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The Harry Potter films are very much British, not American, so the women’s list isn’t entirely American.

There’s also virtually zero overlap in genre. The men’s list is full of war movies and westerns, the women’s list is predominantly kid’s / family / young adult stuff, with some historical drama. (Brokeback Mountain is about cowboys, but I don’t think it would be considered a western in the traditional sense)

This is a solid observation and I think that the women's rankings favor movies where the main focus is on overcoming conflicts within close relationships (family/romantic) and mostly lean towards a happy ending to the resolution that will lead to further positive interactions and the men's ranking favor the main focus being on violent conflict against outside groups or opponents. The men's movies will have some camaraderie and some shallow romance too, but the main focus is on the conflict itself.

Brokeback doesn't stand out on the women's list to me because it is focused on a relationship, which seems to have more impact than female leads even though the latter is certainly a factor. The Harry Potter series main conflict is family based (loss of Harry's parents) and there are tons of interactions with friends of the family and the connections the family has.

I think the lists are less what women and men like, it's more like what they don't like.

We aren't seeing the crossover of what both like, so this just demonstrates trends away from certain films by gender.

I was curious and found some more info on five thirty eight.

These are supposed to be the closest to 50/50:

Also, wow. I guess it's not surprising, but men seem to be much louder about their opinions. Movie ratings in general are skewed heavily toward what men think of them due to this:

I like it too, but it is mainly our boy Ryan moodily staring and awful lot.

American Pie 2 passes that test, for anyone who thinks passing it actually means anything, lol.

https://bechdeltest.com/view/5560/american_pie_2/

Brokeback mountain could argue for qualified immunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test

The lower list was women preferred, though...

EDIT: No, sorry, higher number means worse lol mb

Most of those movies on the bottom list are outside the top 100. Go look at the billboard top 200 songs and tell me if any Americans prefer songs listed at 155 or something.

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.

My thoughts too, although I do enjoy all the Harry Potter movies a lot. I don't know how highly I'd rank them compared to cinema classics though.

Fun fact: Some apps (TikTok I think?) will let you see what the algorithm knows about you. I'm not sure if it means anything but I always find it fascinating when the algorithm thinks I'm the wrong gender.

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.

Lower ranking is better, as in the best would be "rank 1"

I think higher means "The gender gap is larger"

I believe the data was from IMDB

Rankings don't say that men don't like the Harry Potter movies, it just says they rank other movies higher.

The distribution seems odd, yeah. Most of the women ranked movies are from after 2000, whereas the men ones are pre-1990