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The poll can be run at my site if you guys think it would interrupt the sci-fi authors stuff too much.
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I am a guy, yes. But it was great. Me and my gf, Naomi watched it for the first time together and she was crying by the end and i used that moment to propose. So i owe my upcoming marriage to that movie.
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And why would you cry at the end of that movie? It's a comedy. I'm still holding out for Red Dawn.
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Oh hey, has anybody seen the french film: Amelie ? It's a GREAT movie and should DEFINATELY be added.
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Through my movie choices, I think this thread proves that I am way more in touch with my feminine side than any other man on this forum. In fact, I'm touching it even as I'm typing this.
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I had planned to run the poll at highfantastical (the ultimate in fluff forums), but if anyone wants trafiic boosters at their site, I can be bought.
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Not only do I nearly always love extra traffic at sakeriver, but I think that the "Popular Culture" forum there would be particularly well-suited to this type of poll. Especially given the fact that I'm so into movies.
On the other hand, I don't really like to compete against other jatraqueros, and I wouldn't want to feel like I was stealing people away from other satellite forums. I mean, it damn near broke my heart when people started abandoning me in droves to go worship Jon Boy.
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And in any case, Mike kind of called it by asking the question, didn't he?
You need to come up with some new angle to draw the people in Mike! Jon Boy has the whole linguistics thing going--I say you play to your existing strengths and make it more role playing oriented. Add an actual link to the character creation tools and character sheets, add a link to the various campaigns on the menu page, that sort of thing. It's so geeky it just might work!
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I can't beleive that Dirty Dancing, My Best Friend's Wedding, and Erin Brokovitch haven't been mentioned. So I nominate all three.
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Well, the character creation tools still aren't done yet. And as for the rest... From time to time I toy with the idea of putting links up on the front page, but I'm still too much in denial of my nerdity to really own it and proclaim it to the world. Well, not so much that I'm in denial of it as the fact that I don't know that I'm really willing to showcase that side of me to the family members and friends that I know stop by my site from time to time.
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BTW, to really throw this thread for a diversion...
what happened to the campaign? A couple of my emails weren't getting through, and there was a talk of a fix... but it looks like we all forgot to start back up?
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How has The Sound of Music escaped notice until now? In fact, has anyone mentioned a musical, other than Strictly Ballroom? I love both of those. Although I'm not personally as big a fan, I must also add West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof for the sake of musical chick-flick completeness.
And I'd like to think A Fish Called Wanda could find a place. It's not a natural fit into the category. But it's got many chick-flickish elements, and it's brilliant, so that should make up for any partial genre incompatibility.
Although it had many guy-appealing qualities, the chick-flick elements of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon were some of the best ever made.
Also, the love story in Life Is Beautiful is... beautiful. And it has the benefit of being a foreign film, Italian no less, which is definitely a chick characteristic.
Have I missed something, or did Hatrack have a collective brain hemmorrhage and forget to include Gone With the Wind?
Pillow Talk is perhaps the archetype of female-oriented sex-farce comedies, and it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
This is probably just a me-and-the-wife thing, and I'm sure I'll be laughed to scorn for admitting this, but I quite liked Blast From the Past.
My wife would kill me if I didn't include My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
I loved both versions of The Parent Trap.
And while I'm here, I'd like to second Return to Me, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally.
That's all... for now.
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Matt is on vacation for a bit, which is why things are on hold.
(Given Annie's enthusiasm for RPG threads over at sakeriver I can only guess at how thrilled she must be at this little side conversation.)
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I think that she's secretly delighted by all things role playing. I'm sure that despite any protestations to the contrary, she'd be absolutely delighted to see this become a role playing thread.
C'mon Mike, free your inner-geek! I'll bet most of your relatives can hear him rattling the bars of his cage anyway. Well, that's what they think they're hearing. You and I both know it's his dice.
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Very suprised neither Sabrina nor Breakfast at Tiffany's have been nominated.
