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And that's b0llocks anyway. Women have been making hits out of the same predictable crap for decades now. Not that 'bloke' movies don't follow obvious formulas, but at least they usually have a bit more of a plot

And we can expect more of it unfortunately IMO. I suspect the movie industry will cotton on to how relatively cheap such nonsense is to make and knock out, but with potentially great profit margins. Something similar to 'casual gaming'...

It may have something to do with the fact that the entire Hollywood catalogue is crap.

Cheesy plotlines, tired clichés, unbelievable physics, too much CGI, bad actors.......

They haven't produced a good film in years.

These days I prefer to read a book

Bloody hell you defined 2012 and various other [LIFTED] roland emmerich rolls out.

What worries me about the female side of the population is that they seem to be accepting the general dumming down of society more than men.

You see this in
the films that are directed at This growing group of women
The generic celebrity biographical books they read and the generic romantic books they read
The waste of trees magasines they read (hello, ok, schat and their like)
The Tv shows they are interested in Strictly come dancing, xfactor etc
The depth of conversation they engage in is shallow
and the amount of useless fillers they use in their conversation such as "like" "and stuff"

They aren't a majority and some are more guilty of the above conditions than others but there is a growing minority that engage in such behavior
Theres also a fair amount of blokes dumming down but women are beating the blokes by a margin.

Yeah, you're right. Everything men do, read or write is awesome and women are to blame for all the faults of society's apparent desertion of substance.

A lot of so-called chick flicks have as much substance as a standard enjoyable actioner. In many cases, more.

I don't buy it. People are going to the cinema less, we can prove that just by the amount of people here who would rather rent, download or buy and watch at home. The amount of moaning people on this forum do about cinema prices, noise, comfort etc. it's a wonder anybody still goes.

Personally, I love the cinema, and I'll continue to go until the magic goes. Sure, there's less truly special experiences than there once were, but they're still out there.

I think that is the real reason for them being considered. They do not necessarily require any expensive special effects, The biggest expense will probably be some actress who needs the exposure so will do it for peanuts or has just exited the Disney production line. The story could literally be swiped from a Mills & Boon with an update to set it in some big US city, where a young woman has everything in her life (career, car, apartment, thirteen cats) except a man. She meets him in a location (store/office/TV studio, wedding, funeral). They fall in love at first sight, but something separates them. Until he comes back for her.

Many girls actually like action films, but if they are hoping for them to drag the men along they might be mistaken, unless they are gay.

I wouldn't be out of the cinema if there were more films worth seeing, or if I suspected the 'average' quality had gone up quite a few notches. As it stands for the cost, the only films I ever really see at the flicks now are the comic book Summer blockbuster-type efforts - anything else I usually find won't be that enhanced by sitting in the cinema for me personally

To sum up, I can completely understand why some people would sooner sit at home. If it's a crap film you can just shut it off without feeling that much more cheated, pause it if you want, watch it in your own time, less fcuktards about, and so on

That applies to me as well. Too many people now have HD TVs and DVDs so can get a pretty good cinema experience at home without the expense and hassle.

My sound system is better than most cinemas.

It cost £300 in 1999.

In my experience, the sound in cinemas is universally awful.

And as if to prove my point.......... TG arrive to moan about the cinema.

Jim, if you're system sounds better than cinemas, you've not been to a good one recently.

Who's TG?

The closest fleapit to me has terrible sound, and the Odyssey complex was ramping up the sound to ridiculous levels to dampen the noise from the rest of the complex

Team Grumpy.

Can't find the piccy.

Get lost I Explained that perfectly as a point that such a group were a growing minority of dumbed down women probably becauseof warped societal expectations.
Celeb culture is primarily aimed at women
Whatever pile of wank a hugh grant type decides to spew out at the cinema.
I must specify that it tends be in my generation.
I'm not wrong there is a growing minority of women at which Bile culture was made for oh and by the way men write a large proportion of this BS culture.
Women have written done achived and created great things.
Rosa parks- civil rights activist who inspired the montgomery bus boycott
Margeret thatcher- who became british priminister
JK rowling- Single mum to half a billion pound fortune for some of the most sucessful works of fiction in history.
Cristina fernandez
Sarah palin
Oprah
angela merkel


I mean I could never be more insulted that you have made out that I was some misogynist when I was merely commenting on a growing culture of lack of substance and that self righteous sarcastic over tone

It is a valid veiw that there is a gender orientated dumbing down and a capitalisation on the multiplier effect that has ensued as a result.

Oooof.

A bit sensitive there Eddie!

I should really recognise that it was early in the morning so I probably didn't make the most concise of arguement and some points were raw and required elaboration.