Chick Flicks

Tigger · 13-02-2017 01:27AM

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! · 13-02-2017 01:41AM

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.

13-02-2017 01:44AM

Tigger wrote: »

she was 27

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

mansize · 13-02-2017 01:51AM

Candie wrote: »

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

17

mzungu · 13-02-2017 01:52AM

Candie wrote: »

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

17.

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

Katgurl · 13-02-2017 10:55AM

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 · 13-02-2017 11:07AM

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 · 13-02-2017 11:28AM

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 · 13-02-2017 11:31AM

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

team_actimel · 13-02-2017 12:22PM

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 · 13-02-2017 12:25PM

'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 · 13-02-2017 01:02PM

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 · 13-02-2017 01:22PM

The Matchmaker was alright.

JupiterKid · 13-02-2017 01:55PM

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 · 13-02-2017 02:04PM

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 · 13-02-2017 02:47PM

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 · 13-02-2017 02:52PM

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

Neyite · 13-02-2017 02:58PM

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 · 14-02-2017 11:13AM

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 · 14-02-2017 11:26AM

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.

DrPhilG · 14-02-2017 11:28AM

Ps somebody mentioned Marley & Me?

That's neither a rom-com nor a chick flick.

I saw it in the cinema. Not a soul moved for about 5 minutes after the end, everybody too busy trying to compose themselves before leaving.

maudgonner · 14-02-2017 11:35AM

I think all RomComs are Chick Flicks, but not all Chick Flicks are RomComs. I reckon Muriel's Wedding is more of a Coming of Age movie than a chick flick.

I'll happily watch anything with Sandra Bullock in it, even the really crap ones. As quickbeam said, While You Were Sleeping is lovely.

Or Meg Ryan before she decided she was 'too good' for chick flicks, and found out she wasn't.

Truly, Madly, Deeply is one of my favourites. Like Ghost only much, much better. And with Alan Rickman (all the more poignant for it, now that he's dead).

quickbeam · 14-02-2017 11:43AM

DrPhilG wrote: »

Ps somebody mentioned Marley & Me?

That's neither a rom-com nor a chick flick.

I saw it in the cinema. Not a soul moved for about 5 minutes after the end, everybody too busy trying to compose themselves before leaving.

If you really want your heart broken, then I'd recommend Hachi: A Dog's Tale. I wasn't right for a week after it. Fantastic film. Not really a chick-flick though.

meeeeh · 14-02-2017 11:50AM

I like When Harry Met Sally, I am sucker for Jane Austen adaptations, Casablanca, the one with Jimmy Stewart that You've Got Mail was made after, Breakfast Club is awesome and that is about it. While I don't dislike Dirty Dancing, it's not a movie I would overly like to watch again.

DrPhilG · 14-02-2017 01:29PM

quickbeam wrote: »

If you really want your heart broken, then I'd recommend Hachi: A Dog's Tale. I wasn't right for a week after it. Fantastic film. Not really a chick-flick though.

Saw that too, but it didn't hit me like Marley.

We had a lab ourselves and his later years were almost carbon copy of what happened in the film so it really was a kick in the guts for us.

farmerwifelet · 14-02-2017 01:32PM

Really old film with Cary Grant called Penny Serenade. It starts off with the wife playing records and remembering their life together before she leaves her husband. its about a couple who can't have children and adopt a little girl (they wanted a boy). The husband was only really doing it to keep the wife happy but when they get the little girl they completely adore her, after a year they almost lose custody and Cary Grant has this amazing court scene about the struggles of parenting and in the end the get to keep her but at 6 she gets ill and passes away. The grief tears them apart and the wife packs her bags and is leaving when they get a call from the orphanage to say there is a little boy there. cant watch it without crying

14-02-2017 01:33PM

Herself and I sat down to watch Once a while back. About 20 minutes in herself goes: "This isnt doing it for me. Can we watch Die Hard instead?"

I love her.

Hercule Poirot · 14-02-2017 01:35PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Herself and I sat down to watch Once a while back. About 20 minutes in herself goes: "This isnt doing it for me. Can we watch Die Hard instead?"

I love her.

Never let her go.....

WarpAsylum · 14-02-2017 01:45PM

Shenshen wrote: »

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?

Aliens is one of my favourite chick flicks.

Martyrs is another good one....

take everything · 14-02-2017 01:53PM

Yamanoto wrote: »

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

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

God that was wonderful.
Love Kermode.

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