Monday Night Poll: 'Funny People' Gender Divide?

Lots of potential reasons for this:
1. It's another dude movie, by dudes, starring lots of dudes, written from a dude's perspective. Thanks to Apatow, either as a director or producer or simply an enabler, there have been A LOT of these lately. It's possible women are just tired of feeling left out of the fun.

2. Apatow's kids and Sarah Silverman aside, there are two (count 'em) women in this story. One is an unsympathetic comedienne who sleeps with the protagonist's douchey roommate for no discernible reason. The other is a high-strung ex-actress who cheats on her husband while her kids hang out with man she barely knows less than 200 yards away. It's possible women are tired of being represented as nags and/or sluts.

3. It wasn't just raunchy. It was raunchy because of all the dick jokes. Dick jokes guys might rate as a B+ and women might just rate as C+. Wouldn't be the first time in the history that's happened where dicks are concerned.

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This movie Flat-out Fucking sucked hard, for a movie called "Funny people" it WAS NOT funny 1/10 from me. p.s Fuck Eminem or what ever the fuck his name is.

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every character in that movie besides seth rogen was a jerk. and its kind of hard to try to care about a bunch of jerks.

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I'm a woman. I liked the movie a lot.

I hate it when they try to divide movies based on gender. If a movie is well-written and acted why does it have to be a guy-movie or a girl-movie? I thought it was funny and sad and I wasn't counting how many women were in it or whether there should be more of a female perspective - the movie was about a guy. Guys have guy friends - guys hang out with guys in their field whether they are commedians or not. Women do the same thing. I think it's more a question of personality and what kind of comedy/dramas you like and less a question of whether you are a man or a woman. I still crack up at the "Forty-Year-Old Virgin."

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"Funny People" definitely wasn't Apatow's best, but it was still funny. It wasn't the funniest comedy of the year because it was a DRAMEDY!!! And for those who didn't realize that should go and do their best impression of a lemur jumping off a cliff.

I saw this movie with my girl and we both enjoyed Sandler and Rogen's performances as well as the dick jokes. Why are some women so squeamish when it comes to jokes about junk? I guess it's based on the person's maturity. We think it's funny when they pop up in comedies (Sarah Marshall, Bruno, Zack & Miri, etc.), but we're also mature enough to "get it" or not be distracted by it in other movies (Eastern Promises, Watchmen, Boogie Nights).

I'm not even a big fan of Eminem, but I still thought he was alright in the movie. I noticed from some of the haters in the audience that the second Em appeared on screen it was almost like a knee-jerk reaction for them to groan immediately.

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I didn't like this at all, as it's yet another guy flick that marginalizes women.

I don't think I've ever seen a film with Sandler that I liked, I really really dislike Rogen and I've come to realize Aptow probably doesn't like women.

Why did I go? It was my guy's turn to select a film... and he wanted to see it. I'm seriously reconsidering the relationship.

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I didn't like the movie much at all. It was like a chick flick, but replace the female leads with dudes and have some dick-jokes thrown in every ten minutes to keep you from forgetting that it is supposed to be a comedy. I liked the few bits of comedy but not the rest. Seth and Joah Hill were about the only redeeming things in this movie.

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I think the more pressing issue is why every other post on cinematical is turning into some kind of gender related diatribe

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