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Originally posted by: KnightBreed
What's with all the overanalyzed symbolism? Phallic idolatry? She is seriously over thinking a mediocre summer blockbuster. She should get back in the kitchen and dissect the dichomotic irony of her making me a damn sandwich.
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:laugh: :thumbsup:

Edit: I don't get why you guys are talking trash about T4; not only was it better than T3, it was a decent movie in its own right.
 
That is downright awful. The writing style, the theme, the (lack of) substance - just terrible. It was fairly painful to read. 🙁
 
That's either a really bad joke, or someone takes things WAY too seriously.

Honestly, some people will find issues (gender, social, racial, religious) in anything just so they can give their own personal agenda a good hard wanking.
 
OMG SAT WORDSESS!!!!!1one1!

Seriously though, anyone noticed that very few middle-aged female movie critics approve of action movies in general? Just look at the reviews for Watchmen. Plenty of middle-aged female critics complaining about passing shots of a big blue CG dick and how the action scenes were "too gory" for a comic book movie. What did they want? To go back to the "slap" "bam" and "bop" bubbles of the ancient Batman era?

I also noticed that it was primarily older critics of both genders complaining about the apparently "confusing plot". I hadn't read the comic when I saw it and I followed the plot effortlessly. So did all of my friends. Wonder if it's a generational thing.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Why do all you chauvanists assume it was a female author? 😉
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lulz

anyway, with a little editing it wouldn't sound so bad. A critical analysis simply uses the language of whatever critical theory the author is applying towards the piece in question.

outside of the word "abhorrent" in the second paragraph, there really is no opinion expressed: it's simply a critical analysis and nothing more. She/he could do without that use, but whatever. You could apply Marxist analysis, Sublime (Burke), Platonic analysis, whatever you want to the same film and get a completely different interpretation.

It's language--that's all it is. Nothing out of the thesaurus at all. This is simply the tools of the system; in this case feminist critique. Anyone can write something like this, following rather simple rules, and not be a feminist.

I know there are a few people here in this computer geek forum that understand that, but it doesn't surprise me that most of you guys are reacting the way you are.

:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Why do all you chauvanists assume it was a female author? 😉
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All the talk of phallic symbolism, ovaries, and whatnot reeks of a "girl power" activist. Or perhaps somebody overly in touch with their feminine side. Either way, the whole thing is ridiculous.
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it reeks of a particular critical theory, nothing more. It's a simple copy and paste text, nothing more.


Of course, I forgot that most Universities only require the bare minimum of critical writing these days. not a shock.

Hell, a couple of the film classes I took were pretty much like this. Not has heavy as rhetoric, but you pretty much apply the same tools. Film is only a text, anyway. (assuming it has something worthwhile to say... 😉)
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Why do all you chauvanists assume it was a female author? 😉
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Someone is writing above his/her level...and possibly just having fun baiting the ATOT'ers.

Skoorb? :Q
 
Just tell her that the piece is no better than her rebuttal to the "women are depreciating assets"; it's dull, dry, not witty and an absolute pain to read.
 
<---- Lost!!!!

I didn't understand a word of that. Well, maybe "the" and "is", but the rest of it was over my head!!! 😱 I don't know why people feel it necessary to fill everything they write with big words, when their point can be easily expressed using terminology the rest of us understand!


: ) Amanda
 
Originally posted by: Dacalo
Seems like she is trying to sound sophisticated trying to break down a POS movie.
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Notice the use of big words to try and sound intelligent. They do this because no one really gives a shit about them. They're just upset thay they were born ugly.
 
What did she major in? What does she do? How can I write like that? Do I need breasts and a vajayjay?
 
Tell the writer for me-

"Sometimes a banana is just a banana, Anna"

- John Belushi as Sigmund Freud to Laraine Newman as Anna Freud, Saturday Night Live 1975.
 
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