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  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    4EverBonded wrote:
    fire_and_ice wrote:
    Was supposed to be a joke, though fell flat :-)

    Not really; I just wasn't catching on that you were a guy a first! My slow uptake to blame. :D

    :-) Most gracious.

  • SpectreNumberOneSpectreNumberOne
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    As to what's the perfect bond girl, no such thing, all you ladies have unique qualities that are individual, an essence that keeps even the most calm & collected man on his toes, as Sean said "Providing the collars & cuffs match", basically no fakery, your gorgeous just the way you are.

    Merry Christmas.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    And the same to you, dear sir. :)

    I want to wish everyone a Merry, Happy, and Warm Christmas! And a Happy, Peaceful New year. Blessings to you all.
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    I see there is a lot of activity going on here right now, I'm so glad the thread is alive and kicking! I haven't got much time right now (and have a terrible internet connection just to make it "easier") so I'm not very active until probably the second week of January.
    I don't think I resemble any Bond girl much, perhaps Nathalia a bit? Every now and then I get the random comment "Did anyone ever tell you you look like Audrey Hepburn/Keira Knightly/Natalie Portman/Winona Rider (choose one)?" comment, I suppose that's a compliment!

    Anyway, I stopped by to wish each and everyone here a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year O:-)
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
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    Domino always been my favourite bond girl absolutely stunning. Eva Green as Vesper my favourite from the more modern Bond movies.

    Merry Christmas @4EverBonded.

    Merry Christmas to all, and as Tiny Tim would say, God bless us everyone.
  • GermanladyGermanlady
    Posts: 6,601
    Just for your information, cool, since you are a gal, too.
    let me welcome you on board. Its a bumpy ride sometimes, but we can hold our own among the guys nevertheless ;)
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
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    There have been some additions of more female posters lately (@coolbyrne and @tuulia come to mind) to hopefully your room will be hopping even more in 2013 ;-)
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    thelordflasheart wrote:
    There have been some additions of more female posters lately (@coolbyrne and @tuulia come to mind) to hopefully your room will be hopping even more in 2013 ;-)

    Well, I have neglected this room myself. Maybe I throw in a random question:

    So Ladies AND Gents, what is your favourite romance film - one old, one new.

    New for me is: Sleepless in Seattle. A real teardropper at the end - every time :\">

    Old: A love Affair comes to mind first (Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant.)
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    The one and only- Casablanca.
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    The one and only- Casablanca.

    Oh yes, good one.
    Whats your new one?

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited January 2013 Posts: 28,694
    Germanlady wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    The one and only- Casablanca.

    Oh yes, good one.
    Whats your new one?

    There is no other for me really. No "newer" romance comes to me, but I will think on it. My idea of "new" is late 90s to now, but everyone has their own idea of that I guess. Maybe Casino Royale for how smitten I got for Vesper just as Bond did. Though, it isn't a sole romance film...but of course neither is Casablanca.
  • GermanladyGermanlady
    edited January 2013 Posts: 6,601
    New for me includes the 80's. too - but that's because I am old...
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    Hi! I'm back for a moment, wasting time in an airport (damn connection flights). It was a surprise to open the forum and see that this thread had new comments :) I hope everybody's holidays were enjoyable, mine certainly were but they are about to be over, back to hard work tomorrow.

    Nice questions @Germanlady, but one that I will probably have to think about for a while.

    Old - any with Audrey Hepburn, but I think I would go for My Fair Lady, although it doesn't compare to The Pygmalion it's still great because I have a soft spot for musicals and Rex Harrison was just great.

