ladies, PLEASE don't drag your husbands/boyfriends to see this! - Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) Discussion

This is clearly not a movie for heterosexual men!

Says who?
If they it's interesting to them and the want to go, that's their business.

I'm a guy and I dig flicks like the first Bridget Jones movie, Notting Hill and Love Actually and that recent Cinderella was entertaining and a solid movie.

If you are referring to the quality of the movie, that I can understand because a lot of them have not been any good. He's Not That Into You, The Intern, How To Be Single, the Sex and the City movies are examples of horrid movies of this ilk.

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[–] bubbmail 8 years ago

Im not sure what replica chinese copy you saw but I thought The Intern was brilliant.

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[–] CelluloidAdmirer 8 years ago

I guess that we can agree to disagree because I thought that movie was absolutely terrible.
DeNiro and Hathaway managed to keep that thing afloat.

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[–] matthewroach76 8 years ago

Just got back from this with my wife.

It was my Vietnam.

The horror....the horror....

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[–] CelluloidAdmirer 8 years ago

That bad?

I can't imagine this being any worse than anything Katherine Heigl has been in.

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[–] MattGuyOR 8 years ago

My whole theater laughed a lot. It was a great movie.

The Intern was also good, and I expected it to not be.

Oh what a day! What a lovely day!

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[–] stormhappy106 8 years ago

Heigl's Knocked Up(2007) was great

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[–] megaknocker 8 years ago

I used to like Renee Zellweger before all the needless plastic surgery. What was she thinking?

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[–] Cultfilmfeverforever 8 years ago

A heterosexual man would have to drag me to see this.

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[–] megaknocker 8 years ago

LOL~

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[–] sharpeke 8 years ago

Okay there old timey sitcom dad. My husband actually dragged me to see this and I dragged him to Blair Witch. And we had a good time at both flicks.

..then I'm gonna Macarena because if we all just line dance think how much better off we'd be ~DPool

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[–] chamohlamb 8 years ago

I call *beep*

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[–] Steve2911 8 years ago

As a hereosexual male I find this attitude pretty sad.

This was an awful, awful film, but not because it was a female-leaning rom-com.

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[–] otter68 8 years ago

what attitude? That men don't like chick flicks? Gasp!

What percentage of the audience will be male? Compare that to Blair Witch, Sully, Snowden, etc, and I'll wager a Coke, BJB has a much smaller percentage of male audience members.

Don't hate on contrarians

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[–] CelluloidAdmirer 8 years ago

I'm with steve. This stereotypical attitude is pretty sad.
As long as the movie doesn't suck, it doesn't matter if it's a so-called chick-flick.
But if it's a pandering, lazy, contrived, witless, intelligence-insulting one, that would be a problem for me and that goes for ANY movie.

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[–] otter68 8 years ago

A stereotype is when a small portion of a demographic is used to generalize about that demographic at large.

I don't think it's a stereotype to say heterosexual men don't like movies about romance with a female lead. I'd wager a majority don't.

Don't hate on contrarians

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[–] CelluloidAdmirer 8 years ago

A stereotype is when a small portion of a demographic is used to generalize about that demographic at large.

A stereotype is a stereotype and it doesn't matter how small or large the portion is.

I don't think it's a stereotype to say heterosexual men don't like movies about romance with a female lead

It is. There are many heterosexual men who will go to flicks like this as long as the movie is actually entertaining and a good movie overall.
I know guys who enjoyed Love Actually and they're straight and not afraid to admit it.
At least, they don't have any insecurities like what I'm seeing here.

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[–] otter68 8 years ago

you don't know if a movie is entertaining until you go.

If you can prove me wrong, and show that the men make up the same percentage of the audience for BJB as they did Sully, Snowden, Blair Witch, etc. do so.

Don't hate on contrarians

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[–] moundshroud 8 years ago

Opening day stats from Cinemascore indicate BJB's audience was 79% female, 21% male. Assuming all those guys were there with a female date, that's still over half the opening day audience were women, either flying solo or having a girls' night out. By comparison, opening day for Blair Witch was 44% female/56% male while Sully flipped those numbers with 56% female/44% male.

I'm no doubt in the minority, as I'm a guy who saw BJB on my own because I really liked BJD (never saw the other sequel though). The only other occupants in the theater were two other couples (which is pretty sparse for a Saturday early evening showing), and the guy behind me was clearly snoring through about half the movie.

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[–] Alex_Hodgkinson 8 years ago

Blair Witch and Snowden are *beep* If you choose them over films like Kubo, Don't Breathe, Hell or High Water, or this film, you just have *beep* tastes mate.

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"It hurts, doesn't it? Being in pain." - Daredevil, a lawyer, 2015

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[–] sak500-121-597736 8 years ago

Agreed. Glad these kind of movies are in decline. I'll not even watch it free on tv.

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[–] LeWildPlatypus 8 years ago

I'm a heterosexual male and found this film to be a pleasant surprise. Highly enjoyed it.

It was far superior to the previous film I went to see, Suicide Squad. I don't understand why certain genres get boycotted. Love Actually and Along Came Polly were both pretty good films. Bridget Jones's Baby is proof that the rom-com genre has its gems.

I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder.

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[–] CelluloidAdmirer 8 years ago

I'm not against certain genres but I am against crap products in those certain genres.
I can no longer stand superhero movies but I don't boycott them.
I'm with you on Love Actually. That's one of the few movies I've seen that made you feel like a million bucks after seeing it but Along Came Polly...not so much IMO.
I have friends who saw Baby. Said it a few laughs but not really a winner.

The last really good rom-com I've seen recently that I can remember was Enough Said.

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[–] SCraigNZ 8 years ago

Not all men are the same. My husband suggested we go and see it on Saturday night as he knew I wanted to see it, and he laughed all the way through it. He thoroughly enjoyed it.

"I'd rather have 3 minutes of wonderful than a whole life time of nothing special."

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