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That is what an article in a magazine said that I read this morning.

I need to know if this is true. This is very important stuff. Do you have any idea how many miles my husband gets out of a single "chick flick"?

Just last weekend my husband tried to get me to go to a boat and fishing expo and call it a date. I told him he was crazy. He responds with "Oh come on, I went to see Jerry Maguire AND Legends of the Fall.

For crying out loud, that was 10 years ago!! Let it go buddy, let it go.

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Elizabeth

"Jesus go before me and prepare the way"

Elizabeth,

No, chick flicks are one of those things I abhor, so much so that the only time chick flicks get seen in the house is when I'm away for the evening and won't be there to moan and groan.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

Of course! I LOVE chick flicks...


A date? A date?! That's a second honey moon! You married a saint I tell you.

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FabrizioParty like it's 1773

No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist (Pius XI)

No he did. I told him to call a friend, stop and buy some disgusting cigars on the way and I would stay home and watch chick flicks on demand.........Terms of Endearment anyone?

BTW Dean, Brave Heart and Bull Durham are considered chick flicks.

I do not know how anyone can watch Die Hard over and over.

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Elizabeth

"Jesus go before me and prepare the way"

Braveheart a chick flick? If I like it, it by definition is not a chick flick. Besides, there is too much icky violence for it to be chick flick.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

When hubs and I were dating, we decided to have a chick flick and man flick night . We each subjected the other to a movie neither one of us would watch voluntarily - hubs got to see Fried Green Tomatoes ( ), and this was immediately followed by Full Metal Jacket. ( )

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Rebecca

haha! I sometimes get hubbster to watch a chick flick. But he will NOT watch anything on Lifetime, for sure!
A date on a boat & fishing expo? COOL!! Is it somewhere in Michigan? ............or some exotic island!!?
I think if it could be somewhere in the Bahama's, I might take him up on it!!

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Linda Marie Ann

I'm sure the show is at the Rock Financial Expo Center, aka the Novi Expo Center. Hardly glamorous.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

How about men's "chick flicks" - sorta sappy movies that are still manly. Here are my nominees:

Brian's Song
Rudy
Frequency

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Rebecca

Elizabeth,

I consider Hot Dogs and a ball game, dinner and entertainment on the date scale.

Went to see For the Love of the Game in the theater, I was so anticipating that movie...as we were going in one of our friends from church is coming out telling us "Chick Flick, Chick Flick" I was so disappointed. We do most of our movie wat6ching at home that way, I can read a book if I get bored.

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Bob C

And so...what exactly is a chick flick?

1) Anything with Julia Roberts in it is a chick flick.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

1. minimal violence if any
2. movie manipulates emotions ....generally toward the crying end
3. romance is involved

I haven't seen many flicks of any kind the last few years so I'm a bit weak on the definitions. I saw Juno.....definitely chick flick

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Valerie Garcia
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"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

Nope...no chick flicks for me! That’s for sure, and Dr. Zhivago, The Quiet Man, Casablanca and Philadelphia Story are not chick flicks...there...there...'classics'. An musicals, I pretend to like, Fiddler, King and I and the Sound of Music, are not chick flicks, there...musicals.

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BobB

Fiat voluntas tua

Exactly!! I will watch football or hockey and drink Miller Lite with you but don't ask me to hunt or fish or eat anything you have killed.



yeah-h-h-h right! I get it.



My husband loves all of these. But DO NOT let him get a hold of the clicker on a lazy Sunday, or even a Saturday night, you will end up watching The Godfather, Bridge on the River Kwai, Die Hard or Rocky.

There is a point where that is just wrong.

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Elizabeth

"Jesus go before me and prepare the way"

Ocean's Eleven is a chick flick?

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Rebecca

That is not true...

well, the sorts of men (such as I) who participate in Catholic forums, if you comprehend where I am going...

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Corey
"I do not care very much what men say of me, provided that God approves of me." - St. Sir Thomas More

Not really

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In Christ,

Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

In other words, Catholic men are not fruitcakes.

You made me say it. Sorry if that comes across as offensive.

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Corey
"I do not care very much what men say of me, provided that God approves of me." - St. Sir Thomas More

Chick Flick definition: Woman meets man, relationship gets challenged, they make up then pull out the hankies.

