It was kind of ordinary. I wasn't bored, but neither was I thrilled, amazed, surprised, shocked, delighted... It's not a bad film, but neither is it remarkable. The comments that I've heard that said it was a "hits of the Aliens, and Predator, series" was accurate
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Actually no, That sounds like I like AVPR more. AVPR commits the mortal sin of cinema, I don't care about it one way or the other. But if I was going to choose a film to watch, it'd be the first one, because it at least provokes a response from me.
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Mind you, is it still violence against women, or racism, or both? Or is it simply the director going 'I'll use that actress and that actress,' and never being consciously aware that two people of the same ethnicity are being killed in a mostly Caucasian cast?
Which raises the other question, if you're aiming for equality, and you're killing lots of Caucasians, when does killing non-Caucasians become a racist act? If the only survivors are Caucasian, by dint of casting, be it deliberate, dictated by the studio, or just picking the best people for those parts, then everyone else dies anyway.
Not asking you specifically, you've just got me thinking out loud, as it were.
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I suppose you could accuse Aliens of only leaving the Caucasians alive, but it killed off most of them first as well as the others. I know Predator II was applauded by some for ending up with an African-American hero, who survived at the end, without any fuss being made about his race.
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The dialogue, which I heard later, had the last girl say, "I've done a traineeship", which was the point of the ad - but it still looked as though it was saying "The CES - we'll let you in, but only if you're white."
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My amount of annoyance and anger is directly proportional to when something was made, the style of film, etc. If I see a modern slasher movie, I expect it to have a high body count for both genders, and likely to be sexist and exploitative. But if I saw a modern film where only women died, I'd likely get pretty pissed off if there wasn't a bloody good reason behind it.
Whereas, if I'm watching a film from, say, the 60s or 70s, that was the nature of the beast back then, and I accept it in the context of the time. Accepting it doesn't mean I like it. I fucking HATE the orginal Ocean's Eleven. There's a good film in there, buried under a pile of misogynistic crap ( ... )
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