Monthly Archives: February 2015

Movies and Romantic Videos

Movies and Romantic Videos

There was a time when music videos acted as trailers for the films that they were from. Some of the most romantic songs of all time are from movies. It amazes me how a song can take me back to a place and time in my life and that song is usually from a movie that I saw. These are some of the best that I could locate. Almost all of them are from the 1980s and beyond because that is when the music video really began.

First up is a video from a version of robin Hood that got it right. When romance is the center of the story it has always worked well. Robin Hood like so many other great stories is really just a tale of a love between one man and one woman.

The next is a song that you hardly ever hear, but the song along with the video and the movie are all unforgettable. The movie was the Princess Bride.

The next song and video is from Dirty Dancing, proving that not all romantic songs have to be ballads.

Same leading man and a completely different kind of romantic film. The movie was Ghost and the song is a classic.

No collection of music videos from romantic films could be complete without the biggest and best of them all. The movie is of course Titanic and the video is My Heart Will Go On.

I would now like to post two bonus videos because they are two of my personal favorites.
The director of both films, Rocky and the Karate Kid 2 would most likely argue that both films are romances at their heart. Stallone has said that with out the romance his Rocky does not work as a film and would not have won best picture. I am do not have to tell anyone who is a fan of the second Karate Kid film that it is a romance disguised as an action film. This song proves that point.

The last video is from a romance that is in danger of being forgotten. Please take a day, perhaps Valentines day, to check out Four Weddings and a Funeral.

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Movie Couples, Twice the Love

Some of the best and most memorable films that we have seen feature on screen couples that have done a series of films together. This post is about those couples who have fallen in love at least twice on screen. The most memorable of these couple and the most successful of all time are of course William Powell and Myrna Loy. Famous for the Thin Man films they also starred in Double Wedding, Libeled Lady, I Love You Again and Love Crazy. Though never a couple in real life they were the most popular movie couple of all time.

The next couple that I want to look at have only done two films so far together, but I believe deserve to be included. Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter have starred together in Always and Once Around. Both films are bitter sweet romances where love and death play a huge part in each film.

Next up is a couple that has done three movies so far together and I am hoping for a dozen more. They fit like a hand in a boxing glove. Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are well on their way to become our best modern onscreen couple.

Here is a look at a bunch of couples who did not make my list, but who knows if they continue to act some of them will make a future list. The one couple that you will see that I could make a case for is from Dirty Dancing, they are in that movie and Red Dawn, but Red Dawn is not a romance.

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More Romantic Short Films For Valentines Day

More Romantic Short Films For Valentines Day

The last post on this subject proved to be so popular that I will be showing you a few more short films for Valentines day. Here at the Holiday Network we try our best to give the audience what they want as long as they do not request anything Twilight related. The first of the short films that I would like to offer today is for all of those kids who grew up watching the Power Rangers.

Yes, a romantic film with a Power Rangers theme. Love comes in all shapes sizes and costumes. I had a crush on a VR Trooper.

I have always thought that there is a fine line between stalking and romance. That person you are with now was at one time a distant and unattainable object of your affections. You probably thought that he or she was way out of your league and would be crazy to settle for someone like you. You were a stable boy who could only manage to say as you wish to the beautiful princess who was yelling at you or a lovely maid to your wicked stepsisters longing to go to the ball and meet prince charming. Maybe even you were a girl who was busy looking for her sister who had ran away from home after revealing her mutant powers and freezing your home town. While looking for her you fell in love with a block headed guy who talks to reindeer. Is that how it was? No, you were introduced by a friend?

Sequel time. This is the sequel to the movie that you have just watched.

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TV Romances, Beauty and the Beast

TV Romances, Beauty and the Beast

There have been hundreds of romantic television series since the beginning ov broadcast tv. I could list them here, but for me and those at the Holiday Network there is one television series that towers over all of the others. It seemed that it set out to become the most romantic show ever and for those of us who watched it during its first run on television we would say that it achieved that goal.

The show is Beauty and The Beast. Do not confuse it with the sad and pale reboot on the CW network. The orginal starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman is one of a kind. The thing that has kept it from becoming an all time classic is that it ended poorly. the network that produced it wanted to continue the show without Linda Hamilton and decided for a reason that still boggles the mind to kill her character off rather than having the two characters walk off into the sunset together. A grand retelling of a fairy tale that missed out on a fairy tale ending. That said, the seasons that the leads were together are gold and I would like to share this as a Valentines gift to all the romantics out there.

We do not have broadcast rights to this show so I would suggest that fans of the show track it down online and invested in the complete series box set.

You may also wish to visit the original source material in the form of the French film that is consider the best version of the Beauty and The Beast fable.

There is a brand new version of the story that has been shown in Europe, but has yet to reach the USA. This version looks stunning.

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