New Moon DVD
The troubled Ménage à trois has long been a trope worth exploring in the movies and with the release of Twilight New Moon on DVD and Blu-ray on the 22nd of March we see that the plight goes as far as affecting the vampire and werewolf worlds.
So without further ado we take a look at the top ten Cinematic love triangles.
Chloe
The recently release Chloe showed the complexities behind a failing marriage between Liam Neeson and Julliane Moore.
In a move to confirm her suspicisions Moore’s character hires excort girl Amanda Seyfried to tempt her unfaithful husband. Along the way things are complicated by a growing involvement between Seyfried and Moore leading to highly charged erotic scenes.
The film has blasted away the good girl image of Seyfried who is used to clean cut ‘good girl’ roles in films like Mean Girls and Mamma Mia! But if this film is anything to go by we will most certainly be steering clear of any potential situations which would see us torn between two lovers!
True Blood
It may not be cinema but we simply cannot ignore the passion of True Blood! Not only do we have the seemingly bizarre relationship between Anna Paquin’s Sookie and Stephen Moyer ‘s vampire Bill Compton but we have the constant tension with third wheeler vampire Eric.
Appearing in dreams and constantly trying to drive a wedge between the two, Eric will be one to keep an eye on in the coming seasons as his intentions are not too clear!
Twilight
Another supernatural trio are involved in this Twilight triangle. First there was the all consuming unconsummated love between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen (Played by real life lovers Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson) in Twilight.
But in New Moon we see this bond stretched to its very limit with the introduction of Jacob. Dividing fan audiences right down the middle Bella has to choose between the pale vampire and the tanned and toned Jacob... put like that our vanity certainly puts us firmly in Team Jacob.
Spiderman
When bitten by a radioactive spire Peter Parker (played by Toby Maguire) was told ‘With great power comes great responsibility’ but he wasn’t given any advice on how to juggle a relationship!
Mary-Jane is torn between two life-long friends: Harry Osborne, son of an evil genius with a penchant to don a goblin mask, and Peter Parker, who has a public duty as a web spinning superhero. Decisions!
Okay it may not be such a hard decision here, especially when Harry goes a bit loopy and evil himself but the betrayal of the two friends makes it interesting none-the-less.
Mamma-Mia!
This may be more love-square than love-triangle but in a film that managed to score big at the box office maybe three is not the magic number, audience want more bang (ahem) for their buck.
You know you are a bit irresponsible if you cannot work out who the father of your child is and there are three potential daddies to chose from but that is the exact premise for this ABBA heavy hit.
But who to chose from? Darcy from Pride A Prejudice? James Bond? Or the guy who plays a barnacle in Pirates of The Caribbean?
Moulin Rouge
One of the most entertaining musicals since their heyday in the sixties also has one of most involving love triangles we have ever seen. Does erotic dancer Satine (Nicole Kidman) fall for the penniless artisan (Ewan McGregor)?
Or does she does she go for The Duke and fulfil the chorus of her routine by proving that diamonds really are a girl’s best friend! A simple decision between the heart and the head made worse by the death threat made towards McGregor.
Up In The Air - We’ve gone all conceptual on this one!
Okay so Up In The Air may not be a conventional love triangle but in all rights this triangle is just as intriguing and devastating! George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man more in love with Air Miles than finding any love himself.
That is until he finds his match in Vera Farmiga’s travelling business woman, every bit the equal narcissist as Bingham. There is a twist towards the end of the film, we’ll be damned if we were to spoil it, but you cannot help but feel sorry for Bingham’s aimless ways that are eerily similar to Clooney’s own bachelorhood.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Another quartet in this film where Javier Bardem has to choose between Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall and Penelope Cruz, a lineup where you would be hard pushed to mark a decision!
Things are made a little easier by the unhinged nature of Penelop Cruz’s bunny boiler muse but you cannot help but feel as if Bardem’s character has done pretty well for himself in this pack!
What follows is sex, tested friendships and straying bullets in a tale that will make any man think twice before playing off three strong willed women!
