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[AmberJamie]

The greatest love stories and love scenes of all-time....and the not-so great.

One in particular is Jack/Rose from Titanic. Yeah, the movie is overrated and all, but the chemistry between Dicaprio and Winslet is great and makes the story believable. However, their sex scene is kinda lame (especially the hand-on-the-misted-window part) and is copied way too much now. I also liked the Neo/Trinity story from the Matrix (now their love scene? Hot).

[AimingforYoko]

Tom Cruise. Rebecca DeMornay. El Train. 'Nuff said.

[CantThinkUpName]

Ben Affleck. Jennifer Lopez. Gigli. Worst sex scene ever.

[hardy har]

I haven't had the pleasure (ZING!) of watching Gigli, but can the sex scene possibly be worse than the sex scene with Jessie Spano and Kyle MacLachlan in Showgirls?!

[CantThinkUpName]

I haven't seen Showgirls in awhile but the Gigli sex scene always sticks out in my mind. It is horribly shot and Ben Affleck looks stupider and more bored than usual.

[zelmia]

Tracy and Hepburn in Adam's Rib. No sex (of course), but there were still plenty of fireworks.

[GeoBQn]

I haven't had the pleasure (ZING!) of watching Gigli, but can the sex scene possibly be worse than the sex scene with Jessie Spano and Kyle MacLachlan in Showgirls?!

The words "epileptic dolphin" spring to mind. The champagne room scene was something else. If all strippers danced like Elizabeth Berkley in that scene, they'd need weekly chiropractor sessions!

[Split Ends]

The words "epileptic dolphin" spring to mind.

That's a very clear illustration. I've never seen the scene, but I feel like I can imagine it.

[furrylump]

Best couples
Scottie and Madelaine/Judy in Vertigo. A fucked up, unhealthy, very wrong relationship between two very flawed people that was fascinating and totally made the movie.
Veronica and J.D. in Heathers. I don't know about "totally made the movie," but apart from that, see above.
Joel and Clementine from Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Some of the above, some of the below. The "awwwww", works much better than it logically should.
Amelie and Nino. Awwwwww. I love them on the bike at the end.
Eve and Wall-E. The cutest damn robot love there ever was.
The whole mess in Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. I think love triangles very very rarely work well, but the three-pronged love... spork... thing? That was one of the exceptions, primarily because they mostly played it for fun instead of angst and had no illusions about the person at the centre being selfish and insensitive, but she was still quite likable because that's the magic of Amy Adams. Speaking of whom, her and Lee Pace as the eventual couple? Dream casting.

Worst love scenes
The Hills Have Eyes, trailer rape. Yes, it was supposed to be disturbing, so it achieved its goal. It was also completely pointless and gratuitous. Making a rape scene disturbing is about as hard as making a cat furry, and doing it just for the sake of it is not cool.

ETA: Typos are bad.

Edited by furrylump, Apr 1, 2009 @ 4:34 AM.

[DocHopper]

A love scene I always remember was Mel Gibson/Michelle Pfeifer in Tequila Sunrise. The scene in the hot tub? That was pretty hot. Plus I really liked the love triangle aspect of the movie. The movie's a little dated now, and cheesier than I remembered, but I loved it as a teenager.

[Split Ends]

One of my favorites, which would have been nostalgia talking until I watched the scene again recently, is the love scene between Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese in Terminator. How often is the guy a virgin, and the lovemaking both hot but incredibly tender and sweet? Plus, the music in the scene is the only non-electronic music in the whole movie, but it's still the Terminator theme, just made beautiful by a piano. To this day, Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor is one of my favorite movie couples.

I'm also a big sucker for the Arwen/Aragorn thing throughout the Lord of the Rings trilogy. They spend 99% of the movie apart, but that desperately relieved kiss at Aragorn's coronation was perfect. Although apparently, according to the internet, Aragorn's true love is Legolas.

I also really enjoyed Vianne and Roux's relationship in Chocolat. It bothered the heck out of me to read the book later and learn Vianne had psychic powers which revealed Roux and Josephine as destined for each other. I much prefer the book to the movie, even though I try to tell myself to think of them as entirely separate things. Johnny Depp brought the charm while Juliette Binoche was pitch perfect in her sexuality.

