Watching Indiana Jones right now, and Marians comments like "I was just a child" and Jones' falling out with her father seem to indicate that Jones fondled a child in the story. Which... uh. What the hell? It's not even like a big part of the plot, it's just thrown in
Yeah, almost none of our beloved 80s classics hold up to modern scrutiny. To the point where I don't even wanna show them to young family members.
Empire Strikes Back has horrible messaging about consent between Solo and Leia
Watching that in modern times is viscerally uncomfortable
Damn wtf. I haven't watched the Star Wars in a very long while, could you refresh my memory on that bit?
Han posts up and starts feeling up on the princess and she multiple times asks him to stop and leave her alone. This is during a period where they are trapped on a ship together for an extended period of time.
https://www.mic.com/articles/186792/does-the-best-star-wars-movie-hold-up-in-the-metoo-era-lets-ask-han-solo
https://www.theloquitur.com/pop-culture-perpetuates-dating-violence/
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Alien and Aliens I think do.
I noticed John Carpenter movies pretty much don’t have women characters.
I think Carpenter can't write women well, so he just... doesn't.
Sometimes that's good - like part of the appeal of The Thing is that it avoids so many horror tropes (not about teens, no sex to punish people for, etc.), plus you get to have fun arguments about the meaning of The Thing as a metaphor for female presence breaking down a male circle. I tend to think those arguments are navel gazing, and that it's much more about the general breakdown of societal trust, but I've seen the argument.
Good call on alien, that did have specific feminist influence on the writing process
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I am thinking of an interview where they said one of the ideas they wanted was tk make a movie where men could legitimately feel thr fears of rape and pregnancy. That's a crazy move for the time as well though. I hadn't known that one
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This isn't even an important part of the story. Its like one line that they just put in there which totally recontextualizes the character.
Rambo?
70s? but yeah, actually that one holds up.
Oddly I think the Schwarzenegger Connan holds up pretty well to. Not perfect, but way better than star wars
First blood was in 82.
How about this? Instead of First Blood is First Bud, and it’s about the first time a veteran comes home and smokes weed.
Nah, fuck that, the first Rambo movie is great and shouldn't be fucked with. The guy is just passing by when the pigs assault him for no reason so he kills the shit out of them, it's amazing. The only downside is he tries to get rid of them without killing anyone, but realistically it makes perfect sense the guy would try to just disengage instead of throwing his life away just to kill a couple of pigs.
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