Romantic Movies

In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, Forbes magazine has released its list of the Top Ten Romantic Movies. Here it is along with my uncensored comments:

1. Gone with the Wind [An epic story of the love between a rogue and a psychotic.]
2. Titanic [I’ve never understood the whole Leonardo thing.]
3. Grease [Never saw it.]
4. Sleeping Beauty [Any movie with a castle automatically wins points.]
5. Love Story ["Love means never having to say you’re sorry?" qualifies as one of the dumbest movie lines ever.]
6. My Fair Lady [Anything with Audrey Hepburn is romantic and the music puts Andrew Lloyd Weber to shame.]
7. West Side Story [Nothing like a sweet street gang story but it has Natalie Wood and great music.]
8. Ghost [A good choice. I especially liked the romantic scenes where the demons dragged the bad guys off to Hell.]
9. An Officer and Gentleman [Richard Gere's best movie. In the end, he sails off to free Tibet.]
10. Pretty Woman [Your standard rich guy meets a hooker love story. Highly plausible.]

Some they missed:

• Strictly Ballroom [A great Australian flick. Both romantic and funny.]
• Charade [Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Paris. Pure romance.]
• Sense and Sensibility [The one with Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslett and the great Alan Rickman.]
• Rear Window [Sure, there's that small part about a grisly murder but Grace Kelly and James Stewart have far more chemistry than any of today's stars.]
• To Catch a Thief [Grace Kelly again but this time with Cary Grant on the French Riviera. You can't beat that.]
• A Tale of Two Cities [Avoid the new takes and get the old Ronald Colman version. Every woman gets to the end and shouts, "You chose the wrong guy!"]
• The Lion in Winter [That was a love story, wasn’t it?]