Top 10 Chick flick for Guys

One of the best ways to spend these confusing unstable days is to cuddle up with your sweetheart, cup of coffee and watching a movie. But, not when she gets to recommend the movie. Then that romantic day of yours just seems like a poetry lecture that never seems to end. You might have the will, but as they say it, women have their way. As you panic and desperately try to come up with a single film that could suit the both of you; it’s already too late! And in a whiff your romantic date turns to an ordeal as you find yourself watching, “Sisterhood of Travelling Pants” or “Women”. That’s two hours of your life, completely wasted. And quite painfully for that matter. [break]

So to save you from further wasting your life watching women talk about what they want and why men are nothing less than a chauvinistic swine, here is our list of chick flicks that our testosterone souls can enjoy.

10. Titanic

Not only we did we like it but you had Celine Dion’s theme song recorded in one of your mixed tape. And many of you know the song by heart. Before Titanic hit the Himalayan nation, Arnold’s Terminator roamed the gullis of Kathmandu, both directed by James Cameron. . Titanic is not limited to a sappy love story but also has amazing action sequences. A classic fairy tale love story about a princess falling in love with the stable boy, Titanic is also the first and only R rated movie to be approved by our parents and grandparents, and they loved it as well.

9. Love Actually

Not one but 10 different insincerely emotional stories revolve around this films’ script. Yet, thanks to brilliant intertwinement between these stories with subtle brilliance by liam Neeson, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson and super cute Keira Knightley (to name a few), “Love Actually” is a movie that leaves you smitten in the end. It has a perfect blend of bittersweet comedy with all of life’s melancholy and ludicrousness.

8. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

It’s about cross-cultural marriage – something of a requirement for Brahmin getting it on with your Gurung girlfriend. And it’s funny as hell. A female version of Seth Rogan, Nia Vardalos makes you fall in love with her and gives your girlfriend some tips on how to handle situation if her parents turn all psychotic on you.

7.Serendipity

Your friends will laugh at you if you told them you like the film, but it’s an instant turn on for your girlfriend. The movie is about a guy and a girl meeting by chance and hitting it off soon but only to leave one another to be reunited by fate. It sounds ludicrously insane but it is smartly scripted and the chemistry between Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack is perfect.

6. High Fidelity

The male equivalent to Meg Ryan, John Cusack, has created a lot of chick flicks for guys. And High Fidelity is one of the best among the bunch. He plays a guy who has been dumped over and over and is in search for the ultimate quest in understanding the reasons behind it. You will especially love it for its soundtrack as most of the screenplay develops around many greatest songs of our generation. And, the boss of sappy songs, Bruce Springsteen does a cameo appearance to act as a shrink to Cusack’s lovelorn character.

5. When Harry Met Sally

At one time every guy has a best friend from the opposite sex and this film answers the ultimate question of that relationship; can they just have sex or will end up making love. Meg Ryan, the emblem of chick flick, at some point, is as cute as ever and gives men an insight on women’s mind and shocking us with an enlightening performance of women faking it.

4. Meet Joe Black

Brad Pitt plays Grim Reaper who decides to take a look around before taking Anthony Hopkins soul and falls in love with Claire Forlani. A melodramatic sappy movie for her, a dramatic film that deals with death and love in weirdest ways for us. Any movie that stars Anthony Hopkins is a must much for guys.

3.Thelma & Louise

This movie about two girls finding one another through each other may sound cliché but it stars imperialistic Susan Sarandon and eccentric Geena Davis in their utmost beautiful. Directed by the Ridley Scott, this sleek film consists one of the greatest chase scenes including a 1966 Thunderbird convertible ending in one of the most beautifully melancholic scenes of all time.

2. Sleepless in Seattle

At one time in the movie, Rosie O’Donnell says, “Men will never get this movie”, while watching “An Affair to Remember”. “Sleepless in Seattle” was actually based on that same classic film and guys are not supposed to get it. The movie is about Tom Hank’s widowed character getting hitched to Meg Ryan’s by his son in methods used by Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr’s climatic reunion atop the Empire State Building, in “An Affair to Remember”. A kind of a subtle spoof on that classic; Tom Hanks himself refers to his situation as a “chick movie”.

1. City of Angels

You might be on steroid or a cold-hearted killer, this film is a guaranteed tearjerker for you all. Nicolas Cage plays an angel who falls in love with a doctor, Meg Ryan and exchanges his immortality for just a day to be with her. This movie will create one of those rare moments when you will be sharing tissues with your girl.

madhukar@myrepublica.com