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I can almost hear the "Giggity."
I get the whole Quagmire feel with this exact picture.
"Javier, a threesome with Scarlett and Penelope?"
"Hehe, all right...."
I can almost hear the "Giggity."
Yes, pretty much, when the arguement is weak.
You said that acting and directing aren't the only things that make for a good movie. What does that leave? Plot? Art direction? Costume design? Cinematography?
The only obvious thing after acting and directing is the script, or plot of the story. The plot of this story is about a guy who wants to get in good with a rich family at all costs. He's tired of living at the bottom of society. But, just when he gets what he wants, he falls for a vixen that excites his life. He would much rather be with the latter woman, but the woman he married ensures that he would have the life he's always wanted.
He tries to have a little bit of both, but then everything goes wrong when his paramour gets pregnant. The only choice he has, in order to keep his new life, is to kill his paramour.
That sounds like a good plot.
I will never understand the obsession of heterosexual men in watching two women together.
I have ZERO heterosexual female friends who have any interest at all in watching two men go at it, not even if it's Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom.
If my argument was really so weak, then couldn't you prove your point without the condescending response?
Which is probably why you liked it.
To me, however, it sounds very much like the plot of a film that Woody Allen himself made twenty years ago. And I didn't much like it the first time.
When a director, for the second time, makes a film in which the male lead can over and eventually kill a woman without suffering any consequences whatsoever, my inner female creep-o-meter starts to go off pretty vociferously and it doesn't make for a particularly pleasurable movie watching experience.
Thanks Ploto, I would have never ever paired Brad and Orlando in any regards to any sexual...anything. Now I may never be able to look upon there beautiful faces without the urge to
Thanks a lot!
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Giggity?
It appears that picture was taken at the premiere of Bandidas.
Which was a completely horrible film, of course, unless you count the magnificent performance given by Salma Hayek's s and ass. Truly award worthy.
Why yes....yes they are....
/Six more weeks in the bunk
for the record, i have ZERO interest in seeing two nasty ass butch s going at eachother. now, two hot sexy freaky chicks getting nasty is never a bad thing.
trade in hayek for penelope and you have solid gold.
solid in more than one way.
Ditto x 1,000.
Well... not so much the last part.
Feminism must've killed so many good movies for you.
No. Not really. Match Point was just one of the few that really, really bothered me and made me feel uncomfortable.
Its overwhelmingly anti-feminist point of view was certainly not helping things, but in general I'm not a fan of films where I can't find a single character with whom I can sympathize. Or, if not sympathize, at least a character whose actions make sense within the framework of the film.
You couldn't sympathize with any of the women??
That doesn't make much sense.
The fact that the lead character bothered you so much should have given you a better appreciation for the women in the film. You should have been empathizing with them.
GREATEST ACCEPTANCE SPEECH EVER.
The women in that film were merely plot points, and not fleshed out characters. Which was kind of the problem.
Scarlett Johansson's character in particular was written more as a problem for which we need to find a solution, rather than an actual human female with actual human feelings, motivations, and emotions. Bad girl - make trouble - need die. Character done.
My point exactly-- not an image you drool over.Thanks Ploto, I would have never ever paired Brad and Orlando in any regards to any sexual...anything. Now I may never be able to look upon there beautiful faces without the urge to
Thanks a lot!
You're missing the essence of the movie.
How far will you go to get what you want? What are you willing to do??
This wasn't about Woody degrading women.
I'm not missing the essence of anything.
I get the point Allen was trying to make, I just don't like the way he made it. At no point have I suggested that this film was about Woody Allen degrading women. It was about much more, it just so happened to degrade women along the way.
And, I didn't like it. You did. That's cool.
So, all movies that happen to degrade women, intentionally or not, are bad movies in your opinion?
Because the Godfather movies should be for you.
No. There are several films in my collection that I know for a fact are degrading to women, but they had enough else going for them that I was at least entertained. Match Point isn't one of those films.
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