Coming attractions?
Aug. 3rd, 2013 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI saw The Heat this afternoon - really funny, and there was nary a trace of Sookie in Melissa McCarthy's ferocious comic performance as Shannon Mullins. I hope that this helps to get it through the skulls of the decision makers at studios that people will go and see women being funny on the big screen. But the trailers make me doubt it.
First there was The Way, Way Back, which has a teenage boy POV as far as I can tell and looks like Adventureland by the people who made Little Miss Sunshine, which isn't a criticism, exactly, because I was thinking 'I'll go see that' before I realised Allison Jannney was in the cast.
But we also had the trailer for that film in which Jennifer Aniston is a stripper who is talked into playing Eustace Scrubb's mother (this is a misread of the trailer but I don't remember who the grown up male lead is) and in case we didn't get the point, she did her thing at least twice.
Eugh. No.
There were trailers for two Mark Wahlberg films (who I know was in last year's 15-rated comedy hit) that I won't be watching. Rebel Wilson in a cameo isn't enough to get me to go see a Michael Bay film, and although I like Washington, I spend most of the '2 Guns' trailer thinking about gender-reversed casting.
There was also a trailer for Hit Girl, the Movie - no, sorry, Kick Ass 2, except the trailer admitted that Mindy McCready and her alter ego were the break out characters from the first film. I am actually torn about going to see this one.
These were trailers for a film that called a character on being a misogyinist, Hollywood. I have a feeling that none of them will pass the Bechdel test.
First there was The Way, Way Back, which has a teenage boy POV as far as I can tell and looks like Adventureland by the people who made Little Miss Sunshine, which isn't a criticism, exactly, because I was thinking 'I'll go see that' before I realised Allison Jannney was in the cast.
But we also had the trailer for that film in which Jennifer Aniston is a stripper who is talked into playing Eustace Scrubb's mother (this is a misread of the trailer but I don't remember who the grown up male lead is) and in case we didn't get the point, she did her thing at least twice.
Eugh. No.
There were trailers for two Mark Wahlberg films (who I know was in last year's 15-rated comedy hit) that I won't be watching. Rebel Wilson in a cameo isn't enough to get me to go see a Michael Bay film, and although I like Washington, I spend most of the '2 Guns' trailer thinking about gender-reversed casting.
There was also a trailer for Hit Girl, the Movie - no, sorry, Kick Ass 2, except the trailer admitted that Mindy McCready and her alter ego were the break out characters from the first film. I am actually torn about going to see this one.
These were trailers for a film that called a character on being a misogyinist, Hollywood. I have a feeling that none of them will pass the Bechdel test.
