I think that any movie that has Betty White in it should be automatically disqualified from being a chick flick.
ahem: The Proposal???
That’s the best chick flick out there.
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.
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.
I am very suspicious that so many of you guys seem to know so much about so many chick flicks.
Wait wait wait, back up. Jackie Chan’s *Drunken Master *isn’t an acceptable dick flick??
You know what color Jennifer Aniston’s eyes are?!? Get help fast, man!
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…
“Love Rhombus”? I think I saw that on Lifetime Movies.
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.
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…
OR, guys talking about chick flicks should be like masturbation – something you don’t do in public.
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.
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.
Can guys talk about chick flicks in Libertopia? Not like I want to. I’ll be content just masturbating in public.
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.