Man-Hating Mess? *SPOILERS*

No, I wouldn't say it's a "man hating" movie; the vampires are a fraternity and only accepts men, so Gemma's role is SOL from the start - she should've consulted them first!. I think the reviews are exaggerating that part, and due to an increase of PC and the hunger for "feminist" movies it is easy for people who crave it to over step the actual deliverance of that particular element.

2013 Most Anticipated - Stoker, The Spectacular Now, Frances Ha

Not man hating. A man saves the day in the end.
Just two women's perspective.

Most movies out today either hate women or assume that women are morons or at least less intelligent than men, and lacking the depth of male characters. Even movies aimed at women have the main female characters acting like the most important thing they could do in their lives is to find a good man. Even if the female lead is a business woman or someone successful, she is still given the "happy ending" or finding "true love". As if that's really the only thing she could ever wish for and that she couldn't've been truly happy otherwise.

And then you find one movie that hints at men not being all that great and here you are, wailing about it on a forum.

Do you really see nothing wrong with this?

Don't get me wrong, I dislike misandrists just as much as I dislike misogynists, but really now... I've been on IMDb boards for countless rom coms and all sorts of $hitty movies where women were treated as sex objects (t!ts and @ss) or regarded as silly geese or sexy, dangerous femmes fatales. But I've rarely seen anyone complain about how women are portrayed in those movies. And when they do, they get told off for immediately. And now here we are, just one movie and there's already talk of "oh my god misandry!"



Elegant and ferocious neither good nor bad. Full of beautiful things. Unspeakable things

I did not find it particularly offensive in that way. I enjoyed it very much, and while the worst villains of the piece are all men, not all the men were villains; some were positive characters (even though at least one positive male character ends up food).

I do think the mother was given far to easy a time by the plot, but I won't go into that for someone who hasn't seen the movie yet.

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”

I just watched this last night and, yes, I would definitely classify this as a 'Man-Hater'. I don't know what Neil Jordan's beef with his own gender is, but half the movie he makes are Man-Haters were almost all of the men are rapists and masochists (there's usually one Good Guy that's probably supposed to represent Neil Jordan himself). See 'Company of Wolves'. That's about the most Man-hating movie there's ever been.

Oh, BOO HOO. It never fails. One of the very few movies that primarily tells the story from the female perspective, and the MRAs crawl out of the woodwork to tell us how very offended they are....and to offer death threats. "Placing a hit on the writer?" Seriously, dude?

Secret societies of men exist. They have existed for centuries. Now, you can cry and whine about how bad that makes men look, but it doesn't change the fact that it's reality. We had a recent President who was a member of Skull and Bones. These groups are still around today. Only difference is in this movie, they're vampires.

I'm male and think the film is awesome.
Not a smidgen of the man-hating concept occurred to me what-so-ever until I saw the title of your post. I still don't see it.

The film is dynamic and uplifting, and has made my day :)

It's not about man hating.

It's about lost hopes, lost chances, thwarted love, failed love, longing and redemption.