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Just saw this movie tonight, it is not worth watching extremely gorey and believe me ive seen alot of gore in war movies and other scary movies alike. This movie actually made me sick to my stomach, its a definate "no no" to take your girlfriend to this one

Lets just say I was hungry when i went and when i left well you get it

Even before your warning I wouldn't have watched this. My tastes don't include that genere.

I admit to the guilty pleasure of watching some bad movies, but usually the movies in question are so bad they're hilarious to watch. Old Edward D. Wood numbers and really bad B-movies such as Teenagers From Outer Space fall into this category. If you're looking for an antedote to this, sit down in front of Wild Women Of Wongo or Buranga The Tree Monster or that silly movie which featured an alien composed of a gorilla suit with a diving helmet on top (which was filmed in the Mojave Desert in summer - the actor playing that part should have claimed danger money). All good fun, and something that will take your mind off the garbage you've just endured.

If you're looking for something to take a girlfriend to, by the way, allow me to recommend any period costume drama made by the Merchant & Ivory directing team. A Room With A View and Howard's End are two especially sparkling ones. If your girlfriend then says "Where's the car chase?", change your girlfriend.


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What if you want a girlfriend that likes car chases

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Most costume dramas are crap. If I was a guy, I'd rather have a girlfriend that liked car chases and Jackass than a girlfriend that obsessed over stupid "chick flicks" and nonsense like that.

I mentally divide movies into different categories:

Good Drama: A Beautiful Mind, Dances with Wolves, Life is Beautiful, Apocalypse Now, etc...
Good Intelligent Comedy: Coen Brothers, Kevin Smith, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, etc...
Good Crappy Comedy: Happy Gilmore, Cannibal! The Musical, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, etc...
Good Stupid Comedy: Jackass, Jackass: Number Two, etc...
Documentaries: March of the Penguins, David Attenborough, Spellbound, etc...
Good Kids' Movies: Toy Story, Shrek, etc...
Good Action/Adventure: Star Wars, Jurassic Park, etc...
Crappy Movies: Everything else.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

"...I'd rather have a girlfriend that liked car chases and Jackass than a girlfriend that obsessed over stupid "chick flicks" and nonsense like that."

Amen. Chick flicks are a waste of film. I don't go to theaters often, but when I do, it isn't to watch a bad movie.

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Free member pass, never paid for a thing? but ya it was garbage and it was a boring thursday night so why not i thought. "The Guardian" on the other hand is a really good movie i suggest you see that.

Er, chick flicks???

The costume dramas I mentioned are based (and stick very closely to) several major pieces of literature - A Room With A View was the film renditon of E.M. Forster's novel. I hardly think 'chick flick' applies to something possessing that level of intellectual content ...

People of the calibre of Emma Thomson, Simon Callow, Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dame Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Dame Judi Dench and Helena Bonham Carter do NOT star in 'chick flicks' ... (sigh)

* Goes off to mutter about "young 'uns these days" ...


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What are chick flicks? I may be a girl and all but is a chick flick horror where you can like have your girlfriend cuddle with you ur something? I don't get that lol

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"Chick flick" is a term used (more often than not in a derogatory sense) to refer to a film that centres upon "girly" subject matter. The inference being that such films are effectively little more than visual and emotional candy floss. To give you an idea of what is meant, the following three films have been described collectively as "The Unholy Trinity Of Chick Flick-dom":

Steel Magnolias
Beaches
Pretty Woman

It's a pity that so many films featuring Julia Roberts fall into this mould, because if someone would give her a role that actually tested her acting skills, she'd probably run away with an Oscar or two. Instead, she's wheeled on as a piece of eye candy to make life bearable for any men in the cinema audience who have been dragged along by their girlfriends to see something that is vacuous, trite and irritating. Mind you, of late she's been elbowed aside by Renee Zellweger - the mere mention of Bridget Jones is enough to make most men recoil with visceral revulsion. Fundamentally, a 'chick flick' is elegantly packaged self-indulgent neurosis pretending to be genius-level insight into the human condition on a par with Voltaire or Sartre - frequently involving romantic entanglements (or the lack thereof), almost as frequently heaping the blame upon anyone but the principal (and, upon objective analysis, all too deserving of her fate) character, with a schizophrenic oscillation in attitude toward the unfortunate male participants in the drama that veers from cloying, gushing adulation to rabid misandry, quite often without worring too much about the effect of this upon plot consistency (on those occasions when there is a plot of course).

I'd also point you in the direction of one or two Sandra Bullock movies as examples.


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Only real men watch Steel Magnolias. However, rather than cry, the physically express their disdain by sweating excessively, making dryly sarcastic comments, and drinking beer.

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On a relatively unrelated note, every single one of Voltaire's works I've read has marked him as the most overrated and fundamentally the whiniest author of all time.