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    Hold on to that hair, fellas!

    The only thing about Pretty Woman that I remember is George Costanza trying to rape Julia Roberts. A real Cinderella story, that.

    It's about time memes started getting gritty reboots.

    Me and my wife enjoyed Big Daddy for some reason. I'll never watch it again, of course, but fond memories.

    I believe these movies are the only form of birth control allowed by the Catholic church.

    I live near Harlem. It's still full of black folks.

    The only thing that will solve these problems are more female leads in top-grossing films.

    Chris Pratt? What, you're saying he doesn't deserve to be in the role? Or that Zoe should be the main attraction? Because Colombiana and The Losers didn't exactly prove she could carry a film post-Avatar.

    You, BMX and josh are on fire. Now say that women aren't funny, that'll drive everybody bananas.

    Every year there are huge female-driven movies, like Twilight or Brave or what have you. I'm saying that nothing has changed over the past decade, and I don't see a reason for it to change until people change their viewing habits.

    YOU can't, but the execs do. even though it may not have ACTUALLY cost the film money, it can be something the execs point to when evaluating what went wrong.

    Man, you are still getting bites on this schtick, even on obvious attempts like this. Solid work.

    Certainly. That was my point. Hollywood makes films people will pay to see. Raging against Hollywood is kind of silly, when it's society at large that informs every Hollywood decision.

    Sure.

    Seriously, everybody? the people that see romance films are women (Cinemascore for Safe Haven was 71% female on opening weekend, it made like $75 million even though nobody on here ever heard of it). This is not anecdotal evidence.

    On here I always assume it's done ironically, which is better for the blood pressure.

    Completely agree. It's a shitty way to think, but it's reality. It's nice to say things like "make more diverse films" but there are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake when you put Angelina Jolie in a role the studio wanted Tom Cruise in.

    Since when did we start confusing top grossing with "great"?

    It should count double!

    From my experience? Men are dragged to romantic comedies once in a while, and women love to go to action movies like Fast & Furious. It's simple, and impossible for me to understand why people don't know exactly why movies and TV are male dominated. Women are much more willing to watch and enjoy a "male" movie than