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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.
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.
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.
fangirls are LARGELY behind the success of Pirates Of The Caribbean and a huge portion of Harry Potter fans as well...
Since no one has brought it up...
I will also mention that fangirls are LARGELY behind the success of Pirates Of The Caribbean and a huge portion of Harry Potter fans as well...
Fangirls have one distinct difference from fanboys. They arent losers.
Guys are into all kinds of things...but in general...a guy whos really into comics or whatever...Im not talking "I like Batman, The Dark Knight was awesome"...I'm talking about a REAL fanboy. Those guys (including me) are losers. Of course, Hollywood realizes the money that can be made from them, so they exploit their devotion to their geekdom. It has become an important money making tool for Hollywood.
Fangirls...thats different. That hot chick that works at Hollister?? She's probably read Twilight a dozen times. That sexy girl who lives down the street? She's got a pirate fetish. That absolute PIECE that comes into where you work every now and then? She bought advance tickets to the midnight screening of the last Harry Potter movie.
Sure, there are losers among them. Remember, I have done work with bands like HIM and My Chemical Romance. Their fans are the same way...there are some super hot girls that are obsessed with those bands...and some real fatty goth types. But when it comes to books and movies, more mainstream girls are sucked in. The numbers increase...so instead of 90% ugly girls, you end up with 30%, 20%, whatever...because the more trendy something is, the more trendy, fashion conscious (and attractive) girls will be involved.
There is another important difference:
Fangirls liked Backstreet Boys and NSync...and moved on after a year and forgot about it. Fanboys listen to Slayer FOREVER.
Fangirls loved Harry Potter and cant wait for the next film. Fanboys talk about each Spider-Man storyarc as if it gives them life. They criticize each childhood-raping movie. They buy a hundred issues of a crossover event they dont like.
In other words...Fangirls get swet up in the movement and love it, and then go off and live their sexy little lives...Fanboys live in a basement, unwashed and unloved, surrounded in Tomb Raider porn and empty Mountain Dew cans.
But it's the Fangirls who bought the merchandise...
What do silly women want to watch? If it is shirtless men running around and having a passionate love interest then why fulfill that stereotype and run to the theatre in droves to see Twilight, Wolverine, and any terrible chick flick? Why not just stay at home and watch Lifetime???First
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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.
Women found Johnny Depp sexy in that role. It's strange but we did.I loved Pirates so I don't see how it was a female only movie. That movie contained stuff for men, women, and kids. It was just an all around good movie. That was probably one of the least sexiest roles Johnny Depp has performed. I don't even think he was bare chested at all.
I remember most of the male nerds were really hard on Pirates when it first came out. They were saying things like ''Johnny Depp sold out''; and ''the movie is terribly overrated.'' They also said that it was only making money because women thought that Johnny Depp was hot.
It's revisionist history to pretend that Pirates was a movie accepted by my fellow geeks the way say Batman Begins and X-men were.