# For Men Only: Your Favorite Romantic Scene in A Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096 "2005-05-23T15:00:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/21 "2005-05-23T17:20:05Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > \*\*ascenray. \*\* That’s just messed up, dawg, thinking that’s insincere. There’s waaaay easier ways of faking sincerity than keeping a genuine momento of an old flame for a couple of decades, that you later return to the old flame. Have you never heard of alcohol? Alcohol also = insincerity in my book. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/22 "2005-05-23T17:20:44Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > How can they? We’re not even agreeing with each other. They can vote on us, like we’re on American Idol. 1-866-LUVR-TDN, ladies. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/23 "2005-05-23T17:21:46Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Alcohol also = insincerity in my book. Alcohol = the anti-memento. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/24 "2005-05-23T17:26:01Z")
seymore and audrey singing “suddenly seymore” after the dentist disappears in little shop of horrors tony and maria on the fire escape in west side story for the most erotic scene: the train scene in risky business ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/25 "2005-05-23T17:29:50Z")
I kinda liked the scene in the first Lord of the Rings where Arwen chooses to give up her immortality for Aragorn. All that ethereal music and light. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/26 "2005-05-23T17:34:49Z")
Eugene Levy buying a rose for Catherine O’Hara, and their final kiss, at the end of “A Mighty Wind.” Grace Kelly swooping in on James Stewart in “Rear Window.” (although that might be less romantic than it is just sexy.) And for us guys of a certain persuasion (not that there’s anything wrong with it!), the slow dancing scene at the end of “Beautiful Thing.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/27 "2005-05-23T17:46:49Z")
\*\*Bull Durham \*\* - I actually think the “What I believe” speech to be very romantic, but I’ll go with the montage towrds the end. \*\*Love, Actually \*\* - The guy standing at the door with the storyboards, telling the wife of his best friend how he feels. Not a movie, but the episode “I Will Remember You” - **Angel** - Where Angel gives up everything to save Buffy’s future. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/28 "2005-05-23T17:56:56Z")
Well, there was this one scene in _Debbie Does Dallas,_ but it might be that I’m not very romantic. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/29 "2005-05-23T18:01:41Z")
John Wayne grabbing Maureen O’Hara as she flees his cottage, spinning her around, then pulling her close and kissing her in **The Quiet Man**. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/30 "2005-05-23T18:03:24Z")
I think the scene in Groundhog Day when Phil makes the ice sculpture of Rita. The whole “You like boats but not the ocean…” speech. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/31 "2005-05-23T18:13:12Z")
I’ll second Crash Davis’ soliloquy from _Bull Durham_, the “we’ll always have Paris” speach from _Casablanca_ and add the climax of \* The Sure Thing\*, “We braved many hardships: floods, starvation, show tunes” (which I’m sure I misquioted but that’s the gist of it.) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/32 "2005-05-23T18:23:56Z")
Empire Strikes Back: Leia: I love you!! Han (being lowered into the carbonite): I know" Terminator: Sarah Conner and Kyle Reece making sweet love in the crappy hotel while hiding from the Terminator. American Pie movies: The various romantic scenes between Jim and Michelle. In particular his proposal and the band camp scene with the trombone. The Rock Carla (after revealing she’s pregnent): You didn’t mean what you just said, did you? Stanley Goodspeed: When? Carla: Just right now, when you were talking about bringing a child into the world, and how it’d be an act of cruelty. Stanley Goodspeed: I meant it at the time. Carla: “At the time”? Stanley, you said it seven and a half seconds ago! Stanley Goodspeed: Well… gosh, kind of a lot’s happened since then. Swingers Mikey blows off the ex-girlfriend he’s been pining over for the past six months to take a call from Heather Graham. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/33 "2005-05-23T18:28:03Z")
Spencer Tracy’s final scene in _Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner_ when he blesses his daughter’s marriage by talking to the other five about what Katherine Hepburn has meant to him. Her teary eyes were my cue to do the same. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/34 "2005-05-23T18:32:41Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > So do I. I guess it’s a personal thing. I’m a little surprised that Love, Actually and Shakespeare in Love are so underrepresented in this thread, as I find them to be the two most romantic movies ever, no questions asked, shut uppa you face if you think different. I’m not the least bit surprised, considering they are widely considered “chick-flicks,” and many guys (including myself) probably have never sought them out as a result. That’s no offense if you like them, but an easy explanation for why you aren’t getting many comments about them. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/35 "2005-05-23T18:50:01Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > I’m not the least bit surprised, considering they are widely considered “chick-flicks,” and many guys (including myself) probably have never sought them out as a result. That’s no offense if you like them, but an easy explanation for why you aren’t getting many comments about them. No offense taken. They’re chick flicks, but I think they’re so strong as to cross gender lines with ease. If you were lucky enough to take a first date to one of these when they first came out, you could confidently walk out the theatre thinking “I am soooo gettin’ some!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/36 "2005-05-23T18:52:11Z")
Not to mention that there is nudity…nice nudity in both movies. It’s a win-win! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/37 "2005-05-23T19:08:23Z")
Pretty much all of Clive Owen’s scenes in _Closer_. [sub]seriously though, another vote for the scene in _Love Actually_ with the guy and the storyboards.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/38 "2005-05-23T19:15:35Z")
Can’t really say I have an all-time favorite or anything, but the last scene in **Spider-Man II** is a good one IMO, when Mary Jane shows up at Peter’s apartment. I’ll avoid saying anything more for fear of spoilage. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/39 "2005-05-23T19:47:29Z")
The scene in _It’s a Wonderful LIfe_ where George (Jimmy Stewart) and Mary (Donna Reed) are talking on the same phone. For different reasons, they are trying to keep their feelings hidden (George because he wants to leave and see the world, Mary because her boyfriend is within earshot on the other end). The forced proximity makes this a lot harder. The tension is incredible, and when they finally drop the phone and fall into each others’ arms, it’s breathtaking. Things didn’t often get that hot onscreen in 1946. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096/40 "2005-05-23T20:49:56Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > seriously though, another vote for the scene in _Love Actually_ with the guy and the storyboards. Seriously though, me too. And the Wisconsin scene was a nice fantasy scene. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-men-only-your-favorite-romantic-scene-in-a-movie/305096.md?page=3)