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Is there a more romantic movie than "You've Got Mail"?A more touching scene than when Joe Fox finally reveals his identity at the end? A more expressive and heartfelt look from Meg Ryan? No, I think not.

Moby 5 May 19
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Deadpool. It is a love story, he says it near the beginning.

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Have you seen Amelie? My favourite romantic film of all time.

Jnei Level 8 May 20, 2018
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My favorite is Amelie, a French film with Audrey Tautou

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Have you seen The Shop Around the Corner, the 1940 movie starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan of which You've Got Mail is a remake?

Yes, The Shop around the Corner is fabulous... But, very unusually, this remake is actually very good in its own right! (As opposed to such criminally awful ones such as Get Carter, The Day of the Jackal, Alfie or The Italian Job !)

@LoneJungle I'm going to have to disagree with you on The Italian Job. Not saying the remake was great, but I thought it was a marked improvement over the original, which was fairly awful.

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Meg Ryan romantic comedies are OK but they smell of the Hollywood machine to me. They are shallow and unbelievable.

My favourite 'romantic' film is 'Maurice' based on E M Forster's semi autobiographical novel of the same name. The love in this film just happens to be gay love and the story is sad, but it rings truer than most Hollywood offerings in my opinion.

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The original movie, Shop Around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart.

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Those are indeed great moments. One that gets me every time i see it is in Fisher King when Robin Williams walks Amanda Plummer home and says goodnight...i cry like a !

Yes, that is an amazing film. I was fairly young when I first saw it, the restaurant scene really scared me, other scenes were really sad. A very emotional film.

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I actually love the movie. And while I do find the over the top ending hilarious and honestly unbelievable, both Ryan and Hanks click with their 'pair' magnetism that worked in several movies. The other characters in the movie are great too. Her employees and his, all funny. Dabney Coleman, as Hanks 'couldn't give a crap' dad. (does anyone believe Coleman isn't like that in real life?) Personal fave Parker Posey as the almost sweet, but just too superficial and not actually 'in love' girlfriend. Ryans consumed activist boyfriend... All great parts played by actors who were great for their roles.

Now I need to see The Shop Around The Corner that the movie was based on.

When Harry Met Sally is a great movie too, again with great supporting friend characters. At many points I feel it's too much Harry, and not enough Sally though. Maybe that is because of Crystal's incessant talking.

I'm not near the fan of Sleepless In Seattle... I don't hate it, but in many ways I personally don't enjoy it s much. Meg Ryan is gorgeous in this movie. Seriously, there should have been an Oscar for hair and makeup. Rosey O'Donnell as Ryan's relationship expert is hilarious. I'm guessing everyone has similar friends. I sure did during and after my divorce. People with wack relationship giving all the relationship advice.
The biggest let down to me in Sleepless is the character Jonah. I simply can't buy a little boy being that cognizant of relationships, etc. My boys are 17 and 20, and still aren't even close to being there. I appreciate the fact that the audience eats up the dad/son thing. We subconsciously feel sorry for 'the men' losing, and living without the spark of a loving female in their lives... But I think Jonah, would have been more believable, and just as cute and funny as a Jessica. A daughter conspiring with her girlfriend to get her father a wife would have been much more believable to me. She just wouldn't have been as cute when calling Dr. Marcia. Almost every other part of Jonah would have been better as a little girl. Her disdain for his dates, screaming about a spider to ruin the moment her dad was captured by a ho!
Oh, and I have to agree with the comment about the films moments when Hanks sees Ryan in the airport and street. I know I've had moments where I've felt that shocking "and I just knew" sensation. I suppose everyone has.

What @Moby said! =]

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Never seen it. Personally I don't care for rom-coms.

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You know....you can't ask those kind of questions. You may have 1 out 10 agree with you. The rest is going to chop it up and dice it and slice it and its going to be there post. 1 out of 10 are going to say..... ohhh... your soooo....right!...lol. the other 9 will tell you how bad it is with no regard to you or the time it took for you to think up this post.... just saying from experience...lol.

@Fanburger. Yeah...i reek with pitty on this. Moby looks like a nice person after reading and liking the way she wrote her post. I like to balance the scales with me saying nice things snd compliments.

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How sadly typical that such a question should be answered with exclusively sugar-coated Hollywood pap ! What about Anna Karenina? Brief Encounter? Un homme et une femme?! Time you people got yourselves a passport?!!!

Are those romantic comedies?

@bingst I believe the original post mentioned "romantic movies, touching scenes and heartfelt looks". Nothing about "comedies".......

@LoneJungle I took it as implied with the movie named in the post.

