January 11 07
13 of my favorite chick flicks

i got many an email in response to my post on Fabulous this week, where i kinda-sorta-maybe knocked the chick flick a little. it’s not that i don’t like chick flicks…it’s just that they aren’t my first choice in movie. but there are some that i really like. so, i figured for my thursday thirteen, i’d prove it!

This was actually a hard list to make…because i came up with about 50. (maybe i like them more than i originally thought…)

ETA. i NEED to add a 14th in here. i can’t believe i left this one out!! Beautiful Girls may just be my most favorite of chick flicks!

1. The Notebook

2. Love Actually

3. Princess Bride

4. Wicker Park

5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

6. Steel Magnolias

7. Moulin Rouge

8. Dirty Dancing

9. Footloose

10. Bring It On

11. Bend It like Beckham

12. Garden State

13. Chasing Amy

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  1. mmm…i like dirty dancing 🙂

    Comment by tiger on January 11, 2007

  2. You know what? Of all your list I have only never seen Love Actually. All the others I saw (not necessarily enjoyed, but saw).

    Of those, I’d say Eternal Sunshine is my favourite.

    Comment by Jeff on January 11, 2007

  3. Great list I love the pictures to go with the titles. I have seen most but not all.
    Have a wonderful Thursday
    My TT is posted

    Comment by Raggedy on January 11, 2007

  4. Hi Ali!
    That´s a great list. Reminds my of my first single I´ve bought maaaaany years ago: Kenny Loggins – Footloose. It´s a vinyl one =)

    I like “10 things I hate about you” and “Cruel Intentions” as well…

    Please visit my TT #8 – Thanks a lot =)

    Comment by Sanni on January 11, 2007

  5. I have seen many of those on your list. I LOVED Love Actually…….it was quirky and romantic without really rotting your teeth. I absolutely hated The Notebook……and its counterpart by the same author A Walk to Remember. Way Way Way too sappy and cutesy for me. Another universally loved chick flick that I absolutely hated, Titanic…..just plain stupid…..and lets just say Celine Dion’s singing in it did NOT help its rating for me one bit.

    Comment by Iris on January 11, 2007

  6. It’s sad to say, but I’ve only watched 4 of the movies on your list.

    Comment by scooper on January 11, 2007

  7. Cool list. 🙂 The Princess Bride is one of my favourite movies. 🙂

    Happy T13. 🙂

    Comment by Caylynn on January 11, 2007

  8. My favs in this list are “Steel Magnolias”, “The Princess Bride” and “Dirty Dancing”. All great chick-flics.
    Thanks for stopping by my T13.

    Comment by Jane on January 11, 2007

  9. proudly only seen 5 of 13.

    Comment by Giblet on January 11, 2007

  10. “The Princess Bride” is one of my top 5 all-time faves. I also really liked “Eternal Sunshine” and “Mouin Rouge.” Some of these I haven’t seen yet…

    Comment by Cindy Swanson on January 11, 2007

  11. Its embarrassing that I’ve only seen three of the movies you listed lol.

    Comment by Ro (from 'Bella) on January 11, 2007

  12. Love Actually is great.

    Another one of my favorite “chick flick”s is Mystic Pizza. That is such, such a good movie.

    Comment by Tamsen on January 11, 2007

  13. Great list. I’d add a few others like Now & Then and Boys on the Side…

    Comment by Jenn on January 11, 2007

  14. Luuuhve!!!! #s 1 & 2! No. 1 is the first time I noticed Rachel Adams & liked her. As for LOve Actually- it was such a feel good movie. Rowan Atkinson was deliciously funny in his little role.I have seen Dirty Dancing a long long time ago, but I must have liked it. I have yet to watch Bend It like Beckham. Haven’t seen the others..Hey, guess what , my T13 is all the movies I watched in 2006!

    Comment by Gina on January 11, 2007

  15. I would add “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “Mermaids” to that list. I could watch these over and over.

    Comment by LoriD on January 11, 2007

  16. I think you can safely add your 14th, because I would assert that The Princess Bride is NOT in fact a chick flick. There are many guys who love that movie and can quote it all the way through…at least at my house!

