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Joss Whedon really hates this movie.

posted 13 years ago by Darwinskid
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While a lot of people happen to like this movie, a billion dollar director and writer, and general comic book enthusiast, by the name of Joss Whedon frankly detests it.

Article right here-
http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2008/01/titular-movie-t/
Actual quote-

"I hate Weird Science not a little," he said. "I find it offensive. The boy fantasy of building a girl. Obviously, we were doing the nasty version of it, because I find it grotesque."

To be fair, while the concept is juvenile and a teen boy's fantasy, Hughes did give the boy creation personality and didn't just have her pose for the camera every ten seconds. Give him credit for that.

Thoughts?

...SPOON!

[–] 9 years ago

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[–] fiatlux-1 8 years ago

I'm still trying to figure out why anyone should even care what Joss Whedon thinks.

I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

No one who is anyone cares about anything that Wheedon thinks, or does, or experiences. Buffy The TV Show fans, on the other hand . . .

. . . are not anyone; and, no, Pionergiiiirl, I still won’t sleep with you.

[–] 8 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Joss Whedon is a fanboy feminist mangina though and is really just parroting the crap he is expected to parrot to look good for his overlords.

[–] TiaTamaragohomee (91) 6 years ago

he's a pussy but I liked firefly

[–] Bosdog6777 (817) 6 years ago

Who's Joss Whedon?

[–] CountJohn (602) 6 years ago

This is funny because it turned out Joss Whedon was cheating on his wife which is substantially worse than teenage boys fantasizing about building a hot robot girl. A lot of the time when someone does the sanctimonious male feminist routine it's because he's covering for something, as we've been finding out a lot during MeToo.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Joss Whedon is a self-righteous sanctimonious hypocritical faux-feminist, but he has a point about Weird Science. It isn't a good film.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

It's a terrible film.

I don't often agree with Whedon, but he was right on this one.

It's John Hughes' worst film after Sixteen Candles.

[–] Batty67 (358) 6 years ago

I disagree. It is not even a bad film...however, it IS extremely dated and was juvenile even for 1985. It is also pretty funny in places.

[–] Cognoscente (2663) 4 years ago

Ironic, considering his recent notoriety.