I'm not sure a film subtitled "she'll never know what hit her" beneath the picture of a brass knuckle would have a long project life (except maybe in Saudi Arabia). But hitting men is hilarious, as the hundreds of ads using this gimmick have proven, so this film exists.
shareThere was no violence against men in the movie you moron. You poor, poor oppressed men. You are always judged on your looks, always paid less, you are always raped and murdered. What a terrible existence for you. I'm so sorry.
shareExactly sleepyhollows!
Yes, you poor downtrodden men. You get the luxury of being offended by a stupid comedy that most people don't even care about, while us lucky women get to experience things like actual physical violence and rape at the hands of men. And have to live with fearing those things on a regular basis.
Tough luck, chinless
You poor, poor oppressed men. You are always judged on your looks, always paid less, you are always raped and murdered. What a terrible existence for you. I'm so sorry.
I'll remember this the next time I see a movie where a woman is beaten or raped.
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Seriously. Let's count every film that glamorizes violence against women.
Don't be surprised if no one cries you a freakin' river
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The important difference that number of films that seam to CONDONE violence against women is much much smaller. Having violence presented and condoning it is not the same thing. For example, if a criminal raped and beats a woman in a film (even if the film is not as serious), he will NEVER be presented as a hero or antihero. He will be a villain and he will die or go to jail. On the other hand, many female character that we are supposed to find likable, commit violence against men. And it's not ONLY evil men. Dozens of times a man says something ironic or a woman is jealous (even if she is proven to be wrong) and she slaps him, sometimes even something worse, like breaking his jaw.
For example, an episode of Big Bang Theory has Howard courting Penny throughout it and she rejects him. At the end, they sit on the bed and she gives him lesson about the importance of conversation before relationship and that women need respect. He still tries to kiss her, slowly moving his lips to her. She had all the time in the world to move away or to put a hand in between. Yet, she punched him with all might. Next scene, the two get together with the rest of the cast, with him having purple half of the face. One of the guys asks what happened and he says he ran into a wall. Then Penny makes a witty statement about how he didn't respect the wall. Now try to imagine that scene with genders reversed. With a *nice* guy beating up a woman for trying to kiss him. Unimaginable, right?
I have absolutely no problem with fictitious violence, but I do with double standards. I also believe that violence should either come from negative characters or in self defense against the negative characters. Or in a parody either way.
Yup. It sure is.
I think people should learn to differentiate real life violence from movie violence. In real life, all violence is wrong. In the movie, that is another story, especially if the movie doesn't take itself that seriously. I was actually not appalled by the violence here (the guy was a D-bag), although it did get unnecessary strong. On the other hand, I'm more upset some female bad people don't get the same treatment in films. For example, I wouldn't mind seeing Stu's girlfriend from the first Hangover getting beaten to a pulp or worse.
Actually I have an example, horror film Last House on the Left. OBVIOUS SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
So, after these three criminals kidnap and sodomize two girls, parents of the surviving one hunt them down back. One male criminal gets his hand ripped in a dishwasher, and his skull smashed with various kitchen objects. The main one gets severely beaten, tied-up and his head is brought to a microwave, where it explodes. And the female criminal just gets shot through the eye. Granted, she died, but given the context of the film, she didn't suffer nearly enough.
Film violence can be ok in certain context, as long as you never, ever think it's ok in real life.
Both genders were terrible in this movie. Not sure why this was even made..what was learned or gained? Just a waste of money and actors.
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by almontin » Sun Dec 22 2013 00:27:54
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I'm not sure a film subtitled "she'll never know what hit her" beneath the picture of a brass knuckle would have a long project life (except maybe in Saudi Arabia). But hitting men is hilarious, as the hundreds of ads using this gimmick have proven, so this film exists.
Yes, but that's the ad... There's no violence in the film. Abuse? Sure - but then cheating and lying about it is also emotional abuse, so it evens out...
(posted as a guy who wishes other men would just stop whining, if they're the ones who transgressed).
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I notice there is this constant trend of arguments that all seem to indicate something along the lines of how, yes, in general, terrible things that we all know about too well do happen, but reverse reactions to it all don't make those things happen and criticizing another gender of men doesn't solve anything.
On the other hand, a lot of bad things do indeed happen that are humiliating I shouldn't but I often can't help but wonder, besides recognizing their existance, what can or should we REALLY do about it, or is it just all a sad fact of life that sadly has no overall cure for it?
And are those problems simple "good versus evil" battles or are they far more complex and complicated than that? (Probably the latter, but in a way, they are still problems we can do well without.)
Oh wait I forgot, life doesn't offer simple answers PERIOD, so yeah, the problems will exist, and on a lesser note, we may well FOREVER keep having discussions like these, where we struggle with problems, others will pin point double standards and say its bad too, but no simple and overall correct answers will ever be delivered, its human nature.
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