Review Of What Women Want

	posted by Scott on Wednesday December 27, @08:19AM from the movie-reviews dept.
	Don Feder in his latest column for Jewish World Review writes about the new movie What Women Want. The movie, of course, is degrading to men and features a feminist utopia where Mel Gibson puts aside his traditional masculinity for the traits of a female-worshiping lapdog. As Feder puts it: "Like most of today's movies about relationships, What Women Really Want is relentlessly anti-male. Men are dense. Men are crude. Men are self-centered. Men just don't listen." There's no need to support male-trashing movies such as this, and I'd be wary of anyone who enjoyed it.

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A superior alternative... (Score:1) by BusterB on Friday December 29, @01:44AM EST (#1) (User #94 Info) http://themenscenter.com/busterb/ My mother and sister just went to see "What Women Want" and predictably thought it was "cute." They usually roll their eyes when I start going on about "men" and "women," but this time I had a constructive suggestion. Go and see "Cast Away" instead. Unlike the Mel Gibson effort, "Cast Away" has no put-downs (and for those who care, no nudity or swearing that I remember). True, at the beginning Tom Hanks' character is obsessive and consumed by work and "the clock," but he has a woman who loves him in spite of his faults. The movie avoids making a lot of hay about the long-suffering, noble woman who loves a jerk of a man... we've all seen that schtick before (see "As Good As It Gets" with Jack Nicholson). Instead, he's just a normal guy with a few odd preoccupations and habits (like any of us) and he loves someone who loves him. After his ordeal, he doesn't become a Changed Man in the feminized sense... he just happens to have a different outlook on life, and the movie doesn't make try to make a Message out of that, either. The whole thing is just a well-acted story about some extreme things that happened to a normal man and as a result changed his destiny and his outlook. So tell your lady friends to skip "What Women Want" and go and see "Cast Away" instead. They won't be disappointed.

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