Last night while watching JAG, [sub]oh, I love a man in uniform [/sub]I was channel flipping during the commercial and noticed that An Affair to Remember was on. So for a while there, I was flipping between the two.
I kept being drawn back to An Affair to Remember.
I guess the hope of “happy endings” draws us back to those types of movies.
I started thinking about movies that I consider girlie movies or chick flicks. You know the ones. If you were to have a slumber party w/ girlfriends, they are the ones you would watch.
A few of my favorites are… A Room with a View based on the E.M. Forster novel, Roger Ebert’s review
Sabrina (the 1954 version w/ Audrey Hepburn)
and of course as previously mentioned… An Affair to Remember
I’m curious…are there any suggestions for movies in this genre that I must see.
Should I admit here that [sub]I have never seen Casablanca?[/sub]
I would say Sleepless in Seattle, but I think that was based on An Affair to Remember. I don’t know it was, but I believe so: the final scene sounds very similar, based on the summary I have in hand.
How about Pretty Woman? I think of any movie with Richard Gere as a chick flick, even if it does have Julia Roberts wearing an amazing wig and even better thigh-high stilleto-heeled boots.
Plus, it’s got two of the best lines I’ve ever heard in a Julia Roberts movie:
and
I was already thinking I might rent Bull Durham to watch tonight. Now maybe I’ve got two more to watch.
Grandmother, I had already gone to rent movies before I read your post. I have seen Ghost several times but, had never seen the others that you mentioned.
KneadtoKnow, I love Sleepless in Seattle and Pretty Woman.
I ended up renting Bull Durham[sub]which I have never seen[/sub] and Pretty Woman; and I bought Notting Hill and Return to Me.
I was gonna rent Casablanca; but, they didn’t have it. The guy actually had never heard of the movie…he asked me how to spell it! LOL So, I will have to rent that one another time!!
LOL…I’m watching Pretty Woman now and was curious there at the beginning when she had that awful wig on…I thought to myself…“hmmmmmmm…what kind of taste does KneadtoKnow have?”
Thank you all for the suggestions you have given …
So far my list of movies that I “need to see because I’ve never seen” consists of Beaches and Boys on the Side.
I watched Bull Durham last night and am now going to have to run out and purchase the soundtrack! LOL This could get expensive; if, when renting all of these movies I’ve never seen, I decide I have to have the soundtrack too!
In Bull Durham, what was the name of the music that was underlying the scene where Crash and Nuke were in the locker room as Nuke was preparing to leave for the majors?
One of the most romantic films I have ever seen is Cyrano De Bergerac (French) – the us remake was Roxanne which I find a much worse film, But Cyrano is one of the most romantic stories I have ever seen from this mans point of view at least. I have even gone to the French village of Bergerac after seeing the movie.
Another French film in the same genre would be Betty Blue which also includes a beautiful music score.
Drag out the handkerchief(is that correct spelling), turn off the telephone… well let’s stop here before I loose my masculine image :)
You know, I always thought that Cyrano was a jerk and I coward. When you think about it, he was really just using a puppet to express his true feelings. If he had any integrity at all, he wouldn’t have lied.
Watch the story again, He doesn’t lie, he doesn’t tell her, and he believes that she is in love with outer beauty not the inner, and there is more to the story, yes he show cowardice and pays for it.
But this is not my thread so I don’t want to spoil it on an argument irrelevant to the subject.
I have found that the ladies really like (or convincingly pretend to) these two Renee Russo films:
Tin Cup
The Thomas Crown Affair
Your SO will probably like them too. Reasonably adult (by that I mean quiet themes, not porn, although Thomas Crown has a lot of Hollywood peekaboo) in nature, yet a nice story, good acting and directing.
A couple of more recent ones that are quite good are Return to Me and Where the Heart Is. If you like older movies, try To Have and Have Not (Bogie and Bacall’s first one) and It Happened One Night. In the teen category the best ones are The Sure Thing and Say Anything. For some good foreign romances, try Like Water for Chocolate, and Woman on Top.
Buckaroo Banzai? In what freaky alternate world is Buckaroo Banzai a chick movie? Lasers, spaceships, humanoids from a parrallel reality, torture by space slug, rock ‘n’ roll scientists. This movie was a geeky twelve year old boy’s pipe dream.
At least is was this geeky twelve year old’s pipe dream, and his favorite movie after Star Wars and Ghostbusters.
I don’t know that this necessarily qualifies as a chick flick, but “An Officer And A Gentleman” is a wonderful sappy one, but it is good for the male persuasion cuz it has that guy, action brawling stuff too. A definite chick movie… “Where The Heart Is” LOVED that movie… cried my way through all 14 times I saw it…“Beaches” was another one that very few men I know could sit through without getting ansy like two year olds…lol