It’s Complicated
Another entry from Meryl Streep (is she in danger of being pigeon holed as an aging maneater?) we see her torn between her smart mouther ex-husband (Alec Baldwin) and a mild mannered architect (Steve Martin).
To pile on the danger signs Baldwin’s character has remarried, trading Streep in for a younger model. Not quite a relationship model to take a lead from as we are left wondering whether Streep is being used, using or in fact both!
Bridget Jones’s Diary
In the adaptation of Helen Fielding’s blockbuster book the triangle is clear cut between womanising publisher Daniel Cleaver played by English ‘Everyman’ Hugh Grant and Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy - a painfully blatant call back to his Pride and Prejudice days.
Jones has to make the age old decision between the bad and the good! At least in this triangle we get to see the two male parties fight it out in traditional British style (read: bad punch up with questionable kicks).
New Moon is out on DVD now.
The troubled Ménage à trois has long been a trope worth exploring in the movies and with the release of Twilight New Moon on DVD and Blu-ray on the 22nd of March we see that the plight goes as far as affecting the vampire and werewolf worlds.
So without further ado we take a look at the top ten Cinematic love triangles.
Chloe
The recently release Chloe showed the complexities behind a failing marriage between Liam Neeson and Julliane Moore.
In a move to confirm her suspicisions Moore’s character hires excort girl Amanda Seyfried to tempt her unfaithful husband. Along the way things are complicated by a growing involvement between Seyfried and Moore leading to highly charged erotic scenes.
The film has blasted away the good girl image of Seyfried who is used to clean cut ‘good girl’ roles in films like Mean Girls and Mamma Mia! But if this film is anything to go by we will most certainly be steering clear of any potential situations which would see us torn between two lovers!
True Blood
It may not be cinema but we simply cannot ignore the passion of True Blood! Not only do we have the seemingly bizarre relationship between Anna Paquin’s Sookie and Stephen Moyer ‘s vampire Bill Compton but we have the constant tension with third wheeler vampire Eric.
Appearing in dreams and constantly trying to drive a wedge between the two, Eric will be one to keep an eye on in the coming seasons as his intentions are not too clear!
Twilight
Another supernatural trio are involved in this Twilight triangle. First there was the all consuming unconsummated love between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen (Played by real life lovers Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson) in Twilight.
But in New Moon we see this bond stretched to its very limit with the introduction of Jacob. Dividing fan audiences right down the middle Bella has to choose between the pale vampire and the tanned and toned Jacob... put like that our vanity certainly puts us firmly in Team Jacob.
Spiderman
When bitten by a radioactive spire Peter Parker (played by Toby Maguire) was told ‘With great power comes great responsibility’ but he wasn’t given any advice on how to juggle a relationship!
Mary-Jane is torn between two life-long friends: Harry Osborne, son of an evil genius with a penchant to don a goblin mask, and Peter Parker, who has a public duty as a web spinning superhero. Decisions!
Okay it may not be such a hard decision here, especially when Harry goes a bit loopy and evil himself but the betrayal of the two friends makes it interesting none-the-less.
Mamma-Mia!
This may be more love-square than love-triangle but in a film that managed to score big at the box office maybe three is not the magic number, audience want more bang (ahem) for their buck.
You know you are a bit irresponsible if you cannot work out who the father of your child is and there are three potential daddies to chose from but that is the exact premise for this ABBA heavy hit.
But who to chose from? Darcy from Pride A Prejudice? James Bond? Or the guy who plays a barnacle in Pirates of The Caribbean?
Moulin Rouge
One of the most entertaining musicals since their heyday in the sixties also has one of most involving love triangles we have ever seen. Does erotic dancer Satine (Nicole Kidman) fall for the penniless artisan (Ewan McGregor)?
Or does she does she go for The Duke and fulfil the chorus of her routine by proving that diamonds really are a girl’s best friend! A simple decision between the heart and the head made worse by the death threat made towards McGregor.