It seems like I always see romantic movies that cater to a females fantasies, or perspective and I like to know what romantic movies catered to male fantasies or perspectives.
What are men’s favorite romantic movies?
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It seems like I always see romantic movies that cater to a females fantasies, or perspective and I like to know what romantic movies catered to male fantasies or perspectives.
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It seems like I always see romantic movies that cater to a females fantasies, or perspective and I like to know what romantic movies catered to male fantasies or perspectives.
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Mid-20’s, Forgetting Sarah Marshall or Palm Springs are fun. Favorite anti-romance movie is Blue Valentine
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>Musician Harry Washello (Anthony Edwards) sits down at a Los Angeles diner, where he instantly takes an interest in waitress Julie Peters (Mare Winningham). The feeling is mutual, too, so the pair arranges a date for later that day. But things go awry when Harry picks up a random pay phone call from a frantic soldier who warns of a nuclear attack that will hit L.A. within the hour. Scrambling, Harry finds Julie and the two do everything they can to escape to safety.
The entire movie is like an insane LSD fever dream, but at its core its a love story. Regular rom coms and drama stuff is too boring for me
My favorite Romantic movie that appeals to male fantasies is Gladiator
Terminator.
Before you ask, Terminator 2 is my favourite fatherhood movie.
Chunking Express, Titanic
Notting Hill, Palm Springs, Before Sunrise (and sequels) are the three that spring to mind.
Stranger than Fiction has always been my favorite
Terminator has the greatest love story ever told. Reese fell in love with Sarah long after her death. Time itself was a barrier between them. He learned about her through John, and had a picture that he cherished. He came across time for her.
That picture he had, he was always wondering what she was thinking about in the picture. It turns out she was thinking about him, somehow. Specifically, as the picture was taken, she was thinking the words “In the short time we had together, we loved a lifetime’s worth”.
So that picture that he held onto for so long, and fell in love with was a picture of someone who loved him back.
And she raised their son with his father’s strength. Who took that strength and gave it right back to Reese.
Princess Bride
Groundhog Day
Andy Samberg’s character in Palm Springs
Romantic movies??? I am the guy who hates the war movies with the stupid romantic sub plots in them!
You’ve Got Mail
True Romance. Great for history buffs too.
Star Wars revenge of the sith or I give it a year
I think many men tend to notice that romance movies seem to always include cheating. It’s actually hard to think of any romance movie that didn’t involve cheating.
Which i think is one of the reasons men don’t often favor romance movies, even subconsciously.
It’s kind of weird to consider how many movies for decades now have perhaps created a subconscious or conscious fantasy that women will be able to cheat on their boring relationship to have a happy ending with the right dude after 2 hours of Hollywood hyjinks. Once you see it, it’s hard to unsee it.
Die Hard.
Action movies where the woman falls in love with the hero.
It’s called “porn,” and it’s gonna change the world!
American Pie
“The Crow,” (1994) and “Ghost” 1990
Both actually about people in love who truly care for one another, not some “he swept me off my feet after knowing him for just one day!” crap.
Moneyball
The Girl Next Door (not a porno)
I actually liked La La Land. And Casablanca. And maybe Some Like It Hot. But that’s about it.
I could argue that Tin Cup is a romance movie and that I liked it.
Castaway – the original with Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn
50 1st dates
The number one for me will forever be “Some Kind of Wonderful”. Then other top ones are “You’ve Got Mail” and “10 Things I Hate About You”.
Not a movie but I love Jane Austen’s books. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a banger too though not entirely a romance.
The 1995 tv series for Pride and prejudice is a nice adaptation
50 First Dates? Adam Sandler movies I would assume.
Can i say a silent voice?
Once; 50 First Dates
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. They had their memories of each other erased and still found each other.
“The Accidental Tourist”.
Kung Fu Hustle. That ending always gets me for some reason
Sin City.
Shoot em up.
I mean, there are “manly” movies that aren’t in the romance genre but many women will watch them and not really incorrectly find themselves announcing “Hmm, this was actually kinda just a love story.” Like the original ROCKY movie. Aside from one iffy moment where you have to hunker down during a cringey moment as the male sort of powers through her shyness, it’s ridiculously sweet and cute. The movie is oddly a quiet, thoughtful character piece. The sequels went wild but the first one was very smart and the love story was very sweet (but also had some very real, kinda dark moments dealing with her family drama).
There are movies that have a main plot aside from the romance connection where the romance is perhaps my favorite part. Like the Will Ferrell movie STRANGER THAN FICTION. Ferrell is an IRS auditor who suddenly starts hearing a voice narrating his life like it’s a novel. That’s the main story. And the relationship he starts during the film is just very cute as a subplot.
Another movie where I love the romance is the Josh Hartnett movie LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN. It’s a crime story involving mistaken identity where two different gangs approach a guy believing him to be a different man who owes them money because he made big bets and hasn’t paid what he owes. There’s action and violence and very stylized slick dialogue that feels like it belongs in an old-timey crime novel. It’s very much not a movie in the romance genre. And yet the romance is one of my favorites in film. Such a cute romance between the guy and the woman who lives across the hall. Their banter is amazing. Some of my favorite romance banter I’ve ever seen in a movie not written by Nora Ephron. She’s funny and cool. She’s a nurse or a coroner or something. But she’s bored enough with normal life to find his predicament super fascinating. So she’s just down to help him solve the mystery of why these two crime organizations are both after him all of a sudden. She literally goes on little missions with him as he tries to solve the problem. She gets to take part in the fun a little bit, which is nice compared to all the movies out there where the woman is just a wet blanket obstacle to all the fun shenanigans the man wants to go take part in during the show/movie.
Natural born killers… it is a love story. But with murder along the way.
Bridesmaids (2011), Wedding Crashers (2005), Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (2004)
The documentary titled “Armageddon” starring Harry Stamper. Harry ultimately sacrificed himself for the greater good and to make sure his daughter Grace could make a life with A.J.
My husband favorite all time movie is Dirty Dancing. He has a thing for Patrick Swayze (no, he’s not gay lol)
My favorite is probably 10 Things I Hate About You 🤔
I love While You Were Sleeping. Sandra Bullock plays Lucy as just a hilariously awkward, fun, lovable character. And Bill Pullman is also awesome opposite her. And his whole family is so funny! The dinner table conversation always gets me. Also, “You’re disrupting the Mass!” “Who made you the Pope?”
I actually enjoy Hope Floats, with Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr.
And of course, Bernice Matisse.
The only romantic film I’ve ever seen and liked was Notting Hill. Very well written. Well acted. Secondary characters were not one dimensional.
Silver linings playbook, without a doubt
The Before Sunrise trilogy.
Ethan Hawke and Jule Delpy are in all three and I won’t spoil them for those who haven’t seen, but it tracks them throughout their lives, from young 20s to mid 40s. Each film is set over a period of hours and they really struck a chord with me. I understood the characters more and more as I got older.
Pretty Woman
A Silent Voice. It’s an anime movie but still worth the watch
A Summer’s Tale. It feels very genuine and I find the different characters intriguing.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115940/
Princess Bride
Conan the Barbarian
Chocolat
A Lot like Love
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
You didn’t specify straight men lol
But I loved Call Me By Your Name
Star Wars.
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