Comments on: Gloria Steinem and I Agree, There are Prick Flicks

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goinglikesixty — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:54:06 +0000

Full Metal Jacket A+; Hamburger Hill had some relationship bullshit in it, C-; Fast and Furious A. Fight Club: if you say so (and you did) and Mona Lisa Smile, yup, chickie.

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K8 the Gr8 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:42:32 +0000

Prick flicks- xXx, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger Hill, Fast and the Furious… I’d have to contest fight club though, I loved that film!! There’s plenty in it for the girls, TRUST me! (Brad Pitt naked apart from a rubber glove?)

Mona Lisa Smile was pretty chickie.

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goinglikesixty — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:56:22 +0000

PS: as a wordworker, didn’t you just cringe when AOL came out with “you’ve got mail?”

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goinglikesixty — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:55:39 +0000

Yeah, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle part 2, that’s what I couldn’t remember.
I liked Thelma and Louise: shooting and stealing and screwing around with a young cowpoke and blowing up trucks and then driving off a cliff. Was there a story there? Anyhoo, I liked it.

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Nancy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:26:25 +0000

I saw “Sleepless in Seattle” with a platonic male heterosexual friend. By the end, he was weeping. I was sneering. There are chick flicks, and then there are cynically manipulative chick flicks. “SiS” was the latter.

Other chick flicks: “In Her Shoes” (not as bad as I’d feared), “You’ve Got Mail,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “A Map of the World” (highly recommended). And I’m sure the current release “Evening,” which I haven’t yet seen, qualifies. (Meryl Streep! Meryl Streep’s daughter! Toni Collette! Vanessa Redgrave! Vanessa Redgrave’s daughter!)

Chick Flick Hall of Fame: “Thelma and Louise” and “Fried Green Tomatoes.”

“Prelude to a Kiss” was marketed as a chick flick but in fact is an astonishing observation of identity and spirit, based on the play of the same name by Craig Lucas. Yes, it stars Meg Ryan (usually a big minus in my book), but whaddya know, she’s extraordinary. And Alec Baldwin and the late Sydney Walker are superb.

But really, the heyday of the chick flick was the 1930s and 1940s, when movie studios acknowledged that “women’s themes” were legitimate sources of drama–and of box-office success.