My husband, on the other hand likes gangs, reality shows, a good fast moving story and suspense. (He doesn’t know that he likes sci-fi because I’ll turn him on to a show and he’ll complain that it’s cancelled or on some network that doesn’t have HD.)

Most of my female and male friends exhibit the same kinds of likes that I do and watch the same kinds of films I do. Some are more into chick flicks and some more into the hunky flicks.

I have found that Joss Whedon will give us strong women characters and most anything Gina Torres plays will be a strong character no matter how hokey or campy the genre/media is. Women are not looking for some hunk that can come save them from the house work, they are looking for some hunk they can stand beside and wield a sword or knife or 87 million caliber shotgun!

I do think that the Hollywood machine has overlooked women as a demographic that likes more than “sappy chick flicks”. They have been stuck in that old mentality.

However that mentality is working on my children and their friends (preteens/teens between 10-14).

“Twilight” is all the rage but I’d rather be watching “Being Human” on BBC. Sorta the same concept but without the sappiness.

“Young vampire loves a human” has been done…to death!

But start out with: “A vampire off the sauce, a socially awkward werewolf and a ghost share a flat (apartment) and try to fit in with the rest of the humans….”

The latter is a much better story. The viewer is never sure if it’s all going to work out in the end and it can be tense, exhilarating and make you want to go out and kick some butt along with them.

That’s the real reason I watch movies/TV… What will the residual feelings be? What message do I want my children (yeah four of them) to learn or internalize? Will it be good cinema/TV or will it just be a disjointed story where I really couldn’t see the progression. Did or will my husband fall asleep watching it! LOL

Okay that last isn’t true in the sense that I ask myself this but he does fall asleep in quite a few movies.

I want to be entertained, as do all of my girlfriends. I want animal magnetism, sexuality (doesn’t have to have sex but a butt shot is well received), action, blood and guts, a good pace (yeah and maybe even fast paced!) humor, a believable hero and a believable bad guy and irony. You can’t get that in a chick flick. I want a Bruce Willis/Vin Diesel kind of character! Not Hugh Grant on Valium!

The movie was crisp and funny and interesting and filled with women. It’s been along time since I heard a sold out show clap at the end, men and women.

Cheers.

By the way, rented “Vanishing Point” about 3 weeks ago. Did you know that car was the inspiration for “Death Proof?” (You probably did). The ending is a brain-bender.

I haven’t seen any you mention but any film with a 1970 Challenger in it can’t be bad – one of the first flicks I saw with my older bro was Vanishing Point with Barry Sullivan. Now there’s a brain spelunker’s seminar.