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    Thursday Movie Picks: Forbidden Love Edition

    Wandering through the Shelves hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday’s theme and explain why you chose those movies.

    I’ve never participated before, but I feel like this would be a really fun theme to jump into, considering it’s all about love, and you guys know that’s my jam (obviously). Today’s theme is Forbidden Love, so here are my choices!

    Something Borrowed (2013)

    What’s more forbidden than your best friend’s fiancé? It’s been years since I’ve seen Something Borrowed, although I do have it on my to-be (re)watched list. I’ve read the book (and its sequel) as well, and I have to give it props for dealing with a subject that most rom-coms wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole. Cheating. Especially with a best friend’s lover. This movie deals with infidelity as well as unrequited love.

    Ginnifer Goodwin is the right kind of actress for the role of Rachel, a by-the-book good girl who secretly yearns for her best friend’s fiancé, played by Colin Egglesfield. In the hands of the wrong actress, Rachel would have been easy to vilify, but Goodwin pulls off the sympathetic angle needed to remain a woman the audience could root for. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not condoning her actions, but it certainly makes Something Borrowed a film in the genre that boldly goes where not many have gone before or have gone since!

    The Notebook (2004)

    No matter what you think of The Notebook, and its portrayal of young love, it’s still a classic. A tale as old as time, the rich girl and poor boy who fall in love one magical summer. Not only are Allie and Noah’s economic statuses an obstacle, but so are Allie’s parents, most notably her mother, who doesn’t think Noah is good enough for her. Their differences are too much to overcome, and they’re separated until years later when Allie walks back into Noah’s life… an engaged woman.

    Look, I admit that I love this movie, and I don’t care who knows it! In a genre of unrealistic love stories, one could argue that The Notebook takes the crown, but who cares? It’s a romantic tale designed to warm your heart and make you reach for the tissues on more than one occasion. Push your real-life romantic expectations aside and enjoy this movie’s beauty and Ryan Gosling’s beauty in a wet shirt.

    Warm Bodies (2013)

    This is another movie I need to rewatch soon. But Warm Bodies is such an underrated horror romance. A zombified take on Romeo and Juliet, the granddaddy of all forbidden love stories, Warm Bodies follows Julie, a survivor of a zombie apocalypse, and R, a young zombie who sees Julie and falls in love with her. To say anything more would spoil this delightful movie, so I’ll zip my lips. I’ll say that Nicholas Hoult is so good at playing a mindless zombie in love, and his chemistry with Teresa Palmer is off the charts. There’s so much humor here, among the more gruesome aspects of a zombie apocalypse, and yes, there’s more than enough romance, too.
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