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    Image of clevernamehere clevernamehere
    04:40 PM

    In reply to Hollywood Is A Numbers Game, And Women Are Losing
    Women need to go see female driven films and not just wait until they are out on DVD.

    Movies are expensive to make and to see in the theater. People tend to save their theater going money for the movies with the big explosions, so that's what the studios make. They don't make the same kind of money off rentals and sales so they really don't push to make more classic DVD films to enjoy for years. Transformers 12 will make them more money.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    04:54 PM

    @clevernamehere: That's kind of an unrealistically simplistic attitude, though. What does "female-driven" movies even mean, seriously? Female former studio heads Sherry Lansing and Gail Berman greenlit crap action movies and stupid romcoms; male studio execs, in turn greenlit plenty of wonderful films that constitute food for thought from a feminist POV.

    Lest we forget, there are female film editors (such as Mary Sweeney, who edited each and every one of David Lynch's movies since the mid-'80s) and gorgeously talented female directors like Lynn Ramsay, Kimberly Peirce, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, etc. etc.

    If only it were so easy as "go see female-driven movies"!
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    clevernamehere promoted this comment Edited by snugbug at 12/10/09 4:58 PM snugbug was starred snugbug was unstarred
    Image of clevernamehere clevernamehere
    05:14 PM

    @snugbug: It isn't simplistic. Money talks. Female studio execs can green light as much crap as male studio execs, but they are all reading the box office returns to see what will do well.

    By female driven, I mean from a female perspective. The fact that there are a lot of well respected female film editors doesn't change the fact that more guy centric movies are made because they do better at the box office. And female driven films are more likely to be written, directed and produced by women.
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    Image of Scout Scout
    04:40 PM

    In reply to Hollywood Is A Numbers Game, And Women Are Losing
    In this case it is even difficult to vote with your $$. If so very few movies are written/directed/produced by women, one would literally have to stay home and wait for Netflix to release it rather than pay at box office.

    And still, would "boycotting" movies written/directed/produced by men help get more women into the action?

    It could be that studios just keep releasing the boring, safe, mundane storyline movies and/or ones with big name actors and completely ignore all the smaller indie movies.

    Anyone in the industry, here, have any suggestions on how to change this dynamic?
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    04:34 PM

    In reply to Hollywood Is A Numbers Game, And Women Are Losing
    With Johnny Depp as the werewolf boyfriend? I am SOLD.
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    04:53 PM

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Isn't it nice to find a tiny diamond inside a giant lump of coal?
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    Image of Island of Misfit Toys Island of Misfit Toys
    01:49 PM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    Is this even a photo? It looks ljke a very realistic drawing/cartoon.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    11:33 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    With all the lens flares, it looks more like Star Trek 2 -- which I'd kind of love to see what JJ Abrams would do with this poster as his starting point.
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    11:11 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    I'll say it..... I kind of like it. Plus the desert shades could be symbolic of her.... love life or social life or something (OK, I'm reaching) but I still like it. Sue me.
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    Image of dj_chick dj_chick
    01:54 PM

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: I like it, too, and I will happily stick my tongue out at anyone who disagrees.
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    Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. promoted this comment dj_chick was starred dj_chick was unstarred
    Image of Newsgirl Newsgirl
    10:53 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    So... a giant, floursecent-lit, sequened number 2 doesn't follow you guys around everywhere you go? Weird.
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    04:56 PM

    @Newsgirl:
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    Image of nyc-caribbean-ragazza nyc-caribbean-ragazza
    10:39 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    This one sheet tells me nothing about the movie. Nothing.

    FAIL
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    Image of Penny Penny
    10:24 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    I just remember seeing her wearing that dress when they started filming and thinking it looked reeeeaally comfortable.
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    Image of GeorgeFayne GeorgeFayne
    12:26 PM

    @Penny: ME TOOOO. I also remember thinking it was odd to pair filmy white jersey with glittery gold pumps, but then everything went black as I was blinded by my shoe lust.
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    Edited by GeorgeFayne at 12/10/09 12:26 PM GeorgeFayne was starred GeorgeFayne was unstarred
    Image of femme-bot femme-bot
    10:21 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    Dubai? Hasn't Dubai been over for a while now?
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    Image of Triana Orpheus Triana Orpheus
    10:20 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    To be honest the poster looks as bad as I expect the movie to be.
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    10:19 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    Ha! And you thought the 'Electic Boogaloo' was a joke!

    I now have a mash up of Xanadu and Rock the Casbah in my head.
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    Image of Adora Belle Dearheart Adora Belle Dearheart
    10:14 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    Wait, is she a 5 story tall monster capable of crushing people with her giant gold brick in this sequel? I'd watch that.
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    Adora Belle Dearheart was starred Adora Belle Dearheart was unstarred
    Image of Ipomoea Ipomoea
    10:14 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    I'm sorry, did Kanye design this? The shades, the lights.... I just think "KANYE!!!!!"
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    Image of Tchotchke Tchotchke
    10:07 AM

    In reply to Photoshop Of Horrors: SATC 2 Poster
    "Sex and the City 2: It's like Chernobyl, but with more shoes."
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    Tchotchke was starred Tchotchke was unstarred
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