# What movies are neither guy flix nor chick flix ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623 "2006-04-28T17:17:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/21 "2006-04-29T00:37:54Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur Catta] ‘Guy’ flicks tend to be your more action oriented fare, although sometimes with deeper masculine stuff going on (Lawrence of Arabia comes to mind). [/QUOTE] “Deeper masculine stuff”? :dubious: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/22 "2006-04-29T01:20:36Z")
I don’t know that anyone’s going to agree with me, but **Master and Commander** is one of my favorite movies, if not my most favorite. It’s definitely not a chick flick, and it goes a bit deeper than _Die Hard_. I can only remember one female in it, and she was a topless native who floated by in a canoe and had no lines. Would the recent spate of musician bio-pics fall into this category? _Ray_, _Walk the Line_, etc. They’re based on real events, so I find it difficult to say that they’re skewed to either gender. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/23 "2006-04-29T02:54:51Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur Catta] Just a few picked from my own collection: The Hudsucker Proxy Casablanca Brazil Being John Malkovich Topper Serenity (which every man, woman and child ought see, several times, and buy DVD copies of for all their friends :D) [/QUOTE] Well **Hudsucker** opens up the whole Capra canon (that’s what the Coens were doing with that movie). _Mr Smith, Mr Deeds, John Doe, Wonderful Life_, all of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/24 "2006-04-29T03:05:29Z")
Grosse Pointe Blank, Say Anything, and High Fidelity: a trio of terrific John Cusack movies that function as date movies or chick flicks, but have plenty for dudes to enjoy as well. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/25 "2006-04-29T03:15:39Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] I’m pretty sure that if you say her name three times while looking in a mirror, she appears and lops your nuts off. [/QUOTE] Freaking _ **hilarious.** _😃 And if it hasn’t been mentioned already: **The Italian Job** ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/26 "2006-04-29T03:39:34Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] **Titanic** had weepy doomed romance for the ladies and a ship hitting an iceberg for the gents. [/QUOTE] And the boobs. You forgot the boobs. The only thing (other than mass casualties) that made it slightly memorable. 😃 Some suggestions: (Dramas and comedies, but a couple may bend the line) The Terminal On Golden Pond Braveheart (Tempted, but not sure the love story within is enough to equal) Overboard Arthur My Life Brian’s Song Mask Goodfelas\* \*Ok, not really. But any movie list should include Goodfellas regardless of context or genre. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/27 "2006-04-29T04:19:39Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur Catta] Just a few picked from my own collection: **Casablanca** . [/QUOTE] Thank you for saying Casablanca. I thought I was the only guy who could actually see that as more than a sappy love story. Sgt Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/28 "2006-04-29T04:31:19Z")
Groundhog Day! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/29 "2006-04-29T12:29:05Z")
After apparently failing with Nora Ephron movies (I guess I haven’t seen all that many of her hallmark efforts) may I venture _Gone With The Wind_? Surely there are some guys somewhere who don’t consider it a chick flick. Or am I from the wrong age bracket? If that one passes the test, then maybe these would, too: From Here To Eternity A Place in the Sun Cat On A Hot Tin Roof A Streetcar Named Desire Sabrina Pal Joey Bell, Book and Candle Vertigo Anatomy of a Murder Witness for the Prosecution To Kill a Mockingbird Inherit the Wind I guess that list goes full circle with the “wind” thing… ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incongnito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4af34b/32.png) [@Guy\_Incongnito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incongnito)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/30 "2006-04-29T13:35:18Z")
_Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind_ _Garden State_ How about _Ghost World_? It’s a move with themes that tend to skew male - rejection, loneliness, dissafection, but with female protagonists. ---
**Author:** ![Stentor\_2.5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Stentor\_2.5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stentor_2.5)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/31 "2006-04-29T13:56:40Z")
Transamerica Boys Don’t Cry Pink Flamingos ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/32 "2006-04-29T14:12:04Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] After apparently failing with Nora Ephron movies (I guess I haven’t seen all that many of her hallmark efforts) may I venture _Gone With The Wind_? Surely there are some guys somewhere who don’t consider it a chick flick. Or am I from the wrong age bracket? [/QUOTE] Chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/33 "2006-04-29T14:29:48Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] Chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick chick flick! [/QUOTE] So, is this a refutation of my entire list, or just GWTW? ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/34 "2006-04-29T14:31:52Z")
I really like chick flicks, which my husband doesn’t like. He keeps his own collection of action and scifi stuff that I don’t watch much, but some that I love that he likes are: _Pirates of the Caribbean Shawshank Redemption Miracle The Breakfast Club Witness Apollo 13_ Pretty much all dramas, I guess. But he wouldn’t be caught dead watching _Gone with the Wind_. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/35 "2006-04-29T14:43:10Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] So, is this a refutation of my entire list, or just GWTW? [/QUOTE] Really just Gone With the Wind (hence my quote of only that part), but there’s no way Sabrina (either version) is a guy movie either. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/36 "2006-04-29T15:09:40Z")
[QUOTE=Sgt Schwartz] Thank you for saying Casablanca. I thought I was the only guy who could actually see that as more than a sappy love story. Sgt Schwartz [/QUOTE] I agree. Casablanca starts out as a guy flick, turns into a chick flick when Ingrid Bergman appears, and turns back into a guy flick after she leaves. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623/37 "2006-04-29T21:47:12Z")
We’ve gotten to post #36 and no one’s mentioned _The Princess Bride_? For shame, people! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-neither-guy-flix-nor-chick-flix/354623.md?page=1)