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Woman screws up entire city; her man has to fix it.

posted 11 years ago by TheManInOil
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Much as I like Del Toro, this is a really bad knockoff of the aliens franchise that lacks any intelligence or even common sense. Mira Sorvino is fine but unlike Ripley her character is hapless and irresponsible. She 'saves' Manhattan by creating a potentially even bigger problem (proving maternal instincts) and the only reason it doesn't escalate from there is that men sacrifice themselves to make it right. Her husband/fiance/whatever somehow isn't consumed in the flames of her ineptitude but does manage to fix what she broke. Not exactly the feminist image Ripley embodied, for instance.

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[–] nite_eternal 11 years ago

Very sexist commentary and I disagree I think it's a great movie. But then again I am a huge Del Toro fan as I am in original movies. The sequels however were god awful.

[–] ShotgunRex 10 years ago

Liberal definition of sexist: "disagree with a woman".

[–] PreachCaleb 10 years ago

Liberal as in loose.

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[–] SweetD19 9 years ago

Not at all. Is it that you don't like a woman having an opinion? You don't like her disagreeing with you?

[–] Kunta_Kinte_III 11 years ago

that's just a poor assessment;

the disease that the custom bugs initially solved was an epidemic; there were more kids shown on 'life support' in the triage or hospice ward or whatever in the intro sequence than the giant cockroaches ended up killing in the end.

Sure, the custom bugs weren't a flawless solution; but they certainly WERE a solution. the loss of life prevented by stopping the epidemic dwarfs however many people the big bugs might have killed subsequently

[–] MrRazorz 10 years ago

She 'saves' Manhattan by creating a potentially even bigger problem (proving maternal instincts) and the only reason it doesn't escalate from there is that men sacrifice themselves to make it right.

Except that Susan was the one who actually figured out what was going on, while Peter was still fumbling about denying the whole thing. She was also the one who worked out the Judas' evolution and how they were able to mimic humans. She volunteered for the dangerous job of going out to rewire the fusebox, and was only refused that job because - as the expert on the creatures they were fighting - she was the last expendable member of the group. And she was the one who killed the male Judas (which she'd already stated was the deus ex machina they needed to wipe out the whole species) risking her own life and saving the kid in the process.

She may have caused the problem, but she was also the most instrumental character in fixing it. Peter played as big a role in the solution as she did, and Leonard sacrificed himself to help them escape, but Manny? Manny died like a dumbass.

[–] Sergeant343 9 years ago

This bugs me too, for she should have had a greater part in eliminating the colony, other than just taking out the King.

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[–] Koosh_King01 9 years ago

Much as I like Del Toro, this is a really bad knockoff of the aliens franchise that lacks any intelligence or even common sense.

Yes and no. It's based off of a short story from 1950 by Donald A. Wollheim. So in that sense, it isn't a knockoff. However, having actually read it, it takes only the core idea from Wollheim's tale (insects posing as humans) and uses it as the basis for a clearly very Aliens-inspired film. So in this sense, it seems like, yeah, they wanted an Aliens knockoff, and did what James Cameron did with Carnosaur when cashing in on Jurassic Park: taking a pre-existing work (by Australian author John Brosnan under the pseudonym Harry Adam Knight) work of fiction that was relatively obscure, changing basically everything but the title, and making it similar to a movie popular at the time (even though Mimic seems a little late to the table.

This movie was okay, but I'd like to see a faithful adaptation of Wollheim's story. Ditto Brosnan's. Carnosaur, done right, could make for a fun feature film, whereas I think a faithful adaptation of Mimic would work best as part of an anthology film like Creepshow or a TV series like The Twilight Zone.

I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?

[–] cokezero99 9 years ago

Why is it that a woman cannot make a mistake in a film? Any time a woman is depicted in a non-flattering light in film feminists bitch and moan. Is it inconceivable that she is a HUMAN and made a mistake as all humans do? No, to you feminists, women are beyond mistakes. Go back to your safe space.

PS: Yes, she does save Manhattan. The evolution of the Judas to becoming monstrous killers was unforeseeable. It was NOT her fault and yet you want to make it look like she was depicted as an idiot so you can push on your victimization narrative.

I cannot stand people like you. You feminists.