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Review Of What Women Want
posted by Scott on Wednesday December 27, @08:19AM
from the movie-reviews dept.
Movie Reviews 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)
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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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