She's Only Gunning For Your Heart

As some of you may or may not know, I'm getting married this weekend (which may explain why my blogs have been few and 90 percent of my conversations this week have centered around tulle).


I know everyone loves movies. Who doesn't list "movies" as one of their interests on their MySpace, right? But really, movies had a ridiculous role in the formation of my psyche (I don't think psyche is the word I'm looking for here, but it will do.) Like, "movies" were supposed to the understudy, but then "real life experience" got sick and movies had to step in. You know those string-doll things you make out of notebook paper and they open like an accordion? Yeah, I totally made those during school, except my accordion string-dolls were the casts of movies like Con-Air and Air Force One.


So to help myself not be so stressed this week, I decided to make a list of my favorite romantic movies. Granted, my sense of romance might be a little warped (what girl doesn't want her waterbed destroyed by her devotee's scissory fingers?) but each of these movies warm a corner of my twisted little heart.


While You Were Sleeping: Number one, it takes place at Christmas time and everything is more romantic at Christmas. It was on TV the other night and I realized it's a little cheesy and dated, but it's still so cute (the snow globe of Florence!) and so funny that I just couldn't turn the channel.

Corpse Bride: There is very little Tim Burton could do that I wouldn't love (namely, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) but this movie gives a whole new meaning to the idea of 'til death do us part.


Garden State: Natalie Portman and Zach Braff are both too cute for words. I love this movie for several key scenes: 1) the hamster burial 2) the airport scene at the end. I cry every time.



Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Firstly, I love Kate W.'s hair in this movie. Secondly, the whole premise of chasing your love through the dark recesses of your erased memory is so romantic. And the laying-on-the-ice scene and the snowy beach scene. I'm noticing a rather cold theme in all of my favorite romantic movies...




Edward Scissorhands: By far, my absolute favorite favorite favorite romantic movie. Edward makes my heart melt like an ice sculpture. I still remember the very first time I saw it: It was on TV late one school night during my freshman year of high school, and I laid on the edge of my bed in the dark (with the volume turned way down because the rest of my family was asleep) and watched in awe.


I know there are probably some movies I'm forgetting (that I'll no doubt think of after I publish this one) but I can always have a version 2.0.