# Poor Things - movie. Open spoilers after first post

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [January 21, 2024, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-things-movie-open-spoilers-after-first-post/996425 "2024-01-21T04:12:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poor-things-movie-open-spoilers-after-first-post/996425/40 "2024-02-04T15:28:20Z")

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> [@DSeid](#):
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> No. And is completely okay for you to decide, based on a trailer and some MB comments that you have no interest in a particular movie. You have lots of choices of what to see and should watch what you think you will enjoy.

… and yet, I’m immediately getting straw man arguments about my reasoning for why I am unlikely to see the film.

> [@DSeid](#):
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> Again, this is not a safe rehash remake redo or extension of a known property; it is something definitely … different. It is not Barbie.

And implications that my opinion is based on the fact that I must be an unsophisticated consumer of art, who is only happy in my comfort zone.

> [@DSeid](#):
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> What is a bit much is for someone who has not seen it to have a strong opinion about it

I have a strong opinion about why I am unlikely to see it, in part because I have yet to see serious discussion addressing the fraught context of a sexualized and empowered woman written by and for the male gaze.

I don’t think it’s a “bad” movie (haven’t seen it) or that it shouldn’t have been made, or that you can’t like it. It’s great that you like it. Maybe it’s a great movie. Maybe I would like it.

But the dismissiveness and defensiveness with which you and others seem to be responding to even the suggestion that there’s even something worth being critical (as in analytical) about wrt men putting sexy women having sex on screen continues to give me the impression that this is not a movie for me.

> [@DSeid](#):
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> Have you gone ahead and review bombed it on Rotten Tomatoes?

Ah, so my opinion is just “a bit much”, but being an asshole in CS is perfectly called for?

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