Can you name any that have been made that flopped, Grindhouse apart (and that was little to do with the female roles). Plus Dreddz mentioned Kill Bill. The fact is barely are made and good female roles are at a premium as studios are too scared to take any risks. And people want eye candy over depth? Stupid people maybe, but the likes of Inception and Toy Story 3 recently show there's an audience for films that don't insult the intelligence, and which don't need to have Megan Fox in shorts to succeed.Originally Posted by Winter Nights
If you can name one movie made in the last 10 years, whose central character was a strong women not backed by sex appeal and the movie had skyrocketing ticket sales, I'll concede to your point.I don't think it's as cut and dried as all that, and my point was that having a strong female character in centre stage who doesn't get her kit off doesn't mean your film will flop.I believe you may have missed his point. Our culture, as a whole, has moved towards the idea that sex, above almost all else, sells. Despite whether or not you think this is wrong, the sad fact is that the less clothes a woman has on throughout the movie, the more tickets are sold.Yeah, because the Alien films and The Terminator/Terminator 2 were both such big box office flops
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I'm not saying it isn't atrocious, cause it is and it annoys the piss out of me. But regardless of what I think, as a culture, people want eye candy above depth.
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