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mermaidsirennikita · 3 months

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I’ve started watching The Artful Dodger and loving it, it’s far better than Bridgerton at actually capturing the essence of a romance novel (my first thought upon seeing Jack and Belle interact was that it could’ve been ripped straight from a romance novel). Do you have any recs for tv shows or movies that have the vibes of a romance novel?

Ooh yes!

Oldie but a goodie and if anyone hasn't seen it they should (and really, the whole trilogy--the second movie gets a bad rap, but I personally so enjoy it, and I love the third movie for a lot of reasons but the "REIGNITE. OUR. LOVE." sequence is absolutely one of them, the "we are gonna FUCK THIS SHIT OUT" vibes are sooo romance novel for me). Bridget Jones's Diary. Mark Darcy is just an amazing hero. Bridget is a legend. Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver is PEAK Hugh Grant, and his introduction in that film is one of the greatest character intros I have ever. Seen in cinema. I see some people knock on it because of things that have aged--Bridget worrying over her weight because it's the early 2000s and super skinny was the trend, the workplace harassment. I don't give a fuck. If you haven't seen Bridget Jones's Diary, you are doing yourself a disservice.

(It is based on a book, but that book is not a romance novel. The movies are.)

Ummm speaking of Hugh Grant, Music & Lyrics is an underrated BANGER and absolutely fucking reads as a romance novel. A washed up has-been pop star begins a creative partnership with the messy neurotic woman who waters his plants? He does a flop attempt at defending her honor to do the guy who did her wrong. There's a grand gesture/grovel moment ffs. It's GREAT. The music is AMAZING. POP! Goes My Heart!

This one is borderline because it is more of a girls trip comedy, but the romance is truly centered so well and is a swoony romance and it features peak Richard Madden and it is again, so underrated. Netflix's Ibiza, dude. Buttoned up marketing girl goes on a business trip to Spain, her two best friends (who are both much wilder than her) accompany her and they go to the club one night and see DJ Richard Madden (LEOOOOO WESSSSST) and he and the main girl have this amazing meet cute that involves someone drawing a dick on her face in glow in the dark marker and him coming to the rescue, but then he has to go to a gig in Ibiza and she and her friends decide to track him down because some people are destined to go to the moon, but her destiny is to FUCK. THAT. DJ. But Harper and Leo's connection is more like love at first sight than pure horniness? I just miss movies that like, unabashedly capture zany happiness and the flutters of first love (and the sex scene is so good???). This movie is amazing and I adore it.

Bros. Look dude. I know Billy Eichner fucked up the marketing for this one. I know he's annoying as hell. Bros is objectively a romance novel movie lol. It's not as inclusive as it could/should be, I will agree with that always--but the romance arc is so good, and it is legit funny, and it has a FAILED GROVEL which we all know is one of my favorite things. And I do think it has a deeply true heart and soul and is really amazing.

Brown Sugar. PEAK Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. It's a slow burn friends to lovers movie in which there is sooooo much sexual tension and so much angst and so much follow the fuck through. Also, Taye Diggs has one of the most magnificent line deliveries of all time with "riCHARD LAWson".

Imagine Me and You. The sapphic romcom we deserve. A bride falls in love at first sight with hot florist Lena Headey while walking down the aisle to marry her groom, as you do. What follows is a woman desperately trying not to cheat on her husband while experiencing extreme sexual tension with Lena Headey. Surprisingly soft and super romantic.

Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022). Required viewing for historical romance novel fans. Obviously based on a book, but again, that book is not a romance lol. The movie is. And it's one of the hottest movies in recent memory. Jack and Emma did the WORK. The kiss right before he goes down on her is maybe my favorite movie kiss of all time.

Obviously. Pride and Prejudice (2005). I shouldn't have to include this, but to be fucking clear lol. I will always maintain that while P&P (the novel) is a predecessor and a shaper of romance novels, it is not a romance novel. It is a contemporary novel with a lot of social commentary and a good love story. This movie? Makes it a full, sweeping romance with some of the best tension ever committed to screen.

Faraway. Omg, an amazing slept-on movie that is a rare romcom featuring a middle-aged woman! Basically, right when her mom dies she finds out her husband is having at min an emotional affair with his younger employee, and she also discovers her mom had a secret property on a Croatian island. She goes there, and is immediately courted by this younger real estate developer guy, but why is she constantly butting heads with the gruff guy who's been living in her mom's house????

