Have Fangirls Caught Up With Fanboys?

[Catman]

I don't know if you guys are following the New Moon numbers or not, but aside from the record breaking midnight numbers it's also on track to break the single day record.

So, the question has to be asked, have fangirls finally caught up with fanboys?

For YEARS, girls dominated when it came to music. If a popular boy band was around, you knew it was gonna break records of some sort. And, TV...I guess...to some degree was dominated by them too. Friends was the #1 show for a long time, right? Yet, when it came to movies, guys dominated. Still do, actually. Look at Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Pretty bad movie, but things blew up and Megan Fox was around. What more can an average moviegoing male ask for? But, with New Moon it seems like girls have pulled a fast one on us. Is this a sign of things to come or just a bump on the road? Titanic was a bump on the road...but a huge one!

 

[redhawk23]

twilight is one movie series, guys are the driving force behind dozens. What i don't understand about the twilight fans is that most of them i know didn't even like the first movie, like at all, but they still saw it like 4 times and bought the dvd, and were first in line to see this. it makes no gorram sense.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

First

I love your avatar

Second

Twilight could somehow make 300mil in total and hollywood would still ignore female viewers. Hollywood has always had an extreme bias towards what silly women want to watch and IMHO not any amount of money in the world is going to change that.

 

[SuperFerret]

I don't see why it matters.

 

[mclay18]

It seems like they have. If New Moon is any indication, then Sex and the City 2 is going to solidify another female-aimed franchise next May.

I'm rooting that New Moon's phenomenal box-office is 'encouraging' Joss Whedon to do a Buffy spinoff. That I think would draw in both fangirls and fanboys.

 

[Catman]

Twilight could somehow make 300mil in total and hollywood would still ignore female viewers. Hollywood has always had an extreme bias towards what silly women want to watch and IMHO not any amount of money in the world is going to change that.

That was true in the past, but we're in a recession. These Twilight movies are not expensive at all. The first one cost $37 million to produce. And this one is probably around there as well. Movies like Transformers cost $200 million make. Plus, let's not overlook merchandising. Girls buy more crap than we do. Non-geeky guys don't get caught up in merchandise. They'd buy a t-shirt but that's about it. Girls buy anything.

So, if we're not careful we're gonna turn into Japan!

 

[redhawk23]

^rofl at the japan comment

 

[Catman]

I don't see why it matters.

On the bright side, we're a step closer to Sailor Moon. On the other hand, a remake of Pretty Woman is on the horizon.

 

[Project862006]

I will tell you this if general public hated a comic movie as well as critics but the fan boys loved it and kept on seeing it.

it would bomb.

 

[jmc]

I wanna know the real question, why is it people continue to fork over money for these crap films? All they are doing is encouraging movie studios to keep pumping out this garbage.

 

[SuperFerret]

On the bright side, we're a step closer to Sailor Moon. On the other hand, a remake of Pretty Woman is on the horizon.

I wouldn't go to see either movie, and nobody will be forcing me to go either, so I don't care.

 

[redhawk23]

I will tell you this if general public hated a comic movie as well as critics but the fan boys loved it and kept on seeing it.

it would bomb.

case in point: watchmen

thats because fanboys don't operate in a solid tidal wave of mindless devotion. we split off into our own little mindless factions
also we are able to admit it when our crap sucks.

spiderman 3 of course made bunches of money, but we didn't continue going on like it was the greatest thing ever made

 

[Catman]

case in point: watchmen

Watchmen was also rated R, so that eliminated a good portion of the audience. And I know that 300 did impressive numbers but that wasn't "another superhero" movie.

I think Sin City is a better example. That had fanboy written all over it, but probably came across as silly and over the top to the general public.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Yes they have.

Wolverine fans don't ask Hugh Jackman to slice them, while Twilight fans ask what's his face to bite them. Even what's his face hates his fans. That's when you know the fangirls have won.

 

[DDS]

case in point: watchmen

thats because fanboys don't operate in a solid tidal wave of mindless devotion. we split off into our own little mindless factions
also we are able to admit it when our crap sucks.

spiderman 3 of course made bunches of money, but we didn't continue going on like it was the greatest thing ever made

Yup, we go the opposite direction and unintellibly banter about how Sam Rami raped our childhood because he made one bad movie.

 

[san15]

I pray someone doesn’t write a romance series about Zombies and Mummies. I can’t picture a girl meeting a gorgeous Zombie who doesn’t eat people, because he’s a vegetarian. Then Zombie boy goes away one day and the girl falls in love with a Mummy. I guess as long as they put shirtless guys in it anything can happen.

 

[DDS]

I pray someone doesn’t write a romance series about Zombies and Mummies. I can’t picture a girl meeting a gorgeous Zombie who doesn’t eat people, because he’s a vegetarian. Then Zombie boy goes away one day and the girl falls in love with a Mummy. I guess as long as they put shirtless guys in it anything can happen.

Asylum Films needs to get in on this ****.

Though they may consider the idea too original and groundbreaking. They can't lose their target audience.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Yup, we go the opposite direction and unintellibly banter about how Sam Rami raped our childhood because he made one bad movie.

I AGREE!

I pray someone doesn’t write a romance series about Zombies and Mummies. I can’t picture a girl meeting a gorgeous Zombie who doesn’t eat people, because he’s a vegetarian. Then Zombie boy goes away one day and the girl falls in love with a Mummy. I guess as long as they put shirtless guys in it anything can happen.

 

[Catman]

Yup, we go the opposite direction and unintellibly banter about how Sam Rami raped our childhood because he made one bad movie.

Yeah, fanboys and fangirls are both ridiculous in their own ways. Fangirls fight each other over a poster while fanboys come online to waste hours nitpicking a movie.

 

[byte19]

On the bright side, we're a step closer to Sailor Moon. On the other hand, a remake of Pretty Woman is on the horizon.

*pt. I takes knife to wrist* (reads 'on the other hand) *realizes knife doesn't kill quickly enuff, blows up instead*

 

[Jodo]

Yeah, fanboys and fangirls are both ridiculous in their own ways. Fangirls fight each other over a poster while fanboys come online to waste hours nitpicking a movie.

Or talk about the diffrent between fangirls and fanboys.

 

[redhawk23]

Yup, we go the opposite direction and unintellibly banter about how Sam Rami raped our childhood because he made one bad movie.

I've never understood the whole "raped my childhood" stance, its not like it somehow ereases the source material lol. My point is though that when something does legitamently suck we call them on it.

 

[Jodo]

And then we spread dirty rumors about raping our childhoods.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

By some folks diffenition I'm more of a fanboy than a fangirl...but I'm a girl.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I agree with the idea behind this thread, but I have to ask the young women here: is that really a good thing?

Do you all want to grow into sweaty, unlovable outcasts who live with their parents into their 30s?

Do you look forward to lining up in 30 years just to get the autograph of a bloated and balding Robert Pattinson, or to pay 300$ just to see him and Kristin talk about trivial nothings at a Comicon panel?

Do you really want, in 20 years time, to spend your time on the galactic internet obsessing over whether the new "reimagining" of Twilight will "respect the canon" or not?

Think about it. Back away, back away slowly.