# Date Movies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 21, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786 "2000-10-21T15:54:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/1 "2000-10-21T15:54:49Z")
Yes it’s true. I have a date. Hell, I have a regular G/F. (waits for applause to end)
OK we’re going to chill at her dad’s and watch movies for sweetest day, so what movies do we watch? I figure we will watch two. I want to have a good time and not be overly romantic and stuff, maybe a good drama and a comedy or a horror. NO chick flicks, please!!
Help! I have two hours to decide!
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### Author:  [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/2 "2000-10-21T15:56:10Z")
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Mars Attacks!
A Life Less Ordinary
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### Author:  [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/3 "2000-10-21T16:27:05Z")
Cruel Intentions
Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange
anything Monty Python
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### Author:  [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/4 "2000-10-21T18:25:37Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by hypergirl \*
> \*\*Cruel Intentions
> \*\*
Why would you want to watch a bad carbon copy when Dangerous Liasons is available and is a MUCH better movie.
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### Author:  [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/5 "2000-10-21T20:47:27Z")
Because Ryan Phillippe is much better looking than John Malkovich.
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### Author:  [@THE\_MALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THE_MALE)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/6 "2000-10-21T20:54:26Z")
How about:
Jerry Springer Too Hot For TV(any of them)
and
Poison Ivy?
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### Author:  [@Bluemonchichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluemonchichi)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/7 "2000-10-21T20:55:54Z")
/hijack/
- hypergirl
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> Because Ryan Phillippe is much better looking than John Malkovich.
How can you say such a thing??? 😕
/end hijack/
Any of the Lethal Weapon movies work. Mystery Men is fun. Sleepy Hollow is good. There are tons of movies to rent. You both should go and see what pops out at you.
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### Author:  [@barton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barton)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/8 "2000-10-21T21:18:36Z")
Ok, your intentions are un-romantic, but /without fail/, any time I’ve watched a Bond flick with a date…
…we don’t finish watching it, let’s put it that way. I think I owe most of my love life to Pierce Brosnan.
(shudders)
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/9 "2000-10-21T23:54:20Z")
The Princess Bride.
The Truman Show.
Life is Beautiful.
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### Author:  [@La\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/La_King)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/10 "2000-10-21T23:56:57Z")
\*\*Bedazzled \*\*is a fabulous date movie.
It’s very well made and written, the leads are good looking and charming and yet not threatening to you or your date.
And it leaves you on a romantic note.
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### Author:  [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/11 "2000-10-21T23:59:41Z")
[hijack]
what the hell is sweetest day?
[/hijack]
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### Author:  [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/12 "2000-10-22T00:15:36Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Sapphire Bullet \*
> \*\*[hijack]
> what the hell is sweetest day?
> [/hijack] \*\*
A holiday where you buy presents for your SO. I heard it was started about 20 years ago by candy companies trying to raise profits.
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### Author:  [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/13 "2000-10-22T00:58:01Z")
maybe a movie directed by Tim Burton, such as Edward Scissorhands or Sleepy Hollow? you can’t go wrong with him.
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### Author:  [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2000, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/14 "2000-10-22T09:41:18Z")
I’ll suggest any decent version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” or “Romeo and Juliet”.
I’ll also suggest “The Lion In Winter” (not particularly romantic, but it IS my favorite movie), “Gone with the Wind” (probably too long) or “Mr Smith Goes to Washington”.
I would like to suggest you **avoid** “Showgirls” and “I Spit on Your Grave”.
Or for that matter, anything made by Bob Guccione or Andy Sidaris.
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### Author:  [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2000, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/15 "2000-10-22T11:33:26Z")
> [@](#):
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> I would like to suggest you avoid “Showgirls” and “I Spit on Your Grave”.
> Or for that matter, anything made by Bob Guccione or Andy Sidaris.
unless he wants the date to go _really, really_ well. 😉
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/16 "2000-10-22T23:08:22Z")
With her ddad there? PLEASANTVILLE
A Clockwork Orange? Are you insane?
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### Author:  [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/17 "2000-10-23T00:25:59Z")
The first movie I ever saw on a date was [Pi](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0138704). I would not recommend this as a date movie. Just sayin’.
I’m partial to [The Thin Man](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0025878) myself. You and your GF can watch it and hope to have a relationship as cool as Nick and Nora’s.
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### Author:  [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/18 "2000-10-23T05:44:42Z")
**Edward Scissorhands** is a definite date movie. You could also try **Keeping the Faith** if it’s already on video/DVD.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/19 "2000-10-24T00:28:59Z")
hypergirl wrote:
> [@](#):
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> Because Ryan Phillippe is much better looking than John Malkovich.
God help us if somebody makes a movie titled _Being Ryan Phillippe_…
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### Author:  [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/date-movies/37786/20 "2000-10-24T00:55:17Z")
Goose, are you from Michigan by any chance?
I once had a girlfriend who got mad at me for “forgetting” Sweetest Day, to which I responded, “What the f@#! is Sweetest Day!?” No, I will never celebrate that holiday; I refuse (not that anyone else I’ve ever dated has heard of it). We already have Valentine’s Day.
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