Daughters of Feminists

[sobsister]

Um...here's the part where I frighten away every single person who has ever met me. I saw Stepford Wives tonight and my reaction...wasn't pretty. I've never seen the original, and I have no idea how I was supposed to react to the film. I'm pretty sure rage and tears of frustration weren't the reactions the writers were aiming for

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[sobsister]

Wow, I'm impressed you got though my rant. I'm pleased that I saw it, just for the fact that it made me think, even if they didn't intend it to. It's funny in some parts, so even if you didn't get an "educated" rant out of it, it probably wouldn't be a complete waste to see it. :)

[sobsister]

Definitely Video. That way, if you feel like screaming in rage at the screen at any point, the other people in the theatre won't murder you for violating theatre etiquette.

[spatz]

Wow, those links were chilling. I had never heard of the incident before.

I went in expecting a comedy, because I checked out some reviews. However, I got very few, and most of those were chuckles. No belly laughs, and a nagging sense of "Er...what?" It helped that I hated all the characters. Even the protagonists were bitchy, idiotic, and unlikable (this wasn't helped by the fact that the main character was perpetrating reality shows, the greatest plague known to modern TV). Stereotypes abounded: the flamboyant gay man, the uptight stylish NY woman exec, nerdy men, sullen children, housewives, the snarky Jewish woman, the hapless reality show victims... I left the theater with no desire to ever think of the movie again. You know what my lasting impression was? "Nicole Kidman looks pretty as a blonde." Gah!

[sobsister]

Yeah, the Montreal Massacre is quite a big deal in Canada, although not as big a deal as it should be. I can understand how a movie executive in LA or whatever wouldn't see the connection, but for me it was just really upsetting.
I guess "Er...What" pretty much sums it up. In far fewer words, too. :)

[spatz]

I just wonder if that nameless movie executive had even heard of it. We Americans can be horribly ethnocentric.

I guess "Er...What" pretty much sums it up. In far fewer words, too. :)

*laughs* Very succinct, yes. But the rant was more fun ;)

[spatz]

Not ethnocentric, *egocentric*. Whoops!