George Brent
Hugh Grant
Ralph Fiennes
The other Fiennes
Colin Firth
Greg Kinnear
. . . Pierce Brosnan seems to be heading that way.
Who else?
Hugh Jackman, in any movie in which he doesn’t have muttonchops and adamantium claws.
Disagree about Jackman.
add Dermont Mulroney to your list
Disagree very strongly about Ralph Fiennes.
Various Harry Potters, The Constant Gardener, Spider, In Bruges, Schindler’s List, Red Dragon, just off the top of my head.
The Prestige comes to mind as another exception.
Hugh Grant is the only actor I’m familiar with who has this reputation. I rarely hear about chick flicks.
You’re obviously not married.
I’ll second, third and fourth Colin Firth. The man’s a fine actor, but for some reason no male on earth can ever possibly understand, millions of women think he’s the sexiest thing in movies. Hence his eternal sentence to chick flick purgatory.
I think I may be onto something here. If both men and women think some guy’s attractive, he has a chance of being a mainstream movie star. If *only *women think he’s sexy… chick flicks.
Personally I quite like Colin Firth in most of his roles but I too am baffled at the number of women who almost swoon at the mention of his name. So years ago I started reflexively butting in, at the mention of his name, to say. “of course he’s gay you know.” This would cause shrieks of horror and descriptions of his domestic status amongst the woman. But then out came **Mama Mia **. Thank you Catherine Johnston.
For an amusing account of Firth check out Nick Hornby’s book about the making of the original movie version of Fever Pitch.
I think Patrick Dempsey is heading that way.
Matthew McConaghuey, or however you spell it, hasn’t been in a manly movie in some time.
Two words: Wet Darcy.
I don’t care that he used a stunt double. Or that the impromptu swim wasn’t in the book; somehow, I think that Miss Austen would have been amused.
The film adaptations of her books are Flicks for Thinking Chicks!
Owen Wison
Rob Schneider
Exactly what’s wrong with chick flicks? There are good ones and bad ones, but condemning them all as a genre is the same as condemning all movies made from comic books.
has been in exactly one chick flick. Unless you count Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights, Meet The Parents, Zoolander, The Royal Tennenbaums or Behind Enemy Lines as chick flicks.
Which we also do.
To the OP: Colin Firth became King Chickflick after Richard I of Gere was exiled to Tibet.
That’s how he started out!
Th first name I thought of.
Cool. I tried the reverse approach: think of a chick flick and look it up on IMDB and see if the guy(s) in it had a proclivity for similar vehicles. O’Donnell has done some non-chick-flick things enough that he’s not an automatic giveaway, but Rupert is in hardly anything but.
Dead ends on that approach produced Tom Skerritt, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen and lots of smaller role players.
Better said: who has NEVER been in a chick-flick? Slim Pickens? Boris Karloff? Arnold? The Rock?
If that’s not an attempt at a joke, it’s also a critical blind spot. The Dark Knight was clearly a top film, and there have been many great comic book films (Tim Burton’s Batman, Spider-Man 2, Superman, and even Swamp Thing) as well as bad ones.
When you condemn all films in a given genre, you don’t have much credibility as a critic. At most, you can just say, “I don’t like that type of film,” but unless you watch them, you don’t know if they’re good or not.
Dude, go back to sleep. You’re obviously having a bad dream, imagining threads that don’t exist. Try some hot milk, and remember, no pepperoni pizza before bed!