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Everybody Loves Raymond: Let's Fix Robert (2001)
Ripe for a reversal
As a man, I've often wondered how women would respond if they were portrayed the way men are portrayed on the tele. I've often played a little 'role-reversal' game in my head to try and imagine what a scene would be like if the shoe was on the other foot. Not than I'm obsessed, mind you! It's just a diverting thought, what with all this 'palestalemale' and 'toxicmasculinity' being banded around. If ever there was an episode ripe for a sex-swap, it's this one. Wow! Four men telling an uncomfortable female how to be 'a better mate' by mocking and belittling personal details about her. All under the watchful eye of her father, who wants her to produce grandchildren for him. Wow. Can you imagine!? Cancel cancel cancel cancel. Marching in the streets. Knitted hats. Screaming. I honestly think someone should do it - take this episode and reverse the sexes. I might do it, myself. It'll be fun!
Everybody Loves Raymond: Bad Moon Rising (2000)
I'm in two minds...
This episode hits all the nails so squarely on their respective heads that it should almost be required viewing for any male thinking of marriage (I'm writing as a husband of over 25 years). All the lines are there, on both sides, as far as I can tell. However... as others have pointed out, if the abusive, gaslighting, and coercive behaviours were reversed, this show would have been noisily cancelled. The fact that it isn't is proof enough that society accepts this behaviour from women. Why? Because it's common and normal; guys, man up and get used to it. My advice is to stay calm and steady and keep it all away from the kids. Period!
Barbie (2023)
Don't know what I've just seen
So bad it's good! What a political/philosophical/artistic/stylistic/linguistic/directoral/musical mess! Who is this film even for? I'm guessing teenage airheads - the sort that happily equate a Barbie doll with the Nazi war machine, as is done in the film. Wow! If the aim was feminism, I'd call this an own goal. So whinging, so reliant on gender stereotypes and societal stereotypes, so busy sermonising, it achieves nothing. The reasoning behind the film's reasoning wouldn't stand up to two minutes of scrutiny. Who wrote this junk? Who directed it? Who signed it off? Honestly, I'm not kidding when I say it's so bad it's good; I'd happily rewatch it just to marvel again at the grinding cognitive dissonance. I'm looking forward to the IMDB rating dropping - already below 7.5.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021)
Junk
What is this JUNK? It's going to sink without a trace - hopefully. Who commissioned this? Who wrote it? Work out who they are and then avoid. I tried to like it and tried to watch it but just couldn't. Agenda-heavy too; if I'm not bored of seeing a skinny white girl beating up multiple hulking white guys... tedious.
London (1994)
Woke
Woke before its time. Reeks of politics and identity politics. Lovey-leftism at its best - pure Fabianism. Of course the BFI love it. Interesting how the IRA issue has evaporated - largely due to terrorism becoming associated with other groups, I expect. A star for the images of London and a star for the idea.
The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
Two words...
...Roald Dahl. Credited? Not that I can see! Surely this is based on the Roald Dahl short story, no? Is the woman who 'wrote it' going to fess up?