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[–] yuri@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That’s a really awesome thing they did and I respect it a lot.

I don’t think that changes the quality of the movie though, right? Unless you mean like, “They wouldn’t have done that if the movie hadn’t been made, so it’s a good movie by merit of having enabled the cheering up of one specific group of dying children”? Because I suppose you could make that argument, but I don’t know if many folks would agree with “the butterfly effect” as a metric for movie quality.

[–] Sizzler@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a case of being tone-deaf, along with clearly sexist characters, how much of a bimbo did they make the male lead? Yeah, not as progressive as you want to pretend.

[–] yuri@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’m agreeing with you that the problem wasn’t women. Also Hemsworth’s character was incessantly annoying, I’ve literally never heard someone praise that performance.

[–] Sizzler@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Agreed, I liked the girls roles they had a spark between them and good characters, but it doesn't stop the fact people would call the film problematic if it was a woman on Chris's role. It did have glaring sexist issues.

[–] yuri@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Having them improv in like every scene really did ‘em dirty.