What movies are neither guy flix nor chick flix ?

“Deeper masculine stuff”? :dubious: :smiley:

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.

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.

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.

Freaking hilarious. :smiley:
And if it hasn’t been mentioned already: The Italian Job

And the boobs. You forgot the boobs. The only thing (other than mass casualties) that made it slightly memorable. :smiley:

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. :slight_smile:

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

Groundhog Day!

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…

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.

Transamerica
Boys Don’t Cry
Pink Flamingos

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So, is this a refutation of my entire list, or just GWTW?

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.

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.

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.

We’ve gotten to post #36 and no one’s mentioned The Princess Bride? For shame, people!