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30 Apr 2009, 5:43 pm

mitharatowen wrote:

I don't understand why women apperently want to get emotionally upset?

some people just are not happy unless they are miserable.

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30 Apr 2009, 7:46 pm

I strongly dislike them. Give me something I am challenged by, can think over, and can absorb with some critical thought and having my perceptions challenged. Not something I passively absorb.

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01 May 2009, 2:58 pm

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poopylungstuffing wrote:

I have watched a few out of the same morbid curiosity that has caused me to watch Sex and the City....

Okay, I just rented the movie "Sex and the City", and I´m going to watch it tonight.

This is sort of like a scientific experiment. I´ve never really watched the series, by the way, I just saw one half of an episode once, on German T.V., so it was dubbed in German. Hmmmm, we´ll see....if I get too irritated, I´ll turn it off.

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02 May 2009, 2:41 am

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Most of them. A few are okay. I like Pretty Woman.

Pretty woman is the only one I can think of that I like. Oh, I liked girl interupted. Is that a chick flick? I liked ang jolie.

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02 May 2009, 3:56 am

I sometimes watch a chick flick. They give me good laughs because I'm not at all like the women portrayed in these films.

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02 May 2009, 2:11 pm

Doro wrote:

I sometimes watch a chick flick. They give me good laughs because I'm not at all like the women portrayed in these films.

Yeah, me too. I laugh a lot when I watch them- it can be very entertaining.

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02 May 2009, 2:14 pm

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poopylungstuffing wrote:

I have watched a few out of the same morbid curiosity that has caused me to watch Sex and the City....

Okay, I just rented the movie "Sex and the City", and I´m going to watch it tonight.

Oh God, this movie was so....weird. That´s about all I can say about it. I don´t know any women who are actually like this. Is this what women are supposed to be like? This seems to be the common media stereotype, but is there any real basis to it???

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02 May 2009, 2:21 pm

chick flicks?
Yikes...

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02 May 2009, 2:23 pm

Loathe them!

Romantic comedies, ... Eww. And I'd probably knock myself unconscious if I ever had to watch Sex in the City.

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02 May 2009, 2:39 pm

Some that I loved;
Dirty Dancing
Pretty Woman
Crocodile Dundee
Bagdad Café
Desperately Seeking Susan
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Ladyhawke
Gone With the Wind
The Devil Wears Prada
All About Eve
When Harry Met Sally
Overboard
Sleepless in Seattle
Now Voyager ( and other Bette Davis weepies )

Ones I hated;
that one with someone, Julia roberts?, dying of cancer
several others with Julia Roberts; where she's dying, again, or on the run from her husband, or fighting against corporate pollution, etc etc
that one with Bette Midler, "Beaches",
that one with Goldie Hawn's daughter "Ten ways to something"
that one with Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, " Bridges of Madison County".
several others with Meryl Streep, like "Sophie's Choice", "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "The French Lieutenant's woman"
and a few others, but I hardly ever watch any anymore.

I think that there are good ones, or used to be anyway, in the 80's, ( and the 40's )! :wink:

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02 May 2009, 8:45 pm

They make me homicidal.

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03 May 2009, 11:40 am

I don't watch many movies, so haven't encountered many chick flicks. I've never seen When Harry Met Sally or Sleepless in Seattle. Sometimes I'd watch such things and be entertained. These days, it's rare I'm entertained by any movie.

Morgana wrote:

I almost never find a woman in a movie that I can actually relate to...

Same here. And it's the same with almost every medium. My gender identity is more male.

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03 May 2009, 12:26 pm

ouinon wrote:

OMG I love gone with the wind, and lots of oldie films. I like breakfast at tiffany's, some like it hot, men prefer blondes. Films were so much better in the 50s and 6os Impo.

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03 May 2009, 12:33 pm

I think one of the main problems with "chick flicks" (besides the inane plot of course) is what inconviences the main characters. Most of them don't seem to have parents or children and their jobs don't seem to be terribly demanding. Perhaps if they were trying to do their usual chick flick thing while juggling parents, children and careers, then the genre would be more appealing.

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03 May 2009, 12:38 pm

I do like "Gone With The Wind"- does that count as a chic flic? At least it´s more psychologically interesting, and seems to be about many other things too, not just romance. But I thought that fell into the category of "classic film" rather than "chic flic". I also like "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane", though I would put that in the category with GWTW.

The only romantic comedies I actually like are also a bit different, and probably not considered "chic flics"(?) I like "In and Out" with Kevin Kline, though that´s more a gay comedy than chic movie. I also like Woody Allen´s "Play It Again Sam". Another one I found interesting somehow, just because it´s different, was "Secretary".

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03 May 2009, 10:06 pm

yeah there ok.
mean girls is my fave tho

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