Chick flick debate.

[DipDipDive]

In this thread, I will name a movie, and I would like the boys to tell me whether they think it's a chick flick.

First up:

Almost Famous

Go!

[Freebasser]

It's not really chick flick story material, but the way it's filmed is sure chick-flick...y.

Hmmm... I say NOT A CHICK FLICK.

[icy manipulator]

it's not a chick flick, just an incredibly shit movie

[kleptomaniac]

i'm a chick who doesn't like chick flicks, neither do i like to watch movies where everyone blows each other up or something. i like comedies where lots of crazy shit happens and it's funny! although i'll also occasionally fall in love with a well-acted, well-written movie where everything is serious and blah blah blah. while really the ones that make absolutely no sense are the ones most appealing to me. horror movies are awesome too. i want some popcorn now.

[hardnox71]

I really don't remember a whole lot about Almost Famous except Kate Hudson. God, she is hot. :)

I have to own up to liking two chick flicks. I wound up seeing Hitch last summer and I though it was pretty fucking good.

And I liked City of Angles with Nick Cage and Meg Ryan. That movie had 'Iris' stuck in my head for months.

[Waus]

I liked Almost Famous. I wish they'd done it about an actual band though - Cameron had the material.

NOT A CHICK FLICK.

[DipDipDive]

Next up:

The Virgin Suicides

[Freebasser]

I haven't seen it, which means it's probably a CHICK FLICK.

Yup.

[zorra_chiflada]

more like arty chick flick.

[ToucanSpam]

Almost Famous=not

The Virgin Suicides=not

[Randetica]

scarface?

[Drederick Tatum]

And I liked City of Angles with Nick Cage and Meg Ryan. That movie had 'Iris' stuck in my head for months.

god, that film was bad. totally unnecessary, made purely for profit. the Wenders original is excellent.

[hardnox71]

god, that film was bad. totally unnecessary, made purely for profit. the Wenders original is excellent.
Oh, I never said it was a great movie. I just said that for some Godforsaken reason, I liked it. Still don't know why.

I like Prince's Under the Cherry Moon, too, and that movie is a cinematic abomination.

I guess I'm nothing but a glutton for punishment.

[ms.peachy]

Live Nude Girls is a good chick flick. It's funny to go online and read reviews of it by men who clearly picked it up off the rental shelves based on the title alone. It's not really a movie for you, guys. Sorry.

[DipDipDive]

Jerry Maguire

[ToucanSpam]

Jerry Maguire=not


The backbone of the plot centers around a football player and football. That gives it the edge it needs to survive being called a chick flick.

[DipDipDive]

Yeah, but the sports-related content is a subplot to the romantic storyline. And what a vaginal storyline it is.

[hardnox71]

The sub-plot is the whole football thing, which underlies the whole romantic 'you complete me' garbage.

I dunno, Touc. I think I gotta go with chick flick on Maguire.

[ToucanSpam]

I can see why it could be considered a chick flick, but there's too much aside from the romance going on to make this a complete vagina storm. Really, his job and the relationship between him and his client takes up more space than the romance...


...I'm trying to convince myself here.

[hardnox71]

vagina storm.
LOL

[DandyFop]

TS, no offense, but if you want people to not think you have a vag, I would stop posting in this thread.

[DIGI]

Too late. He already posted that Jerry Maguire wasn't a chick flick.

[ToucanSpam]

Too late. He already posted that Jerry Maguire wasn't a chick flick.
I don't get why people think this is a chick flick. Christ, every movie has some kind of love story in it, so do they all become chick flicks by default? Like I said before, the rest of Jerry Maguire has nothing to do with the relationship between him and his woman. None. Football, Sports, and his job as an agent. If that qualifies as being characteristics of a chick flick, I defy you to find me a movie that we couldn't call a chick flick in some way.

[DIGI]

I don't get why people think this is a chick flick. Christ, every movie has some kind of love story in it, so do they all become chick flicks by default? Like I said before, the rest of Jerry Maguire has nothing to do with the relationship between him and his woman. None. Football, Sports, and his job as an agent. If that qualifies as being characteristics of a chick flick, I defy you to find me a movie that we couldn't call a chick flick in some way.

