Movie Preference

Trailer Park Boys has to be the dumbest show I've ever seen. Seriously.
Why would you willingly subject yourself to that? And there's like more than eight seasons! Gah. It actually hurt my brain to see that much stupid stuffed into a half an hour episode, and I only watched one, and only because my friend demanded that I view it. Of course, he is a dude, but that brings up the question of why guys seem to like really simple and really idiotic shows like that.

I'm not trying to be sexist with that comment, it's just something I've noticed. Whenever you ask a guy what he wants to watch on a movie night, usually its something that either has really sexual humor involved, extreme profanity, no actual plot, intense violence, or nude women.

I suppose that the stereotype could go both ways, however. Girls are notorious for picking out the tear-jerking, romantic, moral-packed movies that probably bore guys half to death.

But that doesn't answer the question of why we pick those specific genres of entertainment. I'm a girl who loves action or sci-fi movies as long as they actually have some sort of character development or plot involved in them (The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, or any Marvel movie are amazing examples). So, when I suggest those to a guy friend, usually they're immediately down for watching that type of movie. Many of my girl friends, however, normally look at me like I've grown a third eyeball. Don't get me wrong; I love John Green and Nicholas Sparks just as much as the next girl. Every once in a while I need a movie that's going to make me cry and contemplate life. I've also never seen any of the Fast and Furious movies, because I see no point in watching people chase each other around in fancy, fast cars while things blow up behind the. It's just interesting to me that we can usually predict the type of entertainment that our friends are going to want to watch just based on their gender.

It makes me wonder how much of that is nature vs. nurture as well. I'm inclined to lean towards nurture, because I grew up around Harry Potter and Tolkien, therefore I'd rather watch those than, say, Sharknado. But I suppose it also just depends on your personality and your sense of humor. What you're interested in largely decides what you want to watch in your free time, which makes a lot of sense.