Top 10 Chick Flicks

The other day at work Tyrone and I got to talking about chick flicks, which motivated us both to come up with our top ten chick flicks. After much internal debate this is the list I've come up with, including some of my favorite quotes. As a side note, I've come to the conclusion that I'm obsessed with movies in which a spouse dies. Read and see.

10- Wicker Park. According to Wikipedia it's a "psychological drama/romantic mystery film." It may not have many swoon-type moments, but the end scene with 'The Scientist' playing in the background qualifies this movie to be a chick flick. And a good one at that. If you haven't seen this movie, rectify the situation immediately.

Alex: Love makes you do crazy things, insane things. Things in a million years you thought you'd never see yourself do. But there you are doing them... can't help it.

Matthew: Things don't have to be extraordinary to be beautiful, even the ordinary can be beautiful.
Lisa: Take my picture. I'm feeling beautiful tonight.

9- Just Like Heaven. Even though Mark Ruffalo is a lazy bum during a good part of this movie I still fell in love with him. We also find out that his spouse died and I'm apparently so attracted to that. Besides who doesn't love anything with Reese Witherspoon?

Elizabeth: I may have been a lonely home-wrecking whore, but I saved lives!

Elizabeth: It's a tension pneumothorax
David: I think it's a tension nemothax, sir.
Elizabeth: Pneumothorax.
David: Nuemathax, sir!
Elizabeth: Pneumothorax!
David: Numathurman.
Elizabeth: Never mind
David: Never mind!

Elizabeth: Don't you think she was totally unclassy and predatory?
David: Those happen to be two of men's favorite things.

Abby: Who put Sponge Bob in the pasta?

Katrina: Osama, communism is way over, so like give your people some toilet paper.

8- PS I Love You. Gerard Butler is close to being the ideal husband in this film, aside from the fact that he dies of brain cancer. I cry during a good part of this movie and when I'm not crying I have that lump-in-the-throat feeling. But the end is so hopeful and makes me think it's possible to get through the worst parts of life.

Daniel: Sorry, I have a syndrome. I don't really have a filter. I don't pick up on social cues.
Holly: You mean you're rude?
Daniel: Yeah, but now it's a disease I can take medication for.
Holly: They have pills for rudeness?
Daniel: I know...and they can't figure out the Middle East. Go figure.

Daniel: Yeah, we'll be really weird friends joined by self-pity, bitterness and vomit.

7- A Walk to Remember. It may not be that old, but it's a classic! And I love that Landon has a star named after Jamie, even if my mom does think it's lame.

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

Landon: Our love is like the wind. I can’t see it, but I can feel it.

Ms. Garber: Mr. Carter, are you trying to be bad at this?
Landon: Nah, it just comes naturally.

6- You've Got Mail. It's Meg and Tom, what's not to love? And I love hearing the dial up sounds, oh the days when the internet began! This movie is proof that true love can arise from hatred and rivalry.

Kathleen: People always say that change is a good thing, but what it really means is that something that you didn't want to happen, has happened.

Joe: I think you'd discover a lot of things if you really knew me.
Kathleen: If I really knew you, I know exactly what I'd find: instead of a brain a cash register, instead of a heart a bottom line. (gasps)
Joe: What?
Kathleen: I just had a breakthrough.
Joe: What is it?
Kathleen: I have you to thank for it. For the first time in my life, when confronted with a horrible, insensitive person, I knew exactly what I wanted to say and I said it.
Joe: I think you have the gift for it. It was a perfect blend of poetry and meanness.

Kathleen: The odd thing about this form of communication is that you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.

Joe: You know, sometimes I wonder...
Kathleen: What?
Joe: Well... if I hadn't been Fox Books and you hadn't been The Shop Around the Corner, and you and I had just, well... met...
Kathleen: I know.
Joe: Yeah. I would have asked for your number, and I wouldn't have been able to wait twenty-four hours before calling you and saying, "Hey, how about... oh, how about some coffee or, you know, drinks or dinner or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?"
Kathleen: Joe...
Joe: And you and I would have never been at war. And the only thing we'd fight about would be which video to rent on a Saturday night.
Kathleen: Well, who fights about that?
Joe: Well, some people. Not us.
Kathleen: We would never.
Joe: If only.

