Chick Flicks

I have to admit I am a sucker for chick flicks, but maybe not the ones most women like. I'd categorize myself as a tween-to-thirty in my tastes because I still watch all the ones geared toward teenagers (like Ella Enchanted) and the ones that are geared to an older audience...unless I read the reviews and it has raunch in it (these movies are becoming fewer and farther between). I somehow leave the teenage movies usually feeling more uplifted than the other ones. I guess I have a hard time letting go of the ick that is often present in today's movies. I really love to see movies where people really fall in love first. Not the ones where they're sleeping around only to realize later that they're in love with someone that they haven't slept with. Or they have, but they've been around the block since then. Where is the love and devotion in that? I'm conservative, I know. But there's something really cute about watching people who are nervous just to hold hands with each other for the first time. Or the real awkwardness of a first kiss because you've reserved such displays of affection for someone you really care about. How sad it is that these are only portrayed in the movies for the younger generation. Do we really need to see everything in a physical relationship to get a love story? I think not. I've seen on numerous occasions where love stories have continued after the passing of a spouse. I saw it in my Grandmother who remembered the love she and my Grandpa had, not in their physical affection but in their children, in their dancing and in the lives--both the happy and the sad--that they lived and loved through together. That's a love story. I would like to see the talented people of Hollywood to portray a true love story. Not just the beginning of one where we see their small bud of love bring about a marriage. But the love of a lifetime that is true, deep and lasting love. That's a movie I will pay to see over and over.