    Comment by Di on January 11, 2007

  17. Great list! I’ve never seen Beautiful Girls or Wicker Park. One of my favs is Fried Green Tomatoes.

    Comment by Mandi on January 11, 2007

  18. I love LOVE ACTUALLY! I have watched it many, many times. Beautiful Girls is another fav of mine. Great list.

    Comment by jude&elise on January 11, 2007

  19. 1,2,3,7,8,9,10,11 are the ones that I’ve seen. I loved them all. Is Wicker Park really that good? I had no desire to see it. Seemed more like a thriller than a chick flick from the preview? I’m not the chick flick type myself. We always save them for rentals, like, if there’s nothing else available….

    Comment by Haley-O on January 11, 2007

  20. I’ve recently become a fan of the chick flick genre, although I’m opposed on princple to the term. Your pick of beautiful girls surprised me since it’s so much about BOYS! My TT is up.

    Comment by buttercup on January 11, 2007

  21. I’d add one of my all time faves “Moonstruck”. Cher is awesome in it! My fave line almost ever is in it when Johnny says he’s falling in love with her and she slaps him and says “Snap out of it!”. Love.

    I also loved “The Color Purple”. Tear jerker.

    I could watch Dirty Dancing and Footloose a million times and never get bored…in fact I think I have!

    Comment by Jen on January 11, 2007

  22. Dirty Dancing definitely. Pretty Woman would also be on my list!

    Comment by s@m on January 11, 2007

  23. Loved The Notebook. OH, what a romantic movie. I cried and I don’t cry often in movies.

    Comment by Amanda on January 11, 2007

  24. Eternal Sunshine is one of my all time favorite movies. the idea, the imagery, all of it. Freakin’ brilliant.
    One of my faves would be The french La Femme Nikita. Awesome chick flick.

    Comment by anne/crazymumma on January 11, 2007

  25. 2,3,6 & 12 are awesome movies, Chick or not a chick.

    I cant stand Moulin Rouge though and I think I heard Dirty Dancing so much in college that i twitch when I hear about baby being in a corner

    Comment by Sparky Duck on January 12, 2007

  26. I haven’t seen some of these. I’ve only seen #6, 8, 9 and 10. On my list would be “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Bridget Jones Diary”

    Comment by dawn on January 12, 2007

  27. Thank you for adding Beatiful Girls.. I love that one.
    Some of your faves I haven’t seen. I’ll have to look into that.
    Hope you and the fam are doing well.

    Comment by bella on January 12, 2007

  28. I’ve seen a couple of those but never heard of Beautiful Girls, I’ll have to at least look it up on Netflix. I’m always up for recommendations.

    Comment by Michelle on January 12, 2007

  29. Is there a better movie than Bring It On? I don’t think there is. The best movie ever.
    Fun list!

    Comment by Rebecca on January 12, 2007

  30. I’m with you, chick flicks are not my first pick in a movie. Call me crazy. haha But I did love several of your picks. Haven’t seen some..maybe have to check ’em out & take your word on it. =)

    Comment by Anna on January 12, 2007

  31. Princess Bride a chick flick? Hardly. The same can be said about Garden State. Why do you define those as “chick flicks”? Those are both amazing movies though.

    On a different note, I read the book Hiding Edith due to your review. It was fantastic. My mom is the librarian at Hillel Torah and she donated it to the school. Thanks for the tip.

    Comment by jrose on January 12, 2007

  32. Chick flicks are not my first choice either. But I did watch “Pretty Woman” for like 20 times. It’s the Richard Gere thing. Loved “Princess Bride”, “Chasing Amy”, “Bend It Like Beckham”, and “Bring It On”. Read “the Notebook” that was a great book, but didn’t see the movie. So, I guess I do like chick flicks after all.

    Comment by Waya on January 12, 2007

  33. You have a lot of great ones on that list. I love Love Actually, but it makes me cry so hard in that one part where the character is listening to Joni Mitchell and crying. I break down every time. It’s my #1 choice for movies to watch when I need a good cry.

    Comment by Jessie on January 12, 2007

  34. Those are some great pics!

    Comment by Colleen on January 12, 2007

  35. Aack! A day late, but not a dollar short. I LOVE this list; it’s super creative (Moulin Rouge? You go, girl!). I was thinking today of telling the Tour Manager that we ought to join NetFlix and start having movie nights once a week — you’ve given me a great list to start off with (assuming he won’t get up and leave in the middle!).

    Happy … uhh… Day after TT?

    Comment by Susan Helene Gottfried on January 12, 2007

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