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This is why...

posted 9 years ago by Zeppo103
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...you don't hire female directors.

I know, I know, that sounds like I'm trying to be a provocative troll. And the comment IS misogynistic, I'll admit.

But it's true - female directors are mediocre to bad. There is only one exception - Kathryn Bigelow.

Everybody else..I mean, from overrated, awful Nora Ephron to Catherine Hardwicke's incompetent Twilight film to Mimi Leder...more mediocrity.

And that's where the problem started in this film...the fish rots from the head.

I'm not sure what it is, but they can't seem to make it work.

I mean, this film cost SIX MILLION to make, and it made 32 thousand! That's a massive flop!!

Someone out there has a 6 million hole in their pocket. Ouch. Serves them right for not getting a good director.

[–] X-Hal 9 years ago

Hey now, "Lost in Translation" is a great damn movie, directed by Sofia Coppola! It's slow, and you have to watch it at night or you won't be able to get into it (seriously I tried watching it during the day, it was ALL wrong), but it's swell.

And... and then there's... and, um... well that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Crap. Now I'm thinking I'd better take up directing, because I'm amazing and we need better representation. <.<

To be fair though, there aren't many that even exist. I mean if we make a time-machine and fast-forward a hundred years so the directing's shared 50/50, I betcha it'll be about even. At least I hope so. Because you know, like 90% of ALL movies suck anyway really, so it's not like men are doing an across-the-board smash-up job. They've just got their fingers in more pies. ;)

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[–] goleafsgo27 9 years ago

Love your comment Hal, and I'll toss in a Penny for your thoughts. Marshall directed one of the legendary baseball movies of all time, A League of Their Own, as well as Awakenings and Big.
Lisa Cholodenko did The Kids Are All Right
Gurinder Chadha did the only soccer film many of us have seen, Bend It Like Beckham
Lone Scherfig did An Education
Jane Campion did The Piano
Gillian Armstrong's long list includes Mrs. Soffel
Martha Coolidge did Rambling Rose

and on and on.............

I have seen enough to know I have seen too much. -- ALOTO

[–] X-Hal 9 years ago

Oh dear, I haven't seen most of the things you listed! Time to go add to the list.

Heh, "Penny."

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Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

[–] Embee-El 9 years ago

This comment is just ignorant.

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[–] MrsFarhanAkhtar 8 years ago

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Children of a Lesser God
Big
The Prince of Tides
A League of Their Own
The Piano
Sleepless in Seattle
Black Beauty
Little Women
Clueless
Fire
You've Got Mail
The Prince of Egypt
Can't Hardly Wait
Boys Don't Cry
American Psycho
Pay It Forward
What Women Want
Shrek
Monsoon Wedding
Bend It Like Beckham
Frida
Something's Gotta Give
American Splendor
Lost In Translation
Water
North Country
Little Miss Sunshine
Waitress
Persepolis
The Namesake
Mamma Mia
Sita Sings The Blues
The Proposal
Coco Before Chanel
An Education
Winter's Bone
The Kids Are All Right
In The Land of Blood and Honey
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The Iron Lady
Ruby Sparks
Frozen
Enough Said
The Virgin Suicides
Thirteen
Salaam Bombay
Monster
Gas Food Lodging
Selma
Concussion
The Hurt Locker & Zero Dark Thirty (I know you mentioned Bigelow)
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Grbavica
Kung Fu Panda 2 & 3
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Matrix series
Cloud Atlas

Off the top of my head.

Having said that, this movie was seriously dull and boring. Good day.

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