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[cimorene]

Neither Brother Windows's wife nor her best friend have seen, or had any desire to see, any Batman movies at all. I was shocked! I mean, The Dark Knight's theatre grosses clearly demonstrate that women have been seeing it in droves. It's not a chick flick and the female parts were rather insulting, true, but it's a well-made movie and... it's Batman! Which is maybe the problem - Batman is sort of all-American in my mind, perhaps, and they didn't grow up watching it on tv like I did, although perhaps they would have been the type of poor-spirited girls who didn't even like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

I was going to make a poll, but fandom is obviously a bad sample pool for such matters since it's made up of nerds, geeks, and media addicts.

I mean, okay, it's true that I like action movies and other such movies that most of the guys present have to come to without their girlfriends. But I do still hate the most egregiously stupid frat comedies (except for Dude, Where's My Car?, because that is AWESOME! Even if it is stupid!) and even sometimes action movies if their plots are not good (Shooter, blecch), and I totally loved Mamma Mia and I voluntarily watch chick tv, even if I do mostly hate chick flicks. Unquestionably I am more likely to relate to the other giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirls present than Wax (who ran off for hours in the middle of the night to tromp all over the forested island in the dark with the drunken male guests, step in puddles and make a cameraphone video of a twig-ninja entering a rotten stump).

Comments

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

...that's kind of weird. I mean, the older Batman movies are shown on tv fairly frequently, so you'd think most people would have seen at least part of one of the movies or something. But I have to stop thinking about that now, because my brain can't fathom people not being interested in Batman.

Also, none of the girls in my class liked the Turtles. I don't think most of the boys did, either. Not as much as I did, anyway.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Oh I haven't seen any of the old ones, and I've heard nothing good about them ever, so I'm not fussed about that, and they'd have been quite young when they came out and probably not interested at the time. I'm talking about BB & TDK. And in the US Ninja Turtles and Batman TAS were both extremely popular cartoons, and fairly long-running. Most everyone was familiar with them and ninja turtle madness was rampant in girls as well as boys as early as my 1st grade year.

[southpaw526.livejournal.com]

But...but...but... The newest ones have Christian Bale! And he's sofuckingHOT.

Also, I hope you're reading Batslash still because there's some excellent stories out there.

[someblazingstar.livejournal.com]

But...but...but... The newest ones have Christian Bale! And he's sofuckingHOT.

Seriously, you'd think that women would be interested in these movies if for no other reason than the plethora of hot guys to ogle.



But besides that, a) I didn't grow up as much of a Batman fangirl - I saw all of the older movies (except for Batman and Robin, which I really don't regret missing out on) and remember watching the animated series as a kid, but never got reeeeally interested or anything - when it came to comic books and their related media, I was always way more into Neil Gaiman and other Vertigo fare than men-in-capes superhero tales, and b) I usually hate blow-'em-up guy-oriented action thrillers, the way girls are "supposed" to, and I freaking love The Dark Knight. I'm kind of genuinely baffled as to why someone would just flat-out have no interest, but then, as Cim points out, I'm a fannish geek and don't really understand how non-fannish, non-geeky people regard media.

(I also really liked Ninja Turtles as a kid, though I kind of preferred the original comics to the much more kid-oriented cartoon show and movies.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Oh, I never liked comics at all. I still don't! I've read a few manga, and I do prefer them (now) to watching cartoons because reading goes faster, but I'd like them better, honestly, without the pictures. But I liked TAS as a young teenie because it was a bit tongue-in-cheek and very well-written (in stark contrast to 90% of cartoons out there - no accident the Emmies it won, but it wasn't aired over here when my SIL was a kid), and the art was gorgeous (in still quite strong contrast to most cartoons, but maybe not quite as striking). I didn't try to watch every day or become a huge fan, but I liked it enough to talk about it with other people and to be excited for a new, awesome-looking movie about it!

In fact, I didn't realise that Superman or Batman were comic books for years and years; my sole exposure to them was through TV. I was all about books and didn't know any adults who had the slightest interest in comics.

[someblazingstar.livejournal.com]

Argh, stupid busted image: http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/the_dark_knight_tops_box_office (http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/the_dark_knight_tops_box_office)