For everyone who objects to the Zemeckis remake of "Yellow Submarine," here's the same advice I give for any Hollywood remake that can never hope to match the original (the most vomit-inducing example being the in-production remake of the Sam Peckinpah classic film, "Straw Dogs"): DON'T PAY MONEY TO SEE IT! Deprive Hollywood hacks and studios the thing they want the most: MONEY.
It's easy to see what the talented and UNIQUE Fairuza Balk has been up to by checking her IMDb page. And yes, I am one of many people who love the fact that Balk has a unique look that is blessedly different from the endless "Hills" big-boobed SoCal blondes so prevalent in Hollywood these days. High school boys may find Fairuza "scary," but intelligent adults who like strongly individual women love her and look forward to her next kick-ass film role.
Welcome to today's America, where having zero talent and accomplishing nothing other than being born to a famous person earns you hundreds of thousands of dollars and slack-jawed public adulation. Mark my words: 20 years from now, no one will remember who these people are, and for good reason.
Not funny. You really seem to have a problem with women. First stay at home moms, now older actresses. Which group of people meet your high standards?
I reply:
No one group can meet Mario's standards because he is, pure and simple, a misogynist (read: someone who hates women). Like some knuckle-dragging American men, he splits women into two categories: madonnas (what he believes are "nice" or "good" girls) and whores (any woman who expresses her sexuality or independence. Mario's message to women is clear: if you like sex with men, you're a whore; if you don't drink what Mario deems an "acceptable" amount of alcohol or act in what Mario believes is a "proper" way, you are a whore. Marion infantalizes women with names like, "Ri Ri," and "Brit Brit," and viciously attacks troubled young women such as Mischa Barton and Kirsten Dunst. Like the straight males he despises because of their anti-gay attitudes and behavior, he is narrow-minded, judgmental, and in terms of his frequent and unprovoked attacks on women, unprincipled.
Not funny. You really seem to have a problem with women. First stay at home moms, now older actresses. Which group of people meet your high standards?
I reply:
No one group can meet Mario's standards because he is, pure and simple, a misogynist (read: someone who hates women). Like some knuckle-dragging American men, he splits women into two categories: madonnas (what he believes are "nice" or "good" girls) and whores (any woman who expresses her sexuality or independence. Mario's message to women is clear: if you like sex with men, you're a whore; if you don't drink what Mario deems an "acceptable" amount of alcohol or act in what Mario believes is a "proper" way, you are a whore. Marion infantalizes women with names like, "Ri Ri," and "Brit Brit," and viciously attacks troubled young women such as Mischa Barton and Kirsten Dunst. Like the straight males he despises because of their anti-gay attitudes and behavior, he is narrow-minded, judgmental, and in terms of his frequent and unprovoked attacks on women, unprincipled.
Now playing in the background as I write this: Splitsville, "White Dwarf."