[AmberJamie]

I was watching the Underworld movies (I know) and I was surprised at how much I liked the story of Selene/Michael. They actually seem to really care for one another. Also, their love scene didn't seem as random as the ones in the "Rise of the Lycans" movie nor the WATCHMEN movie.

Edited by AmberJamie, Mar 29, 2009 @ 12:29 PM.

[hardy har]

I have a strange fondness for Uwe Boll films because they are so damn bad. So, I'm nominating the sex scene in Bloodrayne as one of the worst committed to film. Sweet lord, it was so bad my friends and I could not stop laughing.

I have to give love to these movie couples because they are some of my faves:

Jesse & Celine in Before Sunrise/Sunset

Sarah/Jannik/Michael in Brothers

Inge & Lars in Sweet Land

Casim & Roisin in A Fond Kiss

Placid & Gemma in The Rage In Placid Lake

I was watching the Underworld movies (I know) and I was surprised at how much I liked the story of Selene/Michael.

I haven't seen any of the sequels, but I remember renting Underworld expecting to hate it and was pleasantly surprised by the whole thing.

Edited to a linkage because . . . well . . . because I am and expert procrastinator.

Edited by hardy har, Mar 29, 2009 @ 5:23 PM.

[furrylump]

I'm also a big sucker for the Arwen/Aragorn thing throughout the Lord of the Rings trilogy. They spend 99% of the movie apart, but that desperately relieved kiss at Aragorn's coronation was perfect.

I didn't like the couple as a whole, because Liv Tyler bugs me and I don't think they gave her much of a personality or any kind of explanation or reason for the bigass love between them. But that kiss was indeed awesome.

[zelmia]

Is there ever any "reason" for "bigass love" though? ;)

[Split Ends]

Well, IMO, Tolkien couldn't write romance to save his life, but I think the "bigass love" in the book was supposed to be something about Aragorn proving his worth, etc. In the movie, I think it was supposed to be a demonstration of his sacrifice for duty (he gets a line his mother is given in the book, when Elrond says, "I give hope to men," Aragorn responds, "I keep none for myself."). I hated that they inexplicably made Arwen terminal in the last movie -- made no god damned sense! -- but Arwen's faithfully faithy faith is meant to be an echo of the "believe" message throughout the trilogy.

The movie does a better job expounding on the love story and Arwen, that's for sure. In the book, Arwen sews a nice banner for him. She also sings for him, and Gimli and Eomer debate her beauty. That's about it. Almost all of the love story is developed in the appendix to the book. Seriously, Tolkien, not much of a love story guy.

I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff, admittedly. I read one Tom Clancy book, found two separate lines about romantic love (about 1,000 pages apart), and that's what I remember.

[varcinie]

It may just be because I find the rest of the movie grim, cold-looking, and full of unpleasant surprises (not to say it isn't good), but I absolutely adore Marge Gunderson and her husband, Norm, in Fargo. They're so wonderfully sweet taking care of each other, it's perfect in a very natural, low-key kind of way. It really seems to ground the film, having such a sympathetic main character, who is female, a cop, pregnant, very smart, and very in love with her husband, who feels the same.

[furrylump]

Admittedly, I don't think I've seen The Two Towers since it first came out, when I was ten or eleven, so I probably missed the subtext of any Aragorn/Arwen developments in that. But I just don't like that sort of couple in general. You know, bigass love, melodrama, angst, sappiness, we were destined to be together ect. "Destined to be together," doesn't make that much sense unless they're supposed to have a kid who's going to grow up to be a superhero, or something like that where it actually makes a difference in the world. Like, if destiny exists, it'd either only arrange really special big events, or it'd arrange everything. I don't think the Fates of the Universe would be sitting around shipping Aragwen or Edwella. Besides, couples who are like that don't feel real at all IMO because of the angst and melodrama, and they're not a fantasy either. I don't want a relationship full of angst and melodramatic shit, even if it is the bigass love kind. I much prefer realistic couples who are just happily together, unless "fucked up," is what the writers were aiming for.

And that reminds me, Zoe and Wash from Serenity totally rock.

