Um… That’s true of pretty much every single person living in the US, and many other countries where Big Business is a thing.
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It’s strange that you decided to try writing fancy to defend a movie that’s basically Paul Blart tier.
Ah i see we’ve entered the moving goal posts portion of the “debate”. Excellent. Carry on.
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Have you seen it? Seriously, if you’re judging a movie this harshly that you haven’t actually seen, then we’re in pissing-on-cornflakes territory.
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Oh, you’re just adorable. You don’t have a defensible argument, you’re hilariously outclassed, and you’re sticking your neck out nice and neat.
@Falcor, I can I play with this one for a while? PLEEEEEEAAAASSEEEE? I’ll give you ten dollars!
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Maybe the dragon will be merciful and let you keep your toy a while longer.
I think its funny that the aforementioned toy is having difficulty keeping track of who to argue with.
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So are all of us. Right now. Right here on this board. And on FB. And on Twitter. Instagram. Etc. We live in a consumer society. And I never disagreed with that premise, merely that it’s not nearly so cabal like, nor does it negate the misogyny that some of those mad about the movie had exhibited.
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So, if we like it, we’re being manipulated, but if we don’t, we’re not. Got it. Glad to know some of us have found their way out of the Matrix.
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The clitoris is a direct line to The Matrix!
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I never saw it, but I recall Philadelphia getting quite a bit of criticism for desexualizing Hanks’ character (and his partner).
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Not sure if serious…
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Well, that’s good!
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Two films 30 years ago was a “franchise?”
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“Okay” is the perfect description.
The Seven Samurai is an all-time classic, one of the greatest movies ever filmed in any genre. The Magnificent Seven would struggle to make my top-ten list of Westerns. And I like Westerns.
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Wonder when she’ll get around to solving The Mystery of Race in America. Perhaps she can tackle The Case of the White Apologists after she’s done. And maybe then it’s onto The Disappearing Microaggressions and all the others…
But really, your pat formulation says more than I ever could. (So lucky to be spared the rigors of science!) And in lowercase to boot, so as not to offend the sensibilities of the tender!
Sadly I haven’t seen the movie, and can’t afford to. But I am finding all the people who are so angry and offended that others dared to like a movie, a movie for gods sake, very amusing.
(Sorry I couldn’t make it any weirder.)
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You don’t NEED to do anything, but the less you do, the more the default status quo continues. You might WANT to do something because media representation matters for fighting misogyny, and proving there’s an audience for female-led summer blockbusters is part of how that changes. Even if they’re not the second coming of Scorsese or whatever - it’s not like the most recent Michael Bay Oggling Something movie is good, but it’s successful, so they keep letting him do it. If this movie shows that audiences want this kind of thing at least as much as they want TRANSFORMERS X: SHIA LEBEOUF LOSES HIS FEKKIN MIND AND MEGAN FOX IS SWEATY or whatever, it’ll be doin’ fine.
It’s also not a bad way to spend two hours with friends and $15, so I dunno, do you have some aversion to seeing movies in the theater that are pretty fun but not groundbreaking works of staggering genius?
The last movie I saw in the theaters was The Force Awakens, and this was probably equally as fun for me.
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