Chick Flick?

[power_puffs_lab]

What makes a movie a chick flick? I know what I would consider a chick flick. But what is it

Comments

[filosopher_king]

You sure it wasn't "chuck" flick? Like, all movies that Chuck thinks are cool?

[power_puffs_lab]

I'm sure. I checked. So weird.

[delicarose]

Let's see, I like Heathers, Hackers, and I'll never admit it in public Bedazzled, but Bedazzled was iffy.
Kill Bill=Best chick flick ever.

I'm a bad judge though. People know better then to take me to date movies or chick flicks. I tend to fall asleep.

[power_puffs_lab]

But chick flick is different, not every movie liked by women is a chick flick. I loved Hackers but I think it is a total guy movie. And Bedazzled? TOTAL guy movie.
Depending on the movie I totally love chick flicks.

Was it?

[delicarose]

I was never sure with Bedazzled.
I think of chick flicks as being feel good movies or romantic comedies, not sure about musicals and lot of the classic films and where they rank. THOSE I like. Modern movies though I like a close to cartoon pacing and lots of things that go boom. Action adventure because it rarely disappoints, I'm not expecting much to begin with, just to be amused.
The exception being comic movies. They bother me. Banalising great stories and characters to make it easily accessible to the masses.

Re: Was it?

[power_puffs_lab]

I think that movies often are enjoyable because we have the appropraite expectations. When I go in with expectations and the movie is good it is usually because it lives up to expectations.

[wildcelticrose]

Any flick that I invite my girlfreinds over to watch over wine, cheese, fruit and dead crustaceans and which we describe as "My boyfriend/husband/brother/father/son/asshole down the street would hate this" qualifies as a "chick flick" in my book ;)

~L

[power_puffs_lab]

I think that is a good way to put it.

But I think chick flicks have a formula too. And not all movies guys don't like are that formula.

[alexlucard]

Vampires are consistently in the top 3 fetishes for Western women. That's probably why Dracula is there. Plus Bram's Stoker's Dracula IS considered more a love story than a horror film by critics.

[power_puffs_lab]

Dracula is NOT a chick flick, Meg Ryan movies are chick flicks. Serendipity and Sabrina are chick flicks. Dracula is not a chick flick.

Women might think getting thier blood sucked by an evil soulless creature is h-o-t but that doesn't mean that the movie is a chick flick. Porn gets women hot but porn isn't considered 'chick flicky'. Right?

[alexlucard]

Most vampires movies aren't chick flicks. You're completely correct there. But the Francis Ford Coppola one IS. it's a romance. It's all about love and mushy shit, with the monster aspect being filler.

A chick flick is bascially a romance film right?

[gookachu]

chick flicks run in 2 camps: girl bonding/power stories or films centered around victorian-like ideals of romance. so, that's the thelma & louise type stories, or titanic.

sufficed to say, i dislike most chick flicks. gods below, i hated titanic. i can't express how much i loathe that film.

best chick flick ever for me? LotR (mmm...david wenham...) and gladiator (mmm...russell crowe...).

[power_puffs_lab]

I think that's a great caracterization of the 2 kinds. I kept trying to make movies fit into it and going, but they aren't about romance, but they are about girl power kinds of things. Sisterhood movies (ya ya and pants) aren't about romance even where there is romance in them.

I think I'm one of 5 people in the world to ever escape seeing titanic. Go me! (Especially since it came out when I should have been a young impressionable girl easily influenced by her peers, but nope, I wanted to see Wag the Dog and I was taller and scarier than the rest of my friends :) )

And I enjoy some chick flicks, I really enjoyed Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, I thought it was great, I loved Serindipity, total chick flick (although I think that movie is made great by Cusak, his presence makes movies great.