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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2012 18:07:03 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood,
If you wonder why you're having a hard time getting people with mental faculties greater than 13-year-old boys into the theatres, you need look no further than the trailer for "Revenge of the Son of the Titans Boogaloo", with it's Manson cover of a Eurythmics song and its plot which apparently consists solely of monsters needing to be slaughtered (but without gore).
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Post by MrsCatHead on Jan 6, 2012 20:19:28 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood,
Find some way to show that a man is tense or pissed off other than a sidelong jaw shot with him doing that little closed mouth gritted teeth tension thing. I have noticed this for years. YEARS. And I'm just sick of it. Get creative.
Grumpily, MrsCatHead
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Post by kanding on Jan 7, 2012 5:26:43 GMT -4
And could you stop using that same shot while a man's having sex? You know, a man has been known to make noises, not just manfully clench his jaw muscles while a woman is wailing away underneath him.
So, yes, I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone. Show men making some noise during sex and please show less missionary position.
Thanks.
Kanding
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Post by Augustus on Jan 7, 2012 13:43:18 GMT -4
And could you stop using that same shot while a man's having sex? You know, some men have been know to make noises, not just manfully clench his jaw muscles while a woman is wailing away underneath him. So, yes, I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone. Show men making some noise during sex and please show less missionary position. Thanks. Kanding Please include a stop on the OTT wailing as a banshee for women when they're having sex.
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huntergrayson
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Post by huntergrayson on Feb 9, 2012 2:28:06 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood:
"Project X" is quite literally the worst title for a teen comedy in the history of ever. I'm so sure folks are going to see the words "Project X" in the newspaper or on a marquee and go "that sure sounds like a comedy." It's like you created a fake lazy placeholder title and never bothered to replace it.
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smockery
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Post by smockery on Feb 9, 2012 12:46:48 GMT -4
Actually, it makes me think of the movie with Matthew Broderick and a chimp.
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thneed
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Post by thneed on Feb 10, 2012 1:00:37 GMT -4
It makes me think it's a sequel to Fight Club
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robneville
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Post by robneville on Feb 20, 2012 15:49:16 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood:
Maybe sometimes it would be a good idea to think a little out side the box when it comes to telling us what is and isn't attractive.
Because of a number of things she's done over the past few years I've got a huge crush on Kristen schaal. I think she's beautiful and 20 shades of awesome.
Last night I was flipping channels and saw the opening credits for some movie I'd never seen before with Liev Schreiber dressed in 18th century clothes but using a modern camera and being chased by Hugh Jackman and thought " OK, might be some time travel movie, I guess I'll watch this." As the credits continued and Jackman got into a particular outfit I realized it was that movie he made with Meg Ryan years ago called Kate and Leoplod. I kept watching and he goes down to a party where he's to pick a wife, he's been told to pick the richest girl there and when he touches her on the shoulder and she turns around the audience is supposed to find her comically homely and unappealing and Jackman will want to flee from this hideous creature and were all supposed to laugh because the Hero of the movie never gets stuck with someone so homely and always ends up with the beautiful babe.
Yeah, well...Hollywood fucked up big time on this one because as I watched this for the first time ever I had the exact opposite reaction from the one they intended me to have. When the woman turns around my first reaction was "Hey! That's Kristen Schaal!" and then "Cool, Kristen Schaal is in this." and then "WTF..hold on...hold on..you're telling me I'm supposed to find this woman unattractive and unappealing and laugh when Hugh Jackman dodges a bullet and rejects this dog." Instead I'm supposed to root for Jackman to end up with Ryan who in this movie had what looks like greasy, stringy unwashed hair and creepy plastic surgery lips and I'm supposed to find her more appealing than Kristen Schaal? Nope, my reaction to watching this now was.. " Are you fucking crazy..that's Kristen Schaal!!...you're going to pass her up for bland ,boring Meg Ryan..pal, you so don't have a clue.
