Chick Flicks?

[pen_grunt]

Why is it that my husband will watch:

Sense and Sensibility (And like it!)
Elizabeth (Alone with his guy friend even!)
As You Like It (And like it!)
Dangerous Beauty (And like it!)
Pride and Prejudice (And like it--though mostly for Keira Knightly...)
and even Marie Antoinette (and think it was just okay...but I have to agree!)

Have the favorite movies:

Casablanca
and
Wizard of Oz

And yet he steadfastly refuses to watch:

Anne of Green Gables (Will under no circumstances watch this.)
Or
Little House on the Prairie (Although he claims this is because he's already seen it all)
Or
Watership Down (It's not even a GIRL movie!)

I don't understand it at all--mostly the Anne of Green Gables refusal. I mean, they are from different periods in time, but they have the same feel as some of the "period" movies that he likes. Men are so funny sometimes.

Comments

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Those last three might fit under the category "kid movies" more than "chick movies", to someone who hasn't seen them. (True story: 8th [or so?] birthday party, my mom rented Watership Down for me and whatever other rug rats she'd roped into coming over, we were all thoroughly traumatized. So not a kids' movie. Have you told him the middle part's all about war and strategy and stuff? It's like Tom Clancy Does Brer Rabbit.)

[lisa-e-is-me.livejournal.com]

Oh, my husband LOVED Watership Down. I hope yours comes around on that one, he'd probably really enjoy it. The others I don't think I could convince Charles to watch, either. He loves period films too, but for some reason only if the story takes place in another country, or prior to 1900.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I could see that, though I never considered Anne of Green Gables a "kid's" movie, nor Watership Down--rabbits bleeding from the mouths and all. Oh, so many children have been traumatized for life due to that movie. I read the book first, so I knew it wasn't a fluffy, happy tale about bunnies frolicking in the meadow--but still, it's rather shocking at times.

More puzzling still on the boy movie front: He'll pull out A Little Princess and/or Secret Garden and watch those too. Just not the aforementioned 3...and he avoids anything with Hugh Grant in it (though he did like Sense and Sensibility).

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

You know, that might be it. He loves period pieces set in England in the 1600's-1800's, but Anne of Green Gables/Little House on the Prairie are significantly later than that, and "American-ish" (well, Anne is Canadian, but it LOOKS Americanish).

I'll try to get him to watch Watership Down, otherwise I'll wait for a guy's night out to watch all the movies that he won't watch with me.