Favourite Chick Flick ?

[KeyboardJockey]

Deliverance ????

Thats only a chick flick if you come from Tilbury.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams writes chick flicks?

Not a fan of the majority of films that have been mentioned, especially bloody Titanic - god I was just waiting for that stupid boy to DIE!!! The Breakfast Club and Murials Wedding granted are very good films. I've always quite liked Sliding Doors as well.

Also, in certain situations (with friend who has just broken up with bf/when completely hungover and/or coming down), Charlie's Angels (only the first one) does have a certain appeal...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Aliens

 

[May Kasahara]

Bring It On

Shag (a sorely underrated entry to the chick-flick canon)

I cried at the end of Titanic, but only with mingled relief (at finding myself, against all the evidence, still sentient and alive) and sorrow (for the 3 fucking hours of my life I had irretrievably lost watching two simpering pantywaists slosh about in a tank).

 

[jodal]

Serendipity
When Harry Met Sally
Sidewalks of New York
Mifune
Beautiful Girls
Sleepless In Seattle

Chick-flicks are great.

 

[Kameron]

When Harry Met Sally

I've seen this a few times on this list, I am solidly of the opinion is that people just like this film because it fans a fantasy on both sides of the sexual divide that your best friends of the opposite sex, the ones you've known for years and always got along with will one day be free, single and fall magically into your arms.

 

[spanglechick]

Tennessee Williams writes chick flicks?

Hey, who better than a gay bloke to write that female empowerment chick flick (as opposed to the happy ever after type)? Not sure it counts though... It's too much about the men - she only really anchors the first act... (boring myself now...)

 

[oddworld]

Pretty Woman
Dirty Dancing
Love Actually

 

[moomoo]

Dirty Dancing
Truly Madly Deeply
Miss Congeniality
Ghost

 

[Louloubelle]

All the major players are female
Issues of motherhood are central to the story, from the alien queen and her brood, through to ripley and her long dead daughter and her adoption of newt
even the original ship is called mother
nobody takes ripley seriously when she arrives back or when she first lands or the planet, she earns her spurs through courage in the face of sexism and ridicule
the most physically impressive human is a woman (Vasquez) and the best man is really and android (sorry, artificial human)
I could go on, but trust me, aliens is the chick flick par excellence

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

It is a great film, and I also agree about the underlying themes. However, surely it isn't quite vacuous enough to qualify as a 'chick flick'?

 

[Badger Kitten]

Splash my first ever proper chick flick and not all that bad on repeat viewing. Did anyone else want to be the mermaid?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Anyone seen a movie called The Notebook?

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Anyone seen a movie called The Notebook?

nope never heard of it.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

nope never heard of it.

My daughter couldn't even explain the plot to my wife without bursting into tears.

Sounds like the chick flick to end all chick flicks.....

 

[MightyAphrodite]

My daughter couldn't even explain the plot to my wife without bursting into tears.

Sounds like the chick flick to end all chick flicks.....

its my favourite film ever now (its taken eternal sunshines place)...i love that film (and book!) so much....NOAH & ALLIE!!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I know what it's about, and I won't be watching it. I'm not good with that kind of stuff.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

I know what it's about, and I won't be watching it. I'm not good with that kind of stuff.

aww ....its a beautiful film...i cry like a baby watching it....every single time...you should give it a go Johnny....

let it all out!!!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Nah. It's too disturbing to the kids to see me blubbering.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's bad enough watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

 

[onemonkey]

my sister loves Steve Martin's Roxanne so much that she is now writing a book about Cyrano de Bergerac.. i think that version is alright and i haven't seen the Depardieu film but the play is very, very wonderful and weepy.

 

[SwizzleStiX]

Splash my first ever proper chick flick and not all that bad on repeat viewing. Did anyone else want to be the mermaid?

I did

 

[mentalchik]

It's bad enough watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

hehehe, i have to avoid that one too !

Tennessee Williams writes chick flicks?

The reason i put COAHTR, is coz its one of my fav films anyway and none of the guys i know would watch it !

 

[Lisarocket]

It's bad enough watching Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Does it to me every time too