Posted on 05/04/2008 6:57:45 PM PDT by DesScorp
IRON MAN, Batman, Big Angry Green Man — to judge from the new popcorn season it seems as if Hollywood has realized that the best way to deal with its female troubles is to not have any, women, that is.
Not that it hasn’t tried to make nice with the leading ladies, in films like “The Invasion” (with Nicole Kidman) and “The Brave One” (Jodie Foster). Yet, after those Warner Brothers titles fizzled, the online chatter was that the studio’s president for production, Jeff Robinov, had vowed it would no longer make movies with female leads. A studio representative denied he made the comments. And, frankly, it is hard to believe that anyone in a position of Hollywood power would be so stupid as to actually say what many in that town think: Women can’t direct. Women can’t open movies. Women are a niche.
Nobody likes to admit the worst, even when it’s right up there on the screen, particularly women in the industry who clutch at every pitiful short straw, insisting that there are, for instance, more female executives in Hollywood than ever before. As if it’s done the rest of us any good. All you have to do is look at the movies themselves — at the decorative blondes and brunettes smiling and simpering at the edge of the frame — to see just how irrelevant we have become. That’s as true for the dumbest and smartest of comedies as for the most critically revered dramas, from “No Country for Old Men” (but especially for women) to “There Will Be Blood” (but no women). Welcome to the new, post-female American cinema.
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>>>Women make most household purchases, so the feminists are okay with commercials that belittle men (and somehow increase their appeal to women).<<<
Well, they’ve lost a few customers (me and my friends) with their shenanigans, I won’t buy any product that commercializes totally ficticious clueless men. My husband is strong, intelligent and very capable and I resent products that attempt to denigrate him.
Actually, I thought the commercials were kinda cute when they first started coming out because that type of man is so alien in my world. I don’t know any clueless men. Now, I just get pissed.
I bought the Alien quadrilogy series. All four theater releases but also all four with extended scenes - directors cut. It even made the prison planet one (3) more interesting, and that's saying a lot. lol
Mila Jovovich, in the Resident Evil’s are great too.
I thought Aeon Flux should have been titled Aeon Sux.
it was a super-hero flick for little girls, but it was decently made.
Directing?
:-)
I’m a woman. I like going to see chick movies like Sense and Sensibility and other historical films. But mostly I like the same movies that appeal to guys. “Master and Commander,” “Star Wars,” “Air Force One”—things where men are men and stuff blows up. I’m going to go see Ironman but I would pay to avoid some feminist movie about some woman self-actualizing, whatever that means.
“Gods and Generals.” “Gladiator.” “Maverick.” “Red October.” “Die Hard.” “Independence Day.” There has to be heroism or people don’t want to see it.
That’s why I LOVE “Lifetime” channel. It puts most of the really crappy programming into one easy-to-skip-by channel. Otherwise, we’d have to pick and choose channels until we get a good car chase, complete with a fruit stand.
And tv shows and commercials.
I guess she has a problem with not a Bareback Mountain movie grossing over 100mil for its opening. Stupid Manhola.
Sic Semper Britannia
That’s the problem (beauty) of FreeRepublic, so many great minds and I seldom beat them to the punch!
(in my best Maxwell Smart voice)
“Missed it by that much”
>>>having to admit that male-driven films are what brings in the money. Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones, etc... all are entertaining, and guys will fill the theater for them.
Perhaps it would help if Hollywood could remember how they used to be able to make films written with plots beyond non-stop explosions and gore, with actors possessing a bit of masculinity instead of David Geffin’s leftover twinks, with actresses actually able to portray a role by acting rather then having their surgically created chest do their work, and directors who could craft a scene without the vertigo of MTV video-style cuts every 3/4s of a second.
Making films for the lowest common denominator has become nearly the entire industry. That men are so willing to settle for Hollywood’s mediocrity is no indictment of women.
Commercials like that are part of why so many men just aren’t bothering with getting married and having families any more. The climate is such that it just isn’t worth the risks for the few rewards.
This is part of why Anime has really taken off...
They just can’t fathom that guys want to see macho guys doing macho stuff.... and SO DO WOMEN!
Yeah, you don't see much of that nowadays.
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