Men's Memes: More Madness from Hollyweird

Sunday, June 11, 2006

More Madness from Hollyweird

Can the forthcoming Superman film help reverse the decline in cinema audiences and the exodus of young men away from traditional popular culture outlets like films and TV?

Lets see how its gay director describes it:

“(this film is a) chick flick about a superhero seen from a woman’s perspective, with qualities you’d want in a husband”.

Hm.

Incidentally, Lois Lane now appears to be a single mother, and in one of the trailers I saw recently she hautily shoots Superman down with a statement along the lines of "I don't need no man."

Are any men actually even going to pay to see this?

5 comments:

jw said...: I doubt that most males would want to see this film ... unless the cinematography is brilliant.

What I do not understand is why film, newspapers & TV cannot understand that simply removing misandry would bring the males back to these media. Why? Why can't they see such a simple thing? Why do women so enjoy misandry? Why would a woman who wants a man in her life spend money promoting a concept which will ensure she does not get a man in her life?

It's all so self-defeating ...; 10:18 am
Anonymous said...: Women are herd creatures who, especially these days, are incapable of long-term thinking or of understanding cause and effect. If culture encourages women to express a hatred of men, then they'll do it, and have no ability to link this attitude with having no men around who want anything to do with her.

This film does sound pathetic. I have no interest in it. I'll stick with the original three, especially the second one; General Zod was brilliant!; 11:22 am
the author said...: 'a chick flick about a superhero'

Yeah... doesn't inspire confidence.

The general prevailing belief in Hollywood is that you write the film with lots of 'deep emotional content' ie. the characters pore over their emotions and well up with tears every 5 minutes, and you devote a great deal of screentime to a strong female character. This way you get the 'young women' demographic.

For young/old guys alike, all you need are a few action setpieces & they will come. That's the idea.

Films in HW are made by committees for demographics. They tend to fall down the cracks in their attempts to please everyone and make lots of $$$.

The best films are mainsteam ones made by directors who have just come out of the independent sector (like Tarantino, who Mirimax took a chance on) and independent ones of all description.

I advise guys disullusioned with the cinema to go to support their local independent rental store, or use an online DVD rental site to get their films. These are really good, often cheaper & more flexible than 'high street' video chains (which are usually just full of 100 copies of 'What Women Want' with Mel Gibson).; 5:22 pm
snootfish said...: Well, at least average guys without super powers can feel good that even superman suffers from the same types of things as they do.; 10:46 am
Dark Wing Duck said...: They pulled this crap with the Hulk movie too. 1 hr of silly emoting, followed by 1 hr of action. Wait for the DVD and use the FF and mute button.; 4:41 am

Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."