I definitely liked that this was the first boy-meets-girl movie that challenged the Nice Guy narrative, but I wish it had gone further.
Totally! With a stronger female character, the movie could have actually been about this, rather than just tacking it onto the ending. This, of course, would have drastically altered the tone of the whole movie into something totally different. That's a movie some lady geek filmmaker needs to make.
Again, this would be less irritating if a) Ramona hadn't had a rich and interesting story arc in the comics that showed how she and Scott are actually perfect for each other, and b) other movie versions of female characters hadn't received the same bullshit treatment.
Totally. I mean, all sorts of subplots need to get cut to fit a multi-book arc into a single film, but it is annoying that it's always the female characters who are first to go, almost by default.
At any rate, the depth hinted at in the movie of any number of minor characters got me pretty interested in reading the books. Glad to hear that at least some of that is properly addressed there.
I mean, all sorts of subplots need to get cut to fit a multi-book arc into a single film, but it is annoying that it's always the female characters who are first to go, almost by default.
Totally! With a stronger female character, the movie could have actually been about this, rather than just tacking it onto the ending. This, of course, would have drastically altered the tone of the whole movie into something totally different. That's a movie some lady geek filmmaker needs to make.
Again, this would be less irritating if a) Ramona hadn't had a rich and interesting story arc in the comics that showed how she and Scott are actually perfect for each other, and b) other movie versions of female characters hadn't received the same bullshit treatment.
Totally. I mean, all sorts of subplots need to get cut to fit a multi-book arc into a single film, but it is annoying that it's always the female characters who are first to go, almost by default.
At any rate, the depth hinted at in the movie of any number of minor characters got me pretty interested in reading the books. Glad to hear that at least some of that is properly addressed there.
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Yeah exactly.
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