This list would sure be hard for a cynic like me. But then there are days when I'm a die-hard romantic too! OK may be not days but minutes in a day, but it's better than being a rock right? And also given that romance is the easiest subjects of all to bring to life via any art form or medium this list should have been easy, except that it wasn't!
But I still would try, even if the list is only 5 films long I shall do it! So here we go:
First things first, here I had one winner right from the inception and that's my all-time favorite "That's how I want to grow old movie" : UP!
Every time I watch it, it makes my heart melt. The way they both have their spots reminds me so much of my grand-parents. Right when we entered their house there were two sofas, right was grand-ma's and left was grand-pa's (or was it the other way round? It's been so long..) and not a day went by when they didn't fight about some nothing or the other. My grand father never liked to sit idle, he was always up to some experiment: culinary, workmanship, handyman-types. And every memory of mine contains my grand father being scolded for getting it wrong, they were sure hilarious! They never needed anybody else, they were so busy among each other.. I still remember how sad my grand father was when my grand mother passed away, he didn't last long alone.. soon after he followed her to the ultimate resting place. And now I'm sad... but that's the love that I want too: Eternal and forever young!
This one is sure hard to beat.. But let me test my grey cells and try to come up with another one.
The Shrek series also would be one of my all time favorites, not just for the side-kicks Donkey and Puss-in-boots, but for the underlying message too. It might have been a princess falling in love with an ogre, but when the ogre did get his hands on the princess he turned her into how he liked her best: as his ogress!!
Happy relationships are great levelers, it's not a relationship if one thinks he/she got a better deal. It's the best where the love is immense and equal. The world could think whatever, but to the two people concerned.. there is no one lovelier and no one else who would make them complete. Die Hard Romantic. Yay!
Yes.. you are not mistaken, holy matrimony and cartoon movies are not really a match made in heaven but I watch way too many animated movies. And yes they also are capable of being deep :) but even so I have some non-animated ones in the list too.
So very recently a celebrity couple broke my heart by parting ways.. No it didn't help that he's oh so HANDSOME (Almost a demigod) but that doesn't break my faith. oh no no! You've got to have faith (George Michael rules!). And that's why Notting Hill is still on this list!
I mean how can you not be in love with the "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy asking him to love her." And also it's an added perk that Hugh Grant is so easy on the eyes. But all that aside it's a very heart warming love story.
Kate and Leopold, starring another Hugh (Jackman.. who's on my celebrity cheat-list right on number one :D) is the movie which made me his fan! I mean look how two people belonging to two different centuries found love! And here we are minor differences make us skeptical. What I loved about the movie was the fact that chivalry will never be out of fashion, even if it's a hundred years old! Women secretly want to be opened doors for, tucked into their chairs (not pay for the meals out of their own pockets... If you're reading this.. give me a sign :P) etc. and yet we're modern and that gives us every right to call it all wierd as well :P
Long story short, it was a time portal movie that made me believe in the adage : being ahead of your time.. And our Baron Leopold sure chose someone way ahead of his time ;)
Don't think me a prude, but their is only one hindi movie on this list of mine. It's not because i don't watch hindi movies, I do! I've watched too many some awesome, and some so crappy the makers should be sorry they were even born! But this genre was about the movies which make me believe in marriage, for this there is no other that comes to mind except Hum Dil de chuke sanam.
This is the movie where the love came only by way of marriage. Of course, the first half my heart went out to Nandini for losing Sameer, they guy who looked and sang like a dream. But then for me it was Vanraj's intensity that was the highlight. True he wasn't as charming and would have cracked a mirror when he sang, but the eyes.. Oh my God.. the eyes.. they didn't lie. Yes.. this is the movie which makes you believe :) After all Vanraj did win his love when he was most prepared to give it away :)
Turns out as a surprise to myself, I am quite a romantic at heart! This list is such a mush-fest (blended richly with dollops of humor though!) But if you do revisit these movies with my point of view I know you'll fall in love with them too! and it really doesn't hurt that these movies a great first time watch if you haven't heard of them before. I know they might not be critically acclaimed and all but they're only a handful compared to the avoid list I gave out aren't they?
