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<p>I just watched the trailer and then ordered it. Looks good :)</p>
<p>A Room with a View
Gorgeous Florence, lush Puccini score, stellar British cast with a gem of a performance by Daniel Day Lewis who played an uptight jerk and still managed to elicit sympathy when dumped by a very young Helena Bonham Carter. I melt each time at the final scene of the kiss in front of the window framing the Duomo. Sigh…</p>
<p>College_query: I just noticed that you mentioned Doc Martin. I have been watching that on Hulu lately. Quite enjoyable. I wish American tv could be more like that.</p>
<p>Any new ones out there I should look up?</p>
<p>Just saw “The Help” currently in the movie theaters. I loved it! My DH would have felt tortured to sit over 2 hours watching this movie.</p>
<p>that’s funny! My H wanted to go see it but I’d rather read the book first. Maybe I should go with him after all since I have the chance!</p>
<p>gouf, my husband offered to see it. I think that he would would have either fallen asleep or walked out. JMO. I went with a friend while he was watching football, which was much better for both of us!</p>
<p>Hey, I liked The Help just fine. We men aren’t THAT delicate! It wasn’t about clothes or Relationships (at least not THAT kind of Relationship), and it even had the odd joke about the products of digestion, which is man-bait every time. Plus, the theme that some women are evil, and if you put a bunch of privileged white women together and let them run things the result is a whole lot of evil – well, that feels more true to life than most chick flicks! [Insert smiley.]</p>
<p>I don’t know if you could pay me to see How Does She Do It?.</p>
<p>I can’t wait to see “I don’t know how she does it”. I’ll go while H is watching football.</p>
<p>JHS- Duff McKagan ( bassist w Guns & Roses-& writes a column for a local weekly) wrote about some recent movies he liked. Including Bridesmaids & The Help.
He didn’t think either one was a " chick flick".</p>
<p>I don’t know if you could pay me to see How Does She Do It?.
You couldn’t pay me to see Sarah Jessica Parker in * anything*.</p>
<p>Missed this thread the first time around. Thanks for some great suggestions. I have just added a bunch of movies to my Netflix queue. I’m particularly happy to be able to add a few to the instant streaming queue- keeps me going on the treadmill! Although not particularly a Britophile, I recently finished season one of “Downton Abbey” (which I loved) and working my way thru “the Tudors”.</p>
<p>Oh, husband liked “the Help”. He actually called during the day and asked me out on a movie date! This was one week after I got out-voted and the guys won out- had to go see “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”! Which actually wasn’t as bad as i feared.</p>
<p>My husband offered to see The Help with me. It is not the type of movie he would want to see, but he was pleasantly suprised and enjoyed the movie. I read the book first and it still was an excellent movie.</p>
<p>I recently read a newspaper article about chick flicks and what it takes to get men to watch and/or like them. As examples of successful ones it mentioned “Clueless” and “The Devil Wears Prada.”</p>
<p>I guess the article was correct, because I’m a guy and I liked both of those movies.</p>
<p>I hadn’t liked the book so had no plans to see The Help, but H was interested, so off we went. He fell asleep 20 minutes in. (very expensive nap.) When it was over I woke him up and he asked what he’d missed. I said “Black maids were treated badly in the South in the early Sixties. Who knew?”</p>
<p>I tend toward the old school</p>
<p>*GWTW
Jane Eyre
Philadelphia Story
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Chilly Scenes of Winter</p>
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<p>Is the 1995 Ang Lee film of “Sense and Sensibility” with Emma Thompson a chick flick? Probably. Anyway, it is sooooo good.</p>
<p>Anything Jane Austen-based is chick-something. That’s the template.</p>
<p>LOVE Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility! My husband and son love Alan Rickman, so they may be willing to sit through it. My son would be charmed by the youngest daughter, too. Love her spirit.</p>
<p>^When I read Sense and Sensibility the younger daughter drove me bananas, I thought Ang Lee was true to the book, but made her much more appealing.</p>
<p>My husband did accompany me to The Help. He grew up in Mississippi, so I thought he’d enjoy it. He did like it, but constantly made the comment afterward of how many men were also at the film and how they were all “whipped”, though he usually used the sound effect rather than the word.</p>