I had a really good Valentine's Day, so as a tribute to a day that I used to think was crap, I'm going to quickly recommend the three best Romance Films I've seen this year.
3) Twilight Samurai AKA Tasogare Seibei AKA Samurai in Love AKA Iguchi, the Littlest Samurai
Holy shit, this was an awesome film. There's be a fuckload of good Samurai movies, but this one still manages to stand out, and it's definitely a whole different take on the genre. But the best part of all is that this movie so beautifully builds up to it's climax, which is probably my favourite single scene in movie history.
Those of you who know Hiroyuki Sanada know he's a fucking awesome actor, but he rocks the house in this one. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this is the greatest Sanada performance save Kamui No Ken, and a Samurai movie that can rank with Kurosawa.
Erm, basically, this is about Iguchi, the luckless samurai who can never catch a break. And then he falls in love.
Pictured Above: Oh shit, lesbian attack.
2) Rebecca - I don't know why chicks are so obsessed with with seeing rich people in love. I don't want to be accused of oppressing women with the patriarchy of some stupid shit people say on the Internet, so I wont speculate why. All I'll say is that I can't really force myself to give a shit about the "problems" rich people have, and if that makes me a chauvinist pig, so be it you feminazis!!!
Laurence Olivier is a total fuckhead by the way. The only reason he doesn't ruin this movie is because all he has to do is sit around and brood.
Anyway, this movie was based on some stupid book by the Brote sisters or some other spoilt rich eternal victim. But Hitchcock made it his own, and turned it into a wicked fucking thriller. That means, it's got something for the ladies (rich person romance) and something for the fellas (a plot). It's almost the perfect romance. But not quite as good as:
1) Ah! Megamai-Sama!/Ah! My Goddess! The Series
This is, by far, the greatest romantic comedy of all time. Why? Well, it's got the most sharp and interesting characters in all fiction. There's a fuckload of actual, funny comedy. Plenty of great sub-plots not involving romance. Most importantly, it completely lacks stupid cunt Meg Ryan.
You know, there's a asteroid named Meg Ryan? I mean, what the fucking hell? That's more fucking annoying than when they renamed Pluto, or whatever the fuck that was, and the fucking news was dominated by it as if I gave a shit. Astronomy really needs to end at the cost of human life, god damnit. Meg Fucking Ryan.
Anyway, the main reason this series kicks ass is because of the supporting characters. The two lovers are annoyingly sweet and perfect, which (Tom Hanks, listen to me here) isn't funny, it's annoying. However, the two lovers are surrounded by a good twenty interesting, funny, complex, and flawed characters, which help to balance out the sugar-sweetness of the love story. The best of them is Urd, who wins the world prize for kick-ass. They seriously need to make an Urd show. I would drop out of society just to watch that all the time.
I recommend the current Ah! Megami-Sama! serious to anyone with a fucking soul.
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