Edited by furrylump, Mar 30, 2009 @ 8:23 PM.

[NoWillToResist]

I think Padme and Anakin (Star Wars) were made for this thread.

I'm still traumatized by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann in Knocked Up. They weren't the main couple, but damn.

I am a woman and I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be on the woman's side. But I spent most of that movie rooting for Paul's character to divorce the crazy bitch. Talk about a shrill, paranoid shrew. You would rather your husband have an affair than be in a fantasy baseball league? Really?

I find that...ridiculous and insulting to women who have suffered through a cheating spouse.

After that statement, the character lost me and never got me back.

Edited by NoWillToResist, Mar 31, 2009 @ 12:15 PM.

[BondGirl]

I think Padme and Anakin (Star Wars) were made for this thread.

Good or bad? Because I honestly thought they were pretty sweet in Episode 2.

It may just be because I find the rest of the movie grim, cold-looking, and full of unpleasant surprises (not to say it isn't good), but I absolutely adore Marge Gunderson and her husband, Norm, in Fargo. They're so wonderfully sweet taking care of each other, it's perfect in a very natural, low-key kind of way. It really seems to ground the film, having such a sympathetic main character, who is female, a cop, pregnant, very smart, and very in love with her husband, who feels the same.

Not to mention possible being the only movie in history that featured a pregnant woman who WASN'T in labor at the film's end.

GWTW's Rhett and Scarlett. The very thing that attracted them to each other--their similar temperaments and personalities is the very thing that drove them apart--each too foolish and stubborn to realize or admit how they felt about each other.

The Fugitive's Dr. and Mrs. Kimble. Though we only see their relationship in flashbacks, it's enough to know how much he loved her and make his devastation at her murder, and the grief and rage driving his pursuit of her killer completely believable.

[NoWillToResist]

I think Padme and Anakin (Star Wars) were made for this thread.

Good or bad? Because I honestly thought they were pretty sweet in Episode 2.

Heh, my bad. Sorry! I did not like them. Found them wooden and utterly unconvincing.

[CantThinkUpName]

Good or bad? Because I honestly thought they were pretty sweet in Episode 2.

That scene in the field? I never bought into their relationship for a second. I thought they were both so wooden and so lame. I was rooting for that poet she talked about to come back and sweep her off her feet. Of course it didn't help having them meet when Anakin was 8 and she looked pretty much the same age in Episode 2 as in Episode 1.

Joel and Clememtine from Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Some of the above, some of the "awwwww", works much better than it logically should.

I think it's one of the best romantic couples/romantic movies for that reason. I much prefer unhealthy relationships to healthy ones. Maybe because I prefer damaged people to non-damaged people. I think there's more drama and more realism when a relationship is based on mutual dysfunction. Eternal Sunshine did a perfect job of showing how the ups and downs of a relationship, the simple special moments two people will share, and how one partner creates a warped positive image of the other person in their head.

I also found the relationship in The Fountain to function in a similar vein in how that film shows how obsessed good love can make someone, at the expense of everything else in one's life.

It's also part of the reason why I consider Annie Hall to be so transplendent. Annie and Alvy weren't a perfect couple but you saw why they worked, why they didn't and why it affected each other so much.

And while I do enjoy the old school screwball comedies like His Girl Friday and It Happened One Night, when it comes to my favorite couples, I need it to come from a damaged place. If something is too perfect, I find it false and can't get into the coupling. But if people can get together in spite of (or because of) their issues, that's when I can begin buying into it.

Edited by CantThinkUpName, Mar 31, 2009 @ 11:15 PM.

[hardy har]

So, my brother is visiting and he was browsing through the Free Movies on demand and he decided we should rewatch a movie was saw a bunch of times when we were little: Howard The Duck.

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

What? Who? How in the? Why did? Whaaaa . . . .?

Seriously. We called our mother an demanded to know why she allowed up to watch that when we were kids. Her answer was, "You two were so distracted by the talking duck that you didn't notice anything else." We tried to inform her that, yes, we technically didn't remember anything other than a talking duck who played the guitar, but that she was missing the point. We were attempting to bask in childhood memories and due to her prior negligence, we informed her that instead of basking in memories we'd been permanently scarred. She told us to suck it up. Dammit.

