I finally finished Mayans MC (spin-off of Sons of Anarchy) and in the second to last episode the main character has an accident and Jax Teller’s ex is the one to give him a ride to get help. In the car she says that men have it so easy because they can beat their chests and act like kids well into adulthood but women are the ones who really have it rough. Of course the main character offered no pushback. But hey I’m sure all the construction workers, miners, sewer workers, military, police, first responders, firefighters, farmers, etc. can rest easy knowing they have it easy.
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A lot of Tarantino films are just over-the-top revenge fantasies against socially approved identity targets. Kill Bill is female revenge fantasy, Django Unchained is black revenge fantasy, Inglorious Bastards is Jewish revenge fantasy, etc. I used to enjoy these movies for their undeniable craft, but then I came to realize that a lot of Tarantino fans relish not in his talent but in his chosen villains.
This is not to defend slave owners or Nazis. I just think Tarantino films have come to dehumanize their bad guys to an almost gleeful degree, and the people who most enjoy it tend to be radically anti-male and anti-white.
I mean, can you imagine what would happen to him if he wrote a film about a revenge fantasy against Jews, Blacks, or Women? He would have a rape allegation against him within six hours. Given how much he worked for Weinstein, that might even be true. He couldn't make one even if he wanted to.
There's pictures of Tarantino sniffing underage women's feet. He's one of those types of people. 4chan discussed this several years ago.
That's right!
A few examples of Tarentino's foot fetish come to mind-- Barefoot Uma Thurman in the Jackrabbit Slim dance-off in Pulp Fiction; the Kill Bill scene in which Uma attempts to escape the backseat of a car; closeups of dirty bare feet on hippie girls in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood . . .
There are probably more examples but these come immediately to mind. Tarentino evidently really digs Uma Thurman's big gross dirty feet. I'll bet he's a toe-sucker.
Steven in Django Unchained is written as thoroughly despicable, smarter than Candie, loves power, and has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. And he’s slaughtered by Django at the end.
It's very sad that on the entirety of the NormieNet™️, a statement like "I don't think two hours of murdering slave owners makes for good cinema" would be taken as an endorsement of slavery.
At the time I liked Kill Bill. I was thinking of rewatching but maybe it’s better to leave it alone. I do remember laughing when she took down those 50 Japanese ladies
If I recall, all the Japanese grunts were male, except for a single female one using a flail.
You recall wrong, there’s at least one long-haired young girl in the Crazy 88 who is killed by the Bride.
Alright, then. But it still wasn't 50 women, as Smith thought.
You’re reaching. Kill Bill is a hyper-exaggerated “guy screws over girl so girl gets revenge,” which is fine. Not all the men in the movie are incompetent (Bill, Bud, Pai Mei) not all are bad (Hanzo), and the vast majority of women are evil and unsympathetic (Sofie, Gogo, Elle, O-Ren, Vernita.)
On top of that The Bride is utterly overjoyed to find her daughter alive, keeps her, and motherhood runs throughout the movie(s).
Movies have deteriorated drastically over the last ten years, but this is in no way your SJW style film.
Firstly, there’s only two movies, not “the other two.” So you’ve possibly watched half, which makes your criticisms ill-informed.
You’ve also ignored my points on good man, competent men, evil women and motherhood; all things that SJWs viciously hate.
As I said originally, you’re just reaching. Don’t like a strong female lead? Fine, but be honest about it. Don’t try and insinuate it’s in the vein of current_year politics.
Kill Bill was fun as a one time watch but I have zero interest in ever watching them again for some of the reasons you mentioned. I'd only add that most of her big guy fights are quick (and some would argue bullshit like drunk Bill droning on for ten minutes then suiciding himself rather than give us a proper fight).
The epic and beautiful fights are always woman to woman. Bud gets killed in a lame way as well, a guy part of the crew but didn't get a chance to shine at all (other than popping the main character when she tried to break into his house). Not even the martial arts master gets a fight and dies via poison.