Southport Magazine

We were trying to stay away from the predictable movies and offer up some dif- ferent choices. Maybe there are some on the list you haven’t seen yet!

Even though Valentine’s Day is kind of like the Super Bowl for women we like to recognize that this day is a day to cele- brate LOVE—just love—and love does not discriminate against what sex you are. So, since we are not discriminating we have decided to create two lists one from the opinion of women and one in the opinion of men.

We wanted to learn two things in this process. First being, what does love mean and second what would you say is the best romantic movie.

We were quite surprised by how similar the movie answers were even though men and women are so opposite as we witness by the verbal responses. We learned that though there are many types of love that we see in movies and experience in life we seem to be most attracted to the deep desire, pining, love relationship. The love that last through time and requires per- sistence and effort. We found it odd since in todays society men and women live so quickly and want everything so much faster that still deep down inside our hearts we want something that lasts a long time and is tireless.

I will say however that looking over these lists I do in fact see a lot of my per- sonal favorites, however, The Princess Bride did not make the list. Which in my opinion is INCONVCEIVIBLE! “There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection”- Buttercup—come on isn’t that love?! I wish my husband would save me from quick sand and take on R.O.U.Ss…. be still my heart.