Chick Flick Reality

the GOPNation ^ | June 17, 2005 | Bernard Chapin

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I guess he should stay away from the Lifetime Network too.

[OpusatFR]

Chick flicks are so divorced from reality, I cringe whenever I see the stupid ads for them.

[Tax-chick]

I find it interesting that the author complains that the plot is demeaning to men (which it is, as described) and then offers this line:

Women can find as many carnal partners as they’d like, regardless of their own appearance, simply by entering a bar and shouting, “Here I am boys! Come and have it!” This would be as effective an aphrodisiac for men as a million dollar salary would be for women.

Either men are conscious human beings who deserve respect from the other half of humanity, or they're apes who'll scr3w anything that presents. He can't have it both ways.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, OK, but chick flicks are just the flip side of unrealistic action/adventure films targeted at men. Most movies are ludicrous, and it isn't any sillier to suppose that Debra Messing would need to hire a date (especially since an awful lot of the target audience members would have to) than it is to suppose that Arnold Schwarzenegger can suffer ten wounds that would kill a normal man, leap back up, kill the bad guys, and sail off into the sunset with the heroine at his side and not even a Band-Aid on his chin. ;)

[R. Scott]

Way back when – around 1971 – my first wife made me see Love Story with her. She had an ulterior motive. A lot of her friends told her I was a dead fish emotionally, always thinking logically!
Imagine how barbaric I was – trying to be logical.
When the movie ended Debbie looked at my eyes and saw tears. She was so happy that I had cried I didn’t have the heart to tell her I had a piece of salty popcorn in my eye.

[martin_fierro]

Made the mistake last night of sitting in with Mrs. Fierro on one of the most indecipherable Chick Flicks ever: "While You Were Sleeping."

It's the old girl-meets-boy-boy-doesn't-know-girl-exists-boy-falls-in-front-of-train-girl-saves-boy's-life-boy-falls-into-coma-girl- masquerades-as-fiance-boy's-family-comes-to-love-girl-girl-comes-to-love-boy's-brother-boy-comes-out-of-coma-decides- to-love-girl-but-girl-really-loves-boy's-brother-and-at-last-minute-ends-up-marrying-boy's-brother story.

Unnngh.

[durasell]

The trick is to make a chick flick that men will tolerate. For the Love of the Game came close.

[NHResident]

Well, if you haven't figured the answer to this by now - you are in for a long life full of disappointment.

[Tax-chick]

Anything with Cary Grant.

[durasell]

Philadelphia Story -- a chick flick that guys can like.

[Tax-chick]

I guess I'm in for a long life full of disappointment, then, because I have no idea what you mean.

Cebu ... it beats dying young, after all.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I think if the story is sound, like a Jane Austen work, then men will like it. Otherwise, men will put up with stupid stories only if there are a sufficient number of guns and car chases involved. ;)

[Tax-chick]

Thanks for reminding me - I've been meaning to order that from the library.

My husband and I also agree on John Wayne movies, the TNT war pictures and Westerns from the last 10 years, and anything with golf or pirates.

(I guess I don't have the usual "chick" taste in movies :-).

[schwing_wifey]

Try my favorite chick flicks....

"The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns" with Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz....

Wonderful campy humor and the only movies I remember where the male and female leads are totally wrapped up in each other - no typical "other man" or "other woman" nonsense.

Especially "The Mummy Returns" - thats my hubby and me ;D

[durasell]

A really interesting chick flick is The Notebook. Not because of the plot or anything like that -- but you get to see James Garner and Gena Rowlands blow two kid actors off the screen. You could almost sense they knew they were doing it -- "Yeah, the other two leads are pretty and youg, but we're gonna steal this movie by acting our old withered butts off!"

[nuke rocketeer]

I loved that one ad that started out showing a couple in a theater watching a 'chick flick' set on a cruise ship. The guy was bored out of his skull as his girlfriend was gently crying over a romantic scene. Then all of a sudden the vierw switches to a view of the cruise ship from a Uboat periscope and german voices in the background with ominous music. The guy suddenly comes to life and says "YEAH!" as a torpedo is shot at the cruise ship.

[chilepepper]

my favorite chick flick is Terminator III: Rise of the Machines"

[70times7]

Many years ago I made the mistake of going to see "Thelma and Louise" because of all the great reviews. I can honestly say that the only enjoyable part of the film was the very end; the two idiots drove off of a cliff and, thankfully, the film was over. I only lament that viewers didn't get to see them hit the canyon bottom. It would have been only fair since viewers had hit bottom at least an hour earlier.

I avoid all of the "Ya Ya Sisterhood of the Traveling Fried Green Steel Magnolia Tomato Pants" movies. (OK, I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit right there...)

[HIDEK6]

Oh, so that's what that movie was about.

I watched it for about 5 minutes, waiting for Sandra Bullock to morph into that real foxy chick in the blue dress that she played in Miss Congeniality, but lost interest when the coma dudes family showed up.