Life is like the Movies. (?)

I can come up with a song for everything. Give me a word, I'll find you a lyric. I have a playlist for every mood and I always know what to listen to to cater to whatever I'm feeling.

I don't have a song for this one. It's a little Naturally, a little Goodbye Waves and Driveways. It's a whole lotta Rascal Flatts. But I just can't find that one thing that it really....is.

Therefore, I have turned to the film industry. There's always a good chick flick that makes you want to smile and cry at the same time. In that light, I have compiled the top 10 Displays of Affection in the (some of the) best movies of all time. AHEM....

10. Adam Sandler making Drew Barrymore a video recapping their life together: 50 First Dates. Basically, Sandler finds an issue in the fact that his girlfriends memory resets itself everyday, so she never remembers that they met. Orrr.... maybe her memory is fine and she's trying to send you a hint buddy. Who knows. I'm not the writer. But so it goes, they get married (because why wouldn't you believe someone you thought to be a total stranger when they come up to you telling you you've been together for years and you're getting married today? logical.), have kids (new dating tip: tell the girl she has amnesia, youre actually married, and she's been wanting to have kids for years. in the morning, she remembers nothing. no strings attached at its finest). But so that she does remember him as she wakes up on a boat every morning, he documents their life together and has her watch a video so that she can pine over the wonderful memories she will never remember. But it's sweet. I swear.

9. Alfalfa singing "You Are So Beautiful" to Darla on the water: The Little Rascals. These kids can't be older than 7 and good old Alfie is crooning away to his love while in a boat. It's like the precurser to The Notebook (FORESHADOWING!) He'll do anything for her; get frogs in his pants, belch out bubbles, join a ballet show. But I mean look at her,

...who wouldnt?

8. Roberto Benigni convinces his son the Holocaust "é un gioco": La Vita é Bella. Guido Orefice and his family get sent to a concentration camp while living in Italy in World War II. So what does he do? Make a game out of it, of course. He tells his son Giosué that the whole thing is a game, and whoever can make it to the end wins. A tank. Yes, he who makes it out alive wins a military tank. The 5-year old could not be more excited. And while (spoiler alert!) poor Guido does not make it out of the camp alive, the game is the thing that saves his sons life and reunites him with his mother upon liberation. SERIOUSLY PEOPLE. Ti fa piangere. And yes, he finally gets his tank.

7. The Bradley Cooper/Eric Dane/Julia Roberts/rando lil boy love square: Valentine's Day.

Cooper: zomg Roberts ur so hawt, i bet ur guy is so lucky ur comin home 2 see him

Roberts: Tnx creepy guy next to me on airplane but I'm just a homely military woman goin' home to my hubby, leave me alone.

Eric Dane: I'm a football player havin career probs n i needz to tell yew a secret. (it's that im retiring)

Rando Lil Boy: i am a little angsty and want to tell this girl i love her. ohhh elementary school luv. hurts so good.

Writers: NAHT! BC is actually just a nice guy, Roberts is traveling 6000 just to see her son (rando lil boy) for the day, McSteamy comes out of the closet to save his relationship with BC and RLB has a crush on his teacher! SO CUTE.

6. "You're not the rule, you're the exception!" : He's Just Not That Into You. Fact: this movie changed my life. And while it was weird to see Justin Long without his buddy,

it was exactly what every girl has ever wanted when he showed up at Maggie-Gyllenhaal-look-a-like's door after spending the whole movie that she is no one special and all the rules of dude-are-douches dating apply to her and tells her that indeed he was wrong. Ah there's nothing like an admission of fault. Can he teach my dad that?

5. Two Places at Once: A Walk to Remember. Okay, Mandy Moore is dying. DY. ING. That automatically makes anything in this movie THE MOST SENTIMENTAL. theeeee most! So one thing on her Bucket List is to be two places at once. Who does she think she is, Hermione? Nonetheless, nameless-attractive-bad-boy-boyfriend of hers takes her to the town line, as her straddle it (euphemism?) so she can be in two geographical locations simultaneously. Magic!

4. Alice, Are You Blind? : Remember the Titans. Nothing makes you see what's importance to you like a near-death experience. Just ask Charlie. Or Des. (Or Locke? Time will tell.) While visiting Gary at the hospital, Julius is denied entrance because only family is allowed in the room. Gary clears up the miscommunication by telling her, "Alice, are you blind? Don't you see the family resemblance? That's my brother." Clearly he didn't realize that they didn't mean the "from anotha motha" kind.

3. The Birthday Cake: P.S. I Love You. Anything where a husband dies is sad. Anything where Gerard Butler dies is just tragic. Yet somehow even after death, he manages to be his amazing altruistic beautiful self. He arranges for a birthday cake sent to his wife after he dies with a recorded message, showing that love lasts even beyond the grave.

2. I Hate the Way You....: 10 Things I Hate About You. Let's recall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC0_WmotPR0

mkay? mkay. man, i really wish Heath Ledger didn't die.

ANNNND drum roll please.... number 1 issssss (no shocker here).....

1. The Kiss: The Notebook

"It wasn't over... It's still not over." oh.em.gee.

Soooo ... yep. Now that I have just fawned over their fictional lives, maybe I should figure out my own. If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.

k enough emo kelly. aaaaand scene.