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Fed up with Alpha-Female movies!

posted 16 years ago by Ponyboy90
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I liked this movie for reasons I've posted in another posting I've placed on the board. One thing I don't like and I see this A LOT in movies coming out of Hollywood these days, and that's all these movies with alpha-female leads.

The boys in this movie were made too look like losers/weak, and the girls were made to look like they were in command and had it going on in this film. Case in point, the scene in the car when goldilocks holds a scalple to that guys face telling him that he was going to dress like a tranny or else she'd kill him. Total BS. That would NEVER have happened in any real-life situation. Girl would have just got her a$$ kicked if she tried that with a man.

Another movie that comes to mind is the Hitcher remake that came out just last year. Again, another BS-alpha-female lead in that film.

Hollywood has been pushing a feminist agenda for the past 15 years with it's shows and it's movies.

[–] Englandizer 13 years ago

Also I just thought.

The female lead in horror movies thing started out in the 70s, then since the 90s exploded and is the norm.

However, for some odd reason the 1980s it always seemed to be a teenage male lead, Fright night, silver bullet ( I know its book), Weird Science, the Hitcher, The Lost boys, Trick and Treat. others still had adult males; The Thing, Tremors (I know its 1990, but its still very 80s in style), alligator.

1980s was always the best decade for cult horror films in my opinion and the fast majority of 1980s horror movies were male leads.

[–] keep-flying 13 years ago

I don't mind. Personally I love impressive women, don't we all? As long as it's a balanced mix, I'm not fussed. I would understand your complaints if like 80% of the movies have Alpha females, yes.

[–] nessakf_02 12 years ago

I'm completely fed up w/ movies making women look like total defenseless idiots. Finally we see some movies where the woman takes a stand and refuses to let the "bad guy" win. And as far as her holding a scalple to Nik's throat, that could totally happen in real life and he wouldn't do a thing about it unless he wanted to get cut. He certainly wouldn't kick her a$$.