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    The Noble RenardClover Hope
    1/06/16 3:24pm

    Saw Creed last week. SO GOOD, right? Michael B. Jordan is amazing, Tessa Thompson is amazing (she was so good in Dear White People too), and even Stallone was acting better than he has been in years.

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      Cherith CutestoryThe Noble Renard
      1/06/16 3:28pm

      Tessa Thompson is amazing (she was so good in Dear White People too)

      And Veronica Mars. And 666 Park Avenue (which was garbage but she was good in it). I’m always happy to see her.

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      MisterJinglesThe Noble Renard
      1/06/16 3:33pm

      Now I’m interested. Didn’t know about this movie and probably would have skipped over it because of the band it unfortunately reminds me of.

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    meritxell: an erotic lifeClover Hope
    1/06/16 3:31pm

    No, “women” as a whole are neither better at nor worse at anything than men are, but each of us has our own individual strengths or weaknesses (GASP I KNOW).

    I could probably be a better filmmaker than Michael Bay but a worse one than Stanley Kubrick I hate this pseudo-empowering “women are better than men at X” shit. We’re not more or less complex than your average guy because we’re not a fucking monolith. Nor are we some mystical foreign species of “natural storytellers” that is more in touch with the moon and the tides. Why is that so hard to understand?

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      Cherith Cutestorymeritxell: an erotic life
      1/06/16 3:36pm

      Also, to Jill Soloway’s point, boys grow up playing dolls. Even aside from the fact that any kid can play with whatever they want, that’s what action figures are.

      Still, they meant well.

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      meritxell: an erotic lifeCherith Cutestory
      1/06/16 3:38pm

      I get that they mean well and Coogler is right about there not being enough opportunities for women behind the camera but it is still an incredibly fucking dumb (and ironically potentially damaging) thing to say.

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    Bingo BronsonClover Hope
    1/06/16 3:27pm

    I was pretty bummed when the Hollywood Reporter’s Director Roundtable didn’t have Coogler and instead 5 directors of mediocre films. Creed is truly better than the meh Danish Girl or whatever fucking movie Danny Boyle made.

    I remember reading that smug letter the editor wrote about not having an WOC on the Actress Roundtable...as though these people don’t have any part in creation of the Oscar buzz, as though there were no good roles for WOC...and then THIS GUY actually made a movie, a good movie with diverse characters. Mind you, Creed is much better than the two films I mentioned and I gave up on Tarantino a long time ago, but they still ignore Coogler. What dickheads.

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      Bingo BronsonBingo Bronson
      1/06/16 3:32pm

      Also seriously? No women directors? The director of The Diary of A Teenage Girl? Desiree Akhavan for Appropriate Behavior? The lady who directed Girlhood? No Laurie goddamn Anderson for the stunning Heart Of A Dog which has like above 95% on Rotten Tomatoes?

      Again, these people have a substantial part in creating buzz during the awards season and I can’t believe they just absolve themselves of trying to represent movies made by women and people of color by claiming they don’t exist at all.

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      Cherith CutestoryBingo Bronson
      1/06/16 3:32pm

      I hope it gets nominated. It really deserves it over a lot of mediocre “prestige” films.

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    paultoesClover Hope
    1/06/16 3:52pm

    I’ve never seen a pic of him before, just his name. But, damn. That’s a beautiful man.

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZpaultoes
      1/06/16 10:13pm

      i saw him first

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      paultoesRooo sez BISH PLZ
      1/06/16 10:15pm

      But can you do this

      GIF
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    Legna NoeledClover Hope
    1/06/16 3:28pm

    I remember being surprised that Point Break was directed by Katherine Bigelow. That movie was great but it seemed kinda bro-centric and vulgar.

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      Cherith CutestoryLegna Noeled
      1/06/16 3:46pm

      There was a short-lived sitcom called Grosse Pointe, which was set behind the scenes of a TV show.

      And there was an episode where a female show runner/director comes in and starts taking over. Everyone is up in arms. One of the reasons being that she writes in locker room fights between hot shirtless dudes (who wants to watch that garbage?!). And when she’s finally gotten rid of things go back to their natural order and it ends with a locker room fight between hot girls in towels.

