Ah, "The Thomas Crown Affair"... that is an excellent movie, romantic and daring. And it has Pierce!<P>I don't believe that romantic movies create unrealistic expectations for women, or at least that's the case for me. I clearly know the difference between fantasy and reality. But I find that fantasy enhances my reality. I'm also one of those rare women who likes erotica and "porn", and so does my H, so it's something we share together. If we both get turned on by something, we always have a fantastic time together! We are very adventurous, role playing, etc. We are both eagerly anticipating the next James Bond movie, so he can drool over Denise Richards and I can drool over Pierce Brosnan. Yummy!<P>Another great romantic movie: "Somewhere In Time". The power of love conquers time and death. Oh, and another one that always makes me cry and I think it's romantic, but very realistic "She's Having a Baby". Why do I say realistic? Because all of his fantasies and fears seem to be the same things that all men fear, and yet, in the end, he figures out what is really important to him.<P>We keep adding up these two cents, eventually we'll have a buck!<P>-Marlo

This one might not even count: But I liked<BR>"Something to Talk About". The part almost at the end where he was outside the dance and saw her slow dancing with another man and her father said "You were lucky to get her the first time" and he said "yea, it was a miracle".<P>I must admit I liked the part where the sister-in-law kicked him at the door and the wife poisoned him. <BR>All this and a happy ending in 1 1/5 hrs!

Lone Star:<P>You're dead-on right that nothing stays special if it's done all the time.<P>My H usually gets me peach roses for everything. Valentine's Day? Peach roses. Birthday? Peach roses. Anniversary? Peach roses. Don't get me wrong, I love peach roses, and I love that he gets them for me because he knows I love them. But when he got me a beautiful necklace for our anniversary this year, I almost jumped out of my skin. Why? Because he THOUGHT about it.<P>OK, here's a cute romantic movie for you: OVERNIGHT DELIVERY. A little throwaway that shows on premium channels almost every month if you have a dish. Reese Witherspoon is the wisecracking college student working as a stripper. Paul Rudd is a guy with a sex-withholding girlfriend. He believes he's cheating on him. so he, with the help of the stripper, sends a nasty envelope full of nasty stuff to her breaking it off -- via overnight delivery.<P>He finds out that she WASN'T cheating, and then tries to retrieve the package. So for an hour and a half, Rudd and Witherspoon do a "road trip" to retrieve the package. And yeah, guess what? It's utterly predictable, because Rudd realizes that his girlfriend is a twit, and that spunky Reese is the one he really loves. But it's very cute, and Witherspoon has a wonderful speech about the predictability of roses.<P>I think that's what bugs me about when people watch TITANIC and say, "Oh, yes, this spoiled rich girl and this homeless guy really WERE soulmates and would have lived happily ever after!" Yeah, right. "Jack, I'm cold!" "Shut up, Rose, all you do is complain." "But Jack, I'm cold! I wish I was back in my warm house under my warm blankets." "You wanted to sleep under a bridge, now kwitcher*****in'!"<P>Or think MEET JOE BLACK is romantic, and don't even think that Clare Fulani (?) is doing the horizontal mambo with a DEAD GUY!!<P>Or think the sick, sick, sick, mutually destructive relationship, where Cathy ends up DEAD in WUTHERING HEIGHTS is romantic.<P>Lone Star, you asked about LEGENDS OF THE FALL. Well, sheesh, I don't see why Julia Ormond didn't like Aidan Quinn. I'd pick him over that lip-lickin cipher Brad Pitt any day. <P>OK...enough of that.