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[StellaBlue]

Re: war/guy movie - I didn't mean this movie; I meant that all mainstream, mass-marketed 'action' type movies (ostensibly created for a 'male audience' by the studio powers-that-be) have a stupid, utterly predictable, totally unnecessary romantic subplot.

Do those things every get ANY women to go see a movie they wouldn't otherwise see? NO! And it ruins the action part of the movie, too! So then it's an action movie with a boring, pointless romantic subplot. And therefore neither a good action movie nor a good romantic movie (not that there are many of those anyway, IMHO).

I just wonder who these women are who see the silly subplot in some Nicolas Cage bomb-em-up blockbuster and think, 'Ooh - I want to see THAT because I just have ot know if sweaty, evildoing Nicolas Cage marries that anonymous Latino girl he met in the diner in the clip I saw on Jay Leno.'

Seriously.

:puke:

Having said that, I was hoping the Constant Gardener would be heavyweight enough to have a well-integrated romantic subplot. Which I take your word for - that's why I was asking. Ralph Fiennes usually makes good movies. I still can't figure out what the hell he was doing in Maid in Manhattan, though.

:rofl: