Is it a chick-flick? Not a traditional one, but could pass the tests. The football, money, other manly items, were all a backdrop for the boy gets girl, boy loses girl, “you had me at hello” line. This was an incredible movie because they had us all fooled that it wasn’t a traditional chick-flick.

Other TC movie I know you overlooked has to be A Few Good Men. Nicholson again performs like a killa, anything with Bacon is good, and Cruise actually didn’t seem gay to me in this flick. Mix it all together with an awesome screenplay and you have a modern day classic.

> That’s one of FOUR Tom Cruise movies I cna tolerate. The fourth is “Far & Away,” not a chick flick, per se, but extremely Manly!
> Other great bit parts: Beau Bridges, the fat kid from Stand By Me, Glenn Frey — all very Manly.

How’m I doin’?

“Jerry Maguire” – the manliest chick-flick of all time? Agree or disagree? Discuss!

My take:
> Pro football as a backdrop.
> It’s not just a chick-flick, it’s also a buddy movie.
> One of only three Tom Cruise performances that I can even tolerate (the other 2 are Risky Business and Magnolia.).
> Great soundtrack (but we expect that from a Cameron Crowe film.
> Renee Zelweger in her breakout role, pre-botox, before she hit the wall and became butterface #1.
> Catchphrases. I won’t even quote them, 2 of them have become a part of the zeitgeist. But the one I always quote that nobody gets (or recognizes but can’t place) is “I got a commitment to the troof!” (or, truth, for all you white people.)
> Cuba Gooding, Jr.’s Oscar acceptance.
> Memorable suuporting character performances by Jay Mohr, Todd Louiso, John Trovolta’s wife and a few others whose names I can’t actually remember.

Need I go on?

STF was so amazing…It certainly doesn’t fit the mold of the typical chick flick…like that pants movie you mentioned or that one with Britney Spears in it…both of which should never be shown again, ever…

1) Thelma and Louise is in no way a manly movie. There is not a single portrayal of a good man in that film. Rapists, sexists, controlers, abusers. Keitel may be sympathetic with them, but in the end, he chases the heroines off a cliff. Brad Pitt is in that movie purely as beefcake (back before he was BRAD PITT), and is a felon who violated his parole on top of it.

2) Stranger Than Fiction isn’t a chick flick, is it? I see it as more of an existentialist comedy. But it is awesome.