And given that it's that month of the year.. Give them a shot.. I insist :)
Oh no! I completely forgot Jerry Mcguire :( That's a keeper too.. Trust me :)
But I still would try, even if the list is only 5 films long I shall do it! So here we go:
First things first, here I had one winner right from the inception and that's my all-time favorite "That's how I want to grow old movie" : UP!
Every time I watch it, it makes my heart melt. The way they both have their spots reminds me so much of my grand-parents. Right when we entered their house there were two sofas, right was grand-ma's and left was grand-pa's (or was it the other way round? It's been so long..) and not a day went by when they didn't fight about some nothing or the other. My grand father never liked to sit idle, he was always up to some experiment: culinary, workmanship, handyman-types. And every memory of mine contains my grand father being scolded for getting it wrong, they were sure hilarious! They never needed anybody else, they were so busy among each other.. I still remember how sad my grand father was when my grand mother passed away, he didn't last long alone.. soon after he followed her to the ultimate resting place. And now I'm sad... but that's the love that I want too: Eternal and forever young!
This one is sure hard to beat.. But let me test my grey cells and try to come up with another one.
The Shrek series also would be one of my all time favorites, not just for the side-kicks Donkey and Puss-in-boots, but for the underlying message too. It might have been a princess falling in love with an ogre, but when the ogre did get his hands on the princess he turned her into how he liked her best: as his ogress!!
Happy relationships are great levelers, it's not a relationship if one thinks he/she got a better deal. It's the best where the love is immense and equal. The world could think whatever, but to the two people concerned.. there is no one lovelier and no one else who would make them complete. Die Hard Romantic. Yay!
Yes.. you are not mistaken, holy matrimony and cartoon movies are not really a match made in heaven but I watch way too many animated movies. And yes they also are capable of being deep :) but even so I have some non-animated ones in the list too.
So very recently a celebrity couple broke my heart by parting ways.. No it didn't help that he's oh so HANDSOME (Almost a demigod) but that doesn't break my faith. oh no no! You've got to have faith (George Michael rules!). And that's why Notting Hill is still on this list!
I mean how can you not be in love with the "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy asking him to love her." And also it's an added perk that Hugh Grant is so easy on the eyes. But all that aside it's a very heart warming love story.
Kate and Leopold, starring another Hugh (Jackman.. who's on my celebrity cheat-list right on number one :D) is the movie which made me his fan! I mean look how two people belonging to two different centuries found love! And here we are minor differences make us skeptical. What I loved about the movie was the fact that chivalry will never be out of fashion, even if it's a hundred years old! Women secretly want to be opened doors for, tucked into their chairs (not pay for the meals out of their own pockets... If you're reading this.. give me a sign :P) etc. and yet we're modern and that gives us every right to call it all wierd as well :PLong story short, it was a time portal movie that made me believe in the adage : being ahead of your time.. And our Baron Leopold sure chose someone way ahead of his time ;)
This is the movie where the love came only by way of marriage. Of course, the first half my heart went out to Nandini for losing Sameer, they guy who looked and sang like a dream. But then for me it was Vanraj's intensity that was the highlight. True he wasn't as charming and would have cracked a mirror when he sang, but the eyes.. Oh my God.. the eyes.. they didn't lie. Yes.. this is the movie which makes you believe :) After all Vanraj did win his love when he was most prepared to give it away :)
Turns out as a surprise to myself, I am quite a romantic at heart! This list is such a mush-fest (blended richly with dollops of humor though!) But if you do revisit these movies with my point of view I know you'll fall in love with them too! and it really doesn't hurt that these movies a great first time watch if you haven't heard of them before. I know they might not be critically acclaimed and all but they're only a handful compared to the avoid list I gave out aren't they?
And given that it's that month of the year.. Give them a shot.. I insist :)
Oh no! I completely forgot Jerry Mcguire :( That's a keeper too.. Trust me :)
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