I have been asking for better chick flicks for a while now. I am on a campaign to let the world know that chick flicks don’t have to be sappy love stories about love starved females. These should be movies that appeal to women and tell our stories in an entertaining way. Julie & Julia satisfied my appetite for a really good chick flick.
After the release of the Time Traveler’s Wife and Julie & Julia, there is a slight lull in release of chick flicks at the theaters. But here are a few new DVDs that you might enjoy.
Mad Men takes place in the 1960′s. Before the Woman’s Movement, Civil Rights or pantyhose. It is compelling to watch this reconstructed 1960′s world through our 21st century eyes.
500 Days of Summer tells the story of Tom Hansen (Gordon-Levitt), a wanna-be architect who longs to meet the perfect girl, fall in love and get married. Enter Summer… Summer Finn, that is. Zooey Deschanel’s Summer is the “girl next door”. So naturally Tom falls for Summer. But as the narrator says (did I mention there is a narrator?) , this is not a love story.
From childhood we are told that if a guy ignores you, is mean to you, treats you badly, doesn’t call you when he says he will, or in any other way acts like a real jerk–Well, it’s obvious, he likes you. Of course, he likes me. That’s right, he likes me so much and he is afraid of the intimacy, so he is ignoring me