Im just started watching a movie and it had a warning "This film contains an unlikeable female protagonist"

This never happened.

What Julia Roberts movie was it, OP?

The MPAA requires it now for all Joan Crawford movies.

Abandon now or ye faith will not be restored.

It was intentional on the part of the film-makers.

I believe it all started with Helen Lawson's third picture, "Unlikable Female."

OP, I hadn't realized that Madonna had finished filming her bio pic.

Oh, I love Zoey Deutch! She was the best thing in Zombieland 2. And I loved her mom growing up and they look awfully similar, so I feel like we got a really cool do over with her.

Tongue in cheek or not, it’s very stupid. It assumes the audience has never spent time with an unlikeable protagonist in films or otherwise, and if they did, they’d have a hard time connecting with them. Or something. Sounds like something a female writer would come up with.

Was she...too....quirky, OP?

And just how unlikable did she turn out to be?

[quote]Sounds like something a female writer would come up with.

I was just saying in another thread that this place doesn't have nearly enough misogyny in it, so thanks for that post!! 🤗

[Quote] "This film contains an unlikeable female protagonist"

As God is my witness, how many labels are they going to put on 'Gone With the Wind'? Do people really need to be warned that they might--just might--be offended by a movie? Fiddle fucking dee dee!

Was her name Karen?

[quote]Tongue in cheek or not, it’s very stupid. It assumes the audience has never spent time with an unlikeable protagonist in films or otherwise, and if they did, they’d have a hard time connecting with them. Or something. Sounds like something a female writer would come up with.

There are a lot of meta jokes in Not Okay. After the warning, it's divided into nine parts with title cards, something like "Frasier," all of which comment on the fact that it's a movie.

And it's pretty terrific. Zoey Deutch is very good, but there's an actress named Mia Isaac who is fan-fuckin-tastic playing a sort of cross between David Hogg and Amanda Gorman.

Daryl Zanuck had it put at the beginning of Leave Her to Heaven.

OP here - I didn't realize it was joke (or intended to be). It should have said "this film is unwatchable". PU!

Poe's Law strikes again.

Honestly, is there any movie where the protagonist is completely likable throughout the whole movie, regardless of gender?

r9 trying desperately to keep the culture wars alive, even after being told it was a joke from the filmmakers.

[quote] Oh, I love Zoey Deutch! She was the best thing in Zombieland 2. And I loved her mom growing up and they look awfully similar, so I feel like we got a really cool do over with her.

I love her. She's a good case for nepotism. I'll take her over people like Zoe Kravitz or Rumer "Potato Head" Willis any day now.

Zoey owes everything to her Mom, the great Patti.

Women are infallible

Yes, this is a real thing. The younger generations are so pathetic that they’re precious little feelings have to be spared from knowing that the culture wasn’t as PC 50 years ago.

*their

[quote]Yes, this is a real thing. The younger generations are so pathetic that they’re precious little feelings have to be spared from knowing that the culture wasn’t as PC 50 years ago.

Again: it's part of the meta-joke the movie is making about the current culture.

r19 Babe. 100%

R26. No. I’ve seen these kinds of warnings preceding old movies.

[quote]I love her. She's a good case for nepotism.

I remember her from Ringer, the Sarah Michelle Gellar show about the twin who took over her (seemingly) dead sister's life. She was the bitchy step daughter and I remember thinking, wow, in someone else's hands, this would be a terrible caricature of a bitchy step daughter, but she's oddly compelling as a bitchy step daughter and kinda sympathetic.

Didn't see her in anything again until Zombieland 2, and after that, I was a fan.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost certain that warning was used in "Mame."

[quote]I believe it all started with Helen Lawson's third picture, "Unlikable Female."

I love that movie!

I think that was released just before her series of Blaxploitation movies in the early 1970s...I always especially loved "White Mama, Black Heat"!

^ I really loved that scene where Helen pegged Ken Norton with a big strap-on in that movie!

I'd never seen anything like that at the movies!

Later, after Helen fucked the guy who was head of the Hollywood Hays office, in charge of those disclaimers, they changed it to:

"This film has a real cunt as the female lead."

Buck would never have countenanced such a warning on "Ordinary People"!

^ Helen's agent sent the Hayes Office a case of Helenesque perfume, but it didn't placate them.

Faye Dunaway?

I Saw What You Did?

I could see it used on a Hillary biopic, but people would already be aware of that.

It's got to be this movie

[Quote] Oh, I love Zoey Deutch! She was the best thing in Zombieland 2. And I loved her mom growing up and they look awfully similar, so I feel like we got a really cool do over with her.

I thought Zoey was charming in Vampire Academy and Flower. Dylan stans don't like her so i'm sure their sex scene in Not Okay where he calls her character a damaged girl went over well.

Did you faint dead away, OP?

It’s so hard to do Irony these days