Wiki has a list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_flick

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BobB

Fiat voluntas tua

That about sums it up for me. Although lately it may also start with "man meets man" or "woman meets woman."

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

So I guess the magazine was wrong. Is that what all of you are saying?

I had a glimmer of hope there for a minute. I thought he had been using those movies as unearned leverage for years.

I guess not.

Chick flicks are just for nights when he travels. Or the occasional Mom's night out.

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Elizabeth

"Jesus go before me and prepare the way"

I'm surprised you would question the motives of your saintly husband. If he says he hates chick flicks then I would believe him. Just as he should believe you, that you disdain boat and fishing shows.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

Ok. I will believe him.

I guess the only thing I have to compare it to is my disdain for war movies. I got home late from the batting cages last night and he was zoned out on the couch watching a movie. He has been absolutely overwhelmed at work with a situation that compromised his systems and I felt bad for him. I was going to rub his neck or something. About 90 seconds worth of Windtalkers was about all I could take and I headed upstairs. From what I gather here he probably feels the same way about chick flicks.

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Elizabeth

"Jesus go before me and prepare the way"

Movies? Who has time for movies? Our nearly 14 month old "Little Hulk" wears us out so much we fall asleep in front of the TV most nights.

The señora did want to see The Devil Wears Prada.

Uh, no.

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Joe

¡Viva Cristo Rey!

Blessed Padre Miguel Pro, before he was executed by the Calles Dictatorship in Mexico.

¿No estoy aqui, que soy tu madre?

Our Lady of Guadalupe to San Juan Diego at Tepeyac, December, 1531

Good movie.

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Bob C

no comment,no,chick flicks are really very boring version of romance, I just pray that the girl I end up with has a better imagination than that. The story always ends when they get together because you know they end up living a life of nothingness
100 floors above us all, in the tower of song.- LEONARD COHEN now thats a romantic dude.

Oliver Dos Santos

Hubby does not like chick flicks either. I do though so he puts up with them. Luckily for us we both like scifi. We purchased the entire series for Babylon 5 and have been enjoying those together. Fun!

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K. Ann Seeton

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle (but the concept is found in John Paul II's books The Acting Person and Love and Responsibility as well.)

Quicksilver to Gold
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What, those aren't chick flicks?

My wife, saint that she is, loves the Godfather Trilogy (well, at least 2 out of 3).

She has also sat through Band of Brothers, Braveheart and Gladiator, though I do think she wishes I would watch a movie less than 3 hours long.

I have yet to get her to sit through Patton, but I've got time on my side...

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Kris H.

"He is Your best servant who desires not so much to hear from You what may be comfortable to his own will, but rather to conform his will to whatever he shall hear from You."--St. Augustine of Hippo

You know what? I think I may have sat through Patton! You know what else? I can only vaguely recall it.

I wonder if my husband remembers anything about Evita?

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Elizabeth

"Jesus go before me and prepare the way"

It would be an interesting experiment to see if your husband remembers more about Evita than you do about Patton.

I think he would remember more. That's because something in the Y Chromosome that enables a man to remember movie quotes after one time viewing to bring up at parties, sporting events and bars, and while hunting.

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Kris H.

"He is Your best servant who desires not so much to hear from You what may be comfortable to his own will, but rather to conform his will to whatever he shall hear from You."--St. Augustine of Hippo

"Don't cry for me Argentina." And I've never even seen the movie.

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David L (CA)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

Oh my goodness. You are so right!! What is that all about anyhow? No matter what situation we are in, my husband or sons have some kind of dumb quote to go with it!! I just wish the boys wouldn't quote Homer or Bart Simpson so much.



Sure you haven't..........you saw it and you loved it!!

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Elizabeth

"Jesus go before me and prepare the way"

I need to talk to your wife. She sat through 705 minutes of a war movie when she could have unloaded that baby in your lap and went out shopping?

That woman loves you!!

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Elizabeth

"Jesus go before me and prepare the way"

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Bob C

And she even liked it! Remember though, she married an Army officer, so already she's special.

And she has gotten her revenge. One time watching the Bridges of Madison County counts for an entire series of Band of Brothers.

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Kris H.

"He is Your best servant who desires not so much to hear from You what may be comfortable to his own will, but rather to conform his will to whatever he shall hear from You."--St. Augustine of Hippo