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wazmankg · #1 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2005, 07:00 PM

I start it off -

Great - Tootsie, When Harry Met Sally, Casablanca(of course... this transcends chick-flickdome)

Tolerable - Fried Green Tomatoes, Sleepless in Seattle,

Un-watchable - Um ... I'll let the rest of you take over here.

SellMate · #2 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2005, 07:54 PM

...most Hugh Grant movies. All Jeanine Garofalo (sp?) flix.

Grneyedblack · #3 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2005, 07:55 PM

Decent: Waiting to Exhale - Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Tolerable: Fried Green Tomatoes - Joy Luck Club - Somewhere In Time

Un-watchable: that "disco" movie with Travolta......gaaaack....

lamcarolyn · #4 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2005, 08:22 PM

Great - Bridget Jones Diary, Pretty in Pink, Princess Bride
Tolerable - Sabrina, Big Chill, Terms of Endearment, As Good as it Gets
Unwatchable - Love Story, The Way We Were, Grease, Dirty Dancing, Gone with the Wind, can't believe I almost forgot...TITANIC

leaguegolf · #5 (**permalink**) October 25th, 2005, 09:22 PM

Real men don't do "chic-flics!"

JungleJ · #6 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005, 05:25 AM

I wouldn't put Princess Bride in the chick-flick category, nonetheless it is a brilliant film, as is Reiner's other great "chick-flick" When Harry Met Sally. Despite my best endeavours not to, I find I actually like "Four Weddings & A Funeral" and can tolerate "Notting Hill".

As Good As It Gets is also, for me, not a chick-flick, but excellent.

I can think of innumerable unwatchable films of the genre - I can't believe any male believes Fried Green Tomatoes is even close to tolerable. Love Actually is execrable, Bridget Jones aspires to mediocrity and fails. How to Lose a Guy is horrific, Maid in Manhattan similar. A particular irritant for me is "Return to Me" - the combination of Minnie Driver and David Duchovny posing as actors is embarrassing.

I'll stop now...

leaguegolf · #7 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JungleJ

I wouldn't put Princess Bride in the chick-flick category, nonetheless it is a brilliant film, as is Reiner's other great "chick-flick" When Harry Met Sally. Despite my best endeavours not to, I find I actually like "Four Weddings & A Funeral" and can tolerate "Notting Hill".

As Good As It Gets is also, for me, not a chick-flick, but excellent.

I can think of innumerable unwatchable films of the genre - I can't believe any male believes Fried Green Tomatoes is even close to tolerable. Love Actually is execrable, Bridget Jones aspires to mediocrity and fails. How to Lose a Guy is horrific, Maid in Manhattan similar. A particular irritant for me is "Return to Me" - the combination of Minnie Driver and David Duchovny posing as actors is embarrassing.

I'll stop now...

See what happens when you watch too many chic flics..........

stagday · #8 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leaguegolf

Real men don't do "chic-flics!"

so you dyslexic's, don't flic-chic's either.

you aren't a man unless you love Predator,

stagday

Grneyedblack · #9 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leaguegolf

Real men don't do "chic-flics!"

ok...put another way:

Real men = happy and satisfied.
Happy and satisfied = content and not out "pack hunting" for a mate
Content = has a mate that is not nagging and driving him to his grave
Mate not nagging = mate is happy and satisfied.
Mate is happy and satisfied = Real men puts up with chic flics.

stlcard_25 · #10 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005, 01:45 PM

I can tolerate any of 'em....once I fall asleep!

Quote:

Originally Posted by stagday

you aren't a man unless you love Predator,

I've never liked the whole 'sci fi/alien' stuff...if I laugh at a movie, I usually think it's good. Otherwise, I'll rarely watch it, with the exception of a few films.

***JimSomebody*** · #11 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005, 03:10 PM

Great (or at least good, I thought): The Color Purple, Whale Rider, An Officer and a Gentleman, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Muriel's Wedding, The English Patient.

Tolerable (decent, and had their moments): Sense and Sensibility, A Room With A View, Bend It Like Beckham, Thelma and Louise, Notting Hill, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Desperately Seeking Susan.

Unwatchable: I usually manage to avoid movies I wind up hating, but somehow I got roped into seeing Eating: A Very Serious Comedy About Women and Food. Talk, talk, talk. Plus some food. Plus some talk about food. Even the women in group of friends I went with didn't get it.

Donnakay · #12 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005, 04:39 PM

Guys, guys!!! You obviously don't even know what a chick flick is!

I submit the winners are: Beaches, Steel Magnolias, First Wives Club

Definition: The girls watching laugh, cry, empathize and watch them more than once!

Oh, yes, and as my daughter just said, we don't particularly want to watch this genre with anybody but our girlfriends, preferably with a bottle of wine and our fuzzy slippers and a box of tissues!!!

Inconsistent · #13 (**permalink**) October 26th, 2005, 04:39 PM

I don't think of romantic comedies, such as "When Harry Did Sally", as necessarily chick-flicks. To me a chick-flick is something like "The English Patient" or even "Chicago".

Great: I can't think of any, as I avoid anything I feel falls into that genre.

Tolerable: Why tolerate them. If she says,"If you love me, you'll watch it" I respond, "If you love me you wouldn't ask me to do this".

Unwatchable: Since I find them all unwatchable, here is what tells me something is a chick-flick: