WTF is that? When did that start?
Im just started watching a movie and it had a warning "This film contains an unlikeable female protagonist"
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 14, 2022 4:39 PM |
This never happened.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 14, 2022 3:24 AM |
What Julia Roberts movie was it, OP?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 14, 2022 3:25 AM |
The MPAA requires it now for all Joan Crawford movies.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 14, 2022 3:26 AM |
Abandon now or ye faith will not be restored.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 14, 2022 3:34 AM |
It was intentional on the part of the film-makers.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 14, 2022 3:35 AM |
I believe it all started with Helen Lawson's third picture, "Unlikable Female."
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 14, 2022 3:37 AM |
OP, I hadn't realized that Madonna had finished filming her bio pic.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 14, 2022 3:39 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 14, 2022 3:42 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 14, 2022 3:42 AM |
Was she...too....quirky, OP?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 14, 2022 3:43 AM |
And just how unlikable did she turn out to be?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 14, 2022 3:44 AM |
[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!! 🤗
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 14, 2022 3:44 AM |
[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!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 14, 2022 3:49 AM |
Was her name Karen?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 14, 2022 3:53 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 14, 2022 4:02 AM |
Daryl Zanuck had it put at the beginning of Leave Her to Heaven.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 14, 2022 4:13 AM |
OP here - I didn't realize it was joke (or intended to be). It should have said "this film is unwatchable". PU!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 14, 2022 4:21 AM |
Poe's Law strikes again.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 14, 2022 4:25 AM |
Honestly, is there any movie where the protagonist is completely likable throughout the whole movie, regardless of gender?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 14, 2022 4:27 AM |
r9 trying desperately to keep the culture wars alive, even after being told it was a joke from the filmmakers.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 14, 2022 4:34 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 14, 2022 4:35 AM |
Zoey owes everything to her Mom, the great Patti.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 14, 2022 4:45 AM |
Women are infallible
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 14, 2022 4:52 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 14, 2022 4:55 AM |
*their
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 14, 2022 4:55 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 14, 2022 5:00 AM |
R26. No. I’ve seen these kinds of warnings preceding old movies.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 14, 2022 5:22 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 14, 2022 5:30 AM |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost certain that warning was used in "Mame."
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 14, 2022 5:57 AM |
[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"!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 14, 2022 6:40 AM |
^ 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!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 14, 2022 6:43 AM |
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."
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 14, 2022 6:46 AM |
Buck would never have countenanced such a warning on "Ordinary People"!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 14, 2022 6:48 AM |
^ Helen's agent sent the Hayes Office a case of Helenesque perfume, but it didn't placate them.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 14, 2022 6:50 AM |
I could see it used on a Hillary biopic, but people would already be aware of that.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 14, 2022 7:36 AM |
[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.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 14, 2022 11:54 AM |
Did you faint dead away, OP?
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 14, 2022 1:49 PM |
It’s so hard to do Irony these days
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 14, 2022 4:39 PM |