TV Guide Channel's top 25 "Chick Flicks"

some dude you are

I hold positive memories of 9 to 5, due to repeat showings on HBO during my childhood

beaches or gtfo, i love that movie for all time.

::high fives puff puff post::

the way we were and love story better get some votes tho.

What is this list, though. A few of these I wouldn't even call chick flicks.

like which? they all kinda fit afaict but then i haven't seen a lot of them

There's this weird mix of rom coms and tearjerkers that is offputting to me.

NO "SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS," NO CREDIBILITY.

No "Imitation of Life" no credibility!

eh, Thelma and Louise was pretty awesome.

There's this weird mix of rom coms and tearjerkers that is offputting to me.

― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Monday, July 9, 2012 10:27 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

well...are those not the two ends of the chick flick spectrum as it is generally understood?

i feel like they would've had to open the floodgate to a half dozen other female-driven teen movies (which they seemed to studiously avoid doing) before 'traveling pants' made the cut

thread needs some aerosmith so he can show love to barbra and offset my bette vote.

the only movie on this list that imitation of life ... or anything else by Douglas Sirk ... does NOT shit on is breakfast at tiffany's. and i'm not even a fan of either imitation of life OR Douglas Sirk.

I need more explanations of what a chick flick is first.

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i voted for the way we were cause i got worried babs would be overlooked, but really i think working girl is the best on the list

not sure what to vote for, because i hate women

i know, you want to vote for all of them

Basically cool with these:

21. The Bridges of Madison County
19. The First Wives' Club
17. The Devil Wears Prada
15. My Best Friend's Wedding
11. An Affair To Remember
10. Thelma & Louise
9. Ghost
8. Steel Magnolias
6. Terms Of Endearment
3. Breakfast At Tiffany's

The Notebook is the worst movie ever made with one of the greatest performances of the '00s. Love Actually is mostly meh but I love love love Emma Thompson in it.

Steel Magnolias more of a gay guy movie tho, no?

haha what's the great performance in the notebook

there are definitely a shitload of women who watch steel magnolias

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Jesus this is a horrible list of films.

beaches or gtfo, i love that movie for all time.

― ostrich tuning (get bent), Monday, July 9, 2012 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Beaches
Steel Mag
Terms of Endearment
Thelma and Louise

When Harry Met Sally, no competition. Watched it again the other night after Ephron died, and it's still flawless imo. Predictable choice but nothing else on the list touches it.

lol @ great actor ryan gosling

agree w/ DL

Ephron is a hack and everything Meg Ryan has ever touched is worthless.

Sorry, was a hack.

Let's see what was nominated for best actor in 2004.

Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator
Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland
Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda
Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
Jamie Foxx – Ray

Nope, Gosling better than every last one of them.

glad we've proven that conclusively then, that's that

:D

Nine to Five. Come on, people.

No Fried Green Tomatoes!?!

Putting aside the weirdness of lumping movies from different genres because their audience OR their cast is predominantly female, of what I've seen

Love, Actually: wife made me watch this last Christmas, some cute performances but I'm just not the target audience for It's A British, British, British, British Romcom

First Wives' Club: Haven't seen it in forever, do miss Bette Midler being in things.

Beaches: Family loved this, but I managed to avoid seeing it all the way through. For a while I've been wondering if the title is an intentional play on words. Wouldn't put it past Garry Marshall

Working Girl: liked it as a kid, but it's been a long time and seems kind of retrograde in hindsight

9 to 5: loved this as a kid, and there are still little bits that crack me up thinking about it

Thelma & Louise: always struck me as kind of fucked up and contrived but hey so is Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

Ghost: I've really been wanting to see this again lately, mostly for Patrick Swayze scenes - feel like he carried this movie and doesn't get enough credit for it

Steel Magnolias: saw this recently, and a million times as a kid. So blatantly Southern Terms Of Endearment but the actresses push it forward.

Sleepless In Seattle: Haven't seen this in forever but in hindsight feels like a movie about desperate lunatics full of little quirks and jokes to keep us from realizing it's about desperate lunatics.

Terms Of Endearment: Finally saw it not to long ago, and it felt like a supercut of highlights from a long-running TV drama. Some good performances but James L Brooks is crazy overrated.

Notebook: classic. I have a lot of respect for OTT romances as long they're not boring, and thanks in big part to the leads, it does.

Breakfast At Tiffany's: Felt weird when I saw it as a kid, honestly don't remember much aside from Mickey Rourke and Jed Clampett.

Pretty Woman: I don't get Julia Roberts, I don't get Richard Gere, and I don't get how Garry Marshall can take the grossest stories and make them into blockbusters.

When Harry Met Sally: gonna have to vote for this. It's crazy that Rob Reiner, Nora Ephron, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal could make something this good considering how horrible all their stuff would be within a decade.

would have been cooler if they broke this down to its sub-categories - top 25 family dramas, top 25 extreme romances, so they could fit more stuff in like Home For The Holidays or Somewhere In Time

top 25 female-led comedies, etc

Notebook line should read "thanks in big part to the leads, it works."

Putting aside the weirdness of lumping movies from different genres because their audience OR their cast is predominantly female, of what I've seen

well that'd be a fair critique of the list if the people who made it invented the term 'chick flicks,' and whoever did invent the term deserves a little shade, but i mean it's an old old term, and i think they did a decent job of isolating the range of movies it refers to.

lol 'extreme romances'

Voting for Bridges of Madison County. Almost more than any other film, the perfect example of how bad prose doesn't hurt a movie, any more than great prose helps (Billy Bathgate, Bonfire, etc.).

mainly i'm just impressed that they included all of the movies my mother (Ghost, Thelma & Louise, First Wives Club, Beaches, My Best Friend's Wedding) or wife (Legally Blonde, Pretty Woman, Steel Magnolias, Bridget Jones) will watch at the drop of a hat that will make me leave the room. WHMS is the one i like way more than they do. The Devil Wears Prada, Love Actually and Breakfast At Tiffany's are the ones everyone agrees on.

