Chick flicks you'll admit to liking

[Egon Spengler]

The Princess Bride is not a Chick Flick. It's badass.

 

[JasonCash]

Simply Irresistable
Love Actually

 

[Adam C.]

Let's see:

Scarface
Die Hard
Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Bastards
I Spit on Your Grave
The Notebook

lollol Brad. You big softy you...

 

[EyeofSauron]

everything disney before atlantis (and a very fine selection of the new stuff), anything musical
and all the classics

so, who wants my man card?

 

[Bizarro Lois]

I'm not exactly sure what constitutes a chick flick, unless you mean no combat, no explosions, and no alien invasions or monsters. If it's simply a movie marketed toward women, I think "Pirates of the Caribbean" should count. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom...:love
I have seen very few of the movies mentioned in this thread, and liked some of them. Most of the ones I liked, I never considered to be "chick flicks," especially the musicals and Disney films. I also agree that "Princess Bride" doesn't count - it's a fairy tale/fantasy.
I'll add to the list of what I do think counts - Dirty Dancing.

 

[Supa troop]

i love
Sleepless in Seatle
Youve got mail
Notting Hill

 

[Supa troop]

lollol Brad. You big softy you...

You know what Brad is spot on with I spit on your Grave, it does indeed belong in the Chick Flick Genre.

Nothing like a woman scorned and all that

 

[DeLucks Designs]

White Chicks

 

[EvilRocketeer]

13 going on 30
just like heaven
devil wears prada
sweet home alabama
titanic
the wedding date
the notebook
10 things i hate about you
pretty woman
mean girls
50 first dates

 

[familyman]

A walk in the clouds,
While you were sleeping,
Notting Hill,
Bridget Jones Diary,

 

[Wolfie]

Only chick flick that allows you to keep your man card too is:

So I Married an Axe-Murderer.

Says the man with a cartoon avatar holding a light saber and wearing a comic shirt. :angel

Maybe if my husband sees how many people here post the Notebook I can convince him to watch it LOL Though I told him he'd cry, and he doesnt seem to find that a reason to watch it but to avoid it lol Though he cries watching the Van Gogh episode of Doctor Who and he'll rewatch that...

To throw a big burly man friend of mine under the bus, he would tell you:

The Fountain
The Time-Travelers Wife
The Notebook

 

[Jeyl]

Curious Case of Benjamin Button -- actually on my top 10 of recent movies (in any category).

That's on my top 10 worst movies in recent memory. All that love and all that talk leading up to a crummy, ill-conceieved moral that kids need a father and women aren't capable of raising a kid on their own. Take THAT single mothers and lesbian couples!

Sorry. I just hate that film with the blood of a thousand minecraft chickens. Back to the topic at hand.

PRINCESS BRIDE
and
Amélie (Both a chick flick AND an international movie)

 

[Nwerke]

but probably wouldn't admit to my guy friends.

What? We're not guys? Or we're not friends? Screw you too, buddy! :lol

Granted, I think Pretty Woman is horrifying and awful (it is a documented fact that teenage runaways spiked after that movie came out

Oh, horrors. I'd suspected that for years. Sad to hear it's true. ****ty, ****ty film.

Many already mentioned several times, but here's me list:

Notting Hill
Devil Wears Prada
Princess Diaries
10 Things I Hate About You
50 First Dates
Amelie
Music and Lyrics
While You Were Sleeping
Keine Ohr Hasen
Chinese Odyssey 2002
Princess Bride

 

[Alan Castillo]

What movies are you men "forced" to watch, but secretly like? I know there are a few that I have no qualms admitting I like, but probably wouldn't admit to my guy friends.

A few off the top of my head that I can say I like are:

Serendipity- I actually really like this one and dig the soundtrack
Pretty Women
Ghost
Revenge with Kevin Costner
The Holiday
Sleepless In Seattle

I'm the one who puts on Pretty Woman and Ghost every so often ! The Mrs. would never 'ask' for them. (but she's a bit of a tomboy :lol)

Should I be worried :confused

Great flicks those two :thumbsup

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Maybe if my husband sees how many people here post the Notebook I can convince him to watch it LOL Though I told him he'd cry, and he doesnt seem to find that a reason to watch it but to avoid it lol Though he cries watching the Van Gogh episode of Doctor Who and he'll rewatch that...

It's all about selling it the right way. Never mention crying or feelings up front... sell it on story - if it has one - and nudity - if it has some - or whatever good points, sans crying and feelings, the story consists of that might be of interest. Or generally just hint that more good will come from watching it than not.

I like:
Sleepless in Seattle
Just like Heaven
(I'll watch) You've got Mail.
I like Titanic for the historic parts
Is Labyrinth a chick flick?

There are probably more. Not keeping track what is what... but must admit most romantic dramas sound like trite emotional dribble to me - with a terrible morale at the end (or maybe that's the teen dramas I'm thinking of where the girl/woman reacts completely contradictory to reality and stays with the jerk main character after the cliche heartfelt apology scene for whatever crap the jerk guy put the girl through).

There's generally nothing to be afraid of by watching what some call chick flicks... a good story is a good story, as mentioned before. No point in being insecure. Though, just because I find some of those movies boring doesn't mean I'm a chick flick phobic - just means I find the movies boring.

 

[Nwerke]

"Jerk main character" isn't the right way to do the romcom formula. He should ideally be a likeable/desirable main character forced into a 'boy loses girl' action by circumstances - i.e. whatever it is, it's out of character for him, or in character but in some forgiveable way.

And then he finds a really spectacular way to make amends, even though it wasn't his fault. Get that bit of audience manipulation right and the ladies go completely gooey. Well mine does.

 

[Alan Castillo]

....

I like Titanic for the historic parts
Is Labyrinth a chick flick?

Titanic is a chick flick :confused

I love that too !

Yep, I think I should worry :lol

 

[crabra comander]

Brokeback Mountain

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Titanic is a chick flick :confused

I love that too !

Yep, I think I should worry :lol

It was mentioned earlier in the thread as a chick flick... I just watch it for the historic bits.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

"Jerk main character" isn't the right way to do the romcom formula. He should ideally be a likeable/desirable main character forced into a 'boy loses girl' action by circumstances - i.e. whatever it is, it's out of character for him, or in character but in some forgiveable way.

And then he finds a really spectacular way to make amends, even though it wasn't his fault. Get that bit of audience manipulation right and the ladies go completely gooey. Well mine does.

Well, the formula usually is a likeable guy in the beginning, but circumstances have him show his true colors - money, fame, popularity, whatever - and he totally disses the girl who has a crush on him and has been supportive from even before he suddenly go special... then he loses everything, realizes he was a complete jerk and wins her over with a lame apology. In reality... the response would likely be a cellphone picture from the girl showing her getting it on with some other guy. 'Cause... the main character really isn't worth wasting time on, 'cause you've already seen what kind of a jerk he is.

I'm all for learning curves... but that one is just sooooo over-used and so unrealistic... or... maybe I'm just not too up on reality and that whole forgiving when he doesn't effing deserve it thing.