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Complete BS. It's not one bit. And even if it was, are we only allowed to have films that are politically correct now? Who gives a damn if some fictional character is sexist. A character is a character. God forbid we have meaty characters that aren't PC. Is he going to complain STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is sexist also? Fool. Joss Whedon just sounds like an idiot who is trying to make something out of nothing cause he's bored or has some personal grudge with the film that he hasn't even seen yet. What a moron.
Countdown til Jordan comes on raging about how much loves me! 3..2..1...
This doesn't really bother me and, as much as I'm a fan, Joss often bothers me... And that said--I think his point is legit. It IS a tired trope that the uptight woman gets loosened up and learns how to LIVE thanks to the wild guy who proves her successful business woman ways are wrong. It's also common to rom coms aimed at women--not just action films.
Maybe not sexist as such, but certainly cliched in its barely one dimensional characters and badly written dialogue. But then again, it's a JURASSIC PARK spinoff, was anyone expecting it to be any good at all?
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It's 70'ish and cliche in its sexual badinage. But at least it's not a current worn out cliche.
The current worn out cliche is something quite different. It's the one in which the woman is the voice of sensible reason and the apparently adult man is a juvenile fool.
Eric my take was that he was being sensible and farsighted in terms of the conventional corporate recklessness and playing God with nature that she represents. He was also being chill and sexually aggressive in a very 70s style.
A variation perhaps; a major one on the worn out sexual dynamic we generally see these days.
Right--I think we agree lol. But what I mean is she also represents the strict, no-nonsense businesswoman who plays by the rules. He's the frat boy type who secretly has a huge connection with the way nature etc really works.
It just looks like more of the same -- and Chris Pratt looks entirely too fully dressed for me to bother with this.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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When a man dressed like a grease monkey comes on to a well dressed woman, it's sexist. Whe she comes on to him, it's edgy. When the attraction is mutual, it's stereotypical rom-com. When she callenges him, she's a ball buster. When he challenges her, he's insensitive. When he sets out for revenge, he's doing the manly thing. Whe she sets out for revenge, she's a sociopath. No matter what your story is, you really can't win with the PC police. But if it's a good story, well told, who really cares?