What separates a chick flick from a man film?
Are there clear guidelines in your head for what can be used to distinct one from another? Is it just the marketing campaign?
How do you know when you are watching a film trailer it is meant for someone of a particular gender over another?
As a side curiosity, members of the GLBT community, do you prefer chick flicks or man films?
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Explosions and fist fights. Not necessarily in that order.
As a gay man, I’ll just say that I prefer art films, but I’m atypical.
Bullshit social conventions perpetuated by the media, gossipy magazines, and men and women too insecure with themselves to admit they might enjoy a good tear-jerker or a brainless shoot-em-up.
I like a good action film as well as chick flicks. I’m not much into those cartoon character films like Batman and The Avengers.
One is a woman looking for love, the other is a man looking for a solution to a problem that involves saving someone/multiple people.
British period films. This seems to be the one genre that does not appeal to men. For the record. explosion-filled movies bore me to tears.
They’re both selling escapism, just different kinds.
Chick-flicks are romance films (either comedy or drama). Man films are war films, sports films, and pretty much any film that is targeted at frat boys at the expense of all others.
I don’t really care for either.
I tend to categorise chick-flicks as romantic, with a female lead and focussed on emotions. Generally they bore me to death but there was one chick-flick I loved; Elizabethtown. I tend to categorise mens films as being action-hero type with violence and a macho male lead who saves the day (eventually). Of course there are plenty of films that don’t fit either category. I tend to prefer action flms.
@downtide: I too love Elizabethtown. Great soundtrack.
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