The cinema is a wonderful place for a first date. The setting is absolutely perfect. After a quick coffee, tea or similar beverage of your choice, one can then take to a darkened room to ponder the interaction and that all important first couple of hours with potential future love interest. Many relationships have been formed over celluloid and the sweet smell of warm popcorn, but what are the top three movies to watch at your local multiplex on that all important first date? Here’s a few ideas…
Go for the funny – Pitch Perfect
Pitch Perfect is perhaps the perfect date movie. For one, it’s really, really funny. mostly due to the wonderful break-out performance of Rebel Wilson. It’s full of catchy, classic songs, mostly from the 1980s, and the nostalgia factor is turned up to 11. You have everything from Simple Minds to Ne-Yo in the mix here as the Barden Bellas do their very best to win their college Acapella championships. Best described as American Pie meets Glee, Pitch Perfect is your gross-out comedy that has absolutely nailed it when appealing to both male and female film-lovers, and certainly worth a punt at getting a sense of your potential future partner’s sense of humour and their musical guilty pleasures.
Go for the scary – Jaws
Many dating websites will give you tips on first dates, like matchmaking tips, how to act on a first date, what to talk about on the date, and indeed where to take your date. There are many dating websites listed on top10bestdatingsites.com, which will also give you an idea as to dating tip, but we would say that there is nothing quite like a scary movie to test the waters on a first meet. Speaking of waters, here’s perhaps one of the scariest movies of all time. Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is 40 years old this year, and it still stands up to this very day. Despite only being classified a PG, the original movie blockbuster is full of thrilling moments that will have your male or female date reaching for your hand through its gripping 140-minutes. A masterpiece in every way, Jaws still plays to audiences in cinemas across the world forty years on, particularly during the summer, so if you’re able to track down a screening for that all important first day, do. You won’t be sorry.
Go for the love story – (500) Days Of Summer
The last film on the list is one which is easily the most brave to take a new partner to. The film’s title, (500) Days Of Summer, refers to the entire duration of one couple’s relationship. A quirky comedy with two fantastic performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zoeey Deschanel, Marc Webb’s contemporary masterpiece shows the trappings of a modern-day relationship, and the trappings and delights that come with it. Again, featuring a superb soundtrack and hugely enjoyable centrepiece musical number (a la Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), (500) Days Of Summer shows how good it is to fall in love, and sometimes how bad it is to fall out of it.
