In the mood for romance

I just saw the movie "Made of Honor". It wasn't an original storyline but it was a feel-good movie. It ended the way I wanted it to, not like the ending in "My Best Friend's Wedding" where I was left disappointed. If she had married that Scot I'm not sure if I would have liked the movie. However as it was I was left with a romantic feeling when it ended. Perfect! Just the kind of relationship and marriage that's perfect in my book. You start out as friends and are friends for years and then realize you're in love with each other. Then you marry on a rooftop in Manhattan and live in New York. Very nice. It doesn't have to be New York specifically, it could be Vancouver. One thing I do know and that's that I would not want to live in some dreary, old castle in the middle of nowhere in Scotland with a pale husband who shoots every animal in sight and wouldn't let me take a bite out of his piece of chocolate cake. And I'm sorry, but there's something really unappealing about a man in a skirt, even if it is a kilt.
And they kiss properly in this movie. Not those friendly, brief kisses where they don't even open their mouths but just press lips against lips for a few seconds, but those long, passionate, almost frantic kisses. Make-out kisses.
I think the kind of relationship where you start out as friends is much better, and much more romantic in my opinion. That way you get to know each other properly at first and don't try to impress each other and put on a show in order to look like a catch in the dating stage. When you start out as friends there's not so much pressure and you can get to know each other's bad sides as well as the good ones and if you do fall in love it's despite of the negative parts.
For me, there's nothing more romantic than two old friends who suddenly get together and stay together. However if they don't stay together it's more sad than anything since then they'll have not only lost a relationship but also a friendship.
I just thought I'd jot down a few lines on the subject while I'm feeling all romantic from seeing that movie.
It also makes me a little bit sad though since real life just doesn't measure up to the movies. That's how it is for me with romantic movies. If they're truly grand and romantic in true Hollywood fashion, soft lighting, lots of colour, powerful music and grand expressions of emotions, then they make me feel good but after the movie is over I feel a bit down because I realize that this would never happen in real life and even if did it would never happen to me. It's like you're freezing and need to pee really badly at the same time so just to relieve yourself and keep warm at the same time you pee in your pants. While it's happening it feels great because you get to go and it makes you feel warm after having been cold for so long. But then after a while the pee gets cold and you end up feeling more cold than you did before because now not only are you still freezing but you're also soaking wet.
However, if the movie is more realistic and not as vivid and colourful but instead greyer and more subdued and perhaps not with the storybook ending I'm after, but meant to be thought-provoking and reflect real life, I'd be annoyed at that too because when I watch movies I want colour and vividness and unrealistic romance because that's what romance movies are for, to act as an escape from reality. At least for me it is. I did like "My Best Friend's Wedding" even though it didn't end the way I would have preferred. It all depends on how the movie is made. Its mood, the colours, how it makes you feel.
I'm like Annie in "Sleepless in Seattle", I don't want to be in love in real life, I want to be in love in a movie. Another great romance story by the way.
By the way, Patrick Dempsey is very attractive. He wasn't nearly as attractive in "Can't Buy Me Love", although that is a classic for me. He's one of those men who grows more attractive with age. It has to do with the eyes I think. A few lines around the eyes adds something, a soulfulness perhaps? Or maybe that's just how it appears. I don't know.