Didn't Win Best Picture of 1998:
Posted on 01/02/2020 12:05:24 PM PST by C19fan
It’s a peculiar feature of our culture that men who behave in predictably masculine ways find themselves chastised and scolded for not being more feminine. This brings me to Little Women, which is not exactly packing in male ticket buyers. Why would it? No one expected women to turn up for Rambo: Last Blood, and no one seemed particularly interested in the male-female breakdown of the ticket sales for that one.
Yet op-ed writers keep pitching versions of the same strange thesis, which is that we should be cross with men for not buying tickets to Little Women. “Dear men who are afraid to see Little Women: you can do this,” says an op-ed in the Washington Post. I think the writer is here confusing the concept of fear with lack of interest or boredom. (I blanch at the prospect of going through my Aetna paperwork, but my guiding emotion is not fear.) “For the love of Marmee,” writes Monica Hesse of the WaPo, “won’t someone please organize a Meetup so these men can watch Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson go to the ball and lose their gloves?” I am sorry to inform Ms. Hesse that the United States is a signatory to the Geneva Convention and hence no American man can be forced to submit to this variant of the Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange.
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My wife knows better than to ask me to see a film like this with her. She knows for me it would be the equivalent of me forcing her to sit through two hours of the Three Stooges. It ain’t happening.
There are ways to bring the father into the story whether he is visible or not. Such as in the way L M Alcott did
Not in this version
It grossed $1.1 billion. It made more than 14 other MCU movies, including Guardians of the Galaxy 1 or 2, Dr. Strange, Captain America: Winter Soldier and more. If you take out the Avengers movies and just count the individual hero movies, it's the fifth highest grossing movie in the MCU. There are a lot of other movies out there praying for the kind of failure Captain Marvel was.
Are women flocking to see “Big Men”?
Mr. March was NOT a doctor in the book, in any of the films or T.V. series, and Mr. Alcott, whom that character is based on, was a.....CHAPLIN in the Civil War; so that book is an abomination and stupid!
What the heck is she talking about....maybe if they lost their pants....
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LOL! That I’d go see.
I'm a Victorian/Edwardian fanatic, so WWI is of great interest to me; what led up to it, the war, and the aftermath. And I'm really looking forward to seeing 1917!
Didn't Win Best Picture of 1998:
Have you ever noticed that leftists and feminist must always resort to some form of coercion, whether it be an attempt to shame or an attempt to impugn another’s character. Leftists can NEVER win a fair argument in the arena of ideas. They are weak and must resort to a kick in the crotch rather than a fair fight.
Pffft…. sissies.
Losing a glove was NEVER akin to being “nekkid”, as you posted, in Victorian times! You really should not post about subjects you don’t know anything at all about, nor understand!
The Oxygen channel runs movies again?
I thought it went all-true-crime-all-the-time, with women being the perps more often than not.
I’m waiting for Little Women Gone Wild. That I’ll see.
Or... Little Women In Prison.
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These comments are better than the movie!
The Heroine in Alien and Aliens was someone Men could relate to and she was a believable Character.
the combination of rachel madcow haircuts,the resemblance of a pincushion with all the piercings, and the resemblance of the side of a graffiti covered building in los angeles, there’s little women left of today’s women...
I don’t think men have any interest in this but I love the material. It’s a classic although I hate the June Allyson version.
I watched the trailer and came to the same conclusion... feminist rant in period dress.
“I hate the June Allyson version.”
I’d like to see the Meredith Baxter / William Shatner version but Ann Dusenberry is in it and I cannot STAND her.
It’s like watching anything with Ali McGraw. Won’t do it.
bahahahahahah
I have no idea who that actress is.
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