SAW.

[DroppinScience]

Almost Famous = I'd say not a chick flick. I suppose there's aspects of the movie that can appeal to chicks, but I don't think it's all-out for guys either. I'd give it a new category: unisex flick.

Virgin Suicides = Never saw it, but I'm suspecting it might be?

Jerry Maguire = I'm thinking this is a chick flick disguised as a guys' movie. The football and "show me the money" type stuff are there so guys don't have to feel awkward enjoying the movie.

[hardnox71]

I Like I said before, the rest of Jerry Maguire has nothing to do with the relationship between him and his woman. None. Football, Sports, and his job as an agent.
That's not quite true, Touc. Everything about that movie is supportive of the romantic plot. It's all reflective of the whole 'step out on a limb, go for broke and make it work' dynamic.

[DIGI]

Jerry Maguire = I'm thinking this is a chick flick disguised as a guys' movie. The football and "show me the money" type stuff are there so guys don't have to feel awkward enjoying the movie.

It totally is. Its the opposite of what Toucan's sayin. He's sayin its a dude movie with a lil love for the ladies. Its a chick flick with a smidge of dude shit to try to broaden its scope and reach a larger audience cuz dudes have a harder time sittin thru a chick flick than girls have sitting thru say.............The 40 Year Old Virgin.

[DroppinScience]

Now that we've got this established, what else ya got for us, DDD?

[DandyFop]

I don't get why people think this is a chick flick. Christ, every movie has some kind of love story in it, so do they all become chick flicks by default? Like I said before, the rest of Jerry Maguire has nothing to do with the relationship between him and his woman. None. Football, Sports, and his job as an agent. If that qualifies as being characteristics of a chick flick, I defy you to find me a movie that we couldn't call a chick flick in some way.
Uh, no. "You complete me" "Shut up - you had me at hello. You had me...at hello". End of story. Total chick flick. Do guys get boners over this shit? No. Girls do.

Guys get boners at the end of Rudy.

[DandyFop]

Okay this might seem easy, but Clueless. I know a few guys that loved this movie.

[The Notorious LOL]

SAW.



I just feel the need to once again point out how much I hate this movie.

but yes, I agree. Saw is probably not a chick flick.



Not a movie, but I think you need to have sexual organs that bleed once a month to enjoy Sex and the City. Fuck that show.

[DandyFop]

I never got a chance to see saw.

SEESAW!

[The Notorious LOL]

dont waste your time.

[DandyFop]

Not a movie, but I think you need to have sexual organs that bleed once a month to enjoy Sex and the City. Fuck that show.

Or be a homo.

But yeah.

That show is awesome :cool:

[zorra_chiflada]

it wasn't great. but i sorta liked the message.

and just the thought of sex in the city makes me scrunch up my face in disgust

[The Notorious LOL]

Or be a homo.

But yeah.

That show is awesome :cool:



see I dont get that. The stereotype of men is we like football or truck fixin related shit...yet I could find a shit load of guys who cant stand that shit. The stereotype of women, however, holds true, as 99% (excluding zorra and four other girls) of all females sit around and ovulate and squeal like a farm full of chickens about how good Sex in the City is.

[Randetica]

i probably like 'sex in the city' in like 20 years

but right now im not frustated enough to watch it


nah forget it, ill always hate it

[zorra_chiflada]

yeah i just hate things (including shows and movies) that make me feel like an outsider in my own gender. like, "am i supposed to be like this?" or "am i supposed to appreciate and/or understand this?"

[The Notorious LOL]

I just hate it because its awful television and Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse.

[DIGI]

I just feel the need to once again point out how much I hate this movie.

but yes, I agree. Saw is probably not a chick flick.



Not a movie, but I think you need to have sexual organs that bleed once a month to enjoy Sex and the City. Fuck that show.

I'm not crazy about it either, but it's the first movie that I thought of to prove Toucan wrong. I probably coulda thought of a better one, but I don't wanna give it that much time or energy.

