A female character can have a influential role on a film without having to speak to another woman.. I think that how women are portrayed in cinema would be much better measured, by the choices those characters make. Are they rational? This is subjective, I realize..

I think that the reason why most of these films fail the test, and why most movies would fail this test, is because I would assume the majority were written by men. Writers are often egocentric, even when they don’t think they are. They write stories of how they see the world. Or how the world sees their character, which they’ve been projecting themselves onto the whole time they’ve been writing.

Honestly, this girl got annoying when she said that “Woody Allen has the nerve of to not have her (Stein) speak to another female character in the entire film.” She can critique all she likes, and measure movies by stupid standards to her hearts content; But trying to tell Woody Allen how to make a movie… I think her time could be better spent barefoot in a kitchen

THEY CAN”T TAKE OUR FREEDOMS!!!!!… OH.

For that I’d expect the other half and for the thing to actually fly!

also, this movie doesn’t look as bad as I thought it was going to be

Damn, I write better when I am in school.

uggggh.

2001 is pretentious as heck, but I’d much rather take a movie that FORCES me to think over one that dumbs me down.

Your Usual Suspects critique was ridiculous and says more about YOUR character than the movie itself: The twist WAS supposed to be a surprise; when the movie came out you were NOT supposed to even know there was a twist in the first place! And WHAT EXACTLY IS WRONG WITH A SHAGGY DOG TALE? Some of the BEST stories are shaggy dog tales themselves!

Tarantino’s writing is episodic because he reads a lot of novels. It’s also good for character development. If more directors wrote like Quentin, we’d have better movies. I bet this ‘critic’ has never read a novel in his life. Perhaps this critic needs to do some reading before he bashes someone for spurious reasons.

But the best is his critique of American Beauty – AB was supposed to be a SATIRE – it ripped everybody fairly and equally – and his talking points – ‘scoffed at traditional American values’ – what? The same traditional values that enabled white settlers to kill so many native Americans? ‘The movie trashes everything from the military to marriage.’ Uummm, yes it’s supposed to as it’s a black comedy. Speaking of ‘trashing military and marriage’ how many innocent ciilians dided for all those non-existant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? And don’t HALF of all marriages in the US end in divorce?

His criticism of Scorcese is relevant – but by that token, The Godfather should be overrated as well as there are no likeable characters in that either!

I Do agree on The Graduate, Some Like It Hot and Chinatown are overrated though.

P.S. Where are the REALLY overrated films? Like Out of Africa, Silence Of The Lambs and Michael Bay’s entire career?

“Fire cannot kill a dragon.”

I want to see that little girl kick the shit out of people with her sword skills.