Turning all the males into women for the movie Holes seems pretty fucked up.
Interesting choice to say “males” for men and “women” for women
Tbh I have a habit of doing it myself, because one has been decided offensive while the other has not. The other option in this case isn’t “men” either, rather it’d be “boys,” Camp Green Lake being a juvenile detention facility, and “boys” inverse “girls” can often be interpreted objectionably as well. (Not to mention the whole “holes” correlation, uhh, might not want to associate that with juveniles…)
Though also I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen “males” called out like the inverse word.
and “boys” inverse “girls” can often be interpreted objectionably as well.
Huh? Anything like “men and girls” is weird, but “boys and girls” is completely normal
I’m just going to drop this right here:
I took it while visiting my brother in jail. Kentucky.
Oh no, you’ve summoned THEM.
Thank God, we did not need a reboot of this movie, let alone one with the Ghostbusters (2016) treatment. The original one did it almost perfectly.
Now if they can just make the same decision the next time someone there is like “We should reboot Hercules but in live action!” 🙄
Maybe they could remaster old movies/shows and “re-release them” for attention like they do games? The tools they have to do it now are quite good.
Only if they don’t pull a George Lucas and digitally alter the rerelease to have (their version of) Greedo shoot first completely invalidating Han’s character arc.
I don’t care if “that’s what it was supposed to be the whole time we just fucked up,” well since you fucked up that’s how it is, consider it a happy accident and pretend you wrote it like that you dummy!
“Omg, you know who would be a perfect Hercules!? Get The Rock on the line!” - some exec probably
So Kevin Hart as Phil?
Jack Black
Maybe I’m just too autistic to understand, but why are all these “gender-swapped” movies going from men to women leads?
I understand that there are far more male-led movies to pick from, but I have not seen any movies that “go the other way”.
Personally I think going in with the intention of gender swapping the male roles for the sake of gender swapping alone is a terrible premise. And the thought of watching The Sound of Music but with a male version of Maria is just weird. Or a male in the lead of Alien.
Granted, there are a lot of movies where the entire direction of the story, while not dependent on the person’s gender, they aren’t conducive to the opposite. Using my own example, Maria was a nun who became a governess, who became a step-mother. The swapped version would have to be a priest who became a (I don’t know if there’s a name for a male version?) live-in childcare provider, who became a step father. While not impossible, or even that wild to think about, it’s not typical.
Is it just one of those “it’s good to have representation” things? Like I personally know someone who thought black people couldn’t be royalty because until they saw princess and the frog, there wasn’t exactly a lot of diversity in Disney’s princess catalogue (with apologies to Mulan and Pocahontas) so clearly there is something to be said about representation in media.
I am definitely over thinking it, but I really don’t get why anyone wants, or thinks audiences want, gender swapped stories from 20/40/60+ years ago.
Thank you for coming to my TEDx Talk. Sorry you can’t get the last 3 minutes back.
because they’re talentless hacks that can’t come up with original content (or just refuse to pay people who can), same reason behind every reboot/remake
I also don’t get it, and don’t like it. Then again I don’t like reboots either like at all (exception, the KOTH continuation, they’re doing alright).
Part of what made Alien so good is specifically that they had a woman in a typically-male role, Action Hero, but also it was an original movie.
To use an example you provided, I have no problem with Princess and the Frog, not exactly an original concept being based on The Brother’s Grimm style stuff, but it draws from that well for inspiration and at least adds some originality, and representation is for sure important, I’m all for it! Whereas rebooting The Little Mermaid with a race-swapped Ariel is just a reboot with race swapping for good boy points and virtue signaling. Instead I’d much prefer a movie in what we could consider the expanded Little Mermaid universe that featured a black lead mermaid on some new adventure, maybe Ariel is old or dead or maybe not and they’re bffs, maybe Ariel hasn’t even been born and some Greek shit is happening on the mainland idk, but the possibilities are literally endless instead of “rerun same script but swap X.”
(And let me be clear it’s not entirely about the demographic-swapping, I hate live action reboots, reboots that don’t have the same production staff, etc. Oddly the only “change” that isn’t always terrible is cartoonification of live action things, sometimes that actually works like Toxic Crusaders.
KOTH gets a pass because they’re doing the best they can, most OG members are back except the dead ones, the new animation isn’t the best but the old way of cell animation is dead and lost, and the last fully cell animated episode was in season 8 anyway.)
I just want new and good, and preferably a return to practical effects.
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I’m looking forward to a female Die Hard or John Wick series - NOT!
I would watch the hell out of Janet McClane fucking up terrorists at Nakatomi Plaza. That sounds amazing.
I will say Charlize did a nifty job in Atomic Blonde.
I mean, is it really a good idea to call a movie about a bunch of girls holes?
It’s just asking for horrible jokes
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought it was a poor choice.
I work with adults that mentally never left middle school. They already tell crass sexist jokes that make HR cry. I can only imagine the shit they’d come up with for something like this.
