The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
Directed by Jim Fall
Written by Susan Estelle Jansen, Ed Decter, and John J. Strauss
Starring Hillary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Clayton Snyder
Love & Other Drugs (2010)
Directed by Edward Zwick
Screenplay by Charles Randolph, Edward Zwick, and Marshal Herskovitz
Based on the novel Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway
Watched on 12/26
★★★☆☆
Favorite lines:
1. "I love you."
"You don't understand."
"I've never said that to anyone before."
2. "You need someone to take care of you."
"No, I don't!"
"Everybody does."
3. "I have never cared about anybody or anything on my entire life... and then you... didn't see me that way. I have never known anyone who'd actually believe that I was enough until I met you. And then you made me believe it, too, so, unfortunately, I need you."
4. "Let's just say in some alternate universe, there's a couple just like us, okay? Only she's healthy and he's perfect. And their world is about how much they're going to spend on vacation or who's in a bad mood that day, or whether they feel guilty about having a cleaning lady. I don't want to be those people. I want us. You. This."
5. "Sometimes, the things you want the most don't happen and what you least expect happens. I don't know. You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever."
Before Midnight (2013)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Written by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy
Starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy
Watched on 12/23
★★★★☆
Okay, so this is love. THIS IS THE HARSH REALITY OF LOVE. In this film, we realize that love isn't all rainbows and butterflies or summer of '94. Sometimes, love is all Before Sunrise. But, heck, most of the time, it's this—it's Before Midnight. Most of the time, it's putting up with all the crap the other person in the relationship has to give.
This film got me even more convinced that I cannot have children. I cannot have children. Don't get me wrong—I think being able to conceive and give birth and have a child is a beautiful thing. But that "beautiful thing" just isn't for me. Nope. Sorry. I mean, I just don't see myself nurturing a human being from birth to the day they turn 18.
But, if anything, this film showed me how beautiful love can be in all its rawness and imperfection.
Again, as always, here are the lines from the film that I liked:
1. "I'm 41 and I've loved only you."
2. "We have a thing of putting our laptop by the pillow and fall asleep together."
3. "That's the thing that fucks us up, right. This idea of a soulmate, of someone who will come to complete us and save us from having to take care of ourselves."
4. "Will you be able to put up with me for another 56 years?"
"I am looking forward to it."
5. "I know you better than I know anybody else in the planet."
Hey, I know these are quite a few considering the fact that this film is mainly dialog, but, believe me when I say that I liked a lot more lines besides these. I just wasn't able to type them all because there were too many of them. Haha.
Before Sunset (2004)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Written by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy
Watched on 12/23
★★★★☆
That didn’t feel like 80 minutes at all.
Favorite lines:
1. "Everyone wants to believe in love. It sells."
2. "What I really wanted to do was to find the things that could be fixed and try to fix them."
"I always thought you'd be doing something cool like that."
3. "I know it's weird, but there are things to be optimistic about."
4. "Let me break the news for you, okay: the world is a mess right now."
5. "I realize that there are a lot of serious problems in the world."
6. "There's more awareness out there, right? People are going to fight back. You know, I mean, I think the world might be getting better because people like you are educated into speaking out."
7. "I agree with what you're saying, but, at the same time, it's dangerous. An imperialist country can use that kind of thinking to justify their economic greed."
"Any particular imperialistic country you have in mind there, Frenchy?"
8. "Do you think it's true that if we never wanted anything, we'd never be unhappy?"
9. "Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing."
10. "There's so many things I want to do and I end up doing not much."
11. "To truly communicate with people is very hard to do."
12. "I think it's the same with people. I see in them in little details, so specific to each other, that move me, and that I miss, and I will always miss. You can never replace anyone because everyone is made of such beautiful, specific details."
13. "I'm a strong independent woman in my professional life. I don't need a man to feed me, but I still need a man to love me, and that I could love, you know."
14. "The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil."
Before Sunrise (1995)
Directed by Richard Linklater
Written by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan
Starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy
Watched on 12/23
★★★★★
This is, by far, my most favorite romance film EVER.
Ethan Hawke was so cute, omg?
I loved their every conversation. I love how this film was driven entirely by dialog. It was so beautiful that way. And so romantic.
This wasn't explicitly said in the film and there wasn't a line that said something like this, but, this film made me realize that all romantic relationships are, first and foremost, friendships. There would be days when a couple wouldn't act like lovers but just good ol' friends, talking about life and government and politics and feminism and death and revolution and stuff.
I also love how, toward the end of the film, there was a montage of the places they've been in.
As always, here are my favorite lines from the film:
a. "I wish I had met you earlier. I really like talking to you."
b. "Media is the new form of fascism."
c. "If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something."
d. "Loving someone and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?"
e. "I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away."
f. "I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone—the way he's going to part his hair, which shirt he's going to wear that day, knowing the exact story he'd tell in a given situation. I'm sure that's when I know I'm really in love."
g. "You don't want to see me again?"
"No, of course I do. If somebody gave me the choice right now of to never see you again or to marry you, I would marry you."
Stuck in Love (2012)
Written and directed by Josh Boone
Starring Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins
Watched on 12/23
★★★☆☆
Watching romance movies during marup o'clock is never a good idea
Anyway, here are my favorite lines from the film:
1. "You've never been in love?"
"If love is setting a place at the table for someone who is never coming home, I think I'll pass."
2. "A writer is the sum of their experiences. Go get some."
3. "I made a promise to you and I intend to keep it."
4. "I don't want to get hurt."
"I'm not going to hurt you."
5. "I know it's your first heartbreak. I know it hurts. Nothing hurts like the first one."
6. "She's coming back."
"What makes you so sure?"
7. "What are you doing here?"
"I got a little lost. I was wondering if there's still a place for me here. And I completely understand if there isn't because I know that I really don't deserve it."
The Dreamers (2003)
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Written by Gilbert Adair
Based on the novel The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
Starring Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green
The Ghost Bride (2017)
Directed by Chito S. Roño
Screenplay by Chito S. Roño, Charlson L. Ong, and Cathy Camarillo
Starring Kim Chiu, Matteo Guidicelli, Christian Bables
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