We've come to expect more from Clint Eastwood the director in recent years, and sadly there's not one gruesome murder or boxing match in this weepie, based on Robert James Waller's 1993 novel. In 2002 a fire destroyed the Cedar Bridge, which was not the iconic bridge seen here and featured in the on-location shoot in Iowa. But still, maybe a sequel could be called "Bridges of Madison County II: The Revenge." With Harry Callahan and his .357. Thanks for the suggestion goes out to @xochi44, whose mother loves this movie. As do all mothers.
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‘Twilight' and other movies guys don't get
Not all men are louts and brutes. Most of us have our sensitive side. And every one of us holds dear a film that would otherwise be tossed cruelly into the heap best-described (by some, not us) as "chick flicks."
This is an unfair label usually slapped on a movie that has neither violence nor sex, car chases nor barroom brawls. In other words, movies that have brains and empathy and romance usually are dismissed as chick flicks.
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The "Twilight" series takes this genre to a whole new level. The fourth entry – the beginning of the end, as it were – is "Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1," and it comes out Friday. As if you didn't know. This movie has been trending on the Internet for two months, and this week has witnessed the spectacle of people camping out to get tickets so they can see it on opening night. It seems like this thing has become otherworldly. Like Robert Pattinson's dreamy colored contacts.
Guys actually do get the whole vampire thing, although throughout history women have been way more into the genre than men. We just generally don't daydream about being visited in our bedrooms and having our blood drained.
One might have assumed that the "vampire lit" revival would begin and end with Anne Rice's 1976 novel "Interview With the Vampire," which was made into a chick flick in 1994. But Stephanie Meyer brought it gushing back in 2005 with the publication of "Twilight," the first of four novels. Now every young-adult novel is about vampires or other creatures of the night.
While the "Twilight" movies are the apex of the chick-flick phenomenon, there are plenty of others. Click on the photo to see which ones made our list.
