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Change the gender of characters to make movies worse.

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  • #62
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gran Turino: An elderly white woman is terrorised and stalked by her Asian neighbours who try to steal her vintage car, get her drunk, call her stupid, and take advantage of her at every opportunity.

    Bridge over the River Kwai:It is 1942 and a stiff-lipped, middle-aged British woman & her friends are trapped in Burma. They sit all day in a tea room by the river Kwai, painting watercolours of some men who are working on the construction of a bridge.


  • #63
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Lolita, wasn't the worst film I've ever seen.

    As for a movie that could only be made worse if the genders were changed?

    Every chick-flick ever made. Imagine Sex and the City with men? Beaches? Thelma and Louise?

    Imagine Platoon with women? That'd be one hell of an awkward movie to watch.

    Three men and a baby.

    Lolita's a fantastic film.


  • #64
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,055 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Really? The femme fatale is a fairly well defined trope and the abject consumerism of the lead is arguably a more feminine trait anyway...

    I could see a female version of Patrick Bateman working quite well on film tbh.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283877/?ref_=nv_sr_1

    They only used the name really, a proper version of the first film with a female lead could still be good, but probably not set in the eighties.


  • #65
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    RedemptionZ wrote: »
    Disagree with nearly all the posts, most movies could be just as good with either gender if done right.

    Your medal for "The Furtherhood of Gender Equality" is in transit and the tracking number is
    155-9733-4522-112


  • #66
    sadie06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭sadie06


    Calamity Joe…a tom-boyish…eh….man falls in love with his best friend, but manages to disguise his handsomeness until he takes off his cloak at a local dance to reveal he is in fact, gorgeous. Hilarious!


    Pretty Man. A young gigolo is hired for an extended period of time by a wealthy business woman. In her absence he shops on Rodeo drive, sings Prince in the bath and takes deportment lessons from a hotel concierge.


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  • #67
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,476 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    The Passion of the Christ


  • #68
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    endacl wrote: »
    Mr. Bean.

    Would, IMO, be ridiculously funny with a female lead :D


  • #69
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Harry Potter - can you imagine Dobby but with an even higher pitched voice? :eek:
    Or if the main same-age antagonist (Malfoy) was a girl and Harry and her ended up falling for eachother. Many stories have this as a "plot twist" even though the entire audience sees it coming from a mile away and it utterly fails to add anything to the story in almost every case.

    Don't know if anyone remembers Kenan & Kel, but a similar show with two teenage girls with the same general clumsiness could be absolute gold, and I'm kinda surprised it was never done. The Amanda Show came close but it wasn't a proper sitcom, more of a sketch show.


  • #70
    D-FENS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭D-FENS


    Whatever about The Graduate or Lolita....Big would have gotten a whole different reaction

    https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/big-tom-hanks.jpg?w=650


  • #71
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    American pie.

    A group of young girls set out to lose their virginity. One of them sleeps with their friend's father, one of them fcuks herself with a pastry and ends up with a crazy guy who slaps her during sex, the others... well who cares, they have sex at some point.

    Actually, I'd pay to see that!


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  • #72
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,055 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    D-FENS wrote: »
    Whatever about The Graduate or Lolita....Big would have gotten a whole different reaction

    https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/big-tom-hanks.jpg?w=650

    13 going on 30 and Freaky Friday weren't particularly controversial.


  • #73
    fatknacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    Kill Bill

    Earth Girls are Easy


  • #74
    Lt J.R. Bell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 679 ✭✭✭Lt J.R. Bell


    RedemptionZ wrote: »
    Disagree with nearly all the posts, most movies could be just as good with either gender if done right. If Rocky was done with girls could still be just as good if you had seen that as the original.

    The action genre is probably the one of the only would I'd say might lose out and that's just down to the realism, for example imagine Die Hard, not the most realistic movie anyway, if all the male characters become female you'd probably find the plot a bit too outrageous. Though saying that I still think it could be done, just would take a lot more effort.

    Crime movies are another, again though it's only down to realism, there wasn't women running the Mafia so having them lead the Godfather or Goodfellas would be too unbelievable.

    Are you on crack, bhra?


  • #75
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Iron Woman.


  • #76
    Dolbert
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    Women be shoppin


  • #77
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Iron Woman.

    The thatcher movie or the Robert Downey Jnr flick... Which one do you want to reverse? :pac:


  • #78
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    This is an unintentionally revealing thread. Very interesting.


  • #79
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    I'm holding my breath over here waiting for all the self-described Boards "Egalitarians" to say something at the litany of nasty stereotypes about women on display in this thread.

    Because they are absolutely as concerned about women getting shat upon as they are about men.

    :pac:


  • #80
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    B0jangles wrote: »
    Because they are absolutely as concerned about women getting shat upon as they are about men.

    2 girls 1 cup. Definitely don't want to see that with reversed genders!


  • #81
    Redser87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Redser87


    Entrapment.


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  • #82
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    smash wrote: »
    2 girls 1 cup. Definitely don't want to see that with reversed genders!

    If it was guys it'd probably turn it into a competition about who could produce the biggest turd! :D


  • #83
    folamh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 787 ✭✭✭folamh


    B0jangles wrote: »
    I'm holding my breath over here waiting for all the self-described Boards "Egalitarians" to say something at the litany of nasty stereotypes about women on display in this thread.

    Because they are absolutely as concerned about women getting shat upon as they are about men.

    :pac:
    It's not sexist because women can't drive or be funny because of evolutionary biology or something.


  • #84
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,055 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Iron Woman.

    It's been done, Natasha Stark.


  • #85
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,189 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    smash wrote: »
    2 girls 1 cup. Definitely don't want to see that with reversed genders!

    Fixed.

    I'd echo Alien. Having the woman be the survivor was pretty unusual for the time.


  • #86
    GotTheTshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭GotTheTshirt


    csallmighty wrote: »
    Mrs & Mr Smith

    You couldn't possibly make that movie any worse!


  • #87
    lost_boy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18 ✭lost_boy


    predator

    cant imagine a woman uttering any of the endless lines

    " if it bleeds , we can kill it "


  • #88
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    robindch wrote: »
    The Passion of the Christ

    Been done. Well, sort of.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata_%28film%29


  • #89
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,663 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Iranoutofideas wrote: »
    Scarface - "Say hello to my lil friend - Henry the Hoover."


    :(
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmC62Eg82E8


  • #90
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,663 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    Barb Wire, *shudder*...
    Casablanca

    You don't think they actually wrote a plot for Barb Wire do you ? They just re-used one.

    sadie06 wrote: »
    Pretty Man. A young gigolo is hired for an extended period of time by a wealthy business woman. In her absence he shops on Rodeo drive, sings Prince in the bath and takes deportment lessons from a hotel concierge.
    Midnight Cowboy

    or possibly second half of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482088/


    pablohoney87 wrote: »
    All the fast and the furious films. The poor clutches in the cars would have been wrecked :pac:
    clutches would be fine 'cos they'd all be driving automatics


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  • #91
    Iranoutofideas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Paula Duke and her attorney, Dr. Gonzo, load up on a heinous mix of toxic chemicals and drive a fire apple red convertible to Las Vegas in search of the American Dream. The get lost and find themselves in the middle of Death Valley, where their car breaks down and they eventually die of heat stroke. Turkey Vultures pick their corpses clean leaving behind only skeletal remains and scattered beaded jewelry. A symbolic epitaph for the failed dream of the Sixties.


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