I know this was early in her career and she was yet to do many of the things that have shown her to be so awesome but isn't one of the themes of many of these rom-coms about loving someone for who they are. I didn't watch the rest of the movie once it was clear Schaal only had that bit part as "HOMELY, UNATTRACTIVE WOMAN AUDIENCE WILL LAUGH AT." but I would have totally watched it had the roles been reversed and Meg Ryan with her stringy hair and creepy lips was the one who turned around and Kristen Schaal, (allowed to be her quirky, wonderful self ) was the one Jackman pursued.
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Post by Shalamar on Feb 20, 2012 20:47:47 GMT -4
Amen. I must have been watching the same broadcast, because it was a couple of days ago. The sad thing is that Meg looked downright normal then compared to how she looks now. Kristen, however, was lovely then and is lovely now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 20:05:46 GMT -4
Dear Hollywood: Maybe sometimes it would be a good idea to think a little out side the box when it comes to telling us what is and isn't attractive. Because of a number of things she's done over the past few years I've got a huge crush on Kristen schaal. I think she's beautiful and 20 shades of awesome. Last night I was flipping channels and saw the opening credits for some movie I'd never seen before with Liev Schreiber dressed in 18th century clothes but using a modern camera and being chased by Hugh Jackman and thought " OK, might be some time travel movie, I guess I'll watch this." As the credits continued and Jackman got into a particular outfit I realized it was that movie he made with Meg Ryan years ago called Kate and Leoplod. I kept watching and he goes down to a party where he's to pick a wife, he's been told to pick the richest girl there and when he touches her on the shoulder and she turns around the audience is supposed to find her comically homely and unappealing and Jackman will want to flee from this hideous creature and were all supposed to laugh because the Hero of the movie never gets stuck with someone so homely and always ends up with the beautiful babe. Yeah, well...Hollywood fucked up big time on this one because as I watched this for the first time ever I had the exact opposite reaction from the one they intended me to have. When the woman turns around my first reaction was "Hey! That's Kristen Schaal!" and then "Cool, Kristen Schaal is in this." and then "WTF..hold on...hold on..you're telling me I'm supposed to find this woman unattractive and unappealing and laugh when Hugh Jackman dodges a bullet and rejects this dog." Instead I'm supposed to root for Jackman to end up with Ryan who in this movie had what looks like greasy, stringy unwashed hair and creepy plastic surgery lips and I'm supposed to find her more appealing than Kristen Schaal? Nope, my reaction to watching this now was.. " Are you fucking crazy..that's Kristen Schaal!!...you're going to pass her up for bland ,boring Meg Ryan..pal, you so don't have a clue. I know this was early in her career and she was yet to do many of the things that have shown her to be so awesome but isn't one of the themes of many of these rom-coms about loving someone for who they are. I didn't watch the rest of the movie once it was clear Schaal only had that bit part as "HOMELY, UNATTRACTIVE WOMAN AUDIENCE WILL LAUGH AT." but I would have totally watched it had the roles been reversed and Meg Ryan with her stringy hair and creepy lips was the one who turned around and Kristen Schaal, (allowed to be her quirky, wonderful self ) was the one Jackman pursued. Amen to that. I haven't seen that movie but Kristen Schaal is perfectly cute. And to add to your rant why does an actress always have to be conventionally pretty unless her character is purposely ugly? Why are there no female equivalents to Steve Buscemi or Phillip Seymour Hoffman? Sure there are a few female character actresses but a) they are mostly not ugly, just not conventionally attractive b) they don't work as steadily as character actors and c) they would never get an opportunity to be the lead on a show /movie making out with men way way hotter than them. This photo from Vanity Fair of Hollywood's best character actors pretty much says it all. 12 men and Margo Martindale and Judy Greer. Greer incidentally another perfectly cute actress who only plays the homely girl or sidekick. Now I love all dudes in that picture but why aren't there more actresses like that?
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