Women vs. Men: Most-Watched Movies (Does the Audience Want Male Sensitivity Shown in Films?)

Sci-Fi Fodder ^ | May 8, 2007 | Sky Movies Sci-fi

[fight_truth_decay]

The Sky Movies Sci-fi & Horror Channel recently conducted a survey to tie in with the Sci-Fi London film festival. The question? What movies do you watch over and over again?

The answers were very interesting. Sky broke up the results by gender lines. Men loved Sci-Fi movies, which is fairly obvious. Women, on the other hand, love movies with music (evidently). There is one exception though -

"Star Wars"! Sci-Fi transcends all boundaries!

Here are the detailed results of the survey.

Men's Most-Watched Films

1. Star Wars trilogy 2. Aliens 3. The Terminator 4. Blade Runner 5. The Godfather

Others: The Lord of the Rings, The Godfather, Alien, Die Hard, Terminator 2

Women's Most-Watched Films

1. Dirty Dancing 2. Star Wars trilogy 3. Grease 4. The Sound of Music 5. Pretty Woman

Others: It's A Wonderful Life, The Matrix, The Terminator, Jaws, The Lord of the Rings

Just let me say one thing - "Dirty Dancing" is just painful to watch. I don't care what Johnny says - get back in your corner, Baby!

Sky Movies has not stated how many people took part in the survey. However, it was reported in the BBC article that "Star Wars" fans have been flocking to a new exhibition of props, costumes and other memorabilia which opened on Friday in London. So, just like most surveys, take the results with a grain of salt. They may just indicate that female "Star Wars" fans like chick flicks with music

[Jack Deth]

Jack Deth’s Most Watched Films:

They Were Expendable
The Hustler
Bringing Up Baby
Airplane!
To Live And Die In L.A.
Miller’s Crossing
Thief
The French Connection
Who’ll Stop The Rain
Manhunter
Battleground
The Hunters
The Big Sleep
The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
The Big Combo
Kiss Of Death
Some Like It Hot
Dr. Strangelove
Blood Simple
The Wild Bunch
Major Dundee
The Magnificent Seven
Dirty Harry
Across 110th Street

Jack.

[dagoofyfoot]

Some of those movies; Spiderman and The Soprano's aren't bad once you get past the touchy, feely crap...However

Dagoofyfoots list:


Gladiator
Good Fella's
Fight Club
The Ghost and the Darkness
Pitch Black
The Warriors
48 Hours
At Close Range
Troy
Saving Private Ryan
Endless Summer II
The Lost Boys
Napoleon Dynamite
Point Break
Shallow Hal
Just Friends
Godfather I and II
The Patriot
Braveheart
Blackhawk Down
Spiderman II
Tears of the Sun

...for better or for worse anyways.

[MrEdd]

Good. You're the sheriff

...And the Mayor.

[neb52]

Not any certain order:

Miller’s Crossing
For a Few Dollars More
Gladiator
We Were Soldiers
Any Sean Connery James Bond Film
Lawrence of Arabia
Chronicles of Riddick
Chronicles of Narnia
Blackhawk Down
Terminator Series
Godfather Series
300
Open Range
Conan the Barbarian and The Destroyer
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Blazing Saddles
The Saint
Spartan
Star Wars 4,5 & 6.
The Lord of the Rings
Braveheart
Passion
Patton
Man on Fire
Charlie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[Maximus of Texas]

It's nice that some of the movie channels (AMC, TMC, etc) show movies in cycles. If one of these movies is being shown five times that week, chances are I will watch the entire movie five times.

1. Back to the Future
2. Tremors
3. Independence Day
4. Smokey and the Bandit
5. Raising Arizona


There are some movies that I'll just watch a scene or two evertime I see that the movie is on, which makes it harder if the scene is in the middle of the movie, for instance:

1. Behind Enemy Lines (The missles chasing the plane scene)
2. Gladiator (My name is Maximus... scene)
3. Rocky III (When Rocky fights Hulk Hogan)

[svcw]

Pretty good list. I know I know but I really liked Kill Bill 1 and 2. I guess it really was a chick flick because a woman’s revenge ... bloody and action packed. I think You’ve Got Mail, is a good Sunday afternoon movie when you have a cold. I think my only real chick flick is (after my daughters begged me to watch it) is The Note Book. It was so well acted and very romantic (oh my word did I say romantic?).
The areas of interest for me are: sci-fi, action and comedy. One of the funniest movies was Dodge Ball (yea it was gross but I really laughed).
I'm still laughing over I’ll be Bach!!!

[Old_Mil]

I loved Star Wars...but unfortunately, with every movie that was released, the trilogy was cheapened until the finished product was a much less significant matter than the first movie was.

The original would probably make my top five, as would the first and third Indiana Jones movie (Raiders of the lost ark and Last crusade), and all three Lord of the Rings movies.

Also one that doesn’t usually make a top ten list but is one of the most outstanding movies ever made was James Caveziel (sp?) in The Count of Monte Cristo.

[lesser_satan]

10) Pulp Fiction
9) Return of the Living Dead
8) High Plains Drifter
7) On the Waterfront
6) Porky’s
5) The Burbs
4) Terminator 2
3) the Star Wars movies
2) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
1) Silence of the Lambs

[yhwhsman]

The effects are not “impressive”, the look cheap.

That was a big disappointment for me, as well as all the kissy kissy stuff. Spiderman 1 had cheap-looking cgi in my opinion, then Spiderman 2 had great cgi. I thought Spiderman 3's cgi looked as bad as the first one.

[svcw]

Happy Birthday