Well, to be clear, it's not a chick flick vs. guy flick conversation.

The focus is:

If you're a chick: What "guy" movies do you love? And what "chick" movies do you hate?

If you're a guy: What typical "guy" movies do you despise? And what "chick flicks" do you love?

It's more like: how do you NOT conform to the stereotype of your gender?

Hmmm, The Dirty Dozen always gets me teary. ;-)

Chick flick I love: Grace of My Heart

Guy Flick I (now) hate: True Romance - I used to love this movie, but I saw 20 minutes of it recently and felt like I needed a shower.

I cry for Shadowlands ALWAYS, and somehow toughed it out over Neverland, but it's one of my favorites. I can't think of my other Achilles' heels. And it's hard to imagine you crying over a movie. Rob, sure, but you...;)

Pride & Prejudice and You've Got Mail are the only chick flicks on your list I really like; a favorite of mine is Fried Green Tomatoes. I like Steel Magnolias, but I like it better when I begin the movie by imagining that Julia Roberts' character is already dead. And what about The English Patient? I really liked it, but it was as much about the cinematography as it was about the story, etc.

Guy flicks? Well, I did think Smokey & the Bandit was funny, but Stripes is pinnacle funny, and with the bathroom humor/sex stuff, I'm pretty sure it qualifies, even though noone gets killed or too severly beaten. I can sit through most of the Die Hard ones, and I like the original Rambo. What about The Incredibles? It seems to be on the testosterone side, and it's an awfully good movie. And who doesn't like Fistful of Yen or Enter the Dragon?

Okay, other than an afinity for the obvious PBS or A&E versions of victoriana and Jane Austen stuff, how does that play into stereotypes? I cried after The Dirty Dozen too. And The Great Escape.

You CAN'T be saying that you didn't like Pulp Fiction. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

BTW, Don't tell tee bee, but I cried at the end of You've Got Mail. *sniff*

Steve, if your redneck ring cycle does not include "Cool Hand Luke" you might as well cross over to womanhood right now (the plug for "You've got Mail" has already raised my eyebrows a bit...

But this exercise is about exposing yourself to ridicule so here goes:

Guy Flicks I hate:

Independence Day (writing a computer virus to wipe out an alien computer system, the concept alone brings me close to a stroke).

T2, T3 (in fact ANY Arnold after "The Preditor")

Anything with Nicholas Cage as an action hero.

Chick flicks that I like:

Sleepless in Seattle (the real deal, not the lame attempt to rekindle the chemistry in that AOL commercial "You've Got Mail"

Jerry McGuire

When Harry met Sally (could be a Meg Ryan factor going on here)

Like Water for Chocolate

Chocolate (not a theme, at lest I don't think so...)

The weeping, sobbing, etc, etc, class:

The Champ ("get up champ, get up)

Old Yeller (guys 'n thier dogs, what can I say)

Brian's Song (sports and tragedy again)

Ace Ventura (okay maybe those tears were for a different reason)

What is the matter with you people???

Wait, maybe it's me. Probably.

T2 and T3 were *hilarious*. I went to see T3, and I was laughing so loudly that people in the theater were giving me dirty looks (I think they were under the impression it was some kind of action picture).

I have never gotten the Rocky thing, or Steven Seagal - how many freaking movies has that guy made anyway? I scan the cable guide once in while to see if there's anything worth taping (rarely is), and it seems like I see a different Seagal movie every time. I mean, I know they're the same movie with slight tweaks, but he must have made 50 films.

So now that I've bitched, I guess I have to do the requisite 'soul-baring' - "An Affair to Remember". Tear-jerker. MOCK ME IF YOU MUST!!!