#2) The Terminator
Hey, Kyle Reese goes back in time because he fell in love with her photo, and he dies to save her. And consider he got sent to the 1980s, the decade of awful fashion and worse pop music. That’s love, right there.
#1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Simultaneously a science fiction film and one of the most honest movies about relationships ever made. A lot of this rings painfully true if you’ve ever been in a rocky relationship. The movie so precisely dissects so many problematic relationships at once, you have to see it a few times to really get the sense of it.
And, hey, doomed tragic romance is great for Valentine’s Day!
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You forgot Wild Zero and Cronenberg’s The Fly
I always barf on John Getz for Valentine’s Day!
Hey dude, what better way to say “I want you to be part of me” than a movie where a dude literally tries to make his girlfriend part of him.
Good list. I think I will watch Eternal Sunshine tonight. Or Itty Bitty Gang Bang Vol. 6. That is another timeless love story.
Eh, like any franchise, the sequels run into the law of diminishing returns. I swear some of those women are just really short, not midgets.