Another movie that showcases bad D/s dynamics. Add in a bad SW and here you go.
There were a couple ways to end this, and I was really hoping they would take one of those routes, but they didn’t. It could have been way better.
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In what other ways could have they ended it that it would have been better?
The movie's message is very hypocritical because it claims to promote feminism but actually promotes female supremacy (women ruling over men, not the equality message that feminists tend to preach). The barbies getting their world back from the Kens is seen as fair and equal even though it is literally a matriarchy where the men are just there to entertain the women and don't even have their own houses. They switch from patriarchy to matriarchy but never mention it.
I am a very liberal person and I am completely for equality, but not female supremacy. And besides, if it was just a few references it would have been fine even then, but the problem is it is the film's main plot. The whole point of the movie is to lecture to men why they shouldn't be the ones in charge and make them appear as buffoons, as morons who can't do anything right, that's what I despise about this movie. The women are never portrayed as idiots except when they are in a brainwashed state, yet the movie claims to promote equality. That's the problem with radical feminists like the film's director (Greta Gerwig).
I guess next time, before I pay for movie tickets, I am going to actually read the critic reviews and make sure that the filmmaker is not a radical moron before I make my decision. This time, I just foolishly picked the movie based on the eye candy I saw in the trailer. And yes, the eye candy was there throughout the entire movie, but that's the only good thing about the movie, everything else was horrible. Ryan Gosling is a great actor but in this, he is portrayed as a weak spineless man, and the few times where he is portrayed as strong, it is only in a stereotypical way to make fun of him. If the movie really preached equality, it wouldn't be so focused on making the men appear as idiots or promoting a female dominated society, it is because of that kind of stuff that plenty of people (including some women) are against feminism.
I completely understand wanting to tear down the patriarchal aspects of society or calling them out, but by replacing them with ideas of female supremacy, it makes the movie's message lose its credibility, because feminism tends to be about equality, not trading patriarchy for matriarchy, which doesn't even work in the real world. All matriarchal societies are either failures or they are stuck in a very undeveloped state and never make any progress. Also, there is a reason why some jobs are more male dominated than others, very few women want to work in construction, because it is dirty, it is a lot of heavy lifting, and it can lead to broken nails and even serious injuries.
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@lazo I wonder if your mother worried about breaking her nails while birthing you. You say you are for equality yet you are with mysgonist beliefs.
Susie/Theo story part is nonsense. Seriously what the hell does this have to do with the story. It’s like the writers want to throw their own views into the show. Nonsense...
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@whos_ur_buddha You've never heard of subplots, huh?
Review by coldnails
No spoilers here, the only info I'm giving are shown in the trailers.
I watched the first two episodes. It feels like a low-cost Harry Potter. We're quickly in this "weird" school were everything is like in the Harry Potter fiction. The most striking similarity is the existence of 4 houses (as shown in the trailer).
Wednesday it nothing more than an edgy teenager. She's far from being like the "real" Wednesday. The trailer is highly confusing: they showed us a Wednesday that felt like a Wednesday, but they quickly "deconstruct" her in the show, right from the first episode. Without seeing the the end of the first season, I can guess that she will become much more like her peers.
Now, for the good parts, I can say that the scenery is awesome and, as actors, Jenna Ortega and Emma Myers seem to be alright. The lightning could be better at times, bu overall, it's doing a good show at setting the atmosphere.
I wasn't really waiting for this show, but I'm steel disappointed. It definitively does not feel like an "Addams" show. Also, I don't see the "Burton touch". In fact, I'm wondering what Burton added to this show... Maybe the scenery?
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@coldnails I just finished the show and I'm surprised someone else caught the Harry Potter vibe. Even the closeness of Wednesday with the principal (even though on bad terms). And how she dies in the last episode. So oddly similar???
If I'm ever murdered, I don't want Baxter on my case. Dumbest thing I've ever seen was Baxter agreeing to take a ride with a suspected serial killer... I don't care if it's because he thinks he will find the missing girl, it's just dumb, and to be manipulated to dig several holes was just the last straw.
The acting was great, but the story was slow and the ending anticlimactic.
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@chewy74 You think cops are smart?
