This weekend I celebrate my 18th Wedding anniversary (and 23rd anniversary of the day we met) with my very understanding, absolutely wonderful, and totally beautiful wife, Kerry. Yup, we got together on Friday 13th 1996, and married 5 years later on Thursday September 13th 2001.
This weekend we will celebrate our anniversary by tidying the house all day, ready for the annual gathering of friends for gaming and drinks on the Saturday (and it’s looking to be a packed one this year), followed by a day of tidying up afterwards. So to round off that weekend, let’s celebrate love and marriage by way of a casual glance over the topic in films.
So join me as I nurse an inevitable hangover on Sunday as we plough through the following set of questions for this week’s Movie Talk On Sunday (#MTOS). Simply follow the hashtag on twitter, and from 8pm UK time Sunday evening one question will go out every ten minutes for us to discuss, share, and no doubt add more films onto our ever increasing lists of films to get around to seeing.
Q1: Starting with the early days of a relationship – what are your top three films about newfound love? #MTOS
Q2: What two leads in romantic films would you consider the perfect pairing, regardless of whether they’ve starred together or not? #MTOS
Q3: On set romances between stars which bled out to the real world are well documented. Which celeb couple just sizzled so much on screen that you knew they were set to be an off-screen thing – or maybe they didn’t get together but you think they should? #MTOS
Q4: The big day! Weddings have formed the backdrop for a variety of films of all genres. Top three wedding films? #MTOS
Q5: Some weddings unfortunately see feuding families ruin the big day. At the same time, some wedding films are so bad they ruin your day when you watch them. Which wedding films just don’t work for you? #MTOS
Q6: Any underrated, or widely unknown films about weddings that you enjoy and want to point in our direction? What makes you recommend them? #MTOS
Q8: Along came a baby – What films which look at new arrivals, or family life with kids in tow, are amongst your favourite? What is it that you enjoy about them? #MTOS
Q8: Years into a marriage, the relationship is either strong or showing cracks. What films about married couples’ struggles have you found yourself enjoying/connecting with? #MTOS
Q9: The golden years of married bliss – From mid-life crisis, to simply growing old together, which films about couples well into their decades together do you love and why? #MTOS
Q10: Let’s round this off with a look at relationships that go wrong – which films looking at love that was lost do you recommend to others? What is it about films that don’t necessarily have a happy ending that we find compelling? #MTOS