    New - this is the difficult part... can I get back to that in a couple of hours?
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
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    It's kind of difficult to talk about romance films as romance is such an integral part of life...it's added in to almost style of movie and TV show. Just a few weeks ago I was talking about the new version of Doctor Who, and telling him that one of the best decisions they made was to inject romance into some of the stories! Every one is a sucker for two people getting together in the end...
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    Lets say a film, where romance is the essential part. It can be a sad one, too, with no good ending. That's still romance - like Love Story, which is one of THE love films generally.
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
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    My take on romance films has changed tremendously from when I was younger. I used to love big, melodramatic stories with lots of up and downs and will-they-or-won't they's. I think, in the same way that I approached action films, I was living vicariously through the characters experiencing something that I never had. Being a romantic guy by nature that made it even more so.

    I remember doing a play with an slightly older married woman and I was enthusing about some big romantic film. She said something really interesting. She said "The funny thing is, in almost all of those movies the couples would just break up in a few weeks after the film ended. They're not about love, they're about infatuation. And infatuation never lasts."

    At first I was horrified, then angry. Like most teenagers I needed to defend the films that I liked and needed to prove to other people that they were wrong to not love the same films - they just needed the benefit of the experience of someone like me (younger and without having ever had a serious relationship!) to show them the error of their ways. But the funny thing is, after getting experience dating a lot of women, and being in a few serious relationships, I realized that she was right.

    Because of that I don't often seek out "romantic" films per se. I do still love me a melodramatic, tragic love story like Moulin Rouge, but it being so OTT is part of the style and charm (it also, features Nat King Cole's Nature Boy, one of my favourite songs of all time.

    Probably the best "romantic film" that I've seen in years is The Constant Gardner, featuring the current Mrs. Bond and the current M in stellar performances. I was gotten by the misdirection; it was branded and advertised as a thriller but becomes a touching film about the nature of commitment, values, and devoted love.

    One film that I loved was a dramedy from the 80s (I don't want to spoil it by naming it because, although it was big and critically loved at the time it and its stars have become forgotten now) about a love triangle. The triangle was resolved, but then there was a brief coda of the three people from the triangle sitting in a park talking. You realized after a few moments that this was set 10 years in the future. Basically, all the drama, all the romance, all the tears, all the victories that were felt over those few weeks ten years before were just a few weeks out of hundreds that these characters had experienced - and it was just a brief blip in their lives with no lasting effects. I thought it was brilliant, and then I totally understood what that woman I had done the show with had been talking about.

    It's amazing the drama, the romance, the sweeping feelings of joyous victory and the utterly destroying feelings of despair we can get from romance, and then it all just slowly evaporates over time, just leaving us wiser and having some sweet memories (I tend to forget the pain, it fades over time).

    Wow, I'm sure that some of the more angrily macho guys here will say that I DO belong in the Girl's Room! ;-)
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    Thanks Lord, that was an interesting read and true, too. And BTW - us gals are the better men anyway, no? ;)
  • jackdaggerjackdagger
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    I'm not really into romantic movies; I'm a bit of a spinster. :P Does The Princess Bride count? I love that film.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    jackdagger wrote:
    I'm not really into romantic movies; I'm a bit of a spinster. :P Does The Princess Bride count? I love that film.

    A classic on every conceivable level. When you consider that Westley and Buttercup share the kiss that defeats all other kisses with its passion, I would definitely think it is safe to call it a romance. ;)
  • youonlylivethriceyouonlylivethrice
    edited January 2013 Posts: 117
    My all-time romantic film is about an unusual couple. The name is "Before Sunrise". The script is fantastic. Actually, the whole movie is centered in the script. You don't even miss the lack of music in the background. It's just them and the beautiful scenario from Vienna, Paris, and now, Greece. It is about a young man and woman who just met on a train in Europe and they decide to spend their last remaining hours before continuing their trip together and talk about... Life. This movie is the first from a trilogy. The first sequence, "Before Sunset", was released exactly nine years after, in 2004 and was shot in Paris. The last and third one, nine years after the second movie, will be released this year, almost 20 years since their first meeting on a train for Vienna, but this time they will meet in Greece.

