Every movie will have at least a few people from every segment seeing it. The law of large numbers. You're trying to argue that Prada became a hit by having support from both genders, when it has the some of the lowest male support of any movie in years. That's a logical contradiction.

We're not nitpicking what she says elsewhere. She may just be rationalising, thinking more men saw it than actually did, therefore raising the movie's esteem.

Is your whole point to defend that one statement?

Did you take a survey otherwise there's little proof. When I saw it earlier tonight there were plenty of men with their wives or girlfriends. Dragged there or not, men saw the movie. If only men or women see a movie it can't become a huge hit, that's pretty much proven.

Of course not. Look at your own statement:

You circuitously called me stupid, basically.

By the way, there is no such thing as "starting something" online. Grow up. If you don't like box office enough to debate logically, then find somewhere better to go.

I have nothing more to add to the debate itself. See ya around.

Joe, um... seriously, you're making a big deal out of nothing, as usual. He didn't start an arguement, he added his opinion to your comment, just like you did to Libs' comment.

If you don't like me why don't you just ban me? I know you want to. Why else would you have thrown the "as usual" part of your statement. I didn't ask for his opinion, especially if it was going to be mean-spirited.

Joe, his reply didn't really seem mean-spirited to me. This argument is just distracting at this point and not doing anything positive for the thread or anyone reading it. Hito decided to end the debate, so could you just let it go as nothing will come of it?

Eh, Joe...what about this?

Less than 2% of this film's audiences consisted of hetero men who were not dragged into it by their wives/girlfriends...

And I am being generous here.

You live in Germany so what do you know J/K

I know that no matter how good looking (well...or not) Anne Hathaway is, I would never ever see Prada in theatres.

It was a joke, hence the J/K.

It's giving you something to do isn't it? That's positive. It created a reaction. That's positive. That's what writing can be about. Generating a reaction in your readers. Whether it's bad or good is beside the point really.

Ummm....I surely can generate reaction if I make a thread titled "Ku Klux Klan rocks!" or what not. That doesn't mean that it is a really smart thing to do.

What I did was nothing like creating such a mean-spirited thread. My writing wasn't mean-spirited or hateful towards a racial group or anything like that.

That's what writing can be about. Generating a reaction in your readers. Whether it's bad or good is beside the point really.

Yeah, but I was commenting on:



And a thread like that one would definitely generate lots and lots of reaction, heh.

Well, you've often acted as if you were trying to get a reaction out of someone, so it doesn't surprise me to hear you admit that's your motive. I don't think people really appreciate it though, and I don't think simply getting a reaction is positive.

If you don't like me why don't you just ban me? I know you want to. Why else would you have thrown the "as usual" part of your statement. I didn't ask for his opinion, especially if it was going to be mean-spirited.

In fact, writing a book with that title would perhaps generate enough controversy to sell alot of copies, which would be successful by the definition I proposed earlier (which, in turn, was told to me in a Journalism class by a professor who had worked for The New York Times for 22 years before becoming a professor).

And Libs didn't ask for your opinion. Yet you gave it. Don't be hypocritical and think that you can respond to anyone and someone else can't respond to you in return.

I could also be successful if I become a drug lord. Doesn't mean I should do that. Or is nothing sacred enough when it's about success?

You didn't respond to the first two sentences of my post.

And now you're avoiding the question at hand because you know that you're wrong about it.

But, to answer the rest of your post, I never said I didn't like you. I never said I wanted you banned. Your assumption that "I want to" is dead wrong. I threw the "as usual" part in because, well... it was "as usual."