I haven't seen this movie, but I plan to see it with a girl. It surely attracts me as something different. However, there are a lot of posts being shared, mostly critics saying that this movie is very misogynistic, and something that will piss off a lot of ladies. So I ask the collective wisdom of IMDb, is it true ? Because I have some problem trusting critics, I would rather go with common viewers.
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shareBleedin heck, watch some other film, you don't have to watch this with your girl. It's not a romantic or slow paced movie so you wouldn't be able to even communicate much while it's on.
I refuse to answer the question you asked because you used a ridiculous feminist word.
It's a mans film. But some women will like it too.
Well, there are naked women in this and sometimes there are titties out of nowhere but one of the main antagonists is female and she's a super smart scientist who manipulates dumb men to do her bidding.
So no, wouldn't say misogynistic, just not a chick flick either.
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If she turns out to be the kind of person who struggles to separate fiction with reality, to the point where she gets all stuck up on how film characters are or are not portrayed in relation to twisted feministic ideals, then you do not want to know how much more batsh!t craziness she's hiding in her luggage.
If so, then delete her number, and run in the opposite direction.
TBH, don't think so. Although, some sequences do point to the fact that women are considered only secondary in the film. Your girlfriend may not mind, though. I know I'm late.
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oh god how cancerous, why is this a thing? why is this everywhere? why!?
The movie is not misogynistic, but I'd suggest you to decide whether to go or not with a girl, according to the kind of relationship you have with her. For a starter it's ultra-violent, so if the lady is a very good friend of yours, I think there would be no problem. If it's a date, well, I'd pick something else! :-D
P.S. I wrote all the above before reading all the thread. I read you didn't know her well. Did you go, then? If so, how did it go? :)
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Well after seeing this movie it's well past anything that could be considered "whatever-nistic". Maybe nihilistic lol. It's a fun super brutal action flic that is simply beyond good and evil.
It's definitely misogynistic with the depiction of all women as whores OR scantily clad sexy warrior OR as a betraying evil snake bitch. Furthermore it's incredibly violent, contains homophobic moments (like the evil guy kisses him in the end) and hatred for people who are different (freaks like the evil guy). It also makes fun of cripples!
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that as entertainment. I liked it! But the answers here trying to whitewash the movie just amaze me.
Hmm, i just saw it and got the feeling with the ending the movie jokes about the "damsel in distress" trope, that is often used as a shortcut to create emotional motivation in movies or video games (and is now used to create a cheap shortcut for motivation in cyborgs).
Also not all depiction of women fell in those three categories, there were many female citizens during the first part of the film.
It was clearly an offensive movie, but did it depict any misogynistic behavior as good?
Not as i recall.
did it depict any misogynistic behavior as good
The whores, if you look closely do NOT get slaughtered, most of the men in the cabaret if not all, on the other hand do get killed, in horrific ways I might add, and this could be if people be so inclined be considered misadry, actually the whole movie could, as all the plot seems to be about the manipulation of men, to me tho, it mostly about not taking *beep* from *beep* no matter the gender of said *beep* or if they are albino psychokinetic freaks or blonde back stabbing whores.
shareThey don't? I was pretty sure the two dominatrix ninja madams even said so in the parking lot. Something implying that all their whores are dead. Might have been just that their brothel is destroyed. They were very angry with him but then forgave him immediately and went with him to get themselves killed.
But my main point is that the movie is so grotesque that it's beyond good and evil if you like. Arguing the finer points of insanity is just too crazy. But you can certainly argue that it's both mysoginist and misandrist.
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the ending the movie jokes about the "damsel in distress" trope