So like Ghostbusters, an all female team is sent by today's macho run military into a bubble that slaughtered a team of male army grunts. The all male generals of today put together an all female team with Portman, a girl skinny enough to play a ballerina, holding a machine gun that weighs more than she does. If I didn't like the idea of a space anomaly opening up and engulfing the planet while mutating life from our reality when in its reality, I'd barf.
shareNo doubt if the film had been about a team of all male scientists and explorers, you would have made a post whining about that, too. Right?
shareNo doubt? Why would I comment, not whine excuse you, about more realistic casting vs forced casting. Of course that is exactly what you want to hear so you can call me a hypocrite. Anyway you are way off. This pist was meant to be an intellectual conversation about PC.
share"This pist was meant to be an intellectual conversation about PC."
No, it was meant to let a sexist moron who doesn't know anything about the book or movie whine and vent.
Wow. Someone is mad their spouse is banging their nephew!
shareYeah pointing out Portman is skinny and weak is sexist. Funny how criticizing anything with wamen is always motivated by sexism and you have the nerve to accuse anyone else of whining.
shareHaha, didn't realize that until someone mentioned it. I don't really think this is much of an issue as the Ghostbuster one imo. They could be the wives of the soldiers that went in? Anyway its not like they had it like 1 black female, 1 Hispanic and stuff like that. Seemed like all white females went in. Don't think too much on PC/SJW else you'll start questioning everything Hollywood does or make excuses for yourself to not see a movie that would essentially be good. I only complain about PC/SJW shit if it happens to already established characters or if its forced onto the audience in a detectable if not in your face way. This was none of it imo.
shareYa. It's PC washed but not as bad as other movies have been.
shareI noticed it, but it’s based on a book series I believe. If that’s the way it was in the book I rather they follow the source material. Also there may be a reason for it not in the trailer.
shareI read the book.
The characters are female in the source material. However, the book is not politically correct for two reasons:
1. The main character is a biologist. The rest of fields in the groups include psychology and anthropology. Both biology and psychology have a very high percentage of women, and anthropology is not low. We're not talking about mathematicians and engineers.
2. In the book, the female characters feel like real women (I mean: they don't behave like men with boobs). However, I don't remember any scene with one of them holding a machine gun. The book is a psychological thriller where they try to survive gathering the clues and solving the mystery before it's too late.
Of course, Hollywood can have changed them to action heros and Lara Croft wannabes... which basically would screw the story. I hope not, but I fear so.
Perhaps its one of those trailers that gives the impression of one kind of movie and pulls the old switcheroo when you actually see the film and the characters and story will be more like the book. I am interested enough to check it out on blu when it comes out.
shareThe novel is an interesting one. The movie... let's hope so.
However: a warning. It's an unfinished story. It's a trilogy, of course, so it's supposed to be unfinished, but I'd have liked a bit more of conclusiveness. It doesn't feel like the first volume of a trilogy as much as the first third from a long book.
So if brute force failed, you would "barf" if someone tried a more subtle approach. And you can believe in sentient space anomalies, but the idea of an all-female exploration team goes "too far."
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The book, which is a great read, the team is all female and there is a very important reason for it that is explained. The previous team, the team her husband was on, was all male. I really can't say more about the reasoning behind the teams and such without spoiling the book or possibly the film as it is actually a very huge "twist" for lack of a better term when you learn more about the two teams.
Also in the book, only one female, the Surveyor, had the assault rifle. Everyone else only had small arms.
Thank you. I, too, had read the books and understood the reason presented there for an all-female team. They were, I think, the 12th such team, each with a different configuration of gender and skill sets. There was a reason, and the movie is following the book.
shareI go on moviechat.org. Click on the first movie I see. Look at the top thread...and it is another "PC gone too far"-post.
Are there any grown up movielovers left on this forum, that don't get offended all the god damn time? That doesn't feel the need to clank down or whine on every movie or show on here?
Rant over.
Let's hug it out.
There's a lot of angry little 'men' on the internet (not real men).
shareIt's quite telling that these people pissed and moaned about the IMDb boards shutting down, only to move to another board and continue to perpetuate the very behavior that led to those boards being shut down in the first place.
share>only to move to another board and continue to perpetuate the very behavior that led to those boards being shut down in the first place.
proof?
Yeah, god forbid it's a group of 4 clams instead of 4 dicks for once.
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WTF are you babbling about??? This is a Sci-Fi Masterpiece!
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