the feminist wet dream

Many of us found this movie misogynist enough already.

This film doesn't reflect feminist ideals. If anything, I would say it reflects a misunderstanding of feminism or fear that feminism is some attempt at retaliation against men for years of abuse - for example, a pagan sacrifice of a man would be like revenge for the witch hunts, which was basically a women's holocaust.

I'm guessing this is probably meant to be scary to men who misunderstand and fear feminism, or maybe Christians who misunderstand and fear Paganism. Although, like feminism, hurting someone goes against witchcraft.

This movie is a perfect example of what men who hate women think feminism is like.

imho

this isn't any of those things. it is a crappy re-make and doesn't make sense with any of the aforementioned ideologies ... those are valid discussions but not based on this film for damn sure. in my opinion.

just saw this version on SighFi, yeah the original was better.

I agree with most of the above posters that the film is a exaggeration of how regular people imagine an extreme feminist 'pagan' community. Or at least how people imagine they would want to be. In fact I think the imagination is somewhat true for the original film.

OTOH there are a lot of parodies of conservative Christians in film that are taken at face value. When a movie depicts some small towney Bible thumpers forming a lynch mob because someone had sex, I think a lot of viewers just nod and don't see it as a parody.

Why doesn't someone make a version of a misogynist pig, like myself, going up to that island and killing everything on it, John MacLane style?

Ya know OP, I was thinking the surprise second ending should be a right wing President, who happens to have a Southern accent, declares that the sect to be terrorists and constitutionally calls in the Predator Drones to incinerate the island. Cage's last cell phone call provided the evidence.

Hollywood, I smell sequel! Better hustle off to the Copyright office.

The writer/director clearly came off as an anti-feminist (and I'd say, arguably, anti-woman), misogynistic creep. This film's depiction of women and feminism as evil is about as subtle as a brick to the face.

And to make matters worse, it became obvious to me and my best friend (for all the disgusting anti-women propaganda in the film, it is highly entertaining in an ironic, so-bad-it's-good, kind of way) that the director tried to mask this fact poorly at several points. Particularly with the female cop in the beginning who was thrown in just so they could point to her and say "see, she's not evil!" as an excuse. (I don't even recall her getting a clear name)

As a 23-year-old man who was raised by a single mother (with help from my grandmother and aunts, as my dad left when I was a kid), I have a lot of respect for women, and to be honest, in many ways I consider them to be the superior gender. (Sorry guys) They put up with so much and accomplish so much. So to me, I was disgusted by the portrayal of women as all being evil, maniacal masterminds of male-torture and murder.

And FURTHERMORE, this is my signature! SERIOUSLY! Did you think I was still talking about my point?

Since there are so many willing to argue this being a femiphobia film, i'll take the other spectrum on this. The funny thing is, i know about feminism and the extremist side of feminism (femi-nazis if you will). I was honestly surprised that this was directed by a dude because the type of *beep* the summersisle chicks pull is in keeping with the doctrine of the extremist branches of feminism.

Now i understand that this isn't all feminists, however it can't be denied that there are women like that in the world. Look it up, Lizzie Borden isn't the only one to pull *beep* up *beep* on dudes. There are even women out there today who teach younger women it's perfectly okay to use a cattle prod (it's not an actually a cattle prod but the device i'm talking about might as well be since it has the same amperrage output) on a male's nuts if they even approach them.

Now angling off that, the Male vs Female thing is actually something the director wanted to change up, not for femiphobia reasons. it's my understanding after the listening to the commentary is that he went with a more relatable dynamic vs the idea of a religion vs (which was what the original was doing). Also i don't think Lele Sobiesky (i guess that's how you spell her name) would want to sit in a room with someone who was a mysogynist to do a commentary and joke it up. But seriously though before you go off on this being a feminist bashing film, go listen to the commentary track. It's a pretty interesting listen as to why the director and Nicholas Cage (some of the scenes were changed at Cage's behest) went the way he went with it.

Also, sidenote, i was one of the folks who was hoping that smug lead bitch at the very least got her brains blown out. She really pissed me off and irked me to no end after watching the film that the bitch got away with murder. Also agree with the OP that it makes no sense that Nick Cage's character didn't check his firearm before heading out on the last day. Every officer would do that, pull back the slide to see if a round was loaded, especially if you strongly believe that you're going to have to use it.

Depends on the feminists since there are different categories of them. If it's the 'I want to be treated as an equal to men' camp then no. If it's 'all men are potential rapists and should be treated as such' type then absolutely.