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Women are from Venus, Men are from … Pandora?
In 1992, John Gray’s relationship book “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” gave self-help romance seekers everything they wanted to know about the opposite sex. The book became a huge best-seller. But really, all anybody with a desire for romance needed to do was look at who goes to movies on Valentine’s Day, and why, to see just exactly what the opposite sex wanted.
That’s right. This weekend is THE WEEKEND for affairs of the heart, date nights and dinner-and-a-movie outings as V-Day hits calendars on Sunday. And movie ticket seller Fandango.com has polled moviegoers to see just exactly what they will go see in theaters. The results? Forty-two (42) percent of women want to go see the new movie, “Valentine’s Day” while 39 percent of men picked action-packed “Avatar,” which takes place on the faraway moon, Pandora.
In the pool, 92 percent of men say they are “willing to let their dates pick the movie” (Gee, awfully nice fellas), and 94 percent of men say that they do, in fact, actually pay for the trip to the theater (Now, that’s more like it guys). And while 32 percent of women polled picked Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling in the weepy romance “The Notebook” (2004) as their favorite onscreen couple, 20 percent of men chose Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in “Avatar.”
We wonder: where does that leave one of the other new movies this week, “The Wolfman“? Well, only 10 percent of men and 7 percent of women want to see that horror show, according to Fandango. … Maybe a little too much hair. Now, if it were a blue-haired wolfman…
Taylor and Taylor to be the hookup of the year? Maybe
Some celebrity hookups are hardly worth the ink used to write them up in the tabloids, especially when they involve two stars who clearly shouldn’t be together, or they end quicker than a sumo wrestling match.
But then there’s Taylor and Taylor. Singer Taylor Swift, the top selling female artist of 2008, and actor Taylor Lautner, the “Twilight” teen idol, have been seen out together, first at a hockey game on Sunday and later this week in Beverly Hills, for what the media has described as a dinner date.
The two Taylors have small roles in the movie “Valentine’s Day,” which is due to come out on Feb. 12. So there’s always the possibility that the whole thing is a publicity stunt. Or not.
Taylor Swift herself spoke about the other Taylor to chat show host Ellen DeGeneres in an interview set to air on Thursday. She said that the two share scenes in “Valentine’s Day” and that they kiss in the movie.
“So is he a good kisser?” DeGeneres said.
“What?” Swift said.
“So coy,” DeGeneres responded.
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Valentine’s Day, a bloody affair for movie fans
Valentine’s Day is here, inspiring feelings of warmth and fondness for loved ones. Or, could it be good day to see a psycho killer in a hockey mask decimate cowering victims.
On a day when many couples mark the year’s big romantic occasion with dinner and a movie, industry watchers expect the horror film “Friday the 13th” to cut down the competition and rule the box office on the picture’s opening weekend.
Romantic movie offerings are limited this Valentine’s Day weekend. There’s the irony-laced romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You” with an all-star cast that includes Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore and Scarlett Johansson. That movie enjoyed a big debut last weekend with $27.5 million at U.S. and Canadian box offices. At the other end of the spectrum is romantic comedy “New In Town” with Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr., which has faltered at the box office since its Jan. 30 opening, making only $14.4 million worldwide. And after those two movies, the only other wide-release movie likely to interest the date crowd is “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” which mainly centers on a young woman’s relationship with her credit card, but also weaves her romance with a wealthy man into the storyline.
As it turns out, horror could be a good option for Valentine’s Day dates. Online ticket seller Fandango surveyed customers and found that 53 percent of those interested in seeing “Friday the 13th” say they would take a date to the movie.
It brings new meaning to the term Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
