Sunday, February 14, 2010

Top Ten Valentine's Day Movies for the Demented, Disturbed, and Emotionally Stunted People Share

Not my "Top" Ten but rather just ten I could think of that I like, know well enough and fit the bill.

You should not find "Titanic, "Pearl Harbor," or "The Notebook" on this list. If these are on your list, you are banned from posting as they automatically disqualify you from the above three requisite attributes.

You know the drill -- copy & paste.

While numbered, not really in any particular order.

1. Dear Wendy. This is hands down the best tragic love story I've ever seen about a group of tees and their love for the 2nd Amendment. It's pretty chilling to me.

2. Breaking the Waves. The Hell Emma Watson puts herself through in this film all in the name of love is one of the hardest things I've ever had to watch and still sits with me many years later.

3. Saved! Because I am filled with Christ love and will smack you with the Bible to prove it.

4. True Romance. In complete agreement with Adrienne, this is by far the best of all movies written by Tarantino to date. It has every hallmark one could need for a demented romance film: marrying a prostitute the morning after you meet her, Gary Oldman as a white Rastafarian drug dealing pimp, horrific violence, public sex in phone booths, Christian Slater, suitcases of blow and James Gandolfini beating women.

5. Bent. Mick Jagger as a drag performer. Clive Owen and Lothaire Bluteau as two homosexuals in the Dachau concentration camp. Painful.

6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. If it weren't for the entire strange premise of this movie, the "finding and loving each other again" end to this movie would risk it being too sappy for this list. But I say thee nay! This is a beautiful demented love story. Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you. Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me. Joel: Okay. Clementine: ... Okay.

7. D.E.B.S. Spy comedy? Teen romance? Heroine and villainess find true love? All of the above.

8. Heathers. Christian Slater again. Murder masked as suicide in the name of love. Classic.

9. Hellraiser. So what if the lovers are the badguys and they most definitely get all they have coming to them and more. Even though they must be beaten, this entire horror is built around their love.

10. The Evil Dead. "We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"?"

Discuss