Thursday, February 25, 2016

Thursday Movie Picks #85: Valentine's Edition: Love Triangles



Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.


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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is the Valentine's Edition: Love Triangles

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Love triangles; love them or hate them, you can't deny they add some interesting drama.

The Wings of the Dove (1997)
A woman asks her lover to woo a dying heiress in the hopes that her generous nature meant that she would include him in her will. That is possibly one of the most terrible idea: voluntarily putting a relationship into a situation it won't survive.

X-Men (2000-present)
I grew up watching the X-Men cartoons so I think one the first love triangles I was aware of is the Cyclops, Jean Grey and Wolverine one which of course came to the big screens in 2001 when X-Men finally got a movie adaptation. Now I'm curious if they will continue with the love triangle thing with the new X-Men series of movies espcially since in Apocalypse Jean Grey and Cyclops are teenagers and Wolverine in these movies is still Hugh Jackman.

Twilight (2008-2012)
Even if you've not seen the Twilight movies, I'm sure you've heard of the Bella, Edward and Jacob love triangle, so how can I not include it here. One of the reasons Bella's choice of partner is made a huge deal is that by choosing Edward she is choosing immortality while picking Jacob means she remains human. Which is sort of odd because I think even if she had chosen Jacob, it's not as if she would be free from a supernatural life since Jacob is the alpha in the wolf pack and if she bore his children, they would likely be alphas too. Not quite the normal human life eh?

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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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Check out some of my random Thursday Movie Picks

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9 comments:

  1. Wings of a Dove - the epitomy of a love triangle and yes Twilight, one of the more famous triangles. Great picks!

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  2. I have not heard of the first movie. X Men is perfect but it would be creepy to see Hugh Jackman with a teen...ice. Hmmm as for Twilight, perfect triangle but I wonder if they would do it doggy style?

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  3. Love that you included X-Men. That's a perfect pick. No, let's not do Wolverine making googly eyes with a teenager. Speaking of teens, Twilight. Ugh.

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  4. Twilight is one of those hardcore love triangles I found in both movies and film with those team Edward/Jacob sides going on. I liked the X-Men love triangle but I hope they don't go in that direction for the new X-Men movie.

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  5. I love that you went with X-Men, the first two are great films. Hopefully they don't continue it in the new one though, that would be so gross.

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  6. Love these. I haven't seen Twilight, but Wings of a Dove is a brilliant movie, and the X-Men triangle is iconic!

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  7. LOVE Wings of the Dove and it's a perfect fit. X-Men is an interesting choice, hadn't thought of that. Twilight...UGH

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  8. I almost picked Twilight, then I thought of X-Men. A way better love triangle. Twilight fits well though.

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  9. I like the X- Men pick too, such a love triangle! It would be nice to see more of it but with Scott and Jean aged down, yeah that wouldn't work. :)

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