Chick Flicks

Lorelli! · 12-02-2017 11:54PM #1

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 · 12-02-2017 11:55PM

I carried a water melon!

Shyte movie, banging soundtrack!

Lorelli! · 12-02-2017 11:57PM

mansize wrote: »

I carried a water melon!

that's one of the cringe moments :pac:

12-02-2017 11:59PM

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 · 12-02-2017 11:59PM

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.

13-02-2017 12:00AM

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 · 13-02-2017 12:03AM

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 · 13-02-2017 12:05AM

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

mansize · 13-02-2017 12:05AM

Why was Grease 2 so bad?

13-02-2017 12:05AM

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! · 13-02-2017 12:07AM

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 · 13-02-2017 12:27AM

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

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-02-2017 12:36AM

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

Cameo · 13-02-2017 12:37AM

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.

13-02-2017 12:38AM

Mean Girls is a masterpiece!

Yamanoto · 13-02-2017 12:38AM

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

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

Cameo · 13-02-2017 12:44AM

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

mansize · 13-02-2017 12:46AM

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 · 13-02-2017 12:47AM

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

Lorelli! · 13-02-2017 12:51AM

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 · 13-02-2017 12:56AM

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

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-02-2017 12:56AM

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 · 13-02-2017 12:57AM

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!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-02-2017 12:58AM

mansize wrote: »

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

Are you almost too gay to function though?

mansize · 13-02-2017 01:00AM

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 · 13-02-2017 01:08AM

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Are you almost too gay to function though?

Guess what movie I'm watching now!!!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 13-02-2017 01:10AM

mansize wrote: »

Guess what movie I'm watching now!!!

You GO Glenn Coco!!!

Mountainsandh · 13-02-2017 01:15AM

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! · 13-02-2017 01:16AM

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 · 13-02-2017 01:19AM

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

mzungu · 13-02-2017 01:21AM

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.

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