Ralph, either...but Joseph is droolworthy. :D |
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Whip me with a wet noodle, but I couldn't get into TEP either. I've never been able to sit all the way through it...don't quite know why, but it's just one of those movies.
I'm actually not that big a romance fan but the other week I found myself entranced by "Kate and Leopold" , the Meg Ryan-Hugh Jackman flick where he's the 19th century duke teleported into 1990s Manhattan. I'm not a big Meg Ryan fan but Hugh Jackman is MEGA DROOLWORTHY. And there's a scene where he rides a horse through Grand Central Park to get her purse from a mugger...I don't know why, but I just found the whole movie charming. |
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| I agree about "Sense and Sensibility" - but I was wondering what version of "Pride and Prejudice" you all are talking about? Mine was a PBS version and it's about 3 hrs - doesn't have the above D'Arcy. Thanks |
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OK, Ladies... get those drool-cloths out!
We are referring to the 1995 A & E production of "Pride." And here is Mr. D'arcy, as played by Colin Firth.
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