Chick Flick's... but for guys

Why top fives you say well it is simple. Top ten has far to much filler in it. Top five gets straight to the point. What we love and hate. Top fives help us to better define who we are. I am hoping to continue write many of these blogs with the new fall season so far away. Some of my favorites are returning and at least one of my favorites is going, I will try to let go of Jericho. A few weeks ago I saw High Fidelity for probably the fifth or sixth time and I thought "hey that is so cool top five list" so here I am with my first top five list so you can get to know me.

This list is a list of the top five chick flicks for guys. These movies are clearly chick flicks, emotional sensitivity a lack of terrorists and bombs, however they really seem to be from the male perspective.

5) Can't Buy Me Love: Patrick Dempsey plays a young man hell bent on popularity. So much so that he strikes a deal with the cool girl in school to be his girlfriend. This story really shows one of the all important truths of life and that is the popular kids in school are sheep. They are followers and not leaders. Dempsey's character gives everything up, his friends his hobby his job, in an attempt to hang with the cool kids. What is it that happens between junior high and high school that forces us to change so much into people we never were? By the end of the film Dempsey finds who he really is. And of course this thing gets the pink ribbon ending.

4) Lucas : What guy has not had this story thrust into his life. The classic boy meets, girl boy loses girl to cooler, or more athletic in this case, friend. Cory Haim plays the part of the inept too young for high school looking kid to a tee. This is probably some of his best work. Charlie Sheen plays the older cooler guy role who gets the girl. This story is an excellent showing of what can go wrong when you try to fit a square peg in a round hole.

3) High Fidelity : The movie that inspired this series of blogs I am planning on. This is a great moment for John Cussack. He plays a man in his late twenties early thirties going through that struggle of where do I belong? How do I fit in this world. Can I still be me or do I have to be someone completely different. The move is an excellent film starring Jack Black and even a great character appearance by Tim Robbins. The film is littered with top five lists. Making sense of who you were who you are and who you will be through the music you listen to, the books you read and the break ups you have had. My favorite part of the whole movie is the idea of making sense of your life by reorganizing your record collection autobiographically. The idea that you would have to remember who gave you the record or how it relates to you to find it in the collection is simply genius.

2)) Sweet November : Keanu Reeves plays a tightly wound business man who finds and falls for Charlize Theron. The problem? She gives him one month. She is dying of cancer and this is probably the most meaningful relationship this guy has been in... well ever. We see the two meet fall in love and how Reeve's character can't handle the break up. This is one of those be careful what you wish for you might get it pictures. What is not more perfect than meeting a hot chick and her suggesting you can be together but only for a month? Most of the really good relationships in the early twenties only last about a month. If they last longer it is because people are either to scared , to lazy, or just to bored to leave. Knowing the end date would seem to remove all the other hassle out of the relationship but it is all still there.

1) Some Kind of Wonderful : This film is excellent. This is probably the first of these movies I had ever scene. It stars Eric Stoltz, Marry Stuart Masterson, and Lea Thompson. Stoltz and Masterson are from the wrong side of the tracks and Stoltz so desperately wants to break in to the in crowd. Eric Stoltz spends all of his college savings on a single night with the school hottie, Lea Thompson. Marry Stuart Masterson plays Eric Stoltz's best friend who advises him that Thompson's character will never go for him and reluctantly agrees to help with this fools errand. Through all the trials and tribulations the end works the only way it can, SPOILER for a movie from the 80's, with Stoltz realizing that Mastrson is his true love. If you do not identify with the Stoltz character then your high school years were wasted and you have never ever been in love.