I totally agree with Dorian and many others, I honestly don't think the film will 'damage' the community, it's not a secret society for goodness sake! The book has had critical acclaim everywhere (including here in the Uk), Mystery and Neil have been on TV, in the papers, it's not like no one has ever gone public about it. So what if there is a Hollywood film about it? Good bloody job I say, may actually get some AFCs picking up THEIR game and making it a better world for us single women!
And as some of you have said...there are films about how to meet women, how to meet men, how to be a criminal, a secret agent, a prostitute, a singer, a writer blah blah blah, it's not like everyone then goes out and copies it and leads successful lives in that field because they watched a film on the subject!
Does everyone try to be like James Bond? I don't think so (I haven't met them anyway!), does the secret service crap themselves because their secrets are uncovered (I don't think that films have ruined strategic global matters)? Do the military ban all films about submarines, the navy, the army etc etc? Nooooo! I really don't think it is something to worry about. And anyway, any girl who sees the film and susses you out for playing them because she saw it, have a laugh about it with her and use that as part of your pick up! If she is cool, she will laugh and it will be a new kind of opener...and if she is disgusted (don't see why she should be), then you can nicely point out that she should be flattered you're going to all that effort just for her as opposed to some AFC coming up to her and being unoriginal and often inappropriate.
Really guys, not a biggie at all
It's not like girls all act like the women in 'Sex and the City' because they admire them or like them, you watch it, take in bits, leave some behind, laugh, maybe cry, but then go back to your own real life as you are.
Red