Top Ten Movies to Watch if You Love Valentine's Day, Top Ten Movies to Watch if You Hate Valentine's Day
KATIE MALMQUIST
Scene Writer
Top Ten Movies to Watch if You Love Valentine's Day
10. "Ghost": You, the one you love and a potter's wheel — the night is covered (in clay at least.)
9. "Notting Hill": She's just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. And he probably won't say no because she's Julia Roberts.
8. "Sixteen Candles": Every girl deserves her own Jake Ryan.
7. "Shakespeare In Love": He wrote about it, he lived it, and despite recent attacks on his sexuality, the man knows about romance.
6. "Beauty and the Beast": You'll never complain about your boyfriend's personal hygiene again.
5. "Love Story": Love means never having to say you're sorry, at least if you're a wealthy Harvard Law grad.
4. "Untamed Heart": He gave her everything, even his heart. What did you get your heartthrob this year?
3. "Far and Away": If they can make it on the wild frontier, you can make it at Notre Dame.
2. "When Harry Met Sally": Yes, yes, yes!
1. "An Affair to Remember": You might not be able to meet your sweetheart at the top of the Empire State building, but at least consider Flanner Hall as a viable alternative. Remember to look both ways before crossing Juniper, though.
Top Ten Movies to Watch if You Hate Valentine's Day
10. "The Birds": There's nothing like seeing a pretty blond getting her eyes pecked out.
9. "Leaving Las Vegas": Guy hates life, guy decides to drink himself to death, guy meets prostitute who tries to change his mind — an instant classic.
8. "What Lies Beneath": Haunting, murder, infidelity — finally someone with more baggage than your last boyfriend or girlfriend.
7. "The Terminator": "I'll be back" — one of the many things you never want to hear your crazy ex say.
6. "American Pie": "Suck me beautiful!" It's comforting to know there are kids out there with worse pick-up lines than yours.
5. "Rocky": There's nothing more romantic than a guy bleeding out his eyes, screaming your name at the top of his lungs.
4. "Silence of the Lambs": A townie once tried to ask me out, I ate his liver with fava beans and a nice chianti sauce.
3. "Porky's": The other white meat.
2. "Sleeping with the Enemy": You can try and blame it on a drunken hookup, but we've all been there before.
1. "What About Bob": Baby steps round the dorm room, baby steps to the dining hall, baby steps through DeBartolo, baby steps to the Boat Club.
All Scene Stories for Wednesday, February 14, 2001
