Chip Douglas, Chip Doug-lasss… why does that sound so familiar?
In all seriousness, it’s a Hollywood feminist politics thing. The film has mostly women in the lead roles and no one wants to bash it, out of fear of being ostracized and/or because they want to push the agenda. It’s their way of fighting the patriarchy.
It’s weird, but I really believe it’s true. It just kind of sucks because the filmmaking world as a whole is suffering collateral damage.
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ChipDouglas (1607)
2 years ago
Just playing devil's advocate to your thought. The villain was a girl. I suppose you could say that because it was an AI it had no gender, but idk. If they made the villain a boy I'm sure the moviechat boards would be lighting up with all kinds of these posts.
I'm not super quick to jump on the it's a feminist politics thing because gender didn't really serve any primary role in the movie despite what you mentioned about the men being idiotic. The CEO was written terribly. His "jokes" never landed for me.
I do agree though. Hollywood has its agendas and critics are probably afraid as you stated. They're also probably not as critical of thinkers as they used to be. This movie really had NOTHING going for it for them to even think of leaving a positive review. As we know, controversial topics like feminism drive clicks and that is reason enough for critics to pander to those audiences to gain attention.
I think the best thing might've been the power washer kill or the Toy Soldiers piano solo and they would've traditionally never been enough for a horror movie to receive a good review.
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2 years ago
Yeah M3gan was the villain, and female, but she was ‘badass’—she was dressed to kill, she wore eyeliner, she drove a sports car at one point—and she punished a bunch of men.
She was a sympathetic villain in a way. She was just protecting the girl.
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