Flickin' with my Chick...

Let me preface this post by saying that I'm in love with a certain female by the name of Megs and after her and The Truth, my true love is the manly game of football... I love action movies and sports movies and smart-action thrillers with twists and war movies.... So, with all that out of the way...

Meghan and I stopped by Hollywood Video last night on our way to Albertson's to buy our Pack-o-Lantern (refer to Megs' last post) and we rented 3 movies... One chick-flick for Meghan and then a couple movies that fall more into the category of action movies and sports movies and smart-action thrillers with twists and war movies. Through all my woeful past experiences with chick-flicks, involving, but not limited to, The Wedding Planner, My Best Friend's Wedding, Pretty in Pink, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton (which I was straight-up conned into watching in the theater... twice) as well as pretty much anything with Matthew McConaughey or Jennifer Lopez... or both, I have found only two that I even remotely enjoyed.

First, Notting Hill with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts was fairly entertaining... There was enough smart humor (uncommon for most chick-flicks) to watch occasionally... really occasionally...

And secondly of course is the only Staples Family Officially Approved Chick-Flick (SFOACF), French Kiss, with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. That movie is down-right hilarious and while Meg Ryan brings her own unique style and humor, Kevin Kline is absolutely hilarious while doing a spot-on impression of a Frenchman (Kary can attest to that).

Alas, back to last night. Meghan chose the Certified Chick-Flick (CCF) Music & Lyrics with Drew Barrymore and again, Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant plays a washed-up, 40-something recording artist who used to be a part of an 80's pop group. To make a long story short, Drew Barrymore comes into his life and they find ways to make each other's lives better, all-the-while falling in love. At the surface, it sounds like your typical don't-want-to-watch-it chick-flick, but... I can not tell a lie... I really liked it. Even with my unbridled dislike of Drew Barrymore, this movie still somehow "rocked the house" in my opinion. Now let's not get carried away, I wouldn't watch this movie every week, but I'd definitely watch it again because it was so funny.

Now that I think about it, I seem to have a slight affinity to the comedic style of Hugh Grant, as most chick-flicks I watch with him seem significantly funnier than most other "girly movies". This movie, Music & Lyrics, definitely gets off on the right foot, opening with a two and-a-half minute music video of Hugh's 80's band, Pop. I just about died laughing right from the get-go.

Here's the music video...



So there you have it, while Music & Lyrics doesn't join the ranks of French Kiss as a SFOACF, it might be in the ballpark, as I'd watch it again... just gimme a few weeks of football in between showings.