WHMS is the one i like way more than they do

Your mom and wife OTM.

came for Mean Girls, left with Devil Wears Prada, "chick flicks" are the worst :(

Nora Ephron died? How did I miss that?

I may have to pick "Love Story" just because of its total ridiculousness and the fond memory of the audience participation heckle-viewing shown to us during freshman week.

I'm surprised Brokeback Mountain isn't on the list.

whiney serving lex pretend realness itt

but can u tell us how bad and hated they all anyway, Whiney pretty plz?

I want to vote for Steel Magnolias

Wd like to rep for Working Girl bcz aside from Something Wild it's about the only thing I can watch Melanie Griffith in and Sigourney is awesomely horrible and it has that great tracking shot at the end where it pulls away from the office building but you can still see all the ppl inside...

Maybe When Harry Met Sally though bcz BABY FISHMOUTH forever

Maybe NPR is looking for film interns.

lol Nicole

da croup going for the sarcastic "sorry" hat trick itt cracks me up so much

I do hate Terms, but can see its appeal; Dolly Parton brightens up 9 to 5; and there are always the fashions in Breakfast. The only movie here I really hate unreservedly is Sleepless in Seattle. Ugh this plot! Is An Affair To Remember any better?

I love Legally Blonde as hit-miss comedy and My Best Friend's Wedding and Bridget Jones's Diary for being pretty much the model for bleachers-pleasing rom-com. Didn't see The Al Gore Story, The Way We Were, The First Wives' Club, Beaches, Steel Magnolias, or Sex And The City.

i knew a girl in high school who insisted that the only books she had ever read were 'love story' and 'the basketball diaries,' and that she reread them both once a month.

later, she fell in love with a junkie hustler and died of leukemia

Didn't see The Al Gore Story

lol it took me a few seconds to remember his claims about A Love Story and in those seconds my best guess was that you were referring to You've Got Mail

which isn't in this list, but anyway

this list makes me physically ill

except for 9-5

wow, four made before 1975, v generous

First Wives Club is unbelievably supreme and it should def place top 3

LL OTM

gonna go with 9 to 5 here

which is more fun to watch multiple times than Thelma and Louise

Every single thing on this list is more fun to watch than Thelma & Louise.

Voted Steel Magnolias because drink the juice, juice is better.

also: red velvet Armadillo cake

Wd like to rep for Working Girl bcz aside from Something Wild it's about the only thing I can watch Melanie Griffith in

Can't believe I'm going to say "Body Double" before some DePalma stans itt.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Yessssss

The fuuuuuck

NYAAAAH SUCK IT PRETTY WOMAN YOU TERRIBLE EXCUSE FOR A MOVIE

Voted Legally Blonde but glad The Devil Wears Prada didn't crash and burn.

2. Pretty Woman 0
24. While You Were Sleeping 0
4. Love Story 0
5. The Notebook 0
11. An Affair To Remember 0
15. My Best Friend's Wedding 0
20. Waiting To Exhale 0
25. Sex And The City 0

best movie of the goose eggs?

An Affair To Remember

yeah, Cary Grant & D Kerr vs the rest of that swill isn't much of a contest.

FINE I enjoyed Love Story, but mostly because of how ott syrupy it was, not in spite of it.

Splendor in the Grass is my go-to sappy romantic movie.

however, the original version Love Affair (Boyer, Dunne also dir McCarey) was probably better.

xp

I watched 9 to 5 while smoking pot w/ friends a couple summers ago and aside from Dolly cuteness and the Tomlin Snow White scene, it was a bore.

I don't think I've seen An Affair To Remember

I have no trouble believing it's better than the others tho

Affair isn't even really that good by McCarey standards. I guess on another day I'd call My Best Friend's Wedding or Waiting to Exhale the best of that group.

it's no Awful Truth, trudat

My Best Friend's Wedding and Waiting to Exhale are both better than that one, too.

I haven't seen a lot of the zeros, but I remember liking Waiting to Exhale? Or maybe I'm thinking of the book. I don't know it was like 5,000 years ago.

An Affair to Remember is ridiculously melodramatic but that's why I love it.

Obviously everyone's entitled to their opinion but the three people who voted for Love, Actually need to be dragged from their homes and beaten for that particular opinion.

i have only seen one scene from that movie -- the one with the guy at the door and the posterboard? you have GOT to be fucking kidding me.

(whispers) I like it

but i didn't vote for it bc it's a more of a christmas movie to me

that's ok, it's all yours! i saw that one scene one time and that was enough.

Eh, you show me a list of films, I''m probably going to vote for the one with the best swearing.

'thelma and louise' as a 'chick flick' is so weird.

I (male) saw Thelma and Louise and never thought of it as a chick flick.

Voted for "Love Actually" because I first saw it with a woman I used to live with who I still like, and we both thought it to be a good film, and she left me the DVD to remind me of her. I think the intended humour of the opening was completely lost on most Americans though.

Going to try to remember to start a few sentences of my own with "I (male)".

AFAICT it has nothing in common with any of the other films on the list apart from being about two female characters. why aren't 'times square' and 'gloria' on the list?

'thelma and louise' as a 'chick flick' is so weird.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:46 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

no way, it's chick flick canon

I misread that as canyon and thought 'otm'

Thelma & Louise tearfully join hands, and drive off the cliff into Chick Flick Canyon