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Posted on 01/07/2005 7:16:50 AM PST by pissant
JULIA ROBERTS' classic turn as a prostitute in PRETTY WOMAN has picked up another accolade - the best 'Chick Flick' of all-time.
The 1990 film, which also starred RICHARD GERE, beat THELMA + LOUISE and LOVE STORY to the top spot in a new book, THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CHICK FLICKS.
Author KIM ADELMAN's top 10 is:
1. PRETTY WOMAN
2. THELMA + LOUISE
3. LOVE STORY
4. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
5. BEACHES
6. THE WAY WE WERE
7. DIRTY DANCING
8. ROMAN HOLIDAY
9. HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK
10. ALL ABOUT EVE
John Wayne made my honorable mention list. I am just too young to have seen all of his movies. The same with Clint Eastwood. Though I did like Unforgiven.
My Dad likes the Duke and I know that he would say either Big Jake or the Sons of Katie Elder. My mom likes Donovan's Reef.
"Let's just have a cigarette on it...shall we"
"Why ask for the moon..when we have the stars"
Tee hee--I love those lines!! (always laughing through my tears though)
Thanks Rosie
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Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood (too much sisterhood and not enough YaYa for a guy)
Steel Magnolias (any movie that makes a guy want to barf that bad has to be a great chick flick)
Fried Green Tomatoes (stupid title, all the guys are morons, classic chick flick)
The Color Purple (woman abused, but perseveres, what else could you ask for? Also, lead character, Whoopie Goldberg, is ugly enough for two people)
Anything with Sarah Jessica Parker or Meryl Streep. Women think they're beautiful, men think they look like the ugly chick that's sitting with the woman you'd like to strike up a conversation with.
Hey, you can't post my pic without my permission!
None of the pictures on the list are pre-60's.
You can tell this list was drawn up by a baby boomer. There were no chick flicks before the author's birth
It does have some pretty neat effects.
That'll leave a mark.
Do you see any marks? I have pain from here to about here.
Sinner
I love Tommy Boy
I don't know, I guess I just don't get them..I mean she is a gorgeous woman, but her movies just didn't interest me..but while I am on this thread forgot to add Casablanca, how Ingrid Bergman could get on that plane with the Frenchie (Paul Henreid) and leave Bogie behind is beyond reason...
As a formal liberal, I am happy to be in the land of the living again, and read the DUmmie Funnies with great delight!
That reminds me of my own experience with Steel Magnolias; two of my friends dragged me and at one point one girl started handing out tissues from a box she brought with her(!) and I said no thanks. This movie did NOT make me cry one itty bit. It was so manipulative I could feel the strings on the back of my hands!
Well to Ingrid's credit, she wanted to leave frenchie for Bogie, but Bogie was too honorable to let that happen. Definitely on my top 5 movies of all time.
Ever seen "Algiers"? Any guy that can sound sooooo romantic while telling a gal she reminds him of potato chips and the subway is all right by me!
That's another good chick flick, now I think about it.
"This movie did NOT make me cry one itty bit".
Glad to hear that there are some women who have enough sense to see through the schmaltz. I toast your good taste. Cheers.
"Well to Ingrid's credit, she wanted to leave frenchie for Bogie, but Bogie was too honorable to let that happen."
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I would have had a fit and said no, way, not going. (kidding, I'd get on the plane with Frenchie, since that's what Bogie wanted, but Frenchie would have found me mighty difficult to live with for a little while...)
Ooooh, yes, Hedy Lamarr wasn't that the woman in Algiers?
(Of course, now I'm going to think of Hedy Lamar from Blazing Saddles, curse it all)
Actually, frenchie was one of only 3 honorable frenchmen in history: the others being Louie from the same film and Marquis de Lafayette.
Yep, that's the one! A real tear jerker.
My "guy" list, no particular order
Red Dawn
Aliens
Terminator II
Sands of Iwo Jima
Stalag 17
The Longest Day
Twelve O'Clock High
Casino
Hunt for Red October
Flying Leathernecks
Hard to stop at just 10.
I forgot about Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood...it's another that I have watched a b'zillion times.
Delores Clayborne too (but I think I was in a really cranky mood when I watched that one).
"That's Hedley"
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