# I watched a chick flick. Am I going to die? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045 "2012-07-22T15:33:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/81 "2012-07-24T14:52:35Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > That looks very very dangerous. Consider yourself lucky you haven’t grown secondary female sexual characteristics. Go to some hockey games or get in a bar fight. I think that any movie that has Betty White in it should be automatically disqualified from being a chick flick. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/82 "2012-07-24T15:25:11Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I think that any movie that has Betty White in it should be automatically disqualified from being a chick flick. ahem: The Proposal??? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/83 "2012-07-26T03:26:55Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > I’m not sure I understand. The only chick flick I can think of is [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120630/) one. That’s the best chick flick out there. ---
**Author:** ![Detroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Detroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Detroit)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/84 "2012-07-26T14:45:35Z")
I loved Chicken Run. Even got that it was a takeoff of Great Escape. A great chicflic movie for EVERYONE - The Bridesmaids. A chicflic movie NO ONE should be forced to watch - Terms of Endearment. (Even worse than Love Story or Beaches). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/85 "2012-07-26T15:11:39Z")
> [@Detroit](#): > > I loved Chicken Run. Even got that it was a takeoff of Great Escape. > > A great chicflic movie for EVERYONE - The Bridesmaids. > > A chicflic movie NO ONE should be forced to watch - Terms of Endearment. (Even worse than Love Story or Beaches). Oh, god, Terms of Endearment. I’ll raise you Steel Magnolias and The Bridges of Madison County. BLAArGHG. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/86 "2012-07-26T16:11:55Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Oh, god, Terms of Endearment. I’ll raise you Steel Magnolias and The Bridges of Madison County. > > BLAArGHG. I see your Steel Magnolias and The Bridges of Madison County, and raise you… :eek: The Notebook, Love Story, and P.S. I Love You. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/87 "2012-07-26T16:35:47Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > I see your Steel Magnolias and The Bridges of Madison County, and raise you… > > :eek: > > The Notebook, Love Story, and P.S. I Love You. Not in a hundred million years. I have no idea who forced you to see those, but they should be ashamed. Funny, slightly off-topic thing about Nicholas Sparks. When I was in Mexico several summers ago, I had nothing to read but the Spanish version of Message in a Bottle. It was so bad that its badness was identifiable _in another language._ ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/88 "2012-07-26T16:58:23Z")
I am very suspicious that so many of you guys seem to know so much about so many chick flicks. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/89 "2012-07-26T17:15:54Z")
Wait wait wait, back up. Jackie Chan’s \*Drunken Master \*isn’t an acceptable dick flick?? ---
**Author:** ![LAV25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@LAV25](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAV25)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/90 "2012-07-26T19:18:26Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Remember guys, always, _always_, have a copy of Predator close by. It’s like a chick flick universal anti-venom. It will bring you back from the brink of Jennifer Aniston’s deep blue eyes. You know what color Jennifer Aniston’s _ **eyes** _ are?!? Get help fast, man! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/91 "2012-07-26T19:34:00Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > So now for my own admission… > > An eight year old child recently introduced me to [Victorious](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1604099/) Yeah, but…the star of that show is turning that growing-up corner where she appears to be headed down that “Saved By the Bell-to-Showgirls” transition, per Elizabeth Berkeley (and likely with the same career arc). My tween daughter watches those shows so I catch bits of them like shrapnel. So okay, I have one: what about books like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series? They present themselves as uber-intense, violent action guy type books, but, at their heart the series is a chick flick. Our heroine is subjected to a rough upbringing but finds her way to exact her revenge and find true love. By the third book, I found the chick-flick roots of the series much more obvious… ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/92 "2012-07-26T19:36:01Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Wait wait wait, back up. Jackie Chan’s \*Drunken Master \*isn’t an acceptable dick flick?? “Love Rhombus”? I think I saw that on Lifetime Movies. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/93 "2012-07-26T19:36:55Z")
Sorry for the hijack, but does anybody else keep reading this as “Chik-Fil-A” whenever they’re scanning? Under usual circumstances I might not, but since that damned name is _everywhere_ right now my mind keeps interpreting it as another thread on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/94 "2012-07-26T20:56:19Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I am very suspicious that so many of you guys seem to know so much about so many chick flicks. You have: [ol] [li]never been married (to a woman) **OR** [/li][li]gotten your pleasure from professionals **OR** [/li][li]are not old enough to drink **OR** [/li][li]from a land where chick flicks are non-existent **OR** [/li][li]been incarcerated for a very long time **OR** [/li][li]some combination thereof. [/li][/ol] It’s a trade-off. I can watch as much “The Hunt for Red October”, and “Red” and “Tombstone” as I want, but it gets “neutralized” by Steel Magnolias, The Notebook, etal. So you can keep your man points and go to bed lonely, or give a few away and reap the benefits… Now, i need to kick the crap out of something… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/95 "2012-07-26T21:01:54Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > You have: [ol] > [li]never been married (to a woman) **OR** [/li][li]gotten your pleasure from professionals **OR** [/li][li]are not old enough to drink **OR** [/li][li]from a land where chick flicks are non-existent **OR** [/li][li]been incarcerated for a very long time **OR** [/li][li]some combination thereof. [/li][/ol] > … OR, guys talking about chick flicks should be like masturbation – something you don’t do in public. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/96 "2012-07-26T21:21:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > So long as people die, they’re ok. No wounding and then letting people go. Now, wait a minute. What about Inigo Montoya vs. The Man in Black in _Princess Bride_? 'Cuz that was five minutes of pure _awesome_, however vaginal the rest of the flick. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/97 "2012-07-26T21:50:05Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Now, wait a minute. What about Inigo Montoya vs. The Man in Black in _Princess Bride_? 'Cuz that was five minutes of pure _awesome_, however vaginal the rest of the flick. Now I will argue that that movie, while it had vaginal moments, was a definite balance of chick and dick. And done at a level kids could appreciate too. That’s not easy. And the book/screenplay was written by a guy’s guy. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/98 "2012-07-26T22:32:32Z")
> [@LAV25](#): > > You know what color Jennifer Aniston’s _ **eyes** _ are?!? Get help fast, man! Yeah! I’m looking at Jennifer Aniston’s eyes all the time and I don’t know what color they are. Wait… oh, eyes. Nevermind then. I’ve been looking at something else. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/99 "2012-07-26T22:34:39Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > OR, guys talking about chick flicks should be like masturbation – something you don’t do in public. Can guys talk about chick flicks in [Libertopia](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=659140)? Not like I want to. I’ll be content just masturbating in public. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045/100 "2012-07-27T05:39:46Z")
The plot synopsis in that IMDB entry gave me a headache. I think I need to grab a big stick, go outside, and chase down the raccoon that figured out how to open the screen door and get into the kitchen a few weeks ago. Or set fire to the grill again. Or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-chick-flick-am-i-going-to-die/629045.md?page=6)