[DandyFop]

see I dont get that. The stereotype of men is we like football or truck fixin related shit...yet I could find a shit load of guys who cant stand that shit. The stereotype of women, however, holds true, as 99% (excluding zorra and four other girls) of all females sit around and ovulate and squeal like a farm full of chickens about how good Sex in the City is.

like a farm full of chickens? Would you like to sound bitchier about it please? I don't think it's amazing, but I enjoy it. And I also know at least one normal straight guy who loves motorcycles, that also has the entire series on his computer. So much for assumptions.

[Randetica]

I just hate it because its awful television and Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse.

haha yeah thats. it.

[The Notorious LOL]

like a farm full of chickens? Would you like to sound bitchier about it please? I don't think it's amazing, but I enjoy it. And I also know at least one normal straight guy who loves motorcycles, that also has the entire series on his computer. So much for assumptions.



I wasnt being bitchy. I just wanted to mention chickens somehow :(


and he may be straight, but he aint normal :cool:

[na§tee]

women are a multi-faceted creature, of course, so while shows like sex and the city plainly can not appeal to every woman, they are important for a certain type of woman. most people agree that sex and the city was a television milestone when it came to a variety of successful woman and their sexualities, albeit ones who have crippling shoe obsessions and high-end PR and journalist jobs. so, of course, it is important. i'm not a fan of sex and the city, but i dislike it when people point the finger at it as some thing that only women who "sit around and ovulate and squeal like a farm full of chickens" watch. you are immediately reducing a whole population of women down to emotional shallow creatures. but, hey, it's a light, airy programme. perhaps it deserves 'shallow' viewing?

this is oft-quoted, but the creator of the l-word said from the start that she wasn't going to be the "mantle of social responsibility" when it came to representing lesbians on television. i think the same should hold for other "chick" shows like sex and the city. but it is hard, because i think the representation of all women - gay, straight, disabled, black, white, whatever - is all political in some sort of way and loaded with a variety of problems.

but, meh, it's 'just' television. if you don't feel part of the 'audience' on one show, you can watch another. on 5 billion channels.

[hardnox71]

women are a multi-faceted creature, of course, so while shows like sex and the city plainly can not appeal to every woman, they are important for a certain type of woman. most people agree that sex and the city was a television milestone when it came to a variety of successful woman and their sexualities, albeit ones who have crippling shoe obsessions and high-end PR and journalist jobs. so, of course, it is important. i'm not a fan of sex and the city, but i dislike it when people point the finger at it as some thing that only women who "sit around and ovulate and squeal like a farm full of chickens" watch. you are immediately reducing a whole population of women down to emotional shallow creatures. but, hey, it's a light, airy programme. perhaps it deserves 'shallow' viewing?

this is oft-quoted, but the creator of the l-word said from the start that she wasn't going to be the "mantle of social responsibility" when it came to representing lesbians on television. i think the same should hold for other "chick" shows like sex and the city. but it is hard, because i think the representation of all women - gay, straight, disabled, black, white, whatever - is all political in some sort of way and loaded with a variety of problems.

but, meh, it's 'just' television. if you don't feel part of the 'audience' on one show, you can watch another. on 5 billion channels.
Ouch.

[DroppinScience]

Okay this might seem easy, but Clueless. I know a few guys that loved this movie.

It's a chick flick, but it's got The Mighty Mighty Bosstones playing at a party, right? So that's cool.

I can see guys liking it (heck, I enjoyed it), but that doesn't mean they were the target audience.

[The Notorious LOL]

i'm not a fan of sex and the city, but i dislike it when people point the finger at it as some thing that only women who "sit around and ovulate and squeal like a farm full of chickens" watch. you are immediately reducing a whole population of women down to emotional shallow creatures.


not really, I am poking fun at the show and being more tounge-in-cheek than anything just like I would a viewing audience of any show I find stupid. If you feel like that lumps an entire sex into the same category as a group that is shallow, tepid, and overemotional, then apparently I didnt word my post right.


Either way the show sucks.

[Documad]

DDD wanted to hear what guys think. Oh well. If I hate it, it's probably a chick flick.

Jerry Maguire = chick flick.
Almost Famous = not a chick flick
Virgin Suicides = not a chick flick -- it's odd for the sake of being odd and I can't imagine who the intended audience was.

