To me, it isn't about chick flicks vs. dick flicks. It's about good movies vs. bad movies. Chocolat was a chick flick, but it also happened to be a really good movie. Sci Fi movies like LOTR or Star Wars fall into the dick flick category, but they are good films. By the same token, there are the un-watchable versions of both - Prince of Tides, The Wedding Planner, etc on the ladies' side and Chronicles of Riddick, Last Action Hero, etc. on the gentlemen's side. Good movies are good movies.
Speaking of bad, Sky captain was the most un-watchable "movie" I ever saw. First time I walked on a flick after the first 20mns! And to say I bought the DVD... ALA
If Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was a dick flick the storyline would probably go like this. An American vacationer's sexual adventure to the red light district in Amsterdam goes awry when his favorite pornstar gets murdered. Now one man finds himself up against the Russian Mafia and a band of vigilante prostitutes in this hillarious action/comedy. Roddy Piper makes his long awaited cinematic screen return in..... ....... Brotherhood of the Traveling Ass Kicker.
Good chick movies (yes, there are a few) Where the Heart Is Confessions of an American Bride (a LIFETIME movie, at that!) 13 Going on 30 (Jennifer Garner could be hot portraying a 75 year old woman with one leg) Return To Me (Carrol O'Conner's last movie) Girl, Interrupted (don't know if this qualifies as a chick flick, but it DOES have a lot of chicks in it...)
Change Russian Mafia to Nazis and add Jet Li as a sidekick, and I think you may be on to something... As for chick flicks, the best one I've seen in a LONG while is About a Boy. I'm sure RM95 will back me up on that one. The worst? Has to be Bridget Jones 2. What an awful POS that was.
Hands down the best chick flick was Serendipity. I watch it from time to time when my estrogen levels rise.
Allright, I liked this "fattie" chick in the "Real Women Have Curves" movie... I knew she'd be in more movies, but this one has to suck worse donkey b*lls*cks than "Fried Green Tomatoes." S*ck *t, Julia Roberts. S*ck *t.
****SPOILER ALERT**** The movie ends when the fat chic trys the pants on and splits them like a weenie left too long in the microwave.
Take out the slut B*TCH from Perl Harbor and Padme's "I want to have the baby in my native land" line from ROTS and you have ACTION films. Now if you want to scream "SLuUUuUuuuut" loud at the theater, wish that they'd release Perl Harbor again. I shouted it so, and my wife said I shouldn't do that anymore. I answered: "Well, don't put slut character roles like that in the movies..."
I haven't seen the movie, but the book was written by Nick Hornsby, who wrote High Fidelity. So with that pedigree, it's not technically a chick flick.
