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Cindi

Well, I don't blubber over them, but I do watch lifetime movies if the subject matter interests me.
But it must be a true story, that or have Jenny Garth or Chandra West in it.
Mostly though, I watch Lifetime for the Unsolved Mysteries reruns.
Have you seen "In a Child's Name?" Positively chilling.

Nero

It's not nearly as disturbing that you like Lifetime as it is that I do. However, I lean more toward their movies inherited from the box offices, like Bastard Out of Carolina. Great film.

Rafe

I think the Lifetime movies are too formulaic but every once in a while they put in a good one.  Usually I'm turned off in the first five or ten minutes.  There was one last night, though, about a serial killer and a single mom FBI agent chasing him that my wife and I watched (she LOVES LifetimeTV).  It was still a little predictable but it was good nonetheless.

helen

Quote from: Rafe on July 15, 2006, 11:25:09 PM
It's not nearly as disturbing that you like Lifetime as it is that I do. However, I lean more toward their movies inherited from the box offices, like Bastard Out of Carolina. Great film.

Rafe

Thanks Rafe. I was afraid I was the only guy out there that watches Lifetime. When my mom turns it on, my stepfather immediately finds some task requiring his attention in another room. :D

Nero

Not sure if this film was on the Lifetime channel or not, but I thought it was pretty entertaining.  It was called Live Nude Girls with Kim Catrell and was about a group of sorority girls getting together and dealing with their problems.  One girl had a jealous boyfriend that kept stalking her.  Kim Catrell's character was engaged to get married, but thought her fiance was cheating on her.  Another girl was a lesbian that had a live in girlfriend.  Lots of drama.  I thought it was entertaining. 

Shannon

I like chick flicks.  One of my favorites is "My First Mister" staring Leelee Sobieski.  i've watched it many times...

My First Mister (http://www.leeleesobieski.com/info/movies/mfm.html)

Steph

I love chick flicks... lol! and I watch Lifetime sometimes.

Tell your SO that you wanna watch a Jackie Chan movie and then insert the movie Gorgeous (Bor Lei Jun) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184526/) into the DVD player.  He is in it but it is a chick flick through and through.  Most people do not realise how versatile he is in the overseas market.  They are just used to the fighting stuff (which he mainly does).  And yes there are a couple of fighting scenes in the movie to keep the more action oriented fan a bit at ease.  However, it is mainly a romantic comedy.

Quote from: LostInTime on July 18, 2006, 06:25:00 AM
Tell your SO that you wanna watch a Jackie Chan movie and then insert the movie Gorgeous (Bor Lei Jun) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184526/) into the DVD player.  He is in it but it is a chick flick through and through.  Most people do not realise how versatile he is in the overseas market.  They are just used to the fighting stuff (which he mainly does).  And yes there are a couple of fighting scenes in the movie to keep the more action oriented fan a bit at ease.  However, it is mainly a romantic comedy.

I've never seen that movie, I'll have to keep my eye's open for it, after all JC is kinda cute.

Steph

Okay, but Lifetime aside, I'm a little unclear as to how certain films get categorized as "chick flicks". When Harry Met Sally, notorious for being one of the aforementioned films, is simply a story about love, and the twisted path it often takes. How does this get classified as feminine? Don't guys appreciate a good love story, too? I've met plenty of straight guys who do (myself among them, of course).

Rafe

Quote from: Rafe on July 18, 2006, 12:23:21 PM
Don't guys appreciate a good love story, too? I've met plenty of straight guys who do (myself among them, of course).
Rafe

Depends on how much stuff is blown up in the "love" story.   :P

Anything that would be considered "not macho" is lumped as a chick flick.

Quote from: cindianna_jones on July 15, 2006, 09:58:12 PM
Another that I liked was called "A mother's love" with the Terminator girl, Sarah Conner.. .what is her name. 

Linda Hamilton.

I always liked watching chick flicks, even when I was in denial.

Melissa

Quote from: LostInTime on July 18, 2006, 01:58:09 PM
Depends on how much stuff is blown up in the "love" story.   :P

Anything that would be considered "not macho" is lumped as a chick flick.

LOL, I would have to agree :D, stuff does need to be blown up in movies to get a guys attention, unless of course the person is metrosexual :)

Steph

Sometimes huge car chases will keep a guy's attention too.

Melissa

And lets not forget sex

Steph

Okay, okay. You guys are threatening my masculinity LOL. So, I must admit, and this is not to guard my precious ego, but simply the sick, sad truth: I don't have to see anything blown up to enjoy a movie. But if there's no chick with a pretty face, there's gotta be violence, car chases, crime, or something otherwise intriguing for me to see the film. However, I went through a phase of watching nothing but Meg Ryan chick flicks... because I had a crush on Meg Ryan.