Sex and the City was a well-written TV show and I miss it. It wasn't about the plot, it was about the relationships between the women. It was pure fantasy and completely removed from the lives of real women, but it captured how long-time female friends relate to each other better than any other show I can think of right now.

If you're a woman who doesn't have a friend who will meet you in a coffee shop in the middle of the night when you're feeling blue, then I am sorry for you, and you will probably never like Sex and the City.

[na§tee]

nah naaah, i just used your quote because that prompted me to write the reply on a subject i like talking about. of course i knew you wouldn't label a whole population of women as such :cool: but there are some people who expand on the sort of comment you made and are guilty of it. and when i say people, i mean women as well! so that was just my 2 cents.

[Randetica]

DDD wanted to hear what guys think. Oh well. If I hate it, it's probably a chick flick.

Jerry Maguire = chick flick.
Almost Famous = not a chick flick
Virgin Suicides = not a chick flick -- it's odd for the sake of being odd and I can't imagine who the intended audience was.

Sex and the City was a well-written TV show and I miss it. It wasn't about the plot, it was about the relationships between the women. It was pure fantasy and completely removed from the lives of real women, but it captured how long-time female friends relate to each other better than any other show I can think of right now.

If you're a woman who doesn't have a friend who will meet you in a coffee shop in the middle of the night when you're feeling blue, then I am sorry for you, and you will probably never like Sex and the City.

i thought it was about 4 old hookers who waste their money on expensive shoes to have better chances at their job then they try to find out whos the ugliest slut of them all

that in fact sounds like the best show ever :eek:

[Documad]

I do feel sorry for you, really I do. :)

[Randetica]

hmm im not the one who watches hookers all day long

i hooker them!

[ToucanSpam]

I'm sticking to my guns about Jerry Maguire. I think it's just a romantic dramady (terrible word) that's not a pure chick flick. Compare it to a movie like Legally Blone, Clueless, The Traveling Pants movie, or that shit burger starring Zach Braff that had the OC chick topless in it, and you'll understand why Jerry Maguire does not belong in this category.

[beastieangel01]

Either way the show sucks.


(y) (y) (y)

[DipDipDive]

NEXT:

Sixteen Candles

[DipDipDive]

I love Sex and the City, btw. Fuck y'allz.

[JobDDT]

NEXT:

Sixteen Candles

Not a chick flick. Anyone can enjoy that movie.

[ToucanSpam]

Sixteen Candles is a chick flick.

[QueenAdrock]

I'm sticking to my guns about Jerry Maguire. I think it's just a romantic dramady (terrible word) that's not a pure chick flick. Compare it to a movie like Legally Blone, Clueless, The Traveling Pants movie, or that shit burger starring Zach Braff that had the OC chick topless in it, and you'll understand why Jerry Maguire does not belong in this category.

There's different versions of chick flicks. I wouldn't categorize The Notebook along with Legally Blonde or Traveling Pants either, because The Notebook was artfully done and had a more in-depth plot. But it's still a chick flick. Legally Blonde et al were created for 15 year old retarded boy-crazy squealing girls. The Notebook and Jerry Maguire were created for those girls, PLUS the 40 year-old housewives. They're just more versatile chick flicks.

[ggirlballa]

Sixteen Candles is a chick flick.

lol it is kinda


this reminds me of last year this guy had a crush on me (i hate his fuckin guts now though(n) *barf*) and asked me if i ever saw 16 candles i said no so 5 fuckin minutes later he pulls out the dvd & says take it home & watch it so i did loved it (anthony michael hall as a slick geek is sexy yo) and all my friends were all what the fuck is a guy doing with 16 candles as a movie cuz its a total chick flick.

[ToucanSpam]

There's different versions of chick flicks. I wouldn't categorize The Notebook along with Legally Blonde or Traveling Pants either, because The Notebook was artfully done and had a more in-depth plot. But it's still a chick flick. Legally Blonde et al were created for 15 year old retarded boy-crazy squealing girls. The Notebook and Jerry Maguire were created for those girls, PLUS the 40 year-old housewives. They're just more versatile chick flicks.

