Rare that a movie about 6 men is a chick flick
Never has it been more obvious what race and gender a writer is from watching a movie. I would bet $1000 to a jelly bean that this was written by a middle aged white man. It is rare that a movie written by a man about men can be essentially a chick flick. Now I'm sure plenty of men appreciate this movie but 90% of people that view this as one of their favorite movies are women. This message board is only 2 pages long because a lot more men leave comments on movies than women and this page is short on comments because it is mostly women leaving them. Women in general are rarely intrigued to learn about who wrote a film or who directed it, what year it was made, ect.
Often I will ask women what their favorite movie is and 99% of the time I can tell them 10 times more about that film than they can. I guess learning is something most women don't find interesting. I'm sure the women reading this are cursing my name but it is a fact that men on average know much more about film than women.
There were a few decent moments in this little movie but I found it to be pretentious hollywood writing. Never is it more annoying than when a character is incredibly insightful to add charm and wisdom to the role. Girls (particularly young girls) don't have the insight to see anything that is not right in front of their noses. Even then they miss things because they lack the same curiosity men do.
Most women are mentally lazy because they can afford to be. The Portman character stole the show at least from the male point of view and although she was decent every word that came from her mouth was simply to obviously written by a middle aged white man.
Yes I am a misogynist and have a general distain for women mostly because of my own insecurities and inadequacies but at least I can admit that.