Definitely NOT a chick flick...
Mark
Posted on 03/02/2017 6:04:39 AM PST by C19fan
I was on a flight from New York to Seattle recently when a long delay on the tarmac prompted the airline to offer us a free movie. As the flight attendant read the choices aloud, a young man across the aisle said, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”
I knew what he meant, and so did the woman sitting next to me. A “chick flick” is one that has more dialogue than car chases, more relationships than special effects, and whose suspense comes more from how people live than from how they get killed.
I wasn’t challenging his preference, but I did question the logic of his term. After all, much of what we read as great literature in school may well have been called “chick lit,” especially if it had been written by women.
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“All the movies that portray violence against women, preferably beautiful, sexy, half-naked women. These tend to feature chain saws and house parties in films for teenage boys, and sadistic rapists and serial killers for adult males, plus humiliations and deaths of uppity women for the well-educated misogynist.”
Not my kind of fare Gloria, but I do have my NHL bench clearing brawls 1977 to 1984 compilation on VHS, as well as ones of New York Rangers fights 1978 to about 1982 or Boston Bruins 1968 to 1982, both also on VHS. Also have NHL Action Films highlights from 1972-73.
And "Shooter." Don't forget "Shooter."
We have The Three Stooges.
Road House
Animal House
Caddyshack
Any Bruce Lee Movie
Any Sean Connery or Roger Moore James Bond Movie
We have plenty on our side
Men like movies like We Were Soldiers and Blackhawk Down.Movies where people who need killing get killed in great numbers.
Some of my favorite female writers: Flannery O’Connor (far and away my favorite female writer), Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Gaskell, Carson McCullers, Zola Neale Hurston, Willa Cather, Daphne DuMaurier, Patricia Highsmith, Elizabeth Spencer, and Marilynne Robinson
“A “chick flick” is one that has more dialogue than car chases, more relationships than special effects, and whose suspense comes more from how people live than from how they get killed.”
So what she’s saying is that a “chick flick” is the same as a “gay flick”. Hmmm. Go figure.
I like "The Princess Bride" for this reason. It's got fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...
Yeah, I know it's Rob Reiner, but the dialogue is hilarious. My teen-aged son loves the dialogue and the swordplay. His favorite scene is the battle of wits between the Man in Black and Vizzini. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha....ack."
Edith Pargeter - under the name Ellis Peters
Andre Norton
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Three men — a mathematician, a biologist, and an engineer — are discussing their love lives. The mathematician starts off talking about how much he loves having a wife. She takes care of him. She always there for him. She’s so constant, just everything he could want.
But the biologist disagrees. “What you really need is a mistress”, he says. “My wife is boring, but my mistress always makes sure there’s something new and exciting going on”.
Those two argue back and forth for a little while until, finally, they ask the engineer to break the tie. Which is better, a wife, or a mistress?
“I like having both”, says the engineer. “That way, one of them always assumes I’m off spending time with the other one, and I can go into the office and get some work done”.
Definitely NOT a chick flick...
Mark
The sad reality is that terrible taste in entertainment is so universal. I still can’t believe that there are people out there that watch things like ‘celebrity teen wife swap dancers’ or ‘Alaska swamp fishing gold loggers.’ One type of show is designed for women and gay men, the other for men and maybe butchy lesbians. Both kinds of things are just terrible in their own way.
Freegards
Ok that’s a good one
Like the Irish toast
“ Here’s to our wives and lovers
And may they never meet”
Boy, oh, boy, Steinem again proving she’s a thinker on the level of John Stuart Mill...not.
I imagine if she tried to talk to Emily Bronte, that gal would have run her off the parsonage steps with her father’s pistol and her vicious dog, Grasper, at her heels.
Oh for heaven’s sakes people there are thousands of really great male movies out there that haven’t been seen in years!
El Cid
55 Days at Peking
Fall of the Roman Empire
Waterloo
The Longest Day
Anything with John Wayne or Randolph Scott
The Wild Bunch
THE WAR LORD
Lord Jim
The Law and Jake Wade
Denver and Rio Grande (Great train collision scene!)
Anything with Humphrey Bogart.
Good old Vincent Price movies.
Even some older ones with Errol Flynn!
Life is too short to waste your time on a movie that has been played on TV twice a week for the last twenty years!
3 or 4 of those women listed are lesbians. I’ve always thought there was a correlation between lesbians and great writing. As if these women are more man than woman.
It's been awhile since I saw that. I'll have to watch it again! And my son will like it, too.
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