Comparing Male Leads

I have been using my employee benefits at Rogers and renting movies. Today, I saw movie #2, an English-version remake of the popular Korean hit, My Sassy Girl. It wasn't bad, but as always, I can't shake the feeling that the original was better just because everything that happened in the English version was anticipated.

I love the two characters in the movie. They're such opposites. The girl is kinda psycho though. However, I like the guy's personality. I see parallels with the guy in this movie and the guy in (500) Days of Summer. Both of them are crazy in love with their dream girl and they're kind of pathetic without her. Pathetic in the sense that they don't know how to have fun by themselves. They would be boring without the girl.

Another of my favourite male leads is Noah Calhoun from the Notebook. He's different from the first two characters that I've mentioned because though his life may be less interesting without his love interest, he still has a life. It might not be a very full life, but Noah is great as a mysterious loner character. I don't know why, but I somehow find that attractive...

It's strange though because he makes a really good father. Usually loners are anti-social (duh!) and do not make good fathers because they lack the social skills in being warm and intimate with other beings, but in the movie, it somehow happens that Noah is a good father since his grown-up kids care for him enough to visit, and not out of obligation.

My other movie crushes:
1. Simba from The Lion King: I think I liked him because he had leadership and fun buddies and because he had spunk as a kid.
2. Captain Li from Mulan: He seems very manly, and he had a good singing voice. (Haha looking back on my movie crushes now, I wonder how delusional and strange I was as a child)
3. James Franco in Spiderman 2. I loved that scene of Kirsten Dunst and him in the kitchen, fooling around.
4. Landon from A Walk to Remember. He was such a sweetie in that movie... not at the beginning of course, but when he dates Jamie.

Of course this list can probably go on for a long time, I like the different characters all for different reasons. It's sad though that no matter what, chick flicks are not real life.