      I feel like Point Break is a lot like that. With a lot of the focus being on hot surfer dudes. And Patrick Swayze has his shirt off a lot. And Lori Petty is hot as fuck in it but not in a real hot bombshell type. And it’s all very not male-gazey. So, it being directed by a woman was not surprising.

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      Legna NoeledCherith Cutestory
      1/06/16 4:03pm

      I saw the movie for the first time last year knowing (almost) nothing about it. I saw it as a big-budget, tent pole summer movie type. I guess I just figured Hollywood then (and possibly even more now) would never hand the reins of that type of movie over to a women.

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    Stig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.Clover Hope
    1/06/16 3:30pm

    Penny Marshall made two movies I enjoyed immensely in my younger years. A League of Their Own and Big. Also loved her in Laverne and Shirley.

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      Ken Yadiggit, AdiosStig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.
      1/06/16 3:34pm

      I forgot how fucking YOUNG Tom Hanks was in Big....

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      Stig-a-saw-us wrecks loves nuclear power.Ken Yadiggit, Adios
      1/06/16 3:41pm

      I remember how young he was as a young single lady.

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    VoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriverClover Hope
    1/06/16 3:52pm

    Every time I hear about how “woman” or “men” are better or worse at something than the other, I cringe a bit. People are not monolithic groups. I have no doubt that there are amazing female directors who aren’t getting exposure. But that’s because of industry wide sexism and an entrenched good old boy system of cronyism, not because being female makes a human better at movie making. This isn’t Star Trek with it’s Planet Of Hats ie The Warriors, The Conniving Capitalists, The Sneaky Backstabbers, The Military State Dictatorship. Funny thing is, off all people, Joey from Friends says it perfectly. I don’t remember the episode but Rachael was trying to find what a light switch turned off and on in the boys apartment after she and Monica were forced to move after losing a bet.

    Rachel: Are you saying that women can’t do it? Joey: Women can do it; you can’t.

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      Bingo BronsonVoteyMcVotefaceThePartyVoteDriver
      1/06/16 3:59pm

      Oh god, sorry for cut pasting my other comment, but here we go : I think we can look at it this way, PoC and Women have to flex their emotional empathy muscles a lot more than White dudes ever have to bother with. Remember those studies where they found out women were willing to watch stuff with white dudes and PoC were willing to watch stuff with white dudes but white dudes had more reluctance in picking out “women’s films” or “black films” to watch? Same with books?

      IF we take art out of it, in daily life, women and people of colour are forced to struggle and imagine themselves in the image of the non diverse culture around them, women, PoC and LGBTQ people, disabled people... And the key of most good work and artistry is emotional empathy. If any of these people with already good creativity - if they were pushed into creating art would be excellent at it. For example, many brilliant white male artists still had racist and sexist artwork. Now, people who had brilliant creative minds and were diverse were given the opportunity, they would create great art without the racism and sexism.

      It makes for an interesting point. No gender is innately better at “art” of course, but culture and the way we relate to people and the nature of our imaginations is extremely important to art.

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    jpomonkeyClover Hope
    1/06/16 4:54pm

    Transparent’s Jill Soloway made a similar poignant remark in a New Yorker profile back in December, referring to women as natural storytellers. “We all know how to do it. We fucking grew up doing it! It’s dolls,” she says. “How did men make us think we weren’t good at this? It’s dolls and feelings. And women are fighting to become directors? What the fuck happened?”

    Well, then, I should have grown up to be a porn director, because all my dolls ever did was have sex with each other.

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      Amron1Clover Hope
      1/06/16 3:30pm

      That is some good macktivism right there. This guy is going to get laid.

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        Cherith CutestoryAmron1
        1/06/16 3:39pm

        Well, he’s really hot and succesful so he shouldn’t have any issues with that anyway.

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        meritxell: an erotic lifeAmron1
        1/06/16 3:41pm

        omg macktivism that is genius

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      lisaroweClover Hope
      1/06/16 4:11pm

      i thought i read somehwere that tessa thompson asked for changes in bianca’s character because originally she was just the doting girlfriend.

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