How are you going to celebrate Valentine’s Day? Children through-out the United States brought boxes of pink-frosted cup-cakes and heart-shaped cookies to their schools and teachers in celebration of this amorous holiday while young lovers with some forsight made reservations for romantic culinary encounters over wine and fondue for a premeditated night of love.
Perhaps you and your significant other are too old for cards & cupcakes and do not want to fight a maitre’d for a table that is not between the kitchen and the bathroom at your local food-spot.
If you are one of those couples that are so into one another that you just want to stay home for dinner, than a romantic love-story may be best for the two of you.
Romantic flicks can range in theme from the romantic-comedy to this historical period-piece where love is found under a bodice and a corset.
To help allay any potential viewing conflicts between mates, we at Gossip Era have compiled a Top Five list for you lovers.
(5) 50 Shades of Grey (2015) No modern list would be complete without 50 Shades of Grey and its over-sexed tale of Bondage, Dominatrix and Sadomasochism, conveniently abbreviated as BDSM. Arguably this soft-porn flick is less about romance and more about deviant sex, yet this film (and novel) is purportedly working wonders in bed-rooms across the world in bringing out the “freaky-deaky” in conservative fornicators everywhere.
(4) The Notebook (2004): If you suggest that you and your mate watch this film, you will never be in the doghouse again. Cited by many die-hard romantics as their favorite film, this movie centers around a man in a retirement home who tells his story of love that he has jotted down in a notebook. The late James Gardner plays the older version of the gentleman while Ryan Gossling depicts the younger version of the character.
(3) Sleepless in Seattle (1993): A perennial favorite directed by Nora Ephron who could fill a Top 10 list of her romantic-comedies alone, from Harry Met Sally (1989) to You’ve Got Mail (1998). Ephron obviously has a thing for Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, coupling them more than once in her films. Both Hanks & Ryan can deftly play “everyman” and “everywoman” which lends to the Ephron films popularity. Sleepless involves Annie (Ryans) falling in love with Sam (Hanks) after hearing the widower’s tale on a radio program. Sam’s son Jonah plays a pivotal role of hooking-up the two leads so you get the cute kid factor in this one.
(2) Titanic (1997): Spoiler Alert! The ship sinks. The story-line may have a predictable ending and the film’s antagonists is but a cold, uncaring iceberg but this near 20 year old epic is a romantic classic. This is the film that made DiCaprio a household name and what’s her name not so much. The eroticism of Jack (DiCaprio) drawing the heroine will make you want to grab the body-paints and get busy. Don’t forget to sing the theme song as you woo your lover to bed. You can even try the “I’m the king of the world!” line pre-coitus if you are so inclined.
(1) Romeo & Juliet: Sure everyone dies in this Shakespearean tale, but the things the protagonists say to one another will make you wish as though you wrote them yourself. Go with the Franco Zeffirelli version from 1968 if you want a classic telling of this famous love-story or go with the the Baz Luhrmann version from 1996 for a modern re-spinning of the tale.
