I love chick flicks, but my definition is probably a lot different than most peoples.
For instance -
Oceans 11, total chick flick. Why? Beautiful men in it to perv over.
The 300. Lots of beautiful and half naked me to perv over, and one strong woman.
Other chick flicks like that?
Boondock Saints
Dead Poets Society
The Bourne Trilogy
Swing Kids
Some more traditional chick flicks?
Fried Green Tomatoes
Room With a View
Beaches
The Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Going through our movie collection, the following are what I could consider chick flicks:
10,000 B.C.
The Fifth Element
Amelie
A Room with a View
Boondock Saints
The Bourne Trilogy
Chocolat
Dead Poets Society
Dracula
Edward Scissorhands
Finding Neverland
Ghost
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hero
High Fidelity
The Holiday
House of Flying Daggers
Immortal Beloved
Interview with a Vampire
Juno
King Kong
Labyrinth
Legend
LotR: 1, 2 and 3
The Lover
Malena
Mansfield Park
Mask of Zorro
Meet Joe Black
A Mighty Heart
Moulin Rouge
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Much Ado About Nothing
An Officer and a Gentleman
Overboard
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Pianist
Pretty Woman
Princess Bride
A River Runs Through It
The Road Home
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Romancing the Stone
Run Lola Run
The Saint
Serendipity
Sin City
Sleepless in Seattle
Something's Gotta Give
Starman
Stigmata
Swing Kids
The Thomas Crown Affair
Titanic
The Transporter, 1 and 2
Troy
Truly Madly Deeply
What Dreams May Come
What Women Want
When Harry Met Sally
Willow
Underworld
I know a lot of those wouldn't be considered chick flicks by quite a few people, and some people would have added other movies I have to this list (for instance, Enchanted).
I don't consider some shallow love story to be a chick flick. Those are more along the lines of teenage fairy tales. For instance, I would not consider movies like 27 Dresses, Sweet Home Alabama, etc, to be chick flicks. Those are more love stories for teenaged gigglers. That isn't to say I didn't enjoy those films. I did. I just wouldn't consider them to be chick flicks.
For me, a chick flick has at least one of the following:
Really hot men
A strong female character
A moving love story
Along with a feeling of something more. A chick flick is a movie that makes you give a shit about the characters even though the story might be one as old as time. Most importantly, it's a film that you can pull out during a girls night, and all the women will agree to watch it and all will probably enjoy it (hence, the men perving movies
)
Very vague definition, I know, but it's my own and I'm sticking to it