3 things...
1) in this day and age, with all the woke snowflakes looking to be offended by every little thing, how the hell did this even get made?
2) Jennifer Lawrence is a beautiful woman. Not sure we needed a film like this for her to prove that to us or what her motivation for taking the role was...
3) it's just not clicking enough for it to be a full-blown comedy. It's hardly American Pie for this generation. It's a damning indictment of helicopter parenting and kids being overly sheltered these days though.
I won't remember anything about this film within a week. Except for the JL getting unnecessarily naked on the beach scene.
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It’s CONservatards who get offended by everything. So bugger off.
Funny but the movie is shallow itself as it's got the idea that beautiful people are shallow inside and ugly people are beautiful. Unfortunately it's not like that in real life. It's also got the bad idea that if you are ugly you should only date ugly people.
Plus Rosemary isn't fat. She's OBESE. This movie promotes the idea of not caring for your health and just eating whatever you want.loading replies
@apokalupsis This review was going in the right direction until the end where your fatphobia came to light and made everything else said redundant and hypocritical. Fat does not = unhealthy, nor does this movie "promote" any idea of not caring about one's health. What Hal thinks is attractive is what translates to inner beauty in this movie. This film is a lesson, not just for Hal, but for the audience. That you shouldn't be shallow, you shouldn't judge people solely on appearance by society's standards. Everyone is beautiful. Beauty is subjective.
@yumakdust on planet called "Find good people in that film. Period".
But your people have to always find politics in movies their hate. And always turn blind eye to their favorite movies. If "Aliens" or "Alien" (the only good one in the franchise) came out in the last 5 years your guys won't shut up about "feminist agenda" in those movies. Or what about beta male character in "Arrival" and female hero (how dare they!) saving the day by the power of communication and not violence (cartoonish bad army guys aside the film was great, I agree)?!
Come on guys, don't play dumb. Let's be real here. There are a difference between making film feminist or pro-war and ham-fisted agendas (idk selling toys in cartoons for example). In the normal world word "agenda" would have been neutral by the way. Take "Starship Troopers" the movie is clearly political, it has anti-fascist agenda. Does it make film bad or insincere? I would say no. How about "1917"? It's none political, but it has anti-war agenda. TV series "Punisher" is none political, but has pro-guns agenda, which doesn't make season 1 bad in my opinion.
As for "Birds of Prey". It's feminist film (Both director and producer are feminist and talked about movie in those terms), it has surprisingly small amount of actual feminist agenda (neutral term - Alien and Terminator 1 and 2 also have some feminist agendas in them). However @Zephir 's "All Women = good, all men = bad" BS doesn't apply here. They tried to make it about politics. They also probably didn't even seen the movie. They just wanted to find something political to talk about and rile up crowd that always falls for "stop putting politics aka woman, gays, and people of any nationality or race accept mine in my movies" BS.
