# In praise of chick flicks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016 "2006-08-16T22:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zahava424](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/76d3ee/32.png) [@Zahava424](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zahava424)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/41 "2006-08-18T02:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] I liked “Serendipity.” I even bought it on DVD (on the cheap rack, admittedly). There’s something about that movie, about the hope that one day that perfect person really will be there. Lovely. Plus, that woman’s got a beautiful English accent. [/QUOTE] That’s probably the worst movie I’ve ever paid money to see. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/42 "2006-08-18T04:29:53Z")
I’m a big movie fan; I can watch and enjoy just about anything. But just like I disagreed with the offerings in the action movie thread, I don’t consider romantic comedies to be “chick flicks.” Most people do, and I understand why, but I dont. I generally dislike what I consider to be chick flicks. (Nice self-fulfilling destiny there, eh?) But I have been entertained by one or two. The chick flick titles that come to mind are: Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants In Her Shoes The Devil Wears Prada I’ve only seen one of the four. I recognized it was a decent movie, and even found it wtachable and mildly entertaining, but it didn’t appeal to me. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/43 "2006-08-18T05:32:35Z")
**Dangerosa** …Chasing Liberty is another fantastic one. I must get that the next time I’m at Best Buy. I tend to enjoy Julia Stiles vehicles the most though Mandy Moore is a favourite as well (though she can’t top Kirsten Dunst in Bring it On). Have you seen Saved? It’s a little too dark humour to qualify as a true teen movie (I think) but she was great in it as the head Christian bitch-queen. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/44 "2006-08-18T06:28:29Z")
[QUOTE=Peak Banana] I only watch the ones based on Shakespeare. [/QUOTE] Does that include _She’s the Man_? Sense and Sensibility is one of my favorite movies of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/45 "2006-08-18T06:28:57Z")
Oook! Speaking of Mandy Moore, **A Walk To Remember** was so awesome, I actually went and got the book too. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/46 "2006-08-18T06:33:24Z")
[QUOTE=Zahava424] That’s probably the worst movie I’ve ever paid money to see. [/QUOTE] Oh, come now, I’ve paid money to see a _lot_ worse movies than that! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/47 "2006-08-18T07:29:20Z")
Sometimes, you just want the world to be a place where boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy sings song and gets girl back again. (Or girl meets boy, or boy meets boy, or girl meets girl. That’s a trivial detail. No one even has to sing…but it really helps when they do.) And it’s nice to know that situations, no matter how difficult they seem at the time, (like losing your leopard, or mistaking the guy for your best friend’s husband, or accidentally getting lost at sea and coming back years later to find your husband has married another woman that very morning, or watching your cousin get left at the altar, or falling in love over the radio, or pretending to be your gorgeous neighbor), it’ll all work out. In 90 minutes - 120 tops. And you’ll live happily ever after. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/48 "2006-08-18T07:49:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ukulele Ike] Fuckin’ SHIT…Shakespeare does NOT do CHICK FLICKS. [/QUOTE] Thank you, I was beginning to wonder about the sense and sensibility (yes, I know that ain’t Chéspir) of my fellow dopers! “Not being an action flick” is not exactly the same as “being a chick flick”. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/49 "2006-08-18T14:23:54Z")
I used to loathe chick flicks without ever seeing one. That is until I saw _Fried Green Tomatoes_, which blew me away. Since then I have been keeping an open mind and like a lot of them. But I still cannot watch _Steel Magnolias_. I loved (and bought) : _Fried Green Tomatoes When Harry met Sally Sense and Sensibility the Icestorm_ (which I actually don’t really consider a chick flick) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/50 "2006-08-18T17:17:31Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] \ , and sort of enjoyed that one with that hot Italian-American actress chick - the really famous one with the curly hair and the name I don’t remember but she won an undeserved Oscar for some other comedy - going to Italy to find her cheating husband. [/QUOTE] Hee hee. Someone please figure out what he’s talking about. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/51 "2006-08-18T17:50:39Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Hee hee. Someone please figure out what he’s talking about. 😛 [/QUOTE] My guess is he’s talking about Marisa Tomei. Don’t know the picture, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/52 "2006-08-18T19:10:16Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Hee hee. Someone please figure out what he’s talking about. 😛 [/QUOTE] He’s talking about Marisa Tomei, but he’s got [_My Cousin Vinny_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/) (for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar) with [_Only You_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110737/). ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/53 "2006-08-18T19:48:11Z")
