So you haven’t quite figured out yet. You don’t hate V-day, but you just don’t have anyone this year. That’s OK because Technician has five movies that give you reason to hope that love will eventually find you.
1. Love ActuallyYear: 2005Cast: Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, Hugh GrantRating: R Story line: This a movie with many different story lines of love, which are all interconnected. This film hits at what real love is like — the ins and the outs. This movie is for the hopeful, the out of hope, the out of love and even those love birds.
Colin: “I have just worked out why I can never find true love.”Tony: “Why’s that?”Colin: “English girls. They’re stuck up, you see. And I am primarily attracted to girls who are … y’know, cooler. Game for a laugh. Like American girls. So I should just go to America. I’d get a girlfriend there instantly. What do you think?”Tony: “I think it’s … crap, Colin.”
2. CasablancaYear: 1942Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude RainsRating: PGStory line: It only took Rick (Bogart) a few days to fall in love with Ilsa (Bergman), but come to find out that she was married to a man who she thought died. And poor Rick was left lonely with the memory of his few weeks of happiness haunting him, as Ilsa went to be with her husband. This is until she shows back up in his life with her husband, Victor. This would give anyone hope that he or she surely hasn’t had it all that bad, at least not in comparison to Rick. Rick: “How long was it we had, honey?”Ilsa: “I didn’t count the days.”Rick: “Well, I did. Every one of them. Mostly, I remember the last one, the wild finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain, with a comical look on his face, because his insides have been kicked out.”
3. The Wedding SingerYear: 1998 Cast: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor, Allen CovertRating: PG-13Story line: After getting stood at up at the altar, Robbie Hart (Sandler), a wedding singer, looks for new meaning in life while writing hateful songs about love and his ex-fiance. Robbie also finds comfort in his newfound friendship with Julia (Barrymore), who he helps to plan her wedding. The combinations of the 80s, terrible clothing and lots of laughs couldn’t make you feel any better.
Robbie: “You know what’s funny, some of us will never find true love. Like take for instance me, and I’m pretty sure that guy right there, and that lady with the sideburns, and basically everybody at table nine…..But the worst thing is, that me, fatty, sideburns lady, and the mutants over at table nine will never ever find a way to better our situations because apparently we have absolutely nothing to offer the opposite sex.”
4. When Harry Met Sally Year: 1989Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno KirbyRating: RStory line: Meeting over and over again, Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) finally become friends, but the problem is they can’t seem to find that someone to spend the rest of their lives with. Harry and Sally’s relationship problems would make anyone feel good about his or hers.
Harry Burns: “You realize of course that we could never be friends.”Sally Albright: “Why not?”Harry Burns: “What I’m saying is – and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form – is that men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.”
5. My Best Friend’s WeddingYear: 1997 Cast: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert EverettRating: PG-13Story line: Jules (Roberts) and Michael (Mulroney) have been best friends for years and years and lovers for a short period of time in between. When Michael calls Jules and tells her that he is getting married, she finally decides that he is the perfect man for her and sets out to break up his wedding. If you think you are desperate, think again.
Julianne Potter: “Michael … I love you. I’ve loved you for nine years, I’ve just been too arrogant and scared to realize it, and … well, now I’m just scared. So, I realize this comes at a very inopportune time but I really have this gigantic favor to ask of you. Choose me. Marry me. Let me make you happy. Oh, that sounds like three favors, doesn’t it?”