Kudos to Speed 2:Cruise Control for Pillow Talk, I would have overlooked it. On the other hand, the actual movie, Speed 2:Cruise Control, is one of the 10 worst rated by women over at IMDB Sorry Posts: 349 | Registered: Feb 2004
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I was wondering if Sabrina was gonna pop up. If Zamphyr nominated it, I second. Otherwise, I nominate it.
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**** spoiler for city of angels ***** * * * * did anyone else freak out when he took the shower? I was SO sure that he was going to get severe burns and die from the shower. * * * * ** done with mini spoiler.
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I'll second Sabrina, but I'm afraid it'll have to be the Harrison Ford remake. I'm usually not a remake fan, but I find him soooooo much more appealing than Humphrey Bogart in the same role (though I think Audrey Hepburn was better in the title role).
As for the call for films that appeal to both men and women, ...geez, guys, that's just not what chick flicks are! Chick flicks are movies that give women their fix of romance that the men in their lives aren't providing! To me, the main plot has to revolve around romance for it to be a chick flick. Thus, The American President and The Wedding Singer qualify, but Romancing the Stone does not (though I could be wrong, because I haven't seen that movie in ages).
Oh, how about Persuasion? I don't recall seeing it on the list, but it should be. I cannot, in good conscience, agree with the Mansfield Park nomination, though, because it was sooo different from the book.
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OK, here's the list, open for another couple hours:
10 Things I Hate About You* Coyote Ugly* The Cutting Edge* Stricly Ballroom* While You Were Sleeping* Say Anything* Amelie* You've Got Mail* Return to Me* Pretty Woman* Thomas Crown Affair Sleepless in Seattle* Love Actually* French Kiss* Notting Hill* Nurse Betty Joe vs. The Volcano The Wedding Singer* Romancing The Stone* The Princess Bride* Thelma and Louise* Miss Congeniality* Runaway Bride* Freaky Friday Steel Magnolias* Fried Green Tomatoes* Bridget Jones's Diary* Little Women* When Harry Met Sally* The Piano Whale Rider Heathers Forget Paris Pride & Prejudice (A&E version)* Sense & Sensibility A Walk to Remember Chocolat Contact An Affair to Remember* The Shop Around the Corner* (these two get default inclusion status) Beloved Bend it Like Beckham* Four Weddings and a Funeral* Love Affair (1994) Titanic* Grease Ghost* Beaches Orlando Valmont Shakespeare in Love* Dirty Dancing My Best Friend's Wedding Erin Brockovich My Big Fat Greek Wedding* The Sound of Music* West Side Story* Fiddler on the Roof A Fish Called Wanda Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Life is Beautiful Gone With the Wind* Pillow Talk* Blast From the Past* (I seconded that. I like it.) The Parent Trap Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Sabrina (1997)* Breakfast at Tiffany's What Women Want* Yentl City of Angels* Persuasion
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I think there are two ways people are interpreting the question.
Some are pretty clearly aiming for the best movie that is also a chick flick, while others are aiming for the movie that best exemplifies chick flick-ness. While these may coincide, I submit that they are unlikely to. For instance, while I think many would agree City of Angels is an excellent movie (as I do), its not the most chick flick-y by any means.
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City of Angels was neither good nor chick-flicky. It was a blatant ripoff of Wim Wenders with no good cuteness or loveyness or anything. Grrr.
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I haven't seen Wim Wenders, so I can't really say how much it influenced City of Angels. But I usually don't care if a movie is a remake or not. As long as I like it, who cares if it's original or not ?!
And also, the fact that I seconded City of Angels doesn't mean I think it's very 'chick-flick'-y - it is a little though, IMO - but that I thought there would be people that are going to vote for it. So why not offer them the occasion ? It's not like if there's the option, everyone will go for it...
And it's a GREAT movie !!
(or maybe the fact that I'm both a Cage & Meg Ryan fan has something to do with it?!)
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Wenders is a German director whose films you'd probably really like, Corwin. If you get a chance, I'd recommend Wings of Desire and Faraway, So Close.
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I've imdb-ed the two movies and they have good ratings, especially the first one. Also, after reading a little about them, I can see why you say that City of Angels is a ripoff. Oh well...
Anyway, I'll add them on my 'to-see' list, thanks Annie.
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