[QUOTE=anu-la1979] **Dangerosa** …Chasing Liberty is another fantastic one. I must get that the next time I’m at Best Buy. I tend to enjoy Julia Stiles vehicles the most though Mandy Moore is a favourite as well (though she can’t top Kirsten Dunst in Bring it On). Have you seen Saved? It’s a little too dark humour to qualify as a true teen movie (I think) but she was great in it as the head Christian bitch-queen. [/QUOTE] No, I’ve been meaning to see Saved, but forget. Add to Netflix queue now… ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/54 "2006-08-19T04:01:27Z")
[QUOTE=divemaster] Add a fantasy element and try [**The Bride with White Hair**](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106342/). A moving story of star-crossed lovers. Plus you get an evil cult and people getting their heads chopped off. (Ok, maybe its not a “chick flick” but I got all emotional watching it!) [/QUOTE] Hot damn! **Green Snake** and **The Bride With White Hair** mentioned in the same thread, and the thread’s not even about _wuxia_ films! I don’t know that those are chick flicks…too much fighting and swordplay maybe, but they’re beautiful and surreal, fun and well worth checking out. If only to see fighting eyebrows! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/55 "2006-08-19T04:04:22Z")
[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] He’s talking about Marisa Tomei, but he’s got [_My Cousin Vinny_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/) (for which **she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar** )… [/QUOTE] Deservedly. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/56 "2006-09-10T12:36:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Shirley Ujest > _Kate & Leopold another Jackman drool fest. Jackman is my next husband. Just so’s yanno._ [QUOTE=Push You Down] ..I hate to say it but …you aren’t his type… If you know what I mean. [/QUOTE] If you’re saying what I think you’re saying, his wife would be very surprised to hear that. Is this because he played Peter Allen so convincingly, or is it just something that goes around about every actor (and sometimes actress) whose kids are adopted? ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/57 "2006-09-10T15:15:06Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] No, I’ve been meaning to see Saved, but forget. Add to Netflix queue now… [/QUOTE] I did get Saved (bumped it to the top of the Netflix queue) and it was wonderful. Loved it. Thanks for reminding me. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/58 "2006-09-11T00:44:50Z")
It’s easy to forget that in most chick flicks, at least the ones that are in the romantic comedy realm, nearly as much attention is given to what the male characters are going through, and I can certainly identify with the humor in that. The two main male characters in _Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood_ are a good example of that. Mostly I just like to watch good movies of any genre and stay away from the bad ones. For instance, _Alien Versus Predator_ is undoubtedly a non-chick flick, but the whole idea of reprising two monster flicks at once seemed stupid. The tag line was “Whoever wins, we lose”, and I said to myself, “Especially the audience.” I’d rather see _Titanic_ or _Love Actually_ than _AVP_ any day. ---
**Author:** ![CairaJade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@CairaJade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairaJade)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/59 "2006-09-11T01:43:10Z")
Okay I was about to come in here ranting about how much I loathe chick flicks, but I love most of the movies that have been referenced (of course I’m not surprised that Dopers have such excellent taste!). Generally, I don’t like chick flicks as a genre (or chick lit, for that matter). I don’t know if I would classify all romantic comedies, Austen, or Shakespeare comedies as chick flicks though. ---
**Author:** ![Magret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@Magret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magret)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/60 "2006-09-11T11:24:04Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] \ , and sort of enjoyed that one with that hot Italian-American actress chick - the really famous one with the curly hair and the name I don’t remember but she won an undeserved Oscar for some other comedy - going to Italy to find her cheating husband. [QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Hee hee. Someone please figure out what he’s talking about. 😛 [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] That would be Only You, with Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. I loved that one too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016.md?page=4)