Style Network is airing the most wonderful show — 50 Best Chick Flicks: Sex, Cries & Videotape, hosted by none other than Allie Sheedy & Molly Ringwald! It’s like watching all of my favorite movies without having to sit through all the boring parts.
This is perfect, “I’ve had too much to drink & I can’t concentrate” TV. Although I can’t post on the internets exactly why I’ve had too much to drink, let’s just be clear that its celebratory!
So… we’re at no. 20 12 6 and there are only five 6 7 that I haven’t seen:
- Waiting to Exhale
- Moonstruck
- The Joy Luck Club
- The Wedding Planner
- Pride & Prejudice (the one with Colin Firth… how did I miss this??)
- The Way We Were
- Terms of Endearment
I’m ashamed… I should have seen all of these BUT “The Wedding Planner”… I draw the line at J Lo… sorry, a girl’s gotta have some standard.
Oh, and just in case you’re bad at math (or you’ve been drinking A LOT), that makes 31 other chick flicks that I’ve seen – and could probably recite word for word.
UPDATE:
Say Anything @ #14 — what?!!?! Not in the top 10… that can’t be right.
UPDATE No. 2: The Top 10
10. Thelma & Louise — okay, that’s fair… definitely top-10 worthy.
9. The Notebook — Oh. My. God. I love this movie. Makes me cry every time. Okay, I’m embarrassed now.
8. Terms of Endearment — I think its chick blasphemy to admit that I’ve never seen this… but I think I earn some grrrrl cred… if that’s even possible for me at this point.
7. Ghost — ick. Definitely could have been moved out of the top 10 for Say Anything.
6. Dirty Dancing — nobody puts Baby in a corner… so how did she miss the top 5?
5. Sleepless in Seattle — of course… although, I dunno, this one never really did it for me.
4. When Harry Met Sally — I remember seeing this when I was 10 or 12 or something… I think it was my inauguration into chickflickdom.
3. Steel Magnolias — damn straight! this is one of the greatest girlie movies of all time.
2. PrettyWoman — what can be no. 1, if it’s not this?!?!
1. Beaches — BLECH!!!!!!!!!!!! Ugh! I’m so disappointed. 2 hours in front of the tv to end up with Bette frickin’ Midler. Ugh!!! They should have just stop the frickin’ countdown at Pretty Woman. Seriously. This is dumb. I hate the Style network.
UPDATE No. 3: The final countdown
Of the 50 movies, it’s only the 7 above that I haven’t seen. So, I’ve seen 43 of the Style network’s top 50… not that it matters… the whole countdown is called into question by that number one!
I too am outraged to hear that Say Anything… is not in the top ten. In my book it deserved to be up there with Dirty Dancing. You must see Moonstruck, it is fantastic. My mother and I often quote it to each other.
Also, the Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth is not to be missed, despite the fact that it is nearly six hours long.
Was Peggy Sue Got Married anywhere on that list? That one was my first introduction to chick flickage, when I was all of 8 years old.
ya know what, Peggy Sue wasn’t on the list, which is definitely an oversight!
& i’ll add moonstruck to my netflix list, i’ve wanted to see it for a while.
Great Chick Flick … The Shape of Things!
i don’t think i’ve ever even heard of that before, but it’s got paul rudd (according to IMDB) and that’s o.k. by me