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[–]stickdog 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (11 children)

Weird-fun question for u/Inuma & u/Blackhalo and anyone else who cares to join in.

What chick flick was the oddest for you to recognize as such?

Like, Mad Max: Fury Road is a chick flick, however violent. I made the case to a family member as to all the girl power stuff in it, and family agreed.

Alien vs Predator, too. She doesn't walk down any dark always alone & unarmed, blithering.

Whatcha think?

u/Caelian, O Movie Meister?

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The what now? Define chick flick. For me it's a romantic comedy, which might be disguised, like say Mrs. Doubtfire, but not Fury Road. Girl power can be fine if done right, like in Alien 1&2. Fury Road is just it done, badly.

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

So romantic comedy - like a RomZomCom? Heheh!

I'm not much into most romcom, but then The Bachelorette show (and Bridezilla or some such?) never appealed, neither...

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

What a fun topic!

Now I have a very specific definition of a "chick flick", mostly based on the wonderful "that's a chick's movie" scene in Sleepless in Seattle (1993).

The great François Truffaut said his goal with Shoot the Piano Player (1960) was "to make men laugh and women cry". Awesome film, a true masterpiece.

I've adapted this to define a "chick flick" as "a movie that makes women cry and men cringe" 😺

So given my definition, neither of those two qualify as "chick flick". Having strong women characters doesn't by itself make a CF. It's got to make women cry and men cringe.

Now, let me mentally review my thousands of movies and see what I can come up with.

Ah, A League of Their Own (1992) Strong women with some tears, but no cringe until the final scene when a bunch of old ladies representing the athletes in their old age are visiting a museum exhibition of their glorious years. How could you, Penny? 😾

I bet some others will pop up.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I've adapted this to define a "chick flick" as "a movie that makes women cry and men cringe"

Perfect.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is more challenging than I thought. The reality is that I haven't seen that many chick movies, or else I managed to forget them.

But here's another stealth chick movie by my definition: Kenneth Branagh's 1993 Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare's play is not a "chick play", but in the hands of the wrong director...

Anyway, the two main characters are Benedick and Beatrice, played by Branagh and Emma Thompson, who were married at the time. At the beginning of the play they are constantly sniping at each other with witty banter. In the movie the banter is self-satisfied, smug, and way overdone. But you see, the sniping is a façade because they are really in love with each other, but both are too proud to admit it even to themselves. Around Act III, Benedick suddenly realizes that he loves Beatrice and covorts in fountains and performs other bright antics, imagining himself a teenage boy in love. This overacting is the point at which Much Ado becomes a chick flick.

Branagh and Thompson divorced two years later.

The real disappointment is Michael Keaton as Dogberry, the chief constable of the night watch. Dogberry is the funniest character in Shakespeare. He comes up with one hilarious malapropism after another. I like to read Shakespeare in my Riverside before seeing a movie, and I was laughing out loud as I imagined Keaton delivering Dogberry's lines.

Then I saw the movie. Branagh had Keaton play Dogberry as Beetlejuice. Dogberry does not need "improvement" — this stupid decision to overact ruined the part IMO.

On the other hand, Keanu Reeves was unexpectedly good as John the Bastard. A small role, but some compensation.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I've never seen Jerry Maguire (1996) but my dad described it as "that most insidious of films. You think it's a guy film starring Tom Cruise etc., but then it turns out to be a chick movie." A friend of mine said something similar: "at the end everybody is crying and I realized that I was tricked into watching the Mother of All Chick Flicks" 😺

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

The new Dune qualifies. Slow plotting, romance near the end with fate...

Other than that, it's mostly K-dramas which do far more and intricate plots than Hollywood.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

K-dramas

What is that?

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Korean dramas.

All these right here? She's either watched them or is watching them...

Right now it's Doctor Cha and Uncanny Counter.

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I have only really watched True Beauty, which got me thru snowpocalypse a couple years ago.

u/blackhalo will have to get back to you on definition - definitely movies that chicks I know universally enjoy and consider the lead gal to have agency and common sense.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ah! I figured it was tangential to K-Pop.

[–]re_trace 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Rediscovered this one recently

Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]Promyka5When in the course of human events... 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Wilco - Jesus, Etc.

[–]rondeuce40DC Is Wakanda For Assholes 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

MF Doom - Coca Leaf otherwise known as Thank Ya

[–]captainramen🇺🇸🛠️ MAGA Communist 🛠️🇺🇸 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Love it!

[–]Promyka5When in the course of human events... 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The Wanderin' Five -- John Henry

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Doppler effect - Twilight Zone

Who is the ponytailed blonde at 2:31 in the vid?

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Sonya Blade from the first Mortal Kombat movie right before she fights Kano. Actress is Bridgette Wilson-Sampras who was also in Last Action Hero. She couldn't do martial arts though.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

She's not a very convincing Sonya. A bit too... girly.

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

She was pretty much a model before that and NO actual training. Robin Shou (Liu Kang) went on to start working with actors to do it, but this is '95. This stuff was new.

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I like her spunk!

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Eh, she was okay...

The MK book was far better and she did more in there.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

[–]rondeuce40DC Is Wakanda For Assholes 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Meant to post this one for the Go theme a few weeks back, but memory recall was failing me Anna Wise - Go

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Denis Quilley as Marlene Dietrich sings Danke Schön from Privates on Parade (1983), my favorite musical.

And here is the Good Doctor Colin Baker singing the same song on stage.

Danke schön — thank you very much.
für nichts — for nothing.
Auf Wiedersehen — see you later.
Ich liebe dich — I love you.

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]rondeuce40DC Is Wakanda For Assholes 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

If you are in the mood for some 3 wheel motion Dr. Dre type stuff, the 2nd half of this song will quench that thirst. JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Shut Yo Bitch Ass Up / Muddy Waters

[–]mzyps 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Here is a very nice performance of Simple Gifts AKA 'Tis the Gift to be Simple with a not-very-simple accompaniment on a Seagull Merlin "strummable dulcimer". I wonder what ate that hole in the autoharp?

[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Still, we exist, with life!

 

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

 

edit: scooped by 2 minutes! 😦

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

[–]welshTerrier2 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

In Memory of The Band's Robbie Robertson:

The Band - Old Time Religion

The Band - The Weight

The Band - Evangeline

The Band - It Makes No Difference

The Band - The Shape I'm In

[–]mjsmemee 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

[–]welshTerrier2 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Remarkable!!!

[–]BlackhaloPurity Pony: Pусский бот 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

[–]MartiniPlease send olives! 🍸[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Unrelated, just in a mood: I am stretched on your grave

[–]welshTerrier2 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Ahhhh ... a nice cheery tune to get the party rolling.

Willie Nelson - Still Not Dead

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