Our List of The Top Ten Romantic Movies of All Time

All good things must come to an end.  My Bloggy Giveaway is officially closed to any new entries.  According to a random drawing, the winner is…… 

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That means Grace from Kids Health Notes is the winner.  Thanks to everyone who entered and left so many wonderful recommendations for me.  I had no idea people were as passionate about chick flicks (or maybe it was the possibility of free stuff) as I was. 

I noticed that there were quite a few films that continued to come up over and over again.  Because I will do pretty much anything to avoid cleaning my house, I went through the nearly 400 comments and pulled out the 10 most popular films and here they are:

  1. The Notebook (no surprise here, what’s not to love)
  2. Pride and Prejudice  (I love this one, but surprised to see so many others listed it since it is so long)
  3. You’ve Got Mail
  4. The Princess Bride (see below for my thoughts on this one)
  5. Titanic
  6. Sleepless in Seattle
  7. Sweet Home Alabama
  8. Pretty Woman
  9. While You Were Sleeping
  10. Notting Hill

And the runners up included Ever After, Dirty Dancing, When Harry Met Sally, Gone With The Wind, Love Actually, Sense and Sensibility, The Lake House, and Return to Me. 

Many people couldn’t pick just one so it was pretty time consuming to go through the list and count. I’ll have a poll up on the sidebar pretty soon to try to narrow it down to the absolute favorite.  So, stay tuned for that.  I’m sure you are on the edge of your seat with anticipation.

I agree with most of the choices but I have to say that “The Princess Bride” comes awfully close to hobbit territory.  So, I really hesitated even letting it appear on the list, but since so many of you love it, I felt guilty leaving it off.  Believe me I really wanted to leave it off, but fair is fair.  I just have to say that I’ve attempted to watch the movie a couple times, but I just don’t get it.  What am I missing?

Surprisingly, there were a couple of movies that showed up in my comments that I have actually never seen.  I’ll be sure to add them to my Netflix queue when I sign back up again this summer (Note:  We only do Netflix/Blockbuster thing over the summer because there just isn’ t much on tv then and if we didn’t have something on the screen we may just be forced to actually have a conversation and that is a scary thought.)

Here is a list of just a few of the ones that I will be checking out soon:

  • Emma
  • Love Comes Softly
  • 27 Dresses
  • Jane Eyre
  • Somewhere in Time
  • No Reservations
  • Sabrina
  • Persuasion

We actually rented one on the list that someone recommended–Becoming Jane.  I have to say that I cried like a baby at the end, which I wasn’t expecting.  I thought Anne Hathaway was believable as Jane Austen (not that I’ve met her or anything) and I am now really crushing on James McAvoy.  He was seriously charming in his role as Tom Lefroy.  There was one scene in particular that made me gasp with delight.  It was the scene at the ball when Jane was looking for Tom and couldn’t find him, but then he just sort of appears as in the middle of the dance.  It was magical.  There were some dull parts, but overall I really enjoyed this movie.   

It’s been so much fun reading all the comments and I hope that there will be more (even though I’m too poor to continue to pay you to do so, just so you know). 

April 26, 2008 | Filed Under Bloggy Giveaways, Movies I Love 

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6 Responses to “Our List of The Top Ten Romantic Movies of All Time”

  1. Jennifer Resemius on April 26th, 2008 4:52 pm

    Ohhhhh… I just watched this last night and I agree the part where he appears at the dance made my heart skip a beat. I also agree that it was dull at times, or it moved slow. Overall it was pretty good. :)

  2. MSM on April 26th, 2008 9:58 pm

    Try Princess Bride again! (not that I’m trying to tell you what to do). I’d have to think about it for a while (who wants to do that), because off the top of my head I don’t know why I wouldn’t consider P.B. a romantic movie……… it is, very much, but it’s more a comedy-drama.

    There are books someone might recommend to me that I just couldn’t get into until maybe the third or fourth time I’d try, and then I’d love them (usually). It’s mood or timing or something; so maybe a rainy Saturday afternoon will be your Princess Bride breakthrough.

    I chose “While You Were Sleeping” as my fave; thanks to your list I’ll have some new ones to try out.

    Thanks for the compilation!!

  3. Heather (A Mama's Blog) on April 27th, 2008 12:21 am

    Congrats to Grace, and I almost listed Somewhere in Time, instead of my fav., Gone With the Wind. You HAVE To see Somewhere…it is my second most favorite- it is the best, and it has Christopher Reeve in it, before his horrible accident. I always loved him as Superman- thought he was cute, had teenage crush on him. Jane Seymour is wonderful in this movie too. I get teary eyed just thinking about it. :-)

  4. Grace on April 27th, 2008 4:44 pm

    hey that’s me! thanks Jen… I saw Becoming Jane last weekend at a girls’ night out. it’s so neat to think this is/was Jane Austen’s story. after the movie, i thought maybe my love story is worth telling too. (yeah right!)

  5. Leah on April 28th, 2008 3:07 pm

    definitely watch emma. it is an all-time favorite of mine (one of the few i actually own). i love how the characters care about their influence over others and how they want it to be a good influence. you don’t know me, i just found your blog through a friend, but thought i’d add my 2 cents! : )

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