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Surprise! New Survey Says Both Men And Women Are Into Genre Films

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:58 pm, December 9th

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During the first few weeks of December, Fandango.com posted a survey asking moviegoers what their most anticipated films were for 2012. The results are in and turns out, there isn’t as much gender disparity as you’d think. Read on to find out which films men and women named. 

Here are the most anticipated blockbusters according to Fandango.

According to Men:
1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2. The Avengers
3. The Dark Knight Rises
4. The Bourne Legacy
5. Men in Black III

According to Women:
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2
2. The Hunger Games
3. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
4. Dark Shadows
5. The Avengers

And when asked which remake they were most looking forward to…

According to Men:
1. Total Recall
2. The Amazing Spider-Man
3. The Great Gatsby
4. Snow White And The Huntsman
5. Mirror Mirror

According to Women:
1. Snow White And The Huntsman
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Mirror Mirror
4. Total Recall
5. The Amazing Spider-Man

It doesn’t come as a surprise that the majority of men respondents don’t care about Twilight but besides their inclination toward the next Bourne film in the blockbuster category, men and women are both really interested in genre films.

In our recent reader survey, we asked what upcoming movie release you were excited about and well, obviously we’re a nerd site but our top results were…

Women:
1. The Avengers
2. The Muppets
3. The Hunger Games
4. The Hobbit
5. The Dark Knight Rises

Twilight and Dark Shadows were among the lowest.

Men:
1. The Avengers
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. The Hobbit
4. The Muppets
5. The Adventures of Tintin

Twilight and Men In Black 3 were among the lowest with them.

But it’s good news for us geeks who want to see more sci-fi and comic book films in theaters and hopefully Hollywood will take notice. The creators of John Carter recently went through a series of name changes on their film to make sure it didn’t turn off either men or women. Perhaps Hollywood will see this and realize they don’t need to subscribe to the school of thought that men and women like opposite things.

(via Blastr)

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  • Anonymous

    In what universe could Snow White & the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror be called remakes!?!  Total Recall I understand (even if I have to grit my teeth and not blurt out adaptationofaPhilipKDickstory), but how in blazes can you “remake” a fairytale?

    And The Great Gatsby? One of the most famous and celebrated American NOVELS gets a new adaptation, and it’s considered a REMAKE!?!

    AAAAAAAAAAAARGH

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

    Yeah that made me scratch my head as well.

  • Matthew Lane

    Is it really all that surprising though? ?Why wouldn’t women like genre films? Genre filmns can be awesome… Some can also be shit.

  • Frodo Baggins

    Aside from the fact that Snow White & the Huntsman is an obvious attempt to emulate the financial success of Alice in Wonderland by using its premise of “Turn a public domain fantasy story into a half-assed LOTR by completely changing the story and themes?”

    “Re-adaptations” or not, they’re making films that were already huge successes. No studio executive would give half a shit about Dick’s story if it hadn’t been a big dumb Arnie action flick that made a bundle 20 years ago. I don’t have anything against a new Gatsby, since it’s one of those classic novels that’s been adapted a hundred times, and several are good.

    As for Mirror Mirror, I have no idea what the hell anyone in that production was thinking.

  • Frodo Baggins

    After reading the title and seeing those pictures, this is what I imagined:

    Bilbo: Dudes, did you read this? Turns out women love us!
    Cap: For real, bra?
    Tony: Uhhhh duh?

  • http://www.facebook.com/zeonchar Amanda M. Ramsey

    As a woman I am really sad and embarrassed to see that Twilight is number one on the list. I’d much rather see The Hobbit or The Dark Knight Rises than Twilight.

  • http://www.anikaguldstrand.com Anika Guldstrand

    I sincerely hope that Hollywood does take note!
    However, I can’t believe that many people are excited that they’re remaking Total Recall. I happen to still believe the original stands quite well on its own.

  • Anonymous

    Substitute “the Hobbit” for “The Great Gatsby” in your second paragraph and you have my thoughts exactly.

  • Anonymous

    It’s too bad that the Hunger Games didn’t make either of the men lists.  Here’s hoping the marketing gets past that.

  • Life Lessons

    Cool!