Good Chick Flicks

[Jack Hammer]

I actually liked Shakespeare in Love and An Affair to Remember, French foreign film.

 

[Johnny Canuck]

I think we can all define a "Chick Flick" as :


-lovey dovey like "Sleepless in Seattle"
-best friend dies like "Beaches"
-musical like "Chicago" or "Moulin Rouge"
-best friends go nuts like "Thelma and Louise"

or, anything that makes you cry, is about animals, or other highly sensitive issues...

We can't really say a Brad Pitt movie is a Chick Flick. Although he is good eye candy for the ladies, "Fight Club" really doesn't strike me as "sensitive" Most women want a plot more importantly.

Maybe that's it! A Chick Flick is something with a plot!

 

[DTS]

Oh, and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA was ok, especially cranked on the HT especially at the unveiling of the chandellier.

 

[~JC~]

Maybe that's it! A Chick Flick is something with a plot!

Better cheque the tuque, it's a bit too tight.

 

[ScottMayo]

Maybe that's it! A Chick Flick is something with a plot!

I usually find it's just the opposite. For me, a plot is about resolving a problem: achieving something, overcoming something, at least changing something in the real world. And a chick flick is about feeling something. Typical example: in a guy flick, someone dies. His friends swear vengance/conquer the disease that killed him/achieve whatever the dead guy was trying to achieve. The death causes further plot, action, resoution. In a chick flick, someone dies. The rest of the movie explores everyone's feelings about the death, but no one does anything about it. A lot of people talk and cry but nothing actually happens.

Worst chick flicks of all time: Green Fried Tomatoes, Flashdance. (well, there may be worse but I haven't been forced to see them.) Best one I've seen recently: Chicago.

Still, bad guy movies are worse than bad chick flicks. "Cool World" still strikes me as the biggest waste of cellulose of all time, and I'm told that "Ishtar" is so bad that no one's ever seen it twice...

 

[brmiller88]

Spotless Mind? A good film, but I wouldn't consider it a chick flick.

Garden State really isn't a chick flick in my book either, but another very decent movie.

I agree that neither Eternal Sunshine nor Garden State were chick flicks in the traditional sense. They are, however, undeniably sentimental. Which, I guess, is my first criteria for labeling a movie a "chick flick." The second criteria I use is that the film spends a large amount of time developing a relationship between two or three people. They are (approximately) the criteria I apply, so that I can pretend to be somewhat objective.

I found Eternal Sunshine to be quite a sad film, and something of a dark insight into human psyche... but maybe that's just my perception!

It certainly was very sad at times, with several painful scenes. By the end, the message I took from it was that no one should expect love to be a smooth ride, but it's worth fighting for anyway. Quite sappy, but well-executed on screen.

 

[dm_4u]

Maid in Manhatten and all the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan flicks

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

I am so glad my wife doesn't watch chick flicks.

Now if only I could get her to watch sci-fi/fantasy/horror.

 

[knobturner75]

One of my favorite chick flics is Fools Rush In. It has Selma Hayek in it. That sold it for me.

Also, just watched The Family Stone last night. It wasn't bad. To quote a friend "It's a waste of a good home theater." Very, very little surround sound, but the wife enjoyed it. That's what makes it a chick flic.

 

[nm2285]

I guess "A Fish Called Wanda" isn't truly a chick flick, but its hilarious and most girls relaly enjou it. "When Harry Met Sally" is also a classic. Seems to me that the only good chick flicks are the ones that are actually, truly funny. The sappy ones are all the same.

I watched "Only You" the other night with a girlfriend...even she hated it.

 

[JaceTheAce]

The Notebook

 

[BruceWallace]

Princess Bride
The Man From Snowy River
Thomas Crown Affair

 

[CaliHwyPatrol]

The Notebook

This movie will get you laid. Women are funny that way.

~Chuck

 

[captain_tinker]

Hmm,
I didn't realize that there WERE any such things as "Good" chick flicks. There have been a VERY precious few that I have been able to actually sit through the first time, but I don't think I've ever been able to sit through them all the second time. Here are a few movies however that my wife seems to be very fond of:

Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Footloose
Grease
Dirty Dancing (yeah I know, she's an 80's girl)
The Cutting Edge
The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries II
Pure Country
Coyote Ugly

Some of these are ok for one sitting, but after that, it's just too much. (anyone got any cheez-wiz? *blech.*) Then are the Chick Flick TV shows:

Gilmore Girls *gaack!*
7th Heaven

We've seen some of the other ones mentioned, like the Maid in Manhattan, and What Women Want, but thankfully, she has not really enjoyed them enough to want them.

Perhaps the ONLY chick flick, if you could call it that, that I have ever enjoyed has already been mentioned - Phantom of the Opera. But that is a classic anyway, especially if you have ever read the book, which was quite interesting in and of itself. Especially if you have ever been to Paris, and to the Opera House Garnier. It's quite a trip!

When I was in High School, my two sisters and my mother would always watch Anne of Green Gables - "Oh, Gil you are SSOOOO CUTE!!!" *Barf!* and then act out the scenes when they were not watching it. Ever seen a high school girl in her flannel long sleeve nightgown jumping on her bed singing an opera in falsetto? Yeah... Personally, I think they did it on purpose. They also used to watch Man from Snowy River, and MFSR II.

-capT