Calling all romantics: Best show/ movie moments

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Anonymous wrote:Probably no one remembers Ally McBeal, but I loved her chemistry with Robert Downey Jr. for that one season he was on the show. The best was when he serenaded her with Every Breath you Take with Sting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQWgd6yXweY

I remember that show and RDJ’s appearance. He does a version of The River that is heartbreaking.

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Ever After with Drew Barrymore. I love the ending with the proposal where Henry tells her that the owner of this shoe is his match. “She is my match in every way, please tell me I haven’t lost her." Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:Almost time in a romance where a man clenches or flexes his hands.

Like the Dr. Darcy hand flex from 2005 P&P:

https://youtu.be/cIP_8UGQFx0

Just checked out that video. What a good directorial choice made there. The director could have skipped that split-second shot but used it. And we all benefit.

I don't really get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Officer and a Gentleman where Richard Gere picks Paula up at her factory and sweeps her off into the sunset.

Yes!

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Remington Steele episode "Red Holt Steele" when Laura's house is blown up and she reveals she couldn't turn him away, but he tenderly takes care of her and doesn't take advantage of the situation.

When Spike earns his soul and gives up his life for Buffy.

When Cordelia spent her last day on earth loving & helping Angel.

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I wonder if the people who are drawn to post on a romance thread and the people who are fans of the silly comedy-mystery "Psych" intersect at all. I find it can be one of the most romantic shows ever, but then, I love the characters and watching crazy people fall into devoted love is somehow doubly romantic.

Best romantic moment is a wordless one: A handwritten note, pressed up against the glass that separates a very strait-laced and uptight cop from the genuinely guilty woman he's just arrested, whom he's visiting in jail. They've spent a total of maybe two hours together, counting the arrest. His note says:

"I will wait for you these six to eighteen months. See you next Wednesday."

It's not some outsized declaration of love or hot moment of passion or huge gesture, but it's a perfectly in-character moment of complete, irreversible dedication.

That sounds sweet! I have to watch that show. I would recommend to you “The Mentalist.” The love story in the final two seasons is well worth waiting for.

PP to whom you're responding. "Psych" name-drops and makes fun of "The Mentalist" quite a few times in later seasons! The concepts were similar, one a comedic take and the other more serious, but since "Psych" was around first (started its run two years earlier), the show enjoyed poking at "The Mentalist." I've never seen the latter, mostly because I figure I would have a hard time taking it seriously after watching "Psych" mock it (affectionately), but I'll absolutely give it a try. Thanks! (Plus, that Patrick Jane guy is most watchable, I do believe.)

Simon Baker is, indeed, fantastic. It's a really good show. I've heard good things about "Psych," I've just never got around to it but will now. Simon Baker is also amazing in "Margin Call"--that movie is soooo good, and I think it's on Netflix right now.

Not on topic, but Margin Call is an incredibly underrated movie. Amazing cast. One of - if not the - bestvWallbStreet movie ever made.

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Anonymous wrote:For sexy, I think the scene in the English Patient when they finally have sex.

+1. I just rewatched that, and I had forgotten how hot it was. Although the lead up is amazing. When Ralph Fiennes tells Colin Firth that he shouldn’t leave his wife behind at the camp in the desert, it’s incredibly moving. Especially on a rewatch — you can tell Ruth at he’s already in love with her & he knows what is going to happen. KST and RF may be the most beautiful couple ever in that movie.

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Proof of Life, when Russell Crowe kisses Meg Ryan before he heads off to save her husband. And then at the end when they say goodbye and then Van Morrison’s “I’ll Be Your Lover, Too”plays while you see the emotions play out across Russell Crowe’s face. Amazing performance. I guess the fact that they were having an affair didn’t hurt the on screen chemistry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxI48mAUR5w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6cvp2juNc0

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Anonymous wrote:For sexy, I think the scene in the English Patient when they finally have sex.

+1. I just rewatched that, and I had forgotten how hot it was. Although the lead up is amazing. When Ralph Fiennes tells Colin Firth that he shouldn’t leave his wife behind at the camp in the desert, it’s incredibly moving. Especially on a rewatch — you can tell Ruth at he’s already in love with her & he knows what is going to happen. KST and RF may be the most beautiful couple ever in that movie.

Not sure who Ruth is *you can tell that*

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Anonymous wrote:For sexy, I think the scene in the English Patient when they finally have sex.

+1. I just rewatched that, and I had forgotten how hot it was. Although the lead up is amazing. When Ralph Fiennes tells Colin Firth that he shouldn’t leave his wife behind at the camp in the desert, it’s incredibly moving. Especially on a rewatch — you can tell Ruth at he’s already in love with her & he knows what is going to happen. KST and RF may be the most beautiful couple ever in that movie.

Not sure who Ruth is *you can tell that*

*Ralph* not Ruth

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As you wish.” “This is true love. You think this happens every day?”
“Hear this now: I will always come for you.”

—Westley from Princess Bride

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Anonymous wrote:Almost time in a romance where a man clenches or flexes his hands.

Like the Dr. Darcy hand flex from 2005 P&P:

https://youtu.be/cIP_8UGQFx0

Just checked out that video. What a good directorial choice made there. The director could have skipped that split-second shot but used it. And we all benefit.

I don't really get it.

This will kind of ruin it but I’ll explain.

So that part of the story is when she is leaving Bingley’s place after staying there a few days. Elizabeth is still really irritated with Darcy, but you can see him starting to like her in spite of himself. When he holds her hand to “help” her get into the carriage, it’s this impulsive need to touch her, and as he walks away he flexes that hand like he was electrified by the touch. He’s feeling these sensations he doesn’t know what to do with.

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Anonymous wrote:Before Sunrise, no dialogue needed

Gd that was a good movie

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Anonymous wrote:I love this scene with Keanu [swoon]:

The whole movie is great if you haven't seen it, for a light rom-com.

that *whole* movie is fantastic - I wouldn't really call that scene romantic but I would call it perfect

also I have had this song stuck in my head for three years

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You have bewitched me body and soul
And I love I love I love you
I never wish to be parted from you from this day on