Yet he said that bias did not apply at Lionsgate. Even though, at first glance, a slate filled with films like (2007_film)"“Bug” and “Hostel 2” (2007) would seem to be classic male-oriented shriekfests, the reality is that women are avid fans of horror films. (Fifty percent of the “Hostel” audience was female, he said.)
I can contribute that the new Spider-Man 3 has our Super-Hero and the villeins showing more of their sensitive sides. (My wife wouldn't let me see my child after I got out of prison, scenario so I turned to bigger crime. I was humiliated because I wanted the job so badly, I turned in a fraudulent assignment and got terminated, etc.)
Pretty touchy-feely movie for a Super-Hero action film. But, it is doing gang busters at the box office with both genders. I noticed pretty much 50/50 M/F in the audience when I attended.
Is there a more "sensitive side" being added by studios to the more male inspired movie genres?
When do you remember walking out of a SuperHero film and hearing someone say: "That was really sad." (?)
Did Broke Back Mountain start this new trend where men express their emotions more in the plot, just like in the female dominated films?
The Sopranos, another example that comes to mind. Tony discusses his "issues" with his shrink. And now Bobby "Bacala" after a hit, returns home, holds his little daughter in his arms, stares out over a lake in Upstate NY lake and the scene fades.
Did the legendary John Wayne..and any of the other Old Greats show the "sensitive" side of their persona? Shoot and cry after?
Breaking hard. News at 11.
Women like chick flicks.
1. Taxi Driver
2. The Star Wars Trilogy
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Godfather 1
5. Annie Hall
6. The French Connection
7. Pulp Fiction
You morons left out ‘High Noon”.
I cried all the way through “Full Metal Jacket”, it was so beautiful.
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I’ll be passing on the new Spider-Man movie. I’m bored by origin stories and the origin of 3 new villians is triple boredom. Read the friggin’ comics already for background.
We didn’t see the origin of James Bond or the villians every movie. They just “were”.
Additionally Spider-Man 3 is a deluxe computer animated cartoon with limited live action inserts. Woo hoo. Shrek is a more entertaining cartoon. The effects are not “impressive”, the look cheap.
Watch any early 1990s HK action comedy film (especially Jet Li or Jackie Chan) for much more impressive and dreamlike stuntwork. Those films are so over the top you still cannot get many of them in an uncut format in this country. It isn’t that they are “too violent”, it is that they are too much a challenge to the status quo. They set the bar too high. A franchise like Lethal Weapon couldn’t compete. Jackie Chan’s stateside films all suck and he’s paired with B-list actors as comic relief.
It is interesting how Hollywood apes comic books for plots and characters and then seem so embarassed by the source material.
Well Ang Lee’s sensitive Hulk film was a big yawn. Give me a Dino Di Laurentis pop comic book film any day.
I like the men’s list. Hmmmm.
I’d even have a hard time coming up with “most watched” films. I may put something on in the background on DVD but then it is more likely to be a concert or concert film DVD.
I watch Dr. Strangelove numerous times but don’t even own it on DVD and I don’t even watch my Criterion laserdisc of it that much.
I suspect that some of these films (of recent era) poll so high (A) from cable repeated viewings (too lazy to change the dial) and (B) the only common films between young and old audiences are likely to be recent films.
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.
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
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