I don't remember all the women being referred to as bitches and kunts, Heartland. The guys even wanted their women back, almost as if they loved them and cared about them! 😀 They also had major personal flaws, like alcoholism and dealing and using drugs, killing an innocent child, and cowardice. Hardly male role models.
In any case, I think you really should take the case up with the serial killers and torturers out there, who are mostly male. Or do you want moviemakers to pretend there's gender equality in the world of serial killers, sadistic torturers, drug dealers, and thuggish muscle? Will that advance whatever agenda you have? You like those action films where 110lb women are always beating the crap out of 200lb hardened martial artists, do you? Usually looks fake to me, so I'm not a big fan.
I liked it because it surprised me on a couple of occasions. For example, I was sure the kid was going to be taken hostage for an extended period. In movies like this, where the protagonist has lost his family and you're pretty sure he can always take care of himself, the filmmaker usually adds someone in, like the kid, to be put in jeopardy so it feels like the prot himself is in jeopardy. Didn't happen.
There were also a lot of really minor things that I liked, for example when Neeson did the double window knock when the cop wasn't going to check out where he was hiding.
How would men feel if women continuously made films of chopping off men's dicks, then killing them, and their women went off to be heroes to get the bad guy. Men's only purpose being that of a mutilated victim referenced as a cock who "looked scared." Doesn't sound so appealing now, does it?
I think you've got some issues if you "continuously" see the opposite of what you're describing. As to whether I'd like a movie such as you describe, I don't know. I only see two real problems: I'd be holding my dick in sympathetic pain every time one got cut off. And men come across as more powerful and threatening when they try to beat the *beep* out of each other, thus adding to the suspense.
I think you've convinced me to add another 2 points to my rating, because I get so sick of this kind of whining.
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