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Sleepless in Seattle ending is better and When Harry Met Sally is still tops. When you realize you are in love you want the rest of your life to start at that moment. Reminded me a scene I lived at 15 with my first love. My first 2 GF were first my best friends. Now I am doing it backward my best friend used to be my GF.

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The ending of "You've Got Mail" is the most hilarious thing EVER filmed.

Do you honestly think anyone... aw hell, I'm just going to say it... any FEMALE would react like that? When she realized that he knew who she was online, and that she had been played, she would have snapped!!! Once she clicked to the fact that he had used his 'online secret identity' to help him work his way into and past her defenses against her...

Let's be real. In real life, Kathleen Kelly would have kicked Joe Fox in the doo-dads, and then tossed Brinkley off the bridge!!!

I laugh outloud everytime I watch it. Which is frequently because Parker Posey is awesome!

"WHERE ARE MY TIC-TACS?!?!? Ungh... What?"

Oh, I think she was in love. I think after some pleading on his part to support his case she would have come around. I just think the initial response wouldn't have been all mushy. It's an awesome ending... But one day it just cracked me up... "She is letting him off the hook!??" I almost want an alternate ending where he has explain to her she wasn't just a project that needed tweaking!
Same music of course.

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"Return to Me". 🙂

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One of my favorite lines is from that movie!

"I wanted it to be you; I wanted it to be you so badly."

Other fave romances w/ or w/o comedy: "Kate and Leopold", "Lady Hawke", "The Truth AboutCats and Dogs", "Sleeper", "Baby Boom"... to name a few.

Zster Level 8 May 20, 2018
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Immortal Beloved, loosely based on the romantic life of Beethoven.
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Somewhere In Time will always be the most romantic to me.

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An Affair to Remember.

Iffy Level 5 May 20, 2018
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  1. Princess Bride. Both for the broad sweeping literary context of the word romantic as well as the 'between love interests' kind. Someone else has already said Amelie. You've Got Mail isn't a bad one overall as 'turn of the millenium RomComs' go though. Though there was one with Jennifer Love Hewitt. Simply Irresistible. It has a magic crab. I'm not considering any of the teen RomComs of the time because they operate on a slightly different set of formulas.

  2. The part in How to Lose Your Guy in 10 Days where he takes her to meet his family to play cards and they reveal he's never brought anyone to meet them before. It's a delightfully meaningful moment nestled in complete nonsense. Irish Jam, when the little girl who's been mute the entire movie asks Eddie Griffin not to leave (it's ham-handed and you see it coming 10 seconds before it happens and you'll cry anyway.)

  3. There are a few good moments in Mindhunters. Hands down my favorite Meg Ryan movie. I'd begrudgingly point in the direction of the death scene from City of Angels too.

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You think YGM is better than Sleepless in Seattle? Did you like 50 First Dates?

I am with you Sleepless in Seattle. Seeing her in the airport and later in the road by the beach.

Meg Ryan's hair in Sleepless is better than in YGM, thats for sure. But I think YGM is the better movie, and I'm not letting my Parker Posey bias skew the voting!

Both of the movies show how much falling in love has to do with your own state of mind, rather than the actual person you are falling for. Often, you're blind to that persons actual faults or strengths. Love is a pair of rose colored glasses in the wrong prescription!!!

50 First Dates is great, no matter how many times I watch it, it doesn't get old!

@Moby I've managed not to see those three movies. But I really like Kate and Leopold, since we're talking about Meg Ryan movies. 🙂

@bingst, @Moby, have either of you seen The Presidio? Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, and Meg Ryan?

@IAMGROOT Yep. It's been a while, and I don't remember the plot, but do remember that I like it.

@bingst I mention it for a reason. The plot has to do with diamond smugglers in the SF Bay Area. Harmon plays a SF police detective. Connery plays a salty army officer and Ryan plays his daughter, and Harmon's love interest. The film is good, but not great. I bring it up because I used to work for the bottled water company featured in the film, who use their 5 gallon bottles to hide the diamonds, which (at least in the film) become nearly invisible when in the bottle filled with water. The film had recently been released and was all the buzz when I got there. Company employees and execs could be seen as extras in the film. The company trucks with their actual toll-free phone number was featured. I have to admit, it was pretty damned cool. LOL!

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I will like to have brunch with Meg. Not dinner.

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My favorite romantic film is "Green Card"with Andie McDowell and Gerard Depardieu. Also love "Annie Hall" and "The Goodbye Girl" from the 70's -- what I love about all these films is that the characters are imperfectly flawed, and also the great dialogue and performances.

@Moby One of my favorites.

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