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I'm finding the newest Predators movie bizarre, as the formulaic genre pick-them-off is more than a teensy bit hilarious, (really, you just pulled out his entire spine with bonus! attached skull, okay then, and your leader wears a plastic goth-lego helmet with gold teeth on it, uh-huh), yet slathered with genuine moments of spookiness. Not what I was expecting.
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The Social Network aka the facebook movie:
1. I had no idea I'm only two degrees away from Mark Zuckerberg.
2. WTF is up with that freakishly shallow portrayal of women!! For reals, people. Sad!
p.p.s.
Yes, this is my literacy level at 4 a.m. I have a detailed and complex reduction of the various issues, but not the wherewithal to care enough to shove myself into the wakeful mental state required to properly unpack and spell them all out. Not that there's anything wrong with "reals", because there isn't. At all.
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I mean, seriously, fail! It didn't even, at bare minimum, pass the Bechdel Test.
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Beautifully shot though. Breathtaking. Truly masters of the craft. Fingers crossed that such movies will put an end to the loathesome blue/orange oversat nightmare that's cursed this decade.
EDIT: Aaron Sorkin explais the misogyny.
p.s.
The Social Network aka the facebook movie:
1. I had no idea I'm only two degrees away from Mark Zuckerberg.
2. WTF is up with that freakishly shallow portrayal of women!! For reals, people. Sad!
p.p.s.
Yes, this is my literacy level at 4 a.m. I have a detailed and complex reduction of the various issues, but not the wherewithal to care enough to shove myself into the wakeful mental state required to properly unpack and spell them all out. Not that there's anything wrong with "reals", because there isn't. At all.
p.p.p.s.
I mean, seriously, fail! It didn't even, at bare minimum, pass the Bechdel Test.
p.p.p.p.s.
Beautifully shot though. Breathtaking. Truly masters of the craft. Fingers crossed that such movies will put an end to the loathesome blue/orange oversat nightmare that's cursed this decade.
EDIT: Aaron Sorkin explais the misogyny.
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Date: 2010-10-08 12:37 pm (UTC)http://thehathorlegacy.com/why-film-schools-teach-screenwriters-not-to-pass-the-bechdel-test/
Ah, Alison Bechdel. How I used to *love* reading DTWOF when I was in University, proof that the '80s weren't all bad. I'm kind of surprised, but very grateful that her collections of comic strips ever made it into my hands in rural Manitoba.
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Date: 2010-10-08 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-12 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-08 02:17 pm (UTC)Tom is my friend on Myspace, Tom hates Mark with a burning passion; two degrees!
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Date: 2010-10-08 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-08 03:17 pm (UTC)I apply a modified Bechdel test to films for my own demo:
Film stars two (or more) gay men who talk to each other about something other than fashion/hair.
That rules out tokenism, mostly, and gives me something to look forward to when I go to a film. It is a short list, and I'll see all sorts of other things, but I'm THRILLED when a movie passes the "More Than Just Fabulous" test.
I think Brokeback was the last one I saw that was "mainstream."
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Date: 2010-10-08 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-08 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-08 09:48 pm (UTC)facebook is a very shallow place full of shallow interactions
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Date: 2010-10-08 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-11 10:43 pm (UTC)the social network writer response
Date: 2010-10-12 03:21 pm (UTC)http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/10/aaron-sorkin-responds-to-commenter-in.html
Re: the social network writer response
Date: 2010-10-12 08:00 pm (UTC)