I hate Hollywood.
Jul. 13th, 2007 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The two things about Captivity currently bothering me almost as much as the fact that it's a boring misogynistic pile of festering maggot-covered garbage:
1. I saw a commercial for it the other day bragging about the fact that movie reviewers, focus groups, preview audiences, and pretty much people in general all think that it's a boring misogynistic pile of festering maggot-covered garbage and you should all go see HOMG YAY!
2. Elisha Cuthbert plays a runway/cover model. She's five-two and skinny but not a toothpick. Hey, that's funny, I just described MY body and if I claimed to be a runway model people would point at me and mock.
Also amusing in a morbid sort of way? That almost every review of it I've read so far contains the following three facts about the plot:
1. The killer has an accomplice.
2. There's another man locked up with her.
3. There's a lame plot twist.
I'd wonder what said plot twist could possibly be but the anvil that just magically dropped from the sky and slammed into my forehead makes it difficult for me to do anything but drool.
Oh, and filmmakers -- words cannot begin to describe how unappealing the concept of watching a girl named Jennifer be tortured for an hour and a half is for me. Really.
1. I saw a commercial for it the other day bragging about the fact that movie reviewers, focus groups, preview audiences, and pretty much people in general all think that it's a boring misogynistic pile of festering maggot-covered garbage and you should all go see HOMG YAY!
2. Elisha Cuthbert plays a runway/cover model. She's five-two and skinny but not a toothpick. Hey, that's funny, I just described MY body and if I claimed to be a runway model people would point at me and mock.
Also amusing in a morbid sort of way? That almost every review of it I've read so far contains the following three facts about the plot:
1. The killer has an accomplice.
2. There's another man locked up with her.
3. There's a lame plot twist.
I'd wonder what said plot twist could possibly be but the anvil that just magically dropped from the sky and slammed into my forehead makes it difficult for me to do anything but drool.
Oh, and filmmakers -- words cannot begin to describe how unappealing the concept of watching a girl named Jennifer be tortured for an hour and a half is for me. Really.
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Date: 2007-07-13 02:30 pm (UTC)My boyfriend has a couple of stickers from the Women's Issues group at his college that say "This Degrades Women" and I want to put them all over the advertisements for that movie. They gross me out as much as the ads for the Hills Have Eyes 2 that were all over Metro this spring.
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Date: 2007-07-13 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 03:54 pm (UTC)I don't get the good stuff. Sigh.
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Date: 2007-07-13 02:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 03:06 pm (UTC)2. All they had to do was make her a cosmetics model. Boneheads.
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Date: 2007-07-13 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 04:51 pm (UTC)Thank you, this cannot be said out loud enough. Sing it.
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Date: 2007-07-13 05:13 pm (UTC)Of course, they never do. Feebs.
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Date: 2007-07-13 05:32 pm (UTC)1. The killer has an accomplice.
2. There's another man locked up with her.
3. There's a lame plot twist.
Oh, Christ. And here I was grudgingly saying that maybe, maybe, the movie had a redeeming feature in that there were two prisoners, even if the ad group was exploitative in the extreme and was only focusing on the girl. So much for that idea.
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Date: 2007-07-13 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 10:41 pm (UTC)That Pajiba review was a thing of beauty. I almost want to print it out and tape it onto any Captivity posters I see.