So, are there degrees in which a movie is a chick flick? For example, Legally Blonde is as you call it a movie 'created for 15 year old retarded boy-crazy squealing girls', while Jerry Maguire was made to cover a larger demographic of women. Is this what you're saying? I think I agree with this more than other people going OMG NO LOL 2CAN UR SO CWAZY.

[DroppinScience]

NEXT:

Sixteen Candles

Aw, hell no! :mad:

Just kidding. It does err towards "chick flick" territory, but since it's a John Hughes '80s teen movie classic, there's plenty for both genders to enjoy. I mean, you got The Geek and Long Duck Dong. (y)

You could argue that those are just guy comedy elements thrown in so the fellas don't have to feel bad (just like with the "Jerry Maguire" situation), but the chick-like elements are far more restrained, methinks.

[ToucanSpam]

John Hughes FTW!

[QueenAdrock]

So, are there degrees in which a movie is a chick flick? For example, Legally Blonde is as you call it a movie 'created for 15 year old retarded boy-crazy squealing girls', while Jerry Maguire was made to cover a larger demographic of women. Is this what you're saying? I think I agree with this more than other people going OMG NO LOL 2CAN UR SO CWAZY.

Sure, I take "chick flicks" as movies geared towards women. They can gear them towards different groups of women and they can decide to make it a stupid premise movie or an artistic drama, just as long as it's made for the ladies. To make it a chick flick, they usually just throw in some kind of dating or feel-good romance crap to appeal to womens because most men don't give one shit about that stuff. So since Jerry Maguire has the romance BS, it's therefore a chick movie.

[DipDipDive]

NEXT, FAGGOTS:

Good Will Hunting

[Randetica]

i feel great cause i havent seen most of those movies

[ToucanSpam]

Good Will Hunting is NOT a chick flick. This is one of the fre Affleck movies I think is not a chick flick.

[Big Gus]

Good Will Hunting is a total Chick Flick.

[abcdefz]

In this thread, I will name a movie, and I would like the boys to tell me whether they think it's a chick flick.

First up:

Almost Famous

Go!


Nope. It's a romantic nerd writer movie.

[abcdefz]

Next up:

The Virgin Suicides



Closer, in a wasn't-Sylvia-Plath-romantic? way, but no.

[abcdefz]

Jerry Maguire



Yes, I'm afraid so.

[abcdefz]

Okay this might seem easy, but Clueless. I know a few guys that loved this movie.



I really liked that movie.

Yes, it's a chick flick, but fortunately, the chick is very very witty.

[abcdefz]

NEXT, FAGGOTS:

Good Will Hunting


It's the male version of a chick flick, yeah.

[skra75]

Next up:

The Virgin Suicides

No way is this a chick flick. Too dark.

[skra75]

NEXT, FAGGOTS:

Good Will Hunting

Yes, no debate.
Any movie that makes you sigh with a "mmmm" :o is a chick flick in my book.

[skra75]

NEXT:

Sixteen Candles

LOL

[abcdefz]

"YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT SHIT, SKYLAR!"

[abcdefz]

It's not your fault
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.

[skra75]

I love Sex and the City, btw. Fuck y'allz.

I liked it for season 1 and 2, then got incredibly bored, and then embarrassed for the entire cast of those bitchy women.

Curb your enthusiasm craps all over that show.

[DipDipDive]

Curb your enthusiasm craps all over that show.

Well no duh, butthead. NO DUH.

Next:

Mean Girls

Seems obvious, but I actually know a few dudes who are very amused by that movie.

[kleptomaniac]

noooow that's the only one that i've actually seen in this entire list so far. i don't think it's a typical chick flick, all gushy and everything. it's pretty funny :D

[Bob]

Well no duh, butthead. NO DUH.

Next:

Mean Girls

Seems obvious, but I actually know a few dudes who are very amused by that movie.

yeah...."amused"

[ToucanSpam]

I saw mean girls and laughed, but I'd never go out of my to see it again. It is a chick flick for sure.


BTW, I like a-z's answer that GWH is a male version of a chick flick.