Lost my Chick Flick gene.

[ankh]

Today I watched a movie, 'Just My Luck', and reached a startling conclusion. At some point over the past year I lost my Chick Flick gene. 'Just My Luck' was a decent enough film. Fairly likable characters. Undemanding story. Unlucky Boy meets Lucky Girl. They kiss and swap luck. That's how it works - they kiss, they swap fortune. They meet later after Boy is successful and Girl is an accident-prone mess. Perky Heroine (and when did RomCom heroines become so young?)realizes what happened and kisses our Formerly Geeky Looking Hero (who still looks too young to drink). They fall in love. I'm supposed to think 'That's nice' and accept it for the simple fare that it is. I'm not supposed to wonder 'When they split up who gets custody of the good luck?'. I'd better not watch my favourite chick flick, 'While You Were Sleeping', just in case I start seeeing Joe Jnr as a lecherous would-be rapist and Lucy as a scheming gold-digger.

Comments

[sg1jb]

I never had that gene to begin with. Just not my fare, that stuff.

However, if unlike me you did have it, then maybe what you think is the loss of it is actually just a reaction to an overly simplistic storyline? You haven't lost your gene; you've gained sophistication?

[ankh-lj.livejournal.com]

I like the sound of that. ;-)

It didn't help that Perky Successful Heroine was barely out of her teens, though that hasn't been a problem in the past ( for example I enjoyed '10 Things I Hate About You').

[khek.livejournal.com]

Ah, but Ten Things was based on Shakespeare. And they were supposed to be teens.

[deej1957.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Ten things had my new lust object in it. David Krumholtz. He of the nose and the hair. Well, not lust object, he's waaay too young. I feel the need to mother him. ::Grin::

I've never had that gene, either. Perhaps it's the fact that the people in these movies are waaaaay too young?

Or perhaps we're simply getting older?

[mfluder42.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's more that the writing is crap. I like the occasional chick flick (While You Were Sleeping is one of my faves, too) but there are so many of these things being pushed out of Hollyweird following a formula...

I must admit, though, the scifi/action/drama thing is more my thing... and dare I admit I'm tending to watching a lot more documentaries these days? I actually bought a couple of doco DVDs on amazon... one about the French Revolution and one on the Crusades. Man, I'm turning into my father. (grin)