Edit for readability:
Lower ranking is better, as in “rank 1” would be the best movie rated by that group.
The top section shows movies highly ranked by women, but lower for men. The bottom section is the reverse.
Is lower or higher better in the ranking?
Gender rank, I think, is how high in the list they’d put the movies with 1 being the best movie.
So, a movie that women rank 40 and men rank 400 means women liked it much more—delta of 360.
The far left Rank is the one with the biggest delta for depending on gender preference. The top list is female preferred, bottom male preferred.
Damn, I’m feeling really unusually in touch with my gender here. I count only 4.5 good movies on the top list (Pride & Prejudice, Tangled, Brokeback Mountain, Beauty and the Beast; Sound of Music gets a .5 because I don’t care for it but acknowledge it’s a classic).
Das Boot, Rashomon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Thing, M, Seven Samurai, and Lawrence of Arabia on the other hand, are all indisputable classics, while Blade Runner 2049 is excellent modern cinema.
Funny, I’m feeling less in touch with mine. I’ve seen maybe two on the bottom list (only one fully), enjoyed one, and haven’t even heard of half of them. Although there are three that I would like to see at some point
Meanwhile on the top list, I’ve seen most of them, and enjoyed most of the ones I’ve seen. But maybe that’s because the ones on the top list were released within my lifetime.
I’ve seen all the Harry Potter Films, and liked them okay. I thought Wonder Woman was decent; not great, but enjoyable as far as DC movies go. I haven’t seen very many overall. OTOH, I’ve seen about half of the films on the male list. Blade Runner 2049 was an outstanding film, a modern classic that’s severely underrated. I walked out of the theater completely emotionally drained.
Huh, first time I hear that women really don’t like the Harry Potter movies. Is it because they think the books are better, and most men have not read the books?
Edit: ahh, wait. The rank is reverse order, so women like Harry Potter, but men to not. At least the rest of the ranking makes more sense like that.
It appears that the movies men prefer are generally older movies as well
It’s not about movies that men prefer. They might prefer other movies that are liked by women at the same time. It tells us that these older movies are those men view more favourably than women. But their real favourites might be different, those that women like too, like Shawshank redemption and Godfather (which are older too).
