Oct. 11th, 2007

trinityvixen: (lifes a bitch)
[livejournal.com profile] droidguy1119 has an update for me on the Warner Brothers "we don't like female stars" policy that I mentioned a day or two ago. Apparently, the blogger who broke it is a crazy person. who is not well liked.

By people who might actually have made the exact faux pas blogged about. Read this article denying the no-female-lead clause. Yep, sounds like an average blogger just trying to stir up trouble...

...except for this part in the supposed "defense" of character of the studio against claims of misogyny:

As for Neil Jordan's brainy twist on the vigilante genre, "The Brave One," Robinov said he is "proud of the movie," which Foster continues to support around the world. "It's tricky," he said. "It may have been too rough for women, and we didn't get the reviews we had expected."
(emphasis mine)

That's right, ladies. A movie about a woman who experienced violence and loss and went vigilante is "too rough" for you. Any woman who claims to have sat through--and enjoyed!--Batman Begins two years ago is a filthy, lying whore. That role was clearly too rough for you, and it's a damned good thing Batman's not a chick, because no way would a chick have been able to pull that off.

When Warner Brothers would like try to try and rally a defense of what was supposedly said that isn't patronizing, self-important, and completely insulting, I'm all ears. Hell, at this point, I'd prefer to hear them fucking admit what exactly was said, even if it was, "Fucking bitches, man. They can't open movies for shit. We ain't making no more girlie pictures."

(Ire aside, there was one sterling moment of clarity that shone through the Hollywood-ese bullshit where the person being quoted suggested that a problem of marketing the film The Invasion--which was already troubled by reports of rewrites, accidents, and friggin name changes up the wazoo because until yesterday I was sure it was only called Invasion--was to blame and that the male and female leads did not promote it hurt the film's box office. That's great. I'm truly thrilled to see Hollywood exercise the old standby of, "It must be the actors!" so long as the blame is shared. But perhaps all the other things I mentioned might have had an impact? No?)
trinityvixen: (blood drop)
Via Pink Raygun's "Ask an Amateur Scientist" column for today, this video (which was fascinating enough I watched it covertly at work):



Hey! I'm getting the hang of this embedding thing! No offense to the columnist, but since the guy in the video did all the work of debunking Uri Gellar, why do you get to write a column about debunking him as if this is news? Still confused on that one.

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I had the funniest dream I've had since I dreamt about putting my cold feet under Rimmer's tight ass. Actually, this one might have been funnier because I kind woke myself up gigglng. And it featured Dexter! Who was being, as ever, his wonderful self. Nothing spoilery about the show (or even the character much) but I'll cut because it's a tad longish. Still fucking hilarious the more I think about it.

No, really: I WOKE MYSELF UP LAUGHING )

Woke myself up laughing, I tells you.

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Speaking of laughter, I'm glad to see that the second season of Robin Hood is making no attempt to not be the most ridiculous television show ever. I thought Prison Break was ludicrous, but Robin Hood wins at being wall-to-wall absurd and knowing it. Prison Break likes to pretend it in someway has a relation to reality. Robin Hood has no such illusions. Everything that happens is the most eye-rollingly, giggle-inducingly RE-COCK-ULOUS thing that could possibly happen in that particular instance.

They tried to take a turn for the "dark" this season, I heard, but as a girl who went with the fun and torture of Farscape's second "dark" season, it takes a lot to impress me. Also, bondage queens making mewling noises at the Sherrif make it hard to take evil seriously. It doesn't hurt that the Sherrif and Guy of Gisborne are still writing the textbook of typical idiot villain moves. They need a Scott Evil to help them out with the "why don't you just shoot him?" idea.

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