25 Favorite Romantic Movie Scenes: A Recap

Update: i noticed this post has been getting a lot of traffic so let me give you a warning… some of the videos i posted are not working anymore having either been disabled for embedding or completely deleted by the user. i’ll try my best to update the video links for you guys, k? 🙂

1. Love Actually
2. Never Been Kissed
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Pride and Prejudice / Bridget Jones’ Diary
5. Chasing Amy
6. My Best Friend’s Wedding
7. When Harry Met Sally
8. The Notebook
9. Strictly Ballroom / Romeo + Juliet / Moulin Rouge
10. Red Hot
11. The Wedding Singer
12. Notting Hill
13. 10 Things I Hate About You
14. The Way We Were
15. Sense and Sensibility
16. Love Story
17. The Sound of Music / Phantom of the Opera
18. Hook
19. My Girl / Sweet Home Alabama
20. Roman Holiday
21. An Affair to Remember / Love Affair
22. Closer
23. Onegin
24. The Little Mermaid / Lady and the Tramp
25. The Mirror Has Two Faces

Actress with most number of scenes: Julia Roberts (3)
Actor with most number of scenes: Hugh Grant (2)

here are some well known romantic scenes which i did not include in my list. i’m sharing them anyway because it’s the month of love and i’m all about love. ;))

From Here to Eternity (1953)

Ghost (1990)

Say Anything (1989)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

25 Favorite Romantic Movie Scenes: 1. Love Actually

Love Actually (2003)

Starring: lots of people! hehehe.
Director: Richard Curtis
Tagline: It’s All About Love… Actually.

But for now let me say, without hope or agenda, just because it’s christmas – (and at christmas you tell the truth) – to me you are perfect. and my wasted heart will love you until you look like (picture of ugly skeletal woman).

i think it’s ironic that my favorite romantic movie scene comes from a movie i didn’t like the first time i watched it. don’t worry, i like the movie now. hehehe.

i don’t think i need to explain why this scene is romantic. it just is. most of you who know me, know that i’m a big fan of unrequited love so it won’t be a big suprise that this for me is the most romantic movie scene. there are hardly any words spoken. no romantic music playing in the background. but it hits straight to the heart. 😉

25 Favorite Romantic Movie Scenes: 2. Never Been Kissed

Never Been Kissed (1999)

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Michael Vartan
Director: Raja Gosnell
Tagline: She’s never been hip. Never been cool. Never been in… Until now.

don’t you just wish your first kiss was that great? 😉

25 Favorite Romantic Movie Scenes: 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet
Director: Michael Gondry
Tagline: You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.

this movie is one of my favorite movies of all time. i remember being so dumbstruck after watching it. dealing with a concept that is so hard to grasp such as erasing a person from your memory and making it so tangible is what makes this movie so amazing.

i think the scene above is romantic because it captures the last memories that joel has of clementine.

CLEMENTINE (eyes welling): This is it, Joel. It’s gonna be gone soon.
JOEL: I know.
CLEMENTINE: What do we do?
JOEL: Enjoy it. Say goodbye.

i love it when she says, what if you stayed this time? come back and make up a goodbye at least, let’s pretend we have one. this scene asks so many what ifs… what if i didn’t walk out that door? what if i stayed? and what not.

and it just strikes you… no matter how many times you say no regrets, there will always be that other option you could have chosen, the unavoidable what if? it’s hard to live with decisions you’ve made, especially if they turn out to be big big BIG mistakes. but what we all seem to forget is the moment when we made that decision and the factors that led to it. so whatever the outcome of that decision may have been, at that moment when you chose it, it is what you wanted and for that, you should have no regrets. 😉

25 Favorite Romantic Movie Scenes: 4. (tied) Pride and Prejudice / Bridget Jones’ Diary

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen
Director: Joe Wright
Tagline: Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.

ano daw? :))

the first clip here is from the bbc pride and prejudice mini-TV series starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. i actually prefer the mini-TV series more than the movie. i think Colin Firth is perfect as Mr. Darcy! :)) this clip compares the scene of Darcy’s first proposal between the mini-TV series and the movie. i had previously prepared a different clip but the youtube management deleted it. so i’m using this one. 😀

i find this scene so amusing. he proposes his love for her first by listing everything that is wrong with her. so very uptight and british! i love it! :))

here is the scene of the 2nd proposal from the 1995 BBC movie starring Colin Firth…

Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001)

Starring: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
Director: Sharon McGuire
Tagline: This Year’s Resolutions: Stop smoking. Stop drinking. Find inner poise. Go to the gym three times a week. Don’t flirt with the boss. Reduce thighs. Learn to love thighs. Forget about thighs. Stop making lists.

did you see a similarity with pride and prejudice? :)) actually, bridget jones’ diary is very much similar to pride and prejudice that even the lead character’s name is Mr. Darcy. hehehe. well, this is much easier to understand since it isn’t said in old english. :))

and since i posted the ending of the first movie, i’m posting the ending of this movie here too…