    Here's a picture of the main characters through the years, played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
    http://www.anamappe.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/lovefromthemovies.jpeg
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    youonlylivethrice wrote:
    My all-time romantic film is about an unusual couple. The name is "Before Sunrise". The script is fantastic. Actually, the whole movie is centered in the script. You don't even miss the lack of music in the background. It's just them and the beautiful scenario from Vienna, Paris, and now, Greece. It is about a young man and woman who just met on a train in Europe and they decide to spend their last remaining hours before continuing their trip together and talk about... Life. This movie is the first from a trilogy. The first sequence, "Before Sunset", was released exactly nine years after, in 2004 and was shot in Paris. The last and third one, nine years after the second movie, will be released this year, almost 20 years since their first meeting on a train for Vienna, but this time they will meet in Greece.

    Here's a picture of the main characters through the years, played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
    http://www.anamappe.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/lovefromthemovies.jpeg

    I have been meaning to watch these!
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    Love in the afternoon with Audrey hepburn and Gary Cooper. I Love the ending.

    Love is a many splendored thing with Jennifer Jones and william Holden.

    Before Sunrise sounds interesting.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited January 2013 Posts: 28,694
    How about Wuthering Heights (1939) with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon? A powerful tale, though no Casablanca.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited January 2013 Posts: 12,837
    Bonnie and Clyde, True Romance and King Kong.

    Alright maybe I can't count King Kong but I think the first two still count as romance films.
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    Gosh, I think, KK is a real teardropper. Deffo a love story - at least on his side.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Germanlady wrote:
    Gosh, I think, KK is a real teardropper. Deffo a love story - at least on his side.
    I agree. Just because Kong is an animal doesn't mean it isn't one. Think about how much we connect with our own pets and hold them so dear. You can be in love with someone non romantically.
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Germanlady wrote:
    Gosh, I think, KK is a real teardropper. Deffo a love story - at least on his side.
    I agree. Just because Kong is an animal doesn't mean it isn't one. Think about how much we connect with our own pets and hold them so dear. You can be in love with someone non romantically.

    ..and you certainly connect with him. I always cry at the end and the best film remain the first one.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Germanlady wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Germanlady wrote:
    Gosh, I think, KK is a real teardropper. Deffo a love story - at least on his side.
    I agree. Just because Kong is an animal doesn't mean it isn't one. Think about how much we connect with our own pets and hold them so dear. You can be in love with someone non romantically.

    ..and you certainly connect with him. I always cry at the end and the best film remain the first one.

    The first one? You mean the original film and not the remake?
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Well, since you asked:
    old: Breakfast at tiffany's. Mainly because the girl I've been dating recently has a similar character as Hepburn's in the film.
    new: Love actually, ful title: Love is actually all around. A British film doing what British films do best, combining love, humour and loss.

  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    CommanderRoss wrote:
    Well, since you asked:
    old: Breakfast at tiffany's. Mainly because the girl I've been dating recently has a similar character as Hepburn's in the film.
    new: Love actually, ful title: Love is actually all around. A British film doing what British films do best, combining love, humour and loss.
    I LOVE Love Actually! One of my favorites from the past 20 years.
    I would have a long list if I think it through; let me just add today:

    The Sundowners (Mitchum/Kerr) - really a drama, with comedy, takes in a lot of things including adventure but the family is at its heart and the two main leads have incredibly realistic and lovely chemistry. (About 1964, maybe a little earlier)

    Roman Holiday (Peck/Hepburn) - Even with the ending, where duty wins, you just know that so much love has grown and helped shape these characters' lives. Audrey is one of my favorite actresses, ever; pure joy to watch.

    Bridget Jones's Diary - hilarious and romantic

    Four Weddings and a Funeral - witty and romantic
    (so I have 3 films listed by the same wirter/director team, I think - LA, FWAF, BJD)

    The Quiet Man (Wayne/O'Hara) - one of my fav John Wayne movies with the strongest, loveliest, and most spirited of leading ladies; set in Ireland, which is a plus for me, too.









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