Chick Flicks

Lorelli!

I really dislike most Chick Flicks. Was never into the whole Bridget Jones or anything like that but I have to admit, Dirty Dancing was a good film. A few cringe worthy moments but still a great film and cool soundtrack

mansize

I carried a water melon!


Shyte movie, banging soundtrack!

Lorelli!

mansize wrote: »

I carried a water melon!

that's one of the cringe moments :pac:

Look, spaghetti arms, this *____* is your dance space...this *____* is my dance space.

I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine.

judeboy101

It always amazes me but was baby underage in that movie? Because if she was then Johnny was up to a bit of the old statutory rape.

judeboy101

judeboy101 wrote: »

It always amazes me but was baby underage in that movie? Because if she was then Johnny was up to a bit of the old statutory rape.

Nobody puts Baby in a corner!

The Specialist

The Notebook - I have seen girls dissolve in to tears while i roll my eyes hard enough to have a seizure. What is it that causes this emotional outburst? The movie is a ball of festering ****e!

mansize

http://www.mamamia.com.au/11-plot-holes-in-dirty-dancing-weve-only-just-noticed/

mansize

Why was Grease 2 so bad?

I don't mind the odd chick flick if it's well done. I loved Bridesmaids, if that can be called a Chick Flick.

I despised The Notebook because it was so obviously engineered to press all the girl buttons, so I wasn't moved to tears. I might have been if it was a little more subtle about it.

Lorelli!

The Specialist wrote: »

The Notebook - I have seen girls dissolve in to tears while i roll my eyes hard enough to have a seizure. What is it that causes this emotional outburst? The movie is a ball of festering ****e!

I haven't seen The Notebook tbh and I was going to mention it in the Op but I haven't a clue what it's about. I suspect I'd personally find Ryan Gosling more romantic in Drive

Outlaw Pete

"You had me at 'Hello'..."

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Unlike feel good chick flicks, not ones that are supposed to make you cry!

Cameo

The ones where a girl and guy meet by chance and they "hate" each other and then fall in love, and then something happens to upset the girl and she ends it but the guy wins her back in the nick of time... all suck. And that seems to be the formula used most of the time.

But there are chick flicks/rom coms not adhering to that formula which are very enjoyable - Bridesmaids, Muriel's Wedding, Clueless and other high school ones. I recently saw I Give It A Year, which seemed to be a joint British/American/Aussie film and I was in knots.

I quite liked The Family Stone too - it's got Sarah Jessica Parker pretty much playing Carrie Bradshaw (what an asshole of a character) but lots of others - not too bad for an American rom com.

Mean Girls is a masterpiece!

Yamanoto

Love how Kermode prefaces this by saying he's not going to rant.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHeQeHstrsc

Cameo

Sex & The City movies and 50 SOGgy Cinema Seats can go fook themselves!

mansize

Candie wrote: »

Mean Girls is a masterpiece!

I wouldn't call Mean Girls a chick flick tbf, its a Teen Movie- and its AWESOME

Tom Mann Centuria

Some Kind of Wonderful is sometimes considered a chick flick, as is Say Anything. Both fuppin excellent films.

Lorelli!

Cameo wrote: »

The ones where a girl and guy meet by chance and they "hate" each other and then fall in love, and then something happens to upset the girl and she ends it but the guy wins her back in the nick of time... all suck. And that seems to be the formula used most of the time.

But there are chick flicks/rom coms not adhering to that formula which are very enjoyable - Bridesmaids, Muriel's Wedding, .

oh god, Muriels Wedding was that good? I remember there use to be a film on Rte 2 every Sunday evening and my brother and I sitting up and watching that! The moment where, I think it's her sister, says "your terrible Muriel", my brother and I nearly died! Honestly im going red even thinking about it :pac:

I thought Jerry Maguire was good. Was that classed as a chick flick?

mansize

Muriel's Wedding is my favourite film of all time, its an anti chick flick

She tells the pretty boy no. Her father is a dick and her mum dies in misery

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Candie wrote: »

Mean Girls is a masterpiece!

I can't help it if I have a wide set vagina and a heavy flow
I love that movie. I love working quotes from that movie into every day conversations.

mansize

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I can't help it if I have a wide set vagina and a heavy flow
I love that movie. I love working quotes from that movie into every day conversations.

me too! But its required for me, I took The Gay Oath!

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mansize wrote: »

me too! But its required for me, I took The Gay Oath!

Are you almost too gay to function though?

mansize

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Are you almost too gay to function though?

Totes! Let's go shopping

In related news:

https://twitter.com/louisemcsharry/status/830919895391023104

mansize

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Are you almost too gay to function though?

Guess what movie I'm watching now!!!

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mansize wrote: »

Guess what movie I'm watching now!!!

You GO Glenn Coco!!!

Mountainsandh

Cameo wrote: »

The ones where a girl and guy meet by chance and they "hate" each other and then fall in love, and then something happens to upset the girl and she ends it but the guy wins her back in the nick of time... all suck. And that seems to be the formula used most of the time.
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But, but, I liiike the ones where a girl and guy meet by chance and they hate each other and then fall in love, and then something happens to upset the girl and she ends it but then they get back together.
Complete with the guy's best friend who's so nice, and the girl's best friend who may be gay maybe, and the snow falling in American streets, and an ice-rink in Central Park maybe, and ... and... maybe a silly little sister and an awkward Christmas dinner at the girl's parents. Maybe an illness, yeah, an illness is really good, sometimes they die, but that's ok, because she was pregnant or something so there's a child surviving so we get shots of the remaining parent with sunflare and melancholic smiles.

I like all that. I want to watch these and cry sometimes, and not have to think too hard, and I want the director to give me what I want, with a little bit of surprise and a little bit of spice, but not too much.
Or Marley and Me.

