Top Ten Romance Movies

ITS THROWBACK THURSAY!

Since it is February and indeed valentine’s day, what better way to enjoy it with some of my favourite romantic movie suggestions.

So lets have a look at the Tekks Top Tens AKA Triple T’s romantic movies of all time

As always this is in my opinion and the movies I love and enjoy getting soppy with… If I had someone, so really this is a sort of self-torture… Still fantastic movies, moving on!

10. If Only (2004)

© If Only – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Coming in at number ten is If Only… What? I here some of you say. Well one quiet night about 12 years ago I was sat downstairs flicking through my TV around 1am and suddenly, I see ‘What If’ so I decided to watch it since it had just started and at 1am nothing else is on. My god it was the cheesiest thing I have ever seen but heart-breaking at the same time and I bloody loved it. I wont even give you the run down of what happens, just watch the trailer and then watch it!

9. Dear John (2010)

© Dear John – Sony Pictures/Screen Gems

Well I am telling you now, this isn’t the last time Channing Tatum appears on this list. A standard love story where a soldier who returns home on leave meets and falls in love with a college girl Amanda Seyfried. I don’t care that it got 29% critic score on rotten tomatoes, I am a massive sucker for those cheesy romantic movies (as you may tell by the end of this list). I think I mostly liked this movie for the Father and Son relationship, it was hard to watch but in a good way.

8. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)

© Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist – Sony Pictures/Screen Gems

Yup, I loved the soundtrack that is why it hits this list. So many great mellow tunes that I enjoyed so much I wish I was in the movie. Following two teens who fall in love on a night where both are out looking for their favourite bands hidden show. The chemistry of awkward Michael Cera and loveable Kat Dennings was a great watch, they both brought so much to the movie. An easy watch on a hungover Sunday with plenty of snacks.

7. The Lucky One (2012)

© The Lucky One – Warner Bros. Pictures

Taylor Schilling and Zac Efron are a perfect match in this admittedly cheesy and cliché movie. It does how ever tick all the boxes, two people meet, one has a violent ex, the other has a hard past, there’s a dog, a kid and a supportive grandmother. What else do you need from a romantic movie, not everything has to be new and original, sometimes you just need to say, ‘right let’s just make a standard romance for the romantics to enjoy.’ They did just that in my eyes. Sod rotten tomatoes critic score or 21% it gets a 75% from me.

6. The Vow (2012)

© The Vow – Sony Pictures

Well 2012 surely brought out some romance and here is Channing Tatum again but this time accompanied by Rachel McAdams. She loses her memory so he must make her fall in love with him all over again which doesn’t go exactly to plan. If you like romances then there is no reason why you shouldn’t have a watch of The Vow and ignore the 31% critics gave it, the audience gave it 63% so get a tub of ice-cream and enjoy.

5. Shrek (2001)

© Shrek - Dreamworks

That’s right I did it, if put Shrek on this list. Many people say it’s an adventure comedy, it’s a cartoon, it has a talking donkey in it. And they would be correct, but Shrek and Princess Fiona fall in love and unlike beauty and the beast where a kiss turns him in to a handsome prince it does the opposite and Princess Fiona turns in to a full-time ogre. It shows you that you don’t need to look like a model to find true love, someone out there loves you for exactly who you are and looks don’t matter. How good is that. This will always be a romance movie to me, you guys should view it as one too.

4. Like Crazy (2011)

© Like Crazy – Paramount Pictures

This movie is not a cheesy romance in the way that the main characters rushes to the airport to miss the plane their love is on just to turn around and see them standing there crying saying they couldn’t leave. This movie shows you the decisions you make can not just be undone in a world wind gesture like most romantic movies. It tells you that every action has a reaction, also tackles how to deal with a long-distance relationship, both in a good and bad way.

3. The Notebook (2004)

© The Notebook – New Line Cinema

I was trying to stay away from the obvious selections, but I can’t help it, I am a notebook lover and proud of it. He builds a house, she doesn’t get his letters, her new love is a really nice guy but just not the guy and she doesn’t know what she wants. I think I have pretty much covered it and it was amazing. The ending was such a fitting way to conclude the movie. So, The Notebook is number three so deal with it.

2. Definitely, Maybe (2008)

© Definitely, Maybe – Universal Pictures

Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks are all part of this loveable movie that I feel gets under looked. Reynolds telling his ten-year-old daughter stories of his past loves and she is trying to figure out which one of the stories is how he and her mother met and fell in love. If you haven’t watched this movie, I highly suggest you do. It is an absolute delight and full of heart-warming moments.

1. The First Time (2012)

© The First Time – Samuel Goldwyn Films

This movie, this bloody movie. I can not count how many times I have sat down when I have felt shit and just watched this movie. Britt Robertson and Dylan O’Brien kill it as two characters who meet in an alley way at a party whilst Dylan’s character Dan is rehearsing a letter. He wrote it for the girl he thinks he loves but instead they spend all night sat in the alleyway talking and fall for each other. Then the rest of the story is just a journey to their first time and how awkward it can be. It is done very tactfully and the chemistry between the two actors is very much believable. Just watch this movie and ignore the poor ratings of rotten tomatoes, this is my go-to movie and this will always be 100% to me.

I hope you have enjoyed my top romance movies, you don’t always have to say you love the classics like Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. We aren’t our parents and the classics are great for their time, but we are in a different time and the above list are the movies I have watched and enjoyed and think get lost behind ‘the classics’ so give them a watch.

Do you like these movies? What movies would you of chose? Let me know and lets talk bout it,

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