Epic Romances (The Ineligibles)

Should I explain or the title says it all? I'm about to start a series featuring my favorite romances of the last decade and I have decided some standards that make some wonderful romances ineligible. And this post is for them.

Rule #1: No happy endings. Obviously SPOILERS

Ineligible 1: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The gorgeous story of Clementine and Joel has a happy ending but that doesn't make it less special. Anyway it will have to wait for another series...

Ineligible 2: WALL·E

The same goes for the tale of WALL·E and EVE and their ecological love.

Rule #2: Both parts must be obviously in love. Again SPOILERS

Ineligible 3: (500) Days of Summer

Even though it is totally impossible to understand Summer Finn never falls in love with Tom Hansen. Something is wrong with her (apart from that Ringo thing) but I cannot help loving her a big lot.

Rule #3: Last decade (2000-2009) NOT REALLY SPOILERS

Ineligible 4: Room in Rome

This wonderful drama by Julio Medem opened in Spain this year (2010) and so does not count as last decade. But it is really and incredibly wonderful...

And so these are the ones that didn't make the cut. But several did... Coming soon!

Judging the book by the cover #2

To celebrate that I have the best boyfriend ever who just this afternoon bought me the first season of True Blood, here are some thoughts on the amazing opening credits sequence of this amazing TV series.

The titles sequence is not only perfect in itself but also the perfect company for the episodes. It usually stars after a shock, so you think "OMG, this show is good shit" and then it gets you in the right mood to see the episode with the catchy song and the powerful images. Another thing I love about it is that, True Blood being a huge cast show, is that when a name appears I say the name of the character in order to learn the names. For this reason I prefer opening credits without images or floating heads of the credited actors (as in Friends or Popular). For instance, in the pic above: Sam Trammell = Sam Merlotte.

You can watch True Blood's amazing credits (created by Digital Kitchen) here.