We contemplated turning off the movie when the full shot of the centerfold in PLAYDUCK magazine was shown, but we didn't. If only we had followed our instincts we would've been spared the "Lea Thompson attempts to seduce and get it on with a fucking duck!" scene that featured a DUCK PENIS SIZED CONDOM.

I will never be the same again.

Edited by hardy har, Apr 3, 2009 @ 11:03 PM.

[CantThinkUpName]

Lea Thompson as a punk rocker, Tim Robbins as a crazy scientist. What can go wrong?

[tip and fall]

Heh, my bad. Sorry! I did not like them. Found them wooden and utterly unconvincing.

Hee! Me too! On the plus side, my friends and I have a great time quoting them in the movie (mainly from Episode 2).

"I love you...truly...deeply...love you..." She left out the 'madly', but I'm still tempted to burst into Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply" every time I hear that line.

And Anakin was completely stalkeriffic. What more could you ask for?

[furrylump]

hardy har, I remember that movie was on a list of the worst nudity/sex scenes ever in [presumably non-porno] films in Empire. That's a Australian film magazine, they probably don't sell it in other countries except for New Zealand. I think it got the top spot. It wasn't for the seduction scene, it was because we saw a female duck's boobs, tits and all.

The attempted seduction is up on Youtube. Holy shite, is that fucked up. It wouldn't have been quite so bad, except they had to keep mentioning the duck thing. "Animal magnetism," "find satisfaction in the animal kingdom," and all that. I can't imagine watching that without any warning, thinking you were in for some clean, wholesome, childhood-nostalgia fun. I didn't spot the duck-condom, though. Was that after those three guys came in? That's about when the Youtube clip ends.

ETA: I am a dope, and Empire is made in Britain, not Australia. Should have seen that coming, we would never make a film magazine that's actually good. On the upside, I love Britain even more now.

Edited by furrylump, Apr 8, 2009 @ 12:43 AM.

[Batman Beatles]

We contemplated turning off the movie when the full shot of the centerfold in PLAYDUCK magazine was shown, but we didn't. If only we had followed our instincts we would've been spared the "Lea Thompson attempts to seduce and get it on with a fucking duck!" scene that featured a DUCK PENIS SIZED CONDOM.

We also get a brief view of female duck tits.

[GoldenWoman]

One of my favorite onscreen couples was Rachel Marion and Frank Farmer in "The Bodyguard". The chemistry between Houston and Costner was amazing. My favorite scenes were when they hook up and when he sees her at the airport and "I will Always Love You" is playing. Both scenes are so beautifully done and they just make me melt.

George Clooney and Michelle Pfifer in "One Fine Day". They are adorable together and the chemistry is sweet.

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in "Speed" and "The Lakehouse". These two have aweome chemistry on and off the screen. I love the banter they had going in Speed. The Lakehouse wasn't the greatest movie but the possibility of them not getting together was heartwrenching.

[hardy har]

We also get a brief view of female duck tits.

I don't know what was scarier. Seeing duck tits, or the fact that they were complete with nipples.

The attempted seduction is up on Youtube. Holy shite, is that fucked up. It wouldn't have been quite so bad, except they had to keep mentioning the duck thing. "Animal magnetism," "find satisfaction in the animal kingdom," and all that. I can't imagine watching that without any warning, thinking you were in for some clean, wholesome, childhood-nostalgia fun. I didn't spot the duck-condom, though. Was that after those three guys came in? That's about when the Youtube clip ends.

I think it's a scene or two before that clip starts. She's snooping in Howard's wallet and finds the duck condom. We drank many a beer to cope and it may have been from an earlier scene where she was snooping through his stuff.

I was googling HtD and stumbled in the these lists from IFC and Nerve:

50 Greatest Sex Scenes in Cinema

50 Worst Sex Scenes in Cinema --> Howard the Duck is at number 45. Heh.

ETA: I added linkage to your quote so that others may share in the creepy WTFness. I can't believe the movie was only rated PG.

Edited by hardy har, Apr 4, 2009 @ 8:25 PM.