The Ghostbusters movies have the romance between Peter and Dana as a subplot, but it's certainly not the main focus.
Just tryin' a little spicy talk.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 15, 2013 6:04:36 am PST #23557 of 30000
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Jessica - Feb 15, 2013 6:23:03 am PST #23558 of 30000
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What are some good/enjoyable movies where love/romance is an important factor to the story, but you wouldn't really classify them as a romance or rom-com?
I'm having a hard time coming up with movies of any genre where love/romance isn't an important factor to the story. Hell, The Matrix has a romantic subplot in the end.
Una - Feb 15, 2013 6:26:13 am PST #23559 of 30000
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le nubian - Feb 15, 2013 7:45:56 am PST #23560 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Kalshane,
In answer to your question, my first reply is a bitter one:
"Message in a Bottle" but I have extreme hatred for that movie, and I believe that while that movie was marketed as a romance movie there is nothing romantic about the movie in the least.
My second reply is more serious: "Terminator"
Calli - Feb 15, 2013 8:23:26 am PST #23561 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Sean K - Feb 15, 2013 9:17:57 am PST #23562 of 30000
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What are some good/enjoyable movies where love/romance is an important factor to the story, but you wouldn't really classify them as a romance or rom-com?
Essentially any movie where the love story is the B plot, instead of the A plot. Which is why I also agree that Princess Bride and Gross Pointe Blank are indeed romance movies, as the romance is really the A plot in those movies. Also in Groundhog Day.
My second reply is more serious: "Terminator"
Love this. Yeah, romance B plot.
I have been doing a lot of screenwriting lately, so I've got film structure on the brain these days.
Atropa - Feb 15, 2013 9:42:26 am PST #23563 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
What are some good/enjoyable movies where love/romance is an important factor to the story, but you wouldn't really classify them as a romance or rom-com?
Zombieland.
Scrappy - Feb 15, 2013 11:52:38 am PST #23564 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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Kalshane - Feb 15, 2013 3:47:44 pm PST #23565 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
There's a lot of movies that have a romantic sub-plot, but if you removed it, it wouldn't change the outcome of the movie that much. (I was about to say removing Venkman's pursuit of Dana wouldn't change much in Ghostbusters, but then I remembered that the only reason he was really focusing on her case was because he thought she was hot. Though I want to say that's more gonnads than romantic.)
I will concede The Princess Bride as a romance and Gross Pointe Blank was a (kind of dark) rom-com. Though that's not the first word that I would use to describe either of those movies.
The Terminator is a good one.
I really need to see Zombieland one of these days. I'm annoyed I didn't take advantage when Netflix had it available for streaming.
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2013 4:09:08 pm PST #23566 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What would you describe The Princess Bride as? I can see that argument about the book, but not the movie. The title is about marriage, and the A plot is a couple who's torn apart and reunites despite death and kidnapping. There's a bit of other stuff, but in the movie, the sick boy is the B plot, and dethroning Humperdinck and avenging Montoya Sr's murder are secondary to the "rescue my love" mission.