Far and Away. Hate to recommend a Tom Cruise film, BUT it is is very romance novel, and it does star Nicole Kidman as well, and I hate to say it but those two did have bomb chemistry when they were married. The Irish accents are rough, but the plot is delightful because he's a poor guy who ends up getting roped into her scheme to leave for America (after his harebrained revenge scheme against her dad fails lol) and they live in a boarding house together pretending to be brother and sister... But like, everyone can tell they aren't because of their extremely obvious sexual tension lol.

When Harry Met Sally. Cliche, but it is a classic every romance lover should see. I'm not a big Billy Crystal fan, but his chemistry with Meg Ryan is MAGIC in this, and you really do get the sense of two people slooowly falling in love without even realizing it until suddenly they do all at once.

#romance novel blogging

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ohmytoddhewitt · 5 years

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I just saw LES MISERABLES (the musical one) and lemme tell yah NOW IM MISERABLE bc it was so good and normal life is so boring

SPOILERS

sooooooo we first have one of my musical numbers ever and Jean val Jean is like mmmmm why does Hugh Jackman look so freaking old in this movie and then I'm like oh yeah makeup hehehe anyways javerts freaking blue suit thing in this scene made me wanna cry bc like wOah he's so different and totally stands out from the inmates and I loved it

Anyway then VJ is free and like yes queen steals some dishes and gets caught and the Bishop dude is all like "lol you forgot some!!!!" And then VJ is in a church thing and has a come to Jesus moment and the cinematography when he shreds the paper and throws it over the cliff omg I gasped it was gorgeous

So then fast forward to VJ as le Mayor and omg the costumes and everything in like those scenes and then later with gavroche and stuff? Like basically all the street scenes? Oh I loved how physically repulsed I was everyone looked so disgustingly dirty and just oooooh shivers

Fantine made me wanna cry so hard and that's that about that I'm totally not gonna dissertate for ten minutes about the fact that Anne Hathaway freaking cut her hair for the part or the aljdskjdjd I felt when "her teeth were pulled out" or how sad and desperate the song I dreamed a Dream is or anything more on that

Ok now young Cosette was freaking adorable and I would die for her and omg my friend who I was watching with? we just laughed and laughed thru the scene with her "parents" as they stole literally everything and then VJ comes in and is like nO.

And next we get FRICKING GAVROCHE AND I LOVE HIM he is the absolute smartest character in the entire movie no doubt he just calls out everyone about everything and then he died and I was like nO you did a bad thing he was perfection and I know it's like "ah war can even kill the youth" but like gavrooooooche

Anyway I'm getting ahead of myself and Marius dear God Marius is beautiful Eddie is a wonderful wonderful human being and like he and Cosette were adorable and literally every time he would come on screen my friend was like "he's so attractive" and then we would proceed to talk about what part of his anatomy happened to be hitting it off at that point (we adore his freckles btw)

I didn't want to pity Eponine but I did and and and and eponine gah saving yo boi like that and then dying????? 10/10 wow amazing

Also let's not forget monsieur le hottie aka enjolras aka I will wear a red coat mainly bc I look absolutely dashing in it

And do you hear the people sing as well as one day more are some of the greatest songs to be written ever like dyhtps makes me want to fight fight fight omg like I can't and then odm is like... ALDJSKDJD idk the satisfaction I got from the culmination in that song is beyond words

Also also also we can't forget VJ dragging Marius thru a freaking sewer bc that's what causes javert to go off the deep end (more or less) and I just loved "that granting me my life today... has killed me even so" like wOah that's some powerful stuff

Empty chairs at empty tables was so so sad and I was very much reminded of bandstand to the nth degree and just the (haha subtle) fourth wall break of "empty chairs at empty tables where my friend will sing no more" like I was crying and it wasn't good

And then MARIUS AND COSETTE GOT MARRIEDDDDD AND I WAS LIKE SHIP SHIP SHIP and then VJ was like #dead and I was like whattttt no stop please but then THEY WERE ALL IN HEAVEN OR WHATER THAT WAS AND THE LOWKEY REPRISE OF DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING AND I WAS LIKE YES YES YES

Overall great movie 10/10 would cry again

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