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What Men Want

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    #2
    nix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭nix


    Looks woeful, void of any charm the original had, the trailer literally had a dick and also a fart joke..


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    #3
    NIMAN
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    I'll be giving that a wide berth.

    Usually trailers are meant to make you wanna see a film ....


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    #4
    Hande hoche!
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    Heard this described as this year's version of the Overboard remake. Seems an apt comparison.


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    johnny_ultimate
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    This looks very bad.

    However, What Women Want was very bad, so nothing of value will have been compromised regardless of how this turns out.


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    #6
    Technocentral
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    This looks very bad.

    However, What Women Want was very bad, so nothing of value will have been compromised regardless of how this turns out.

    But it's being compared to mid period Fellini?


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    branie2
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    It might flop, like the recent Ghostbusters film did


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    ancapailldorcha
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    This looks very bad.

    However, What Women Want was very bad, so nothing of value will have been compromised regardless of how this turns out.

    Agreed. What Women Want was a trainwreck. I didn't know what to expect with it but I was still disappointed.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #9
    branie2
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    I liked What Women Want


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    #10
    Wheety
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    This movement to remake movies but swap the genders is awful. Just make a new movie with women in the leading roles.

    What's next? The Great Escape? Italian Job? Schindler's List?

    Why not remake The Full Monty with women? :-)


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    professore
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    I think the relationship between the main character and his daughter in what women want was good, and there were some very funny scenes in it. Wasn't a bad film overall. You never actually learn what women want though.

    I can just imagine this "remake" will be terrible as it will turn out all men really want is to show their sensitive side and cry into their cornflakes, apart from the toxic masculity sufferers, who want to rape everything in sight, but I am hoping to be proven wrong.

    Oh yeah the bad men will all be white and the good ones all non white. How did I do?


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    professore
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    Just watched the trailer. Way worse than I thought.


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    #13
    Sleepy
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    Surely everyone already knows the answer: "to be left in peace with a nice pint and the paper"?


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    #14
    Lorelli!
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    Wheety wrote: »

    Why not remake The Full Monty with women? :-)

    Well you could say The Full Monty was sort of a genderswap remake of Striptease...

    The Full Monty: 'After losing his job at a steel factory, Gaz (Robert Carlyle) learns that his wife wants to sue him for missed child support payments. Desperate for money, Gaz and his friend Dave (Mark Addy) decide to create their own male strip-tease act...'

    Striptease: 'When her ex-husband gets custody of their daughter, former FBI office assistant Erin Grant (Demi Moore) needs money to fight the legal case to get her child back...'

    Only The Full Monty was a comedy and Striptease was a flop! :)


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    pixelburp
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    Wheety wrote: »
    This movement to remake movies but swap the genders is awful. Just make a new movie with women in the leading roles.

    What's next? The Great Escape? Italian Job? Schindler's List?

    Why not remake The Full Monty with women? :-)

    Leave the pearl-clutching, I didn't realise we lived in a world were What Women Want was culturally sacrosanct :D :rolleyes: In any case, the gender-swap is about as old as Hollywood itself and you can go back as far as His Girl Friday in 1940 for examples of flipping the gender.

    And it's not even gender flipping either; how many films in Hollywood can be described with suffixes along the lines of ".. but with women!", "... but with pets!", "... but in space!" etc. etc.

    And hey, when done right it actually changes the story and dynamic; witness something like Judy Dench becoming the new M - Skyfall's entire plot would have been a different beast altogether with Ralph Fiennes in the role instead. The entire matriarchal element disappears.

    As for What Men Want: it looks like utter crud, and seems to be reviewing thus as well. What Women Want was also utter crud so the world will keep spinning and nothing will have been lost or gained.


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    Dades
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    Lorelli! wrote: »
    Well you could say The Full Monty was sort of a genderswap remake of Striptease...
    British comedy Calendar Girls was the female equivalent.

    I have no issue with remaking less than classic movies. What I cannot take any more is films based on someone banging their head (or similar) and waking up in someone else's body/life, or having magically [insert plot premise].


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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Mona Lisa Smile was the female equivalent of Dead Poets Society


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    evil_seed
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    Steaming pile of poo from the looks of it. ConAnne the Barbarian will be next


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    johnny_ultimate
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    I know the 'gender swap remake' has become one of the odd battlegrounds of the culture wars (to the point it even engulfs one of the most immediately forgettable rom-coms of the 1990s, evidently!). But there's few if any conceits more logically, naturally suited to a gender swap than the one at the core of What Women Want. I mean, the conceits absolutely awful, but the obvious next step is to look at it from the opposite perspective.


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    pixelburp
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    Absolutely, it's an objectively obvious sequel given the format and conceit of the film. But sure it's easier just to pretend there's some Great Slight in the works.

    ... who knew men were such delicate snowflakes?

    *gets coat and leaves*

    :D


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    Autecher
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    Lorelli! wrote: »
    Only The Full Monty was a comedy and Striptease was a flop! :)
    I was a 14 year old boy when I saw Striptease. Flop is not the word I personally would use to describe my experience with it.... :o


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    Lorelli!
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    Autecher wrote: »
    I was a 14 year old boy when I saw Striptease. Flop is not the word I personally would use to describe my experience with it.... :o

    :pac: edge of your seat movie? :D


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    #23
    branie2
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    Hard movie?


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    Sad Professor
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    Does Mel make a cameo?


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    #25
    branie2
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    I don't think so


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    #26
    silverharp
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    Wheety wrote: »
    This movement to remake movies but swap the genders is awful. Just make a new movie with women in the leading roles.

    What's next? The Great Escape? Italian Job? Schindler's List?

    Why not remake The Full Monty with women? :-)

    there is a woke version of dirty rotten scoundrels around the corner...cant wait :rolleyes:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    Ipso
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    Lorelli! wrote: »
    :pac: edge of your seat movie? :D

    There wasn’t a dry seat in the house.


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    Autecher
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    silverharp wrote: »
    there is a woke version of dirty rotten scoundrels around the corner...cant wait :rolleyes:
    You can't be calling women Dirty Rotten Scoundrels though as that would be very sexist and misogynistic. It would be called Clean Fresh Queens.


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    #29
    branie2
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    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels itself is a remake of a 1964 film called Bedtime Story


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    Sabre0001
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    There's potentially interesting themes to explore here like having to put up a strong front, trying to fit in with bro culture but not getting it, that kind of thing (Gillette would be happy). But the trailer just gives the impression that all the men will be "hur hur dur dur". The fart joke, for example :/

    🤪



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    pixelburp
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    branie2 wrote: »
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels itself is a remake of a 1964 film called Bedtime Story

    Hush now, don't be bringing common sense into this thread; we're meant to be ANGRY! Grr! Women, or something!

    First they steal our manly Ghostbusting jobs, now they want our Magical-Reality-Gender-Morality-Tale films too!

    Grr!

    :rolleyes: :D


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