I thought the movie made it pretty clear that being a whore is what gave you AIDS.
This thread is called “Sending the WRONG Message” 
Forrest Gump: All that matters is athletic ability, anything above the shoulders is unnecessary and perhaps harmful.
Armageddon: Oil Platform people are really good at stopping major catastrophes.
I thought the message of Snow White was “Don’t go acting like you’re so pure around here when everyone knows you were slutting it up with seven midgets out of town.”
Thelma and Louise. Sorry, but the message “commit a violent act in a fit of rage, then flee with your friend across the country while robbing stores because society won’t understand and you assume you can’t get a fair trial so why not add on a few more crimes…”
And then literally go off the deep end into the canyon–good sell for radical feminism.
There was another version of the song done not too long ago with an additional verse, where Rudolph rather gently does just that. Can’t find it on google amongst all the links to the old one, though.
This was a LOT more apparent in the play, when not only is he wearing a letter jacket/sweater at the end, but has at least one other scene where the guys are ribbing him for becoming a jock and he tells them off.
I agree that the movie glosses this over a bit, doing it all together and quick right before Slutty Sandy shows up, and the first thing he does is toss the letter sweater away so they can tart it up together. It bugs me, it does.
The Little Mermaid (which, don’t get me wrong, I adore) bothers me a bit with its “I’m 16 years old, I’m not a CHILD anymore!” theme. Sorry, but 16 years old is a child, and maybe, just maybe, your father really loves you and is concerned for your safety.
Yeah, she kinda sorta learns her lesson, but she just pouts and bats her eyes and Daddy makes it all better and gives her what she wanted all along - a man she’s “in love with” who tossed her off for a black haired version of her, and whom she’s never had so much as a conversation with. ETA: Worse, her own attempts at taking her life into her own hands fail miserably, and so a man is required to empower her.
Slasher movies - sex is always a death sentence.
- when trapped in a spooky house with a murderer, the best course of action is to split up and investigate individually.
Independence Day - alien technology apparently runs on Windows.
That’s the message sent by every high school in America . . .
A lot of so-called “feminism” (and I used to use this film as Exhibit #1) seemed designed to make men wonder if Maybe they really are inferior.
Talk about the wrong message. . . .
Oh my god that one is great!
Flashdance: The only way to realize your true dreams is to have sex with your boss…
How do you figure?
Of course, that presumes that the film is meant to have a feminist message at all. To me it’s far more of a nihilist message, that all choices are ultimately futile and life is ultimately pointless, whether you’re trapped in a bad relationship or on a multi-state crime spree.
I think that was Mac OS 7.5.1
Imagine the number of geeks who would say “Oh, no, if they were superior enough to master interstellar travel, they’d be using open source software, just like me and my friends! … well, my online gamer friends…”
Like tumbleddown, I don’t believe Thelma & Louise was intended to “sell” radical feminism. I’ve heard the pitch was literally “Butch and Sundance, only they’re women.” There’s a feminist message in that rape and sexism are portrayed as being Very Bad, but I certainly never had the impression that the audience was being encouraged to emulate the behavior of the heroines, especially since things obviously don’t work out very well for them in the end. The police are also depicted in a fairly favorable light – they’re at worst just doing their jobs, and the Harvey Keitel character is openly sympathetic to Thelma and Louise’s plight – which isn’t very “radical”.
Louise’s beliefs about how things would go at trial were probably pretty accurate. It would have been difficult to persuade a jury that Thelma was unwilling, and in any event the man wasn’t an immediate threat when Louise shot him. A good case could be made for manslaughter rather than murder, but Louise did in fact kill someone in a situation where it was not necessary for self-defense or the defense of another. She was likely going to prison even with the fairest trial in the world. And they don’t rob stores just for kicks, they rob IIRC one store because they’re desperate for money after Louise’s life savings are stolen from them.
I thought it’s message was twofold—Namely that Ashley Judd is to acting what Taco Bell is to authentic Mexican cuisine and that apparently Tommy Lee Jones would be glad to reprise his role from The Fugitive in any old piece of shit movie, just as long as the paycheck clears the bank…
Also: If you’re good enough at what you do, you can get a job in that general field, even if it involves a stylistically different application for which you have demonstrated absolutely no aptitude.
Because…that’s exactly what happens. Mulan is injured in battle and kicked out of the army when her true sex is discovered. She does successfully kill Shan Yu using fireworks. She is then offered a high-ranking political office, which she refuses in order to go home and marry Li Shang, which has become more important to her than her country. The first time she is truly comfortable with her self-image is when she sees her reflection as a more confident but feminine, traditional woman upon returning home.
MAS*H (TV series) - If you’ve got great talent, you can be as self-righteous, sanctimonious, mean and petty as you want to be.
See Also: House, Gregory.
I assume you’re referring to Winchester as Frank Burns was NOT a great surgeon.