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

Wow pp, that was amazing! I had not seen that and I was a sometime watcher of Ally McBeal. Some reactions:
-This has renewed the crush I've had on Sting since I was 14 years old
-Calista Flockhart was pre-teen girl size
-She seems to have invented the duck lip face
-Forgot Portia DeRossi was in that show (Ellen's wife)

That whole season with Robert Downey Jr was amazing. He’s such a great and funny actor and they had a great chemistry. It made me sad when he looked back on this show as the low point in his career that drove him back to rehab because he was just so so good

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Anonymous wrote:Before Sunrise, no dialogue needed

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Anonymous wrote: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

Swoon. My favorite P&P adaptation.

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Anonymous wrote:In the "Sense and Sensibility" movie version with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet:

When Colonel Brandon comes to the house as Marianne lies gravely ill, is told there's nothing he can do, he's already done so much, and he says with such contained but real fervor, "Give me an occupation, or I shall run mad."

The line, and Alan Rickman in that role! Wonderful. The personification of honor, discretion and love that bides its time, even if that time might never arrive.

I am the pp who mentioned the scene with Edward Ferrar and Miss Dashwood, which, as a single scene, is swoon swoon. But, if you were to ask me the question of most romantic male lead in a film, I agree completely that it's Rickman as The Colonel in S&S. His performance is top-to-bottom perfect. I mean, what about the moment when Marianne recovers and sees him across the room, love is not love which alteration finds. Or the sweet moment when he tells her he "must away" and she responds "away?" and he realizes she loves him. I mean... amazeballs. He's fantastic. (She is too.)

PP to whom you're responding (hello) and I also was the one who said yup yup to the Elinor and Edward scene when he comes to the cottage. What a superb movie overall. I do agree that Rickman as Brandon plays the part so beautifully, and the character has such constancy. Yes, excellent catch on "...must away" and "Away?" Subtle but says volumes. To modern, ahem, sensibilities, the vast age difference between Marianne and Brandon could have seemed offputting even despite the period "It was done back then" setting, but Winslet and especially Rickman seemed so right together at the end, that it works.

Now I"m thinking of Emma Thompson, and pretty much all of "Much Ado About Nothing," the incredible version with Kenneth Branagh, Thompson and the swooniest Denzel Washington incarnation EVER is pretty much Romantic Moment beginning to end. If you have not seen that film, friend, bless yourself by doing so, stat. Repeatedly. The opening sequence, pairing the women hurriedly and eagerly preparing for the soldiers' arrival, while the soldiers wildly plunge into pools to prepare to see the women, all set to Patrick Doyle's score, is just its own kind of romantic. Not individual romance, but a whole world of lusty--yet strangely innocent!--joy.

Hi! Me again. Thank you for the recommendation. I have not seen "Much Ado About Nothing" but it's now first on my list. Thanks for the reco! This will be perfect for after I finish painting the guest room next weekend.

And more Emma Thompson, romantic but in such a sad way, in Love Actually again, when she weeps after discovering Rickman's affair. Joni Mitchell's "Clouds" plays in the background. You can feel her heart break.

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Anonymous wrote:Before Sunrise, no dialogue needed

Oh man I loved this trilogy! I saw all of them as they came out and it was so great having to wait those nine years in between!

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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.

Interesting that you mention Margin Call. I have never heard of it and watched it on Netflix a few weeks ago. It was great!

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"What's wrong? .... Is there something I can do?"

Buffy S57 "Fool for Love"

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Most of “normal people”

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Another vote for Jim and Pam, Casino night.

Also, when Danny does the dance for Mindy on the Mindy Project.

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"I’m glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things."

And then the way they look at each other at Sam's wedding.

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Anonymous wrote:North and South - the ending kiss!

Richard Armitage perfected the sexy stare in that one. Surprised he wasn't more of a big romantic hit. But filming those Hobbit movies did probably take forever.

Speaking of actors from The Hobbit, their relationship is just terrible, but the beginning with Poldark and Demelza was pretty great. I bailed pretty quickly after season 1 of that show, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Before Sunrise, no dialogue needed

Yeeees. My FAVORITE. Now that I’m mid 30s I find before sunset way more of a love story that rings true. But that whole trilogy is amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:North and South - the ending kiss!

Richard Armitage perfected the sexy stare in that one. Surprised he wasn't more of a big romantic hit. But filming those Hobbit movies did probably take forever.

Speaking of actors from The Hobbit, their relationship is just terrible, but the beginning with Poldark and Demelza was pretty great. I bailed pretty quickly after season 1 of that show, though.

Sorry you missed an even better love story -- what we dubbed "Dwightoline" in our house. Dwight and Caroline. The far more reserved and delicate romance. Caroline ends up being a rock, when you'd never expect that of her.