What the heck?!

[psychofiend]

What the [censored] happen to good chick flicks?! Thelma and Louise was a good chick flick.
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Now we have piece of [censored] movies like White Oleander who the hell really cares about these characters they are all to transparent. At least back in the day i could be like "meh chick flicks aren't that bad" now it's like "Oh [censored] me another chick flick."
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[TomHarrington]

I didn't think White Oleander was bad, at least not offensive. I didn't want to watch it at first, but my wife read the book and called in a favor, so I had to watch it with her.

Michelle Pfie, Ppff, Pfief....I thought the actress playing the mom did alright in this film. I hated her in Sam I Am. I hated most things about that film, actually.

[MattGoldman]

I heard great things about White Oleander...but I do agree with Psychofiend...Thelma and Louise was a great movie...chick flick or not!

[35mmCritic]

Message in a bottle was about the only chick flick I've ever really liked.

[ELPARKINO]

chick flick wise...i really liked How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days...i was almost quite literally dragged into the theater by my girlfriend...and i ended up liking it wayyy more than she did...was a hilarious move

[psychofiend]

My mom liked it, actually now that I think about it Maid in Manhattan wasn't that bad.

[jjcourtright]

"How to lose a guy in 10 days" did have some funny parts, but was ososassy...I mean oh so predictable. Why can't chick flicks end on bad notes. Why does everything have to wrap up neatly? While not a good movie, City of Angels was at least redeeming because Meg Ryan died.

[brycejmcewen]

I thought I was the only one who felt good when Meg Ryan died in City of Angels!

I also enjoyed "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days". Partly because of Mathew McConeghy (sp?). I enjoy him, and I say that in a strictly hetersosexual way (oh, who am I kidding) and partly because of Kate Hudson, she was just damn hot in it. Also, it was funny in parts.

[ELPARKINO]

heh...that reminds me...i made a friend of mine watch chasing amy..who, almost the entire way through complained about it being a stupid chick flick...and he said he could guess the ending before it was halfway over...needless to say he was quite suprised...but then he replied "so its a chick flick with a bad ending, whats the big deal?" hehe...i almost punched him...lol...just thought you all should here..er..read that little story /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

[brycejmcewen]

Am I the only one who feels guilty about finding Susan Surrandon hot? I mean, she's got to be 50, but based on "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Bull Durham", she'll always be hot in my book.

[karmattack]

Are you kidding? Matthew Mc[stops to look it up]Conaughey is awesome and I say that in a strictly Naked Bongos kind of way! I used to dislike him because my at-the-time girlfriend had a crush on him. Then I watched him play Wooderson again and came around. "Party at the moontower!"

[Omaru]

ghost was a good chick flick, action, comedy, love, technical lesbianism (sure its sam oda-mae's body, and we see it as sam.) Okay its not a "girl power" type chick flick. But I thought 10 things I hate about you was kinda nice too.

[brycejmcewen]

I guess my post was slightly confusing. I wasn't kidding about the "enjoying" Matt's performances, but rather about the "strictly heterosexual" comment. Not that I'm gay or anything. And not that there is anything wrong with that. I think he is great. I wish I had his accent (not the cheap-to-lease-hyundai). Damn Canadian accent, chicks just don't dig guys who say "aboot".

[karmattack]

I don't know if the Canadian accent is worse than this: Matt McConapsdiufsd chews tobacco. Women react to seeing that like a cat reacts to be dunked in water. He must have something we don't know aboot. I mean, about.

[brycejmcewen]

It must be the accent. It must make up for the chewing of tabacco. Plus, he is attractive, charming, and funny.

[bats eyes at imaginary Matt in my office]

Did you see him on Conan when he was promoting "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"? He was telling Conan how he had devised a plan for taking down a bear, just in case he ever had to fight one, and then he demonstrated on Conan. Trust me, it was hilarious.

Damn this man-crush! Not that I want his body or anything, it's more that I wouldn't mind being him, especially when he was getting horizontal with Sandra Bullock.

{Thinking: MUST RESIST URGE TO SPILL MAN-CRUSHES ON THE POOP SHOOT}

[karmattack]

ACK! I missed that Conan. It sounds hilarious -- right up Conan's alley [pun intentional]. Seriously, I wish I could have seen it.

Don't fear about your man-crush. Mine is on Brad Pitt. I'm sure Pitt is a popular man-crush especially after Fight Club. I have a slight heterocrush on McConauhey now too, after How to Lose a Guy... After the scene where he takes his shirt off in the office, I jiggled my belly and did a crunch.

[GoreFollower]

"Maid in Manhattan" took two hours away from me that I will never get back! So did "The wedding planner!" Jennifer Lopez should stop making horrible romantic comedies and make porn movies. That's the ticket!

"Laugh and Grow Fat"- Fatman - Metal Gear Solid 2

[code6enterprises]

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"How to lose a guy in 10 days" did have some funny parts, but was ososassy...I mean oh so predictable

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I think it was meant to be predictable.

[jjcourtright]

But why? Don't people like to be challenged?

[Robbo_the_Hood]

nope. they want safe and easy. I deal with it every day someone says they "didn't quite get" Donnie Darko .

[code6enterprises]

I just read in a description that it was a predictible romance comedy.

[psychofiend]

I hate how everyone bitches about how difficult it is to understand Vanilla Sky, that movie is easy to understand. I know people who have watched it 5 times and don't get it.

[karmattack]

In response to the Donnie Darko and Vanilla Sky comments, you guys have to understand that a very substantial percentage of the population is...stupid. Mainstream directors have to play to the audience like it's filled with people who don't understand how "water" works. Take Dogma for example [because K Smith talks about it in the commentary], where Jason Lee's character first enters the house he takes over. He walks to an air vent to feel the cool breeze and the vent has tassles on it, flapping in the breeze. The only reason the tassles are there is to signal to the dumbarses that "air" passes through an "air duct."
So, take a kickass movie like Darko that has nightmarish and subjective kinds of imagery and storytelling. Most people aren't going to get it. Take Vanilla Sky which has 5 distinct possibilities as to what the story really was. That's going to go flying over the average person's head. I would say that most people aren't satisfied unless they have the Scooby Doo ending where everything is exposed and there is nothing left to wonder about.

[psychofiend]

This man makes a very good point.

[jjcourtright]

But there are movies like Fight Club and The Usual Suspects. The endings aren't predictable but the movies aren't difficult to follow. Why don't people like to see movies like that?

[Psyche]

theres such thing as a good modern chick flick?

the only 'chick flicks' i like were made before i was born....or when i was too young to appreciate them (the 80s)