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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6746
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 12:26 pm: | 
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Here are a few of mine:
The Notebook - For anyone who sincerely loves his/her spouse, it will warm and break your heart.
Mahogany - Billy D. Williams and Diana Ross were so electrically BEAUTIFUL together (that's it's kinda ironic they BOTH married up with non-Black foks).
Somewhere In Time - Late Superman Christopher Reeves paired up with the insanely delectable Jane Seymour for a love that transcends Space and Time. And the soundtracks so gotdayam syrupy it’ll ‘bout make your teeth rot.
Casablanca – Hey. It’s Bogie and Ingrid Bergman (mother of the luminous Isabella Rossellini). There’s really not much more that need be said. But, ironically, my very favorite scene in the movie doesn’t really center on Bogie and Bergman. It’s when the conquering soldiers Germans start singing the German national anthem in Bogie’s bar. Then Bergman’s character’s husband bravely leads the French bar patrons through a rousingly defiant rendition of France’s La Marseilles (“Vie la FRANCE!!!”). It gets even BETTER “...as time goes by.”
Lethal Weapons I - IV – (Don’t laugh. And, no: I ain’t gay.) You could argue the coupling of straight Sergeants Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) has been the great cinematic love affair of the last 20 years. |
Jackie
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Username: Jackie
Post Number: 230
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 01:25 pm: |
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Oh My God Abm, you're so gay ! |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2899
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 01:55 pm: |
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I tried to get him to stop reading those comic books.
And this is the result--sob. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6748
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 02:15 pm: |
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Jackie,
You wish...mostly because you're hoping to be my faghag. |
Jackie
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Username: Jackie
Post Number: 234
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 02:35 pm: |
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LOL ! Let's see...that might work since I was a gay man in my past life. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6750
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 02:47 pm: |
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Jackie,
Were you on the DL?
Or were you openly f*g flambe? |
Totusdulcidine
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Username: Totusdulcidine
Post Number: 29
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 27, 2006 - 06:44 pm: |
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Love and Basketball (a love story told in four quarters, strong characters, rich story, Saana Latham and Omar Epps make a powerful pair)
Laura (elegant, moody, classic film noir, Gene Tierney in her signature film and Clifton Webb at his bitchiest best)
Horseman on the Roof (featuring one of the sexist non-sex scenes in recent memory and Olivier Martinez, DAYUM!!)
Days of Heaven (an exquisite, lyrical film, Terence Malick's masterpiece, breathtakingly beautiful cinematography and a breathtakingly beautiful Richard Gere)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (not a word of spoken dialogue, luscious color, beautifully sung and Catherine Denevue)
Wuthering Heights (bitterly tragic, I prefer the Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Bionche version, much truer to the novel)
House of Flying Daggers (just a wonderfully realized film)
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Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 6757
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 12:27 pm: |
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Totusdulcidine,
I also liked House of Flying Daggers. But with respect to Asian love stories I think I prefer the unconsumated, ill-fated love between the remarkably SOULFUL Chow Yung-Fat (whom my wife ADORES) and (the utterly DELICIOUS) Michelle Yeoh in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Ditto for Love & Basketball. Not much of an Omar Epps fan (still waiting for him to play against the angst-ridden Black man stereotype). But Sanaa Lathan makes you believe that love is a real and living thing.
And Wuthering Heights is a favorite as well. Though I much more prefer the prior version that featured Sir Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 5684
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 12:59 pm: |
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I'm surprised that an apparent movie buff like you, Totusdulcidine, wouldn't make mention of the melodrama of unrequited love in "Gone With The Wind" with Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia Haviland and Leslie Howard, or the heart rending love saga played out in "The Way We Were" with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. My personal favorite was the "love conquers all" reunion between Aragorn and Arwyn in "The Return of the King," the final installment of "The Lord of the Rings triology. |
Totusdulcidine
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Username: Totusdulcidine
Post Number: 31
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 05:37 pm: |
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"I'm surprised that an apparent movie buff like you, Totusdulcidine, wouldn't make mention of the melodrama of unrequited love in "Gone With The Wind" with Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia Haviland and Leslie Howard, or the heart rending love saga played out in "The Way We Were" with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. My personal favorite was the "love conquers all" reunion between Aragorn and Arwyn in "The Return of the King," the final installment of "The Lord of the Rings triology."
Cynique, I usually like my love stories with more of an edge and though three of the films I mentioned are not all that edgy, I love them anyway.
Though Gone With the Wind is a classic, I find the characters to be derivative and cliché even for 1939. The film just doesn't move me. However the final moments of The Way We Were, Streisand brushing aside Redford's hair just before the embrace is a glorious cinematic moment (like a shot to the heart) but I still wanted to slap both of them at the end. LOL
I loved Peter Jackson's triology but it's a love story between men from beginning to end. And there ain't nothing wrong with that.
"And Wuthering Heights is a favorite as well. Though I much more prefer the prior version that featured Sir Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon."
Abm, the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights is a classic but I prefer the 1992 version because Ralph Fiennes captured the bitterness and brutality of Heathcliff. I think Fiennes understood the acidic obsessiveness of Healthcliff's love for Cathy.
Olivier's Heathcliff is far too soft, too romanticized. While watching Olivier I just could not see the character Brontë wrote. Also Merle Oberon's Cathy, well can we say...simper much?
Last but not least, Ryuichi Sakamoto score for the 1992 version was awe inspiring.
I love Chow Yung-Fat he is quite simply one of the most elegant actors I've seen on screen and he just doesn't get enough credit. But, I still prefer House of Flying Daggers in totality as a film. I found the narrative construction of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be disjointed and the love story between Master Li and Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) too repressive.
Okay, enough already, totus. Once I get started, its hard for me to stop. I LOVE film!! I guess you can tell. LOL
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 5690
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 05:43 pm: |
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Well, Totusdulcidine, the heading of this thread made reference to "sappy" movie love couplings and that's what I had in mind when I mentioned those 3 romanticized banalities. |
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