Ocean's 8--real movie or chick flick?
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June 11th, 2018 at 2:02:54 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12533 |
Are you arguing that Mel Gibson is a woman? “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
June 11th, 2018 at 2:12:42 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
It was about a mans influence over women, it's wasn't about a bunch of women with a man off in the distance somewhere. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 11th, 2018 at 3:00:13 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | The best thing going for Ocean's 8 is a cameo by Marlo Thomas: |
June 11th, 2018 at 4:35:29 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
80 year old Marlo Thomas. Not exactly Jane Fonda.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 16th, 2018 at 1:44:41 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 | Ocean's 8 stars blame dominance of male critics for film's mixed reviews Dem wascally wite males and their mixed weviews! Well, this is a slash in the balance towards "chick flick." If a star is saying white male critics are a problem, the movie is just not mainstream, is it? The President is a fink. |
June 16th, 2018 at 2:07:42 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
One more thing we can blame on rotten tomatoes. You can obviously tell the middle age white guy bias. They have an agenda and it pushes ticket sales. Rotten Tomatoes 87% Strait Outta Compton (10,269,500 tickets in first week) 70% Ocean's 13 (7,370,000 tickets in first week) 68% Ocean's 8 (6,508,800 tickets in first week) There was not a single actress among the five principals for Strait Outta Compton. Corey Hawkins Aldis Hodge O'Shea Jackson Jason Mitchell Lakeith Stanfield There was only a single actress among the eleven principals for Ocean's Thirteen George Clooney Brad Pitt Matt Damon Andy Garcia Don Cheadle Bernie Mac Casey Affleck Scott Caan Carl Reiner Elliott Gould Al Pacino Ellen Barkin |
June 16th, 2018 at 5:54:12 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I realized it in the 70's, women in movies are boring, even to other women. Women in real life are generally boring. I've heard many women admit it. It's still a mans world, men have the dangerous jobs, the glamorous and exciting jobs. Watching a woman act like a man in a movie just looks dumb. Ever see 'Salt'? O my god. She weighs 100 pounds and beats up entire rooms of men twice her size. The first thing they taught us in self defense class was, no matter how good you are, if your opponent is substantially bigger, he will probably win. An SUV will always beat a VW bug. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 16th, 2018 at 8:07:53 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
Saw it and hated it. The premise was silly, but all the stunts were awful. It just did not fit. Let women act like women. An example would be Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side." That was a woman acting like a woman, and it worked. Not a movie I will watch again, but I did enjoy all but that last 10 minutes, which felt tacked on. But she played a good part. The President is a fink. |
June 16th, 2018 at 11:34:20 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
In training, you are always paired off with a person your size. Just like you never see a bantam boxer fight a heavyweight. Yet in the movies, self defense is used constantly to show one small person beating not only people far larger, but whole squads of them. And the audience thinks, sure, you could do that with training. Only if you're from Krypton. Run, that's what we were taught. Defend yourself and run. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
June 17th, 2018 at 4:48:35 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
It was in one of those chain emails 20 years ago. In a movie, 5 guys attack one guy, but they do it *one at a time* so he can fight them off one by one. IRL, a group of guys would attack another all at once, and it would be over in seconds. The President is a fink. |