I find I'm drawn to these especially during or after a stressful week at work.

It's good to enjoy simple things sometimes. Chick flicks are simple.

Lorelli!

From when I was a girl and first saw Dirty Dancing, I wanted the shoes that Penny and Baby wear in this scene! Got something similar for my Debs and I was so delighted, i wore the life out of them. I'm actually looking for something similar for a wedding I'm going to soon

Potential Underachiever

I thought a chick flick was something a lady might do when home and alone and a bit horny?

mzungu

mansize wrote: »

Why was Grease 2 so bad?

Lazy scriptwriting. Only difference between 1 and 2 is that in Grease 2 its your man Maxwell Caulfield who goes from good clean cut lad into a leather jacket wearning bad boy at the end.

Tigger

judeboy101 wrote: »

It always amazes me but was baby underage in that movie? Because if she was then Johnny was up to a bit of the old statutory rape.

she was 27

Lorelli!

Grease 2 was really bad!

Awh I can barely remember watching or the story of The Wanderers which also had a great soundtrack. Was that the more realistic but still dramatic version of Grease? It was released in 1979, one year after Grease.

Tigger

Tigger wrote: »

she was 27

The actress was, but how old was the character supposed to be?

mansize

Candie wrote: »

The actress was, but how old was the character supposed to be?

17

mzungu

Candie wrote: »

The actress was, but how old was the character supposed to be?

17.

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/trivia

Katgurl

Dirty Dancing is an amazing movie. She's a really strong, interesting female character. The family dynamics give it depth; her realising her father has flaws, her silly pretty sister being overlooked, her being treated like the wife (instead of her mother). I also love that it's about a guy feeling vulnerable as he knows he's being used for his looks and tossed aside by wealthy predators. Yes there are cringe scenes but the chemistry between them is brilliant. I never get sick of it.

My other favourite chick flick is My Best Friends Wedding. Julia Roberts rocks that role.

I utterly despise The Notebook. If I ever got presented with that from a love interest it would be p45 time, effective immediately.

whoopsadoodles

I don't like chick flicks as a general rule. They're just not my cup of tea. I've never seen The Notebook and I never have any desire to.

I do like Dirty Dancing though, and Grease. I love Beaches (is that a chick flick?) but it's been years since I saw that.

I LOVE Legally Blonde. Love it. I've no idea why but I find it absolutely hilarious.

razorblunt

Listen, there's too many damn mentions of The Notebook in this thread. It has Rachel McAdams in it, that alone is enough.

Bridesmaids was excellent, my OH tries to get the "help me, I'm poor" into a conversation at least a couple of times a week.

whoopsadoodles

Oh do you know what else I do love. Enchanted! That is deadly.

team_actimel

There are plenty of sh1te chick flicks but some of my favourite films of all time are chick flicks.

Dirty Dancing is a classic
Notting Hill
Four Weddings and A Funeral
My Best Friend's Wedding
The Holiday - cheesy feel-good Christmas film

I love a good thriller or action film but life would be too serious if I didn't watch a feel-good 'chick flick' from time to time!

buried

'Breathless' (1960) by Jean Luc Godard is a brilliant romantic film to watch around Valentines. It deals with a relationship between an American girl living in Paris and a wisear$e wandering gangster. It's a brilliant film, best cinematic telling of a romantic relationship I've ever seen, and real life Paris in 1960 is shot brilliantly by Godard. 10/10chicflic

Shenshen

I've no time for chick flicks, I'm just really, really not into all that romantic nonsense.

But someone here listed Muriel's Wedding as a chick flick, so now I'm wondering. I always thought chick flick was shorthand for empty, sentimental, "romantic" stuff - like Dirty Dancing, and Ghost, and My Best Friend's Wedding. But has chick flick simply come to mean a film where the main characters are female?
Would people call Kill Bill a chick flick?

Widdershins

The Matchmaker was alright.

JupiterKid

Beaches has to be the ultimate chick flick. I d love a good chick flick from time to time.

I wouldn't rate Muriel's Wedding as a by rote chick flick. It's a very good independent film. I love it.

Hercule Poirot

Normally I can't stand chick flicks but I've sat through the odd one in my time - to my surprise I actually enjoyed How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days and also What Women Want - found them both quite enjoyable, not sure if they are chick flicks or rom coms though

quickbeam

Katgurl wrote: »

My other favourite chick flick is My Best Friends Wedding. Julia Roberts rocks that role.

My Best Friend's Wedding is great, but IMO, it's Cameron Diaz and (especially) Rupert Everet that make it so. It's great despite having the most boring, insipid main characters in Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney. I absolutely LOVE the Say A Little Prayer scene!!

The Notebook is a pile of shíte.

One not mentioned yet, and a personal favourite of mine is: While You Were Sleeping. I could watch that (and have) multiple times. I just love Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman scenes in it.

pickarooney

Are all romantic comedies chick flicks? Enough said was a great film but I wouldn't really call it a chick flick.

Neyite

Loved Muriels Wedding. Loved Enchanted. Mean Girls is hilarious. Dirty Dancing is a classic.

Not gone on the Notebook. Notting hill - nah, not a Julia Roberts fan and Hugh Grant is the same character in all his movies. Could not stand Bridesmaids, I thought the jokes were clichéd though Melissa McCarthy made it slightly bearable.

Katgurl

Neyite wrote: »

Hugh Grant is the same character in all his movies.

He definitely is not! Notting Hill and Bridget Jones for example.

I think any romcom is considered a chick flick. That's the direction I ushered the customers anyway when I worked in xtravision ten million years ago.

DrPhilG

I have no issue watching a chick flick, or a rom-com, provided they are good films.

The issue is that they are almost always shyte.

City of Angels was good. Possibly the only decent soppy film I've seen.