Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share your movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple: based on the theme of the week pick three to five movies and tell us why you picked them. For further details and the schedule visit the series main page here.
---
This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Romance Tropes Edition - Travel Romance
---
Hey it's February and it's time for the Romance Tropes Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.
February 2 - Romance Tropes Edition: Travel Romance
February 9 - Romance Tropes Edition: Cinderella Plot (A heroine being swept off her feet by a wealthy guy)
February 16 - Romance Tropes Edition: Forced Proximity (characters are stuck together perhaps sheltering from a storm together, or are on a long haul flight, or stuck in a lift…etc)
February 23 - Romance Tropes / TMP Television Edition: Friends To Lovers
February 9 - Romance Tropes Edition: Cinderella Plot (A heroine being swept off her feet by a wealthy guy)
February 16 - Romance Tropes Edition: Forced Proximity (characters are stuck together perhaps sheltering from a storm together, or are on a long haul flight, or stuck in a lift…etc)
February 23 - Romance Tropes / TMP Television Edition: Friends To Lovers
Today is the start of the Romance Tropes Edition which will run the whole of February. This is the third year I'm running this annual special edition. The Romance Tropes Edition, if you weren't here previous years, is very much inspired by the sub-genres and popular tropes in the romance novels I’ve read. Here are the movies that I like.
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Two types of travel featured: domestic travel and time travel. I really enjoyed this romantic period drama fantasy. Christopher Reeves plays a playwright. Taking a break from work, he leaves the city to stay at a hotel. There he finds a photo of a beautiful young woman, a famous actress from several decades ago who was once a guest at the hotel whom he soon realises is also the same old woman who had approached him with an odd message when he was a college student.
Before Sunset (2004)
The whole Before trilogy involves travel and romance but my favourite is Before Sunset, the middle movie. In it, Jesse, now a published author, goes to Paris as part of his book tour and is finally able to reconnect with Celine.It’s a nice little romantic drama about a writer who travels to Guernsey to meet members of a book club. While there she becomes engrossed with their World War 2 experience living under German occupation and falls for a local guy.
---
If
you are participating be sure to add your blog post to the linky widget
below (Enter your Blog Post URL, your Blog Name and your email {which
will remain hidden}). Please also visit the other participating blogs,
spread the word about this series, and also link back to my blog on your
own Thursday Movie Picks post :)
---
Participating Blogs/Bloggers
Adore Somewhere in Time, so lovely to see this film get a mention.
ReplyDeleteI read you post but I couldn't post there. I ran into too many hoops. I just gave up. I loved what you wrote. I couldn't believe Cary Elwes was in that movie. I don't mind thst Diaz, Winslet flick even though I wanted to throw up a bit. I can't stand Jack Black I still have to see A Sure Thing
DeleteI mentioned it to her before, how the lack of guest commenting, means that I and probably others can't comment.
DeleteHi there, sorry just noticed these comments and discovered and think I have finally sorted the comments issue. Do add these comments and tell me if you have any further issues otherwise comment away!
DeleteSomewhere in Time is a great movie that I saw in the theatres way back when. I had a big crush on Christopher Reeves. I have yet to see any of the Sunset films and I have not heard of the last one
ReplyDeleteBoth Reeves and Seymore were very good looking in this.
DeleteThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society sounds like it might be down my alley - I should check it out some time.
ReplyDelete