# What is your favorite love story movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554 "2016-01-09T03:16:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/101 "2016-01-13T19:09:09Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Have you seen **L.A. Story**? It’s the same sort of thing you describe; characters that are eccentric enough to be just right for each other. And it’s a bit more adult and realistic than _The Jerk_, but not too much. There is a lot of surrealism in **L.A. Story** but it doesn’t detract from the romance. I dont’ even mind Martin’s character having a side fling with Sarah Jessica Parker. > [@MacLir](#): > > I’ll go with “[50 First Dates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_First_Dates).” > > Both the devotion of her Dad and brother, to repaint a wall every night so she can paint the mural every day, and then the ultimate solution of a video scrapbook that is her personal “boot sequence” to keep her up with everyone else. The only Adam Sandler movie I like. And Drew Barrymore…usually she’s adorable, but here she resets the scale completely. 🙂 Wotta sweetie. * * * Big fan of **Sleepless in Seattle**. Though I will admit my fave scene is where, after the sister-in-law tearfully describes the plot of _Affair to Remember_, the guys riff on her by “tearfully” describing _The Dirty Dozen:_ “And-and then…Trini Lopez…” “Trii-i-i-ini Lo-o-o-opez!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/102 "2016-01-13T21:08:09Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > The **Before Sunrise** trilogy is also on my list. _Before Sunrise_ was what I came into say. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/103 "2016-01-14T23:43:06Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > I dont’ even mind Martin’s character having a side fling with Sarah Jessica Parker. The Foot?!? \*\* Ew!\*\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gilbert1984](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Gilbert1984](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilbert1984)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/104 "2016-01-14T23:46:27Z")
Brief Encounter ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/105 "2016-01-14T23:53:35Z")
Alan Rickman’s death reminded me of [Truly, Madly, Deeply](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103129/?ref_=nv_sr_1). I only saw it once, years ago but I remember liking it quite q bit. ---
**Author:** ![Abner\_Ravenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/106 "2016-01-15T00:10:11Z")
12 Monkeys. It also doubles as a Christmas movie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/107 "2016-01-15T01:24:50Z")
_Down With Love_. It makes me laugh. _Moulin Rouge_ is interesting too. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/108 "2016-01-15T01:34:29Z")
[5 Centimetres Per Second](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second) [The Garden of Words](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Words) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/109 "2016-01-15T15:42:45Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Alan Rickman’s death reminded me of [Truly, Madly, Deeply](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103129/?ref_=nv_sr_1). I only saw it once, years ago but I remember liking it quite q bit. “Alan Rickman’s death”? GAH! Found thread about it. Crap. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/110 "2016-01-15T19:11:41Z")
It’s a musical, but I’ve always found West Side Story incredibly moving. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/111 "2016-01-15T19:28:57Z")
_When Harry Met Sally._ _Overboard._ That’s about it; not much of a fan of love stories, unless they’re embedded in a good science fiction or action movie. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/112 "2016-01-15T19:34:26Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > _When Harry Met Sally._ > > _Overboard._ > > That’s about it; not much of a fan of love stories, unless they’re embedded in a good science fiction or action movie. Ooo! I get so _mad_ when my action or sci-fi movie is interrupted by a romance! I want to start throwing things. More than once I have found myself yelling “The world’s at stake, you don’t have time to fuck!” ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/113 "2016-01-15T20:03:38Z")
Fried Green Tomatoes. Idgy and Ruth are so very special together. ---
**Author:** ![sweetg12651](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sweetg12651](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweetg12651)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/114 "2016-01-15T20:10:26Z")
_ **Dr. Zhivago** _ - I think Omar Sharif’s big brown eyes have something to do with my choice. Also, the movie inspired me to learn a lot more about the Bolshevik revolution than I ever learned or remembered from high school. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/115 "2016-01-15T20:24:53Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Ooo! I get so _mad_ when my action or sci-fi movie is interrupted by a romance! I want to start throwing things. More than once I have found myself yelling “The world’s at stake, you don’t have time to fuck!” In _ **Dark of the Sun** _, Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux get it on after having been on the run from revolutionaries in Africa for three or four days. (The same thing happened in the novel it was based on; after the sex, she went to wash up in a rain puddle.) **EW!** :eek: Hygiene, people??? John Mills and Sylvia Syms did the same thing in the middle of the Sahara in _ **Ice Cold in Alex** _. Not even a rain puddle, there! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/116 "2016-01-15T20:47:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In _ **Dark of the Sun** _, Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux get it on after having been on the run from revolutionaries in Africa for three or four days. (The same thing happened in the novel it was based on; after the sex, she went to wash up in a rain puddle.) > > **EW!** :eek: Hygiene, people??? I love\*\* Before Sunrise\*\* except for this. Putting your face in the crotch of someone who has been riding the train for days? Nah. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/117 "2016-01-15T20:50:37Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In _ **Dark of the Sun** _, Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux get it on after having been on the run from revolutionaries in Africa for three or four days. (The same thing happened in the novel it was based on; after the sex, she went to wash up in a rain puddle.) > > **EW!** :eek: Hygiene, people??? > > John Mills and Sylvia Syms did the same thing in the middle of the Sahara in _ **Ice Cold in Alex** _. Not even a rain puddle, there! :mad: That doesn’t bother me as much…three or four days is nothing. But the total and complete lack of condoms bothers me and I think contributes to people getting pregnant without forethought. Would it really ruin the mood so much if there was a quick scene of people using condoms? I would never never never never never sleep with any strangers, no matter if it was Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig or Jude Law, without a condom. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/118 "2016-01-15T20:52:10Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I love\*\* Before Sunrise\*\* except for this. Putting your face in the crotch of someone who has been riding the train for days? Nah. Yeah… I’d definitely want my partner to wash up in a puddle \*\*before \*\*the sex! :o ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/119 "2016-01-15T20:56:33Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > That doesn’t bother me as much…three or four days is nothing. But the total and complete lack of condoms bothers me and I think contributes to people getting pregnant without forethought. Would it really ruin the mood so much if there was a quick scene of people using condoms? I would never never never never never sleep with any strangers, no matter if it was Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig or Jude Law, without a condom. When you’re on the run from Nazis or the Mau-Mau, I guess that kind of moves to the back of your mind. Get it on now, since you might die anytime in the next few minutes! ☹ Three or four days is _nothing_?!? :eek: **Yeeeeeeech!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554/120 "2016-01-15T20:59:32Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > When you’re on the run from Nazis or the Mau-Mau, I guess that kind of moves to the back of your mind. > > Get it on now, since you might die anytime in the next few minutes! ☹ > > Three or four days is _nothing_?!? :eek: **Yeeeeeeech!!!** It’s not my preference, certainly, but I get it - when death is near, you want to celebrate life, preferably by fucking the nearest person. And I wouldn’t really want to engage in any oral sex at the moment, but humans have been having sex without bathing for centuries, and I might want the closeness of our bodies. But even then I STILL want him to use a condom! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-love-story-movie/742554.md?page=7)