If I may be so bold as to translate lissener, I have not seen anyone condeming any movie or actor. Not in the OP and not in any of the posts. I tend not to go see any movies of this genre in the theater but I have enjoyed quite a few at home.
If you wish to argue that comic book movies are not as superficial as the works they are based on, feel free to start your own thread, Chuck. Stop hijacking this one.
On to business: Mark Ruffalo. Also inexplicably beloved by chicks. He strikes me as quite bland.
Harry Connick, Jr.?
Justin Gar-what-his-name from the first American Idol
This makes me think of Frankie Avalon, but are those beach thingies really chick-flicks as much as teen flicks? And is there a lot of difference?
Hugh Grant and Colin Firth are the big ones (neither of whom I find attractive, by the way). But I have a difficult time understanding why they’re so popular and so appealing to women in general. I doubt people would give them a second look passing by on the street were they not famous. As for personality, Hugh Grant is at least goofily funny, but Colin Firth is just bored and boring. I imagine they stick to chick flicks because they need to grasp at what tenuous fame they have the only way they know how. I wonder if they’re as puzzled by their success as I am.
But I must admit that they’re both in my favorite chick flick, Bridget Jones’s Diary (the first one, not the wretched sequel), a movie I thoroughly enjoy despite thoroughly disliking the main actors.
I’ve been wondering for a while if another thread or two might investigate this concept further. If so, maybe somebody will start one.
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What’s the opposite of a chick-flick? I know my wife balks at seeing a movie unless there are strong women in it. That would suggest that even if there are women in it, unless their roles are significant then the movie is a whatever a non-chick-flick or and anti-chick-flick is.
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She’s in it? It can’t be a chick-flick.
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If they just took him out, it would be a chick-flick.
Other variations on the theme?
When he was in Gosford Park, Clive Owen looked like he was headed toward a chick-flick career. However, nowadays I see him featured in ads for many testosterone-fueled, car-crashing shoot-em-ups. Quite a waste, as far as I (a Jane Austen fan) am concerned. He’d have been a dreamy regency buck or brooding English country squire in tight riding breeches.
Oh, well, I can still look at him in his undershirt in Gosford Park.
I call these Tough Broad movies.
Sharon Stone? Linda Hamilton? Carmen Electra?
No one comes to mind here. Got anyone in mind?
Other variations on the theme?
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Kate Beckinsale. I think she did one after Pearl Harbor and it’s been action flicks since then.
Ohhh, I don’t know about that. He was pretty awesome in Collateral.
Action movie? Hard core porn?
Shannon Tweed.
I don’t think chick flicks work that way.
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I’ll second the suggestion of “action movie”. If a movie features Sigourney Weaver in a forklift brawling with a xenomorph, it’s probably not a chick flick, even if it has a strong female protagonist.
Just wondering how Auto Focus fits into this?
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Here’s a project for you, Lobot! Post something similar in every thread for which “There’s an exception to every rule” is applicable. Hint: you won’t get much else done in your life–you’ll have to make around 481,075 such posts. So you better get started.
Most people take it as a given.
That’s a hard one; the thing that irks me most about that movie is the bullshit “maternal instinct” they saddled Ridley with. Like she needed maternal instinct to kick alien ass. Made it too close to a weird chick/action-flick hybrid for me.
Well, I accept that, but take a look at his IMDB filmography. Things like The Gift, Stuck on You and (arguably) Little Miss Sunshine suggest to me that, while he’s usually cast as the “affable, nice guy”, he really doesn’t seem to be stuck in chick flick land in the way, say, Hugh Grant is.
Compare most of his starring roles to most of his background roles. Also, IMO, more recent movies count more than older movies; if he’s BECOME a chickflick star recently, that counts for the thread. Again, this is all opinion. But me, I see Greg Kinnear’s in it I get a feeling like Meg Ryan’s not far behind.
Ah, but before that, she was in Much Ado About Nothing, which – though Shakespeare – I think definitely qualifies as a chick flick.
Before 2000, it’s all chick flicks. After 2001, not so much.