Just the sad truth.

Rafe

Quote from: Rafe on July 18, 2006, 04:20:43 PM
Okay, okay. You guys are threatening my masculinity LOL. So, I must admit, and this is not to guard my precious ego, but simply the sick, sad truth: I don't have to see anything blown up to enjoy a movie. But if there's no chick with a pretty face, there's gotta be violence, car chases, crime, or something otherwise intriguing for me to see the film. However, I went through a phase of watching nothing but Meg Ryan chick flicks... because I had a crush on Meg Ryan.

Just the sad truth.

Rafe

That's not sad.  I've watched movies just because of the actress myself.

Melissa

I had a crush on Nicholas Cage....oops...wrong thread for this one!!  (actually now that I remember  he played an angel and Meg Ryan was in that movie too...the movie's name is "angels")  I really hated the end though when she gets run over by a truck and dies right after making love with the hansome cutie pie...lol 


;D


tinkerbell :icon_chick:

Hmn, one of the things I noticed in devouring Japanese anime was that I was gravitating to the Shoujou stuff (literally, 'young-girl').  Forget adolescent power fantasy, give me a good, old relational story.

I've listed some of the better stuff in the Anime thread I started, but watching Haibane Renme will cost you at least a half box of kleenex if you're susceptible to tears  ;D

Karen

Quote from: Melissa on July 18, 2006, 03:13:03 PM
Sometimes huge car chases will keep a guy's attention too.

Melissa

Quote from: Steph on July 18, 2006, 03:17:45 PM
And lets not forget sex

Steph

Umm, hmm, how do you ladies know me so well? :D

Quote from: Rafe on July 18, 2006, 04:20:43 PM
However, I went through a phase of watching nothing but Meg Ryan chick flicks... because I had a crush on Meg Ryan.

Just the sad truth.

Rafe

I went through a similar phase with Angelina Jolie.

Nero

Let's see... my phases have included Meg Ryan, Angelina Jolie, Alicia Silverstone, Keira Knightley (that one's still in effect), Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, and a host of other beautiful women. It's a bad habit, but someone's got to keep those beautiful ladies in business.

Oh, and my tastes aren't simply confined to movies with car chases, hot chicks, and explosions... I also like horror  8)

Rafe

Quote from: Steph on July 18, 2006, 03:17:45 PM
And lets not forget sex

Steph

Yeah my friend says she keeps her husband quiet by handing him a beer and giving him something naked to watch on TV.

Works for me :)

My ex rented a movie once that had been touted by women friends as a great movie. At the end of it, she was in agreement. I thought that there were not enough car chases. Even one would have improved the movie imo.

Dennis

Bu the way -- isn't 'Chic' pronounced 'sheek'?

>:D

>:D

>:D

Karen

I've wondered for most of my years why I LOVED "chick flicks" and hated all the "Rambo" like movies.  So ... now I know.  It now "fits" like so many things from my past that now fall into place.  My favorites?  On top is "What Dreams May Come" followed closely by the Cage/Ryan movie "City of Angels".

IMHO, you can keep all that fighting and crashing of cars!

Shayna   :)

^*chortle* What an odd mix we are.

Amusingly movies tend to be one of the things where I wonder what in tarnation the girls are thinking. ^*chortle*

All I can say is never judge a girl by what she watches. Me myself and I happen to like the bloodier movies. I HATE movies that try and manipulate my emotions, and I doubly HATE sad movies.. ^*shrug* I much prefer the blood-n-guts type movies, but I am picky on which granted. ^*shrug* Aliens is one of my favorites, and I'll watch some of the worst chop-chop's if I happen to like one of the characters. (Sorry girl with a sword and knows how to use it is just ^{*dreamy sigh*}, lol)

Now oddly the guy oriented movies where you have too much plot typically with the emphasis of one group being mean to another group and really grinding it in (usually the less then pleasant loss of characters the lead likes, etc.) I do not care for (See above under manipulation of emotions). ^*shrug* I am a weird one :P "Commando" anyone ?

Now amusingly what is on most around here is either the crime dramas (CSI which I don't pay much attention to; Although NCSI I think it is I was starting to like. An given that I had to find the name of the show by the name of the character "Abby" (played by Pauley Perrette by the way) I suppose that is sort of a giveaway, lol.), to Forensic Files (certainly gives a girl faith in humanity. ^*snort*) and Dr. G: Medical Examiner (Kind of puts things into perspective), Blue's Clue's (Blue is just CUTE ;) So is Steve ;) ), or some vintage of Power Rangers (don't laugh :P -- SPD is so far my favorite, lol -- hay violence, cute characters, no one dies, good guy's always win, and heck, even giant robots and stuff. Hard to go wrong! ;) ^*GIGGLES* )

Um, yes anyway... (=