What's Your Favorite Love Movie
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chocalate_topaz
I wanna be your lover...
Brown Sugar
LadyLuck13 said:
My wife, and I saw it at the movies, she loved it, I thought it was OK.
JSTUS said:
Great movie.
For the NICE Guy, they're:
Mahogany (Success is nothing, unless you have someone to share it with)
King Kong
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
An Officer & A Gentleman
Gone With The Wind
Pretty Woman
Romantic Comedies:
Boomerang
Hav Plenty
Sprung
Deliver Us From Eva
He Said She Said
What Women Want
The Wedding Singer
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D-NICE said:
Gotta go with ya on that one, D. I know alot of folks don't like the movie for the period it represents, but it was more about the loves and lives of Katie Scarlett O'Hara than slavery and the civil war. After all was said and done, Scarlett was nothing but an old south FREAK!! :lol:
Here's a few more good ones:
Lady Sings The Blues - Ms. Ross deserved an Oscar for that one, I don't care what anybody says.
Paris Blues - Sidney, Dihann, Newman and Woodward...didn't get much better than that back in the 60's.
For Love of Ivy - Poitier, Abbey Lincoln. 'Nuff said.
She's Gotta Have It - this one might have been more of a "freak" story than a love story. Nola Dancy was not a one-man woman. She said so herself.
One other one I forgot...."Duel in the Sun" - An old West version of "Gone with the Wind," but there was nothin' "prim and prissy" about Pearl Chavez. She was a straight up Indian/Creole FREAK, that had TWO BROTHERS fighting over her.!! One of them even tried to KILL the other one! May have actually been more of a "lust" story than a love story. I guess that's why the critics called it "Lust In The Dust."
Just think how this 1947 movie might have looked if the censors back then hadn't got hold of it.
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chocalate_topaz
I wanna be your lover...
J4J said:
Yes, it was good. It definitely hit the stereotypes on the head.
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"Brown Sugar" needed a little "sweetner" if you ask me. I don't think they knew which direction they wanted to take with that one. Yeah, it had some "pretty" black folks in it, but it was still kinda bland.
"Love Jones" will stand the test of time. It's one of those movies folks will be talking about 30 years from now. I think it set the standard for movies like "Brown Sugar," "Love and Basketball," and "Deliver Us from Eva."
From the music, to the setting, lighting and even the occupations of the two main characters simply "flowed" with the whole theme of the movie. Even down to the playing of "In A Sentimental Mood" on a RECORD rather than a CD, gave it that real "old school" movie flavor.
"Love Jones" will stand the test of time. It's one of those movies folks will be talking about 30 years from now. I think it set the standard for movies like "Brown Sugar," "Love and Basketball," and "Deliver Us from Eva."
From the music, to the setting, lighting and even the occupations of the two main characters simply "flowed" with the whole theme of the movie. Even down to the playing of "In A Sentimental Mood" on a RECORD rather than a CD, gave it that real "old school" movie flavor.
Love & Basketball, and Brown Sugar were OK, but (IMO) Brown Sugar, hurt Love & Basketball's place in black movie history, because they were the same movie, with the exception of the basis of the movie, and leading actors.
Change Omar Epps, & Taye Diggs, and change it from basketball to hip - hop, and wham the same movies.
I don't know if The Wood, or The Best Man (though similiar movies sort of like BS & L&B), can be classified as love stories, but they were some cool date movies, that I didn't mind seeing.
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Change Omar Epps, & Taye Diggs, and change it from basketball to hip - hop, and wham the same movies.
I don't know if The Wood, or The Best Man (though similiar movies sort of like BS & L&B), can be classified as love stories, but they were some cool date movies, that I didn't mind seeing.
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I can agree with you and DNICE on this one. LOVE JONES...its the rain....the mood...the dancing....it is just one of those that I pull out every now and then and I never get tired of seeing hearing Larenz say, "blues in my left thigh trying to become the funk in my right..." and then watching Nia say she was dedicating this to a "special someone....but I don't see him tonight...***sniff*** ***Sniff***..."
I can watch alone or with my hubby although he does not like watching the same thing over and over again. It is one of those movies you pull out when it is raining outside and you just wanna stay in the bed....
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One of the "coolest" scenes (among many) in that movie, is Darius and Nina on the motorcycle on their way to Savon's (Isaiah Washington's) crib for the set he was hosting. It only lasted about 10-12 seconds, but it was just "something" about it.
I think I might have to invite someone over to the crib to watch that one this weekend....either before or after we see Superman Returns.
I think I might have to invite someone over to the crib to watch that one this weekend....either before or after we see Superman Returns.
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Yeah...it was "nice". I liked the Steppers set. I also liked when she came back with Wood and Darius ran after her when Wood told her to "walk her ass home"...Darius say, "Let me call you a cab or something...out her stomping up down the street like somebody stolt your bike..."
I liked that even though he was MAD at her for being there with Wood...he still helped her...AND I liked that she was there with Wood, not feeling comfortable but she got mad at Wood for trying to use her to hurt Darius Lovehall...
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J4J said:Yeah...it was "nice". I liked the Steppers set. I also liked when she came back with Wood and Darius ran after her when Wood told her to "walk her ass home"...Darius say, "Let me call you a cab or something...out her stomping up down the street like somebody stolt your bike..."
I liked that even though he was MAD at her for being there with Wood...he still helped her...AND I liked that she was there with Wood, not feeling comfortable but she got mad at Wood for trying to use her to hurt Darius Lovehall...
In the end, all the main characters (well, maybe except Wood/Bill Bellamy) were happy. Nina and Darius standing in the rain.
Savon's wife and kid came back home. He looked up at Heaven, as if to say "thank you Lord."
