Bullshit. And I ask you, what about the following is “too confident”?
Is it that I should not have drawn that particular conclusion about the movie? Or is it that I should not have drawn any conclusions about the movie? At what point are what sorts of conclusions appropriate?
“I don’t think I’m going to see this because it seems like XXXXX”. That’s all I said. Should no one ever express a desire or lack of desire to see a film or explain why they feel that way?
What was I “too confident” about, and why was that worthy of being jumped on?
@Whack-a-Mole , you’re falling down the “well, are you just saying that all men can’t make movies with women?” straw man route. I didn’t say that. Just because my current understanding about the plot of this film leads me to be skeptical about its ability to portray a female protagonist and her sexuality in a way that is not a male-centered fantasy does not mean that I think every movie has that problem. It is not just that men wrote and directed it, it is that fact in combination with a plot and execution of the plot that feels like it undermines the story of an empowered woman that the author(s) seem to want to tell.
I’ve never seen Revenge of the Nerds, but guess what, I know the plot (and can maybe find a few summaries to try to ensure accuracy). And, I think it’s reasonable for me to say something like “there’s a bit in which one guy dresses up in the costume of another guy to trick a girl into having sex with him. That’s super problematic, and I don’t want to see that movie.”
Is that not an opinion I should express? Am I not informed enough about the movie to have that opinion? What if I lead with “From what I’ve read, Revenge of the Nerds has a lot of problematic elements and absolutely is a movie seen through the male gaze.”?