CaptainChewbacca wrote:I didn't go see 'The Brave One' because it looked ridiculous. With lines like 'I want my dog back' undermining Foster's credibility as a real person, I'm not going to watch a 100-lb woman waging a one-person vigilante war, because it makes no sense.
I didn't go see it because it was better when it was titled "Taxi Driver".
Actually, Robert DiNero probably could have made "The Brave One" watchable.
What isn't being discussed is how the failure of these two films wasn't down to them having female leads as much as their hopelessly crappy scripts. But of course we can't even consider that the studio is hiring no-talent goons who can't write for shit —gotta be them damn wimmen...
When ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
Let him do it. It'll affect his bottom line, for sure.
"Frank Deford and Jim Rome both lean hard left on almost all social issues, but they openly loathe the proliferation of soccer. And that position is important: For all practical purposes, soccer is the sports equivalent of abortion; in America, hating (or embracing) soccer is the core litmus test for where you exist on the jocko-political continuum."
Darth Wong wrote:The guy is an idiot, but it's also true that blockbusters tend to have male leads, whereas films with female leads can hope to be a qualified success at best. If one is hoping to only make blockbusters, then like it or not, you probably do want to focus on male-led films. Of course, no studio out there makes blockbusters exclusively, so this whole idea is retarded.
I wonder how profitable blockbusters are compared to chick-flicks. Your typical Sandra Bullock/Julia Roberts/Reese Witherspoon chick movie can't cost all that much once you get past the star's salary. They are almost always paired up with a male co-star who isn't one-tenth as well known, there's little in the way of special effects, and the other costs of the film shouldn't add up to a small fraction of a blockbuster (of course one must never underestimate the book cooking that goes on in the movies). So even though they don't make as much money, they shouldn't cost much to make, either.
If Time-Warner (Time-Wanker is more like it) wants to improve their take at the box office, they might start with the asshole who greenlighted the remake of The Wicker Man and do to him what the pagans did to Det. Howie.
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