5- Sense and Sensibility. A spouse dies in the beginning so I'm automatically hooked. Even though I'm not used to Hugh Grant playing characters such as Edward Ferrars I think he's perfect for the role. I love the subtle humor and Kate Winslet's depiction of Marianne.

Edward: My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Sir John Middleton: And now, Miss Dashwood, it's your turn to entertain us.
Elinor: Oh no, Sir John, I don't...
Sir John Middleton: And I believe I know what key you will sing in. "F" major.

Elinor: There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

4- My Best Friend's Wedding. Where to start? Pretending to be engaged to a gay man, a cat fight in a public restroom, awful karaoke, and an entire restaurant of people singing 'I Say a Little Prayer For You', what doesn't this movie have?

Michael: Kimmy says if you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just...
Julianne: Passes you by...
Michael: Passes you by...

George: Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing!

3- 2 Weeks Notice. Hugh Grant is amazing and should be in all movies. You could laugh at any line from this film and even though Sandra Bullock is gross and has greasy hair through the entire thing it's my favorite Bullock movie.

George: I own the hotel, and I live there. My life is very much like Monopoly.

Lucy: I think your the most selfish human being on the planet.
George: Well that's just silly. Have you met everybody on the planet?

Lucy: You called everyone but Slurpee Heaven.
George: That is not true. I did call Slurpee Heaven. They didn't want you. Heard you had attitude. Said you weren't "Slurpee" material.

Helen: Would you like anything?
George: I'd love some Milk Duds.
Helen: We don't have any, I could send out for one.
George: Oh, no, don't be ridiculous. If you're going to send out, get a whole box.

George: This whole project is worth about 50 million in profits.
Mrs. Kelson: No offense, but I think it's *immoral* for one person to acquire that much wealth. How do you sleep at night?
George: Well, I have a machine that simulates the sound of the ocean.
Mr. Kelson: Do those really work?
George: Oh, yes, quite well actually.

George: And did you tell Billy you loved him? Did you say, 'Billy, I love you'?

Lucy: The man you're dancing with is deeply troubled. You're much to young to be trading yourself like a stock on the Nasdaq to a man who will not be remembering your name or his in the morning, is still married and recently developed a very suspicious rash. Now go home, finish high school and reach your potential!

Meryl: You should have gone with George.
Lucy: He asked June.
Meryl: He asked you too!
Lucy: He asked me too? How many women does a man need to take to dinner? Maybe in Utah.

George: Divorce always gives me an appetite. Kabob?
Lucy: No thanks. I've never really warmed to the idea of a flesh popsicle.

2- Pride and Prejudice. Why do I love this movie? Darcy, Darcy, Darcy and Darcy. Enough said.

Elizabeth: And that put paid to it. I wonder who first discovered the power of poetry in driving away love?
Darcy: I thought that poetry was the food of love.
Elizabeth: Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclination I'm convinced one poor sonnet will kill it stone dead
Darcy: So what do you recommend to encourage affection?
Elizabeth: Dancing. Even if one's partner is barely tolerable.

Mr. Bennet: Well, if Jane does die, it will be a comfort to know she was in pursuit of Mr. Bingley.

Darcy: Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer. These past months have been a torment. I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you... I had to see you. I have fought against my better judgment, my family's expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance. All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony.
Elizabeth: I don't understand.
Darcy: I love you.

Darcy: You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.

1- Sleepless In Seattle. It's the ultimate in the spouse dies genre. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan truly are MFEO. You get Seattle, the Empire State building, a tolerable Rosie O'Donnell and I can't help but find the movie so believable and relatable. You couldn't ask for much more than that.

Annie: Harses, harses, harses!

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there's someone out there you could love as much as your wife?
Sam: Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that's hard to imagine.
Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: What are you going to do?
Sam: Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breath in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.
Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?
Sam: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Co-Worker: It's easier to be killed by a terrorist than it is to find a husband over the age of 40!
Annie: That statistic is not true!
Becky: That's right it's not true, but it feels true.
Co-Worker: It feels true because it is true.

Jonah: A ho! A ho! My dad's been captured by a ho!

Sam: Well I'm not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie!
Greg: She's, as you just saw, very emotional.
Sam: Although I cried at the end of "the Dirty Dozen."
Greg: Who didn't?
Sam: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these air shafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin [begins to cry] were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop!
Sam: And Trini Lopez...
Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Greg: Stop.
Sam: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.

Annie: When a man is a widower why do we say he was widowed? Why don't we say he was widowered?