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Women don’t like films

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SerendipityFelix · 12/10/2017 13:09

According to The Range, apparently Angry

There wasn’t even a separate ‘For Her’ section.

Some of my favourite films are in there. I must be a man.

Women don’t like films
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MrsFionaCharming · 17/10/2017 00:15

Ha! DPs film collection includes Beauty & The Beast, Tangled, Mulan, and Moana.

We watched Tangled together not long after we starting dating, and he cried at the lantern scene.

But I guess that doesn’t fit the toxic masculinity that advertisers seem to love so much.

PricklyBall · 16/10/2017 20:35

Ah, movies for mummies has come up trumps again - a truly terrible deadly disease infects tropical island and it's a race against time for the medics to prevent a global pandemic...

Trills · 14/10/2017 09:11

Good fixing

I have noticed that my local cinema is showing the latest Reese Witherspoon film this afternoon.

If I go to watch it I am:
a - reinforcing a gender stereotype that women like films about romance (bad)
b - spending money to encourage studios to make more women-led films (good - especially since it's also directed by a woman)

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SerendipityFelix · 14/10/2017 06:33

"A wide range of genres appealed to women, whereas men were drawn to felt pressured by societal ‘toxic masculinity’ gender sterotyping to prefer films with a strong action element."

There you go, BFI, fixed that for you Grin

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badbadhusky · 14/10/2017 00:14

"A wide range of genres appealed to women, whereas men were drawn to films with a strong action element."

I suppose this is true if you include porn. Action, but of a different kind.

Trills · 13/10/2017 08:43

I was quoting the BFI research linked above
www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-audiences-2015-2016-08-25.pdf

"A wide range of genres appealed to women, whereas men were drawn to films with a strong action element."

picklemepopcorn · 13/10/2017 08:41

Grasping at straws... is it to do with Christmas? Have they started displays about things to buy for 'him' as men are notoriously difficult to buy for?

deydododatdodontdeydo · 13/10/2017 08:39

So, men focus their interest on one or two genres (the manly genres) and women like everything.

I don't think that's true at all, although retailers might believe that.

Trills · 13/10/2017 08:29

So, men focus their interest on one or two genres (the manly genres) and women like everything. Maybe men would like more films in the comfort of their own home but feel uncomfortable going to see a "girly" film. Someone might see them!

This is interesting
(if unsurprising)women make up half of cinemagoers but the stats of women making films are awful.

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SerendipityFelix · 13/10/2017 08:07

I’m not usually a Twitter-er..... I might try and work it out later. Scared of getting feministy on there though.

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ASatisfyingThump · 13/10/2017 07:41

I like a good action film, or sci-fi, or disaster movies. I picked seeing Deadpool for Valentine's Day when it came out. Last time I checked I was still female.

DS1 knows Moana off by heart. Is that a girly film? Or does it not count because it has the Rock in?

deydododatdodontdeydo · 13/10/2017 06:52

deydododatdodontdeydo I was misquoting Life of Brian grin

Grin

Oops.

EBearhug · 13/10/2017 01:05

Dh has just told me that he is going to watch Love actually every week til Christmas...its his favourite film

LTB.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 12/10/2017 23:52

Hurrah! My film tastes are in a younger age bracket than my chronological age

I go to the cinema on average once a fortnight but haven't seen any of the films mentioned in that article.

badbadhusky · 12/10/2017 23:47

Starship Troopers was an allegory? Shock Tell me more.

DJBaggySmalls · 12/10/2017 23:42

I had to explain Starship Troopers to DF as they didnt get it was an allegory.

ILoveDolly · 12/10/2017 23:41

Last of the Mohicans? Now that's a film. I love all those American West/history films and allllllllll the sci-fi. How are these men's films again

SylviaPoe · 12/10/2017 23:40

Paper Towns and the Maze Runner are both aimed at teenage girls.

DJBaggySmalls · 12/10/2017 23:35

deydododatdodontdeydo I was misquoting Life of Brian Grin

badbadhusky · 12/10/2017 21:34

Just spotted Paper Towns in OP's pic. It's on Netflix at the mo & its good. I wouldn't have pagged it as a bloke film though.

badbadhusky · 12/10/2017 21:32

Hurrah! My film tastes are in a younger age bracket than my chronological age. Grin

PuppyMonkey · 12/10/2017 21:28

Is that the Tasmanian Devil on the top shelf? Grin

Lol at buying DVDs anyway Wink

AssassinatedBeauty · 12/10/2017 21:23

But that of course doesn't make those films "for men".

AssassinatedBeauty · 12/10/2017 21:22

The BFI have some statistic about cinema audiences by age, gender, social class and so on. It is apparent that more men go to the cinema to watch action/sci-fi than women, whereas women watch a broader range of films.

www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-audiences-2015-2016-08-25.pdf

OuchBollocks · 12/10/2017 21:06

I wanted to watch Black Hawk Down.

DH said "you don't like that sort of film." I have no fucking clue why he thought that .

It was an excellent film.