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Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (2013)
Anything can be sexist if you want it to be!
Ms. Sarkeesian promised the people who donated to her Kickstarter a series that "will explore, analyze and deconstruct some of the most common tropes and stereotypes of female characters in games." The gaming community gladly donated $158,922 with the expectation that the video series would be completed by the date noted, and would be a fair and factual analysis of how women are portrayed in video games.
I'll start off with the first promise: The deadline The first video was promised to be delivered during August of 2012. We received it on March 7, 2013. Seven months late. The rest of the videos? Some people donated 250 dollars with the expectation that they would receive a video copy of all the videos in the series by December 2012. Two years later and the series is only half done. For a series so biased and factually wrong, the delay is inexcusable and yet, the creators refuse to refund the money.
But let us ignore this and take a look at the actual contents of the series. Ms. Sarkeesian spawns out of the abyss: a set of ridiculous tropes with which she would be able label the vast majority of female characters whom she did not like in the games she barley played. The few characters that were praised in the series would have failed by her own standards if only the show was not completely arbitrary and had some structure in how everything was criticized. So what exactly did all the criticism consist of?
That lady is a bystander on the street whom you can kill. Violence against women. That girl is beautiful and is not modestly dressed. Objectification of women. That women is killing people in a bad ass way, acting like a man. Man with boobs. This girl needs help. Saying women are weak or incapable. This game has no important female characters. Sexism.
This is the entire series. The few (very very few) legitimate arguments that were made discounted the fact that the games in question had a demographic of men in mind. Much like how romance novels with muscular men on the cover have a demographic of women in mind.
Literally anything could have been sexist if Ms. Sarkeesian wanted it to be. Everything in the video series was said on a whim, with the precise and bigoted goal of shaming video games and the people who enjoyed them for being who they are.
Matilda (1996)
People think this is great?
Childhood memories aside, this movie barley holds up.
Its antagonist is ridiculous, being able to get away with torturing children in a society where their parents can enjoy TV shows. Any child in their right mind would have told their parents or the police and that lady would have been fired.
Furthermore, Matilda's parents are some of the worst characters ever spawned out of film. Were they supposed to relate to children with abusive parents? Its as if the main demographic is mentally abused children and yet that number of children pales in comparison to the number of children who love their parents and attend a good and caring school. This movie will end up labeling school principals as incarnates of hell and would make parents look like the biggest douches in the world. And people LOVE this movie! Are you kidding me?
This film is laughable at best. Its 'redeeming' aspects stress strength in solidarity, and a love for learning. But in the context these things are being shown, they are nothing. Lessons that fail because they are overshadowed by the utterly stupid parents and a demonic principal that will never exist in the real world.
I suppose people will blame me for failing to address other aspects of the film, like the good teacher, or Matilda's friends. Of course the teacher is also laughably perfect, as if to say that such a person also exists in the real world. Giving children the expectation that maybe they will meet a person that nice, further inspiring mixed feelings toward their own parents and their school. But neither do I address Matilda's powers, which she uses to solve problems, making everything look laughably easy to do in an abusive situation. Which would make children fail to realize that a lot of their comforts in life come from the hard work their parents put in.
This movie is fine and fun to watch. But it is most certainly not a good movie, regardless of how much you loved it when you were 6 years old.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Very long, but consistent and good
This is a pretty good movie, simply because I've not seen many like it, and what it offers is a good mix of raunchy comedy, and business crime. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a charming and cool character and Jonah Hill fits in really well as his buddy among the rest of the crew that you will see in the movie. Still, it doesn't score too high simply because of how long it is and its extreme over reliance on debauchery to try and balance the length. It's as if the screenwriters were so scared of people falling asleep that they had to stuff in as many bare tits to keep the crowd attentive. I get it, it's a long film, but come on.
Wondering if it's worth watching? If you are here for Scorsese, go ahead and watch it. I think it's one of his best. If you are here specifically for a business drama, watch it. If you are here for Leonardo DiCaprio and/or Jonah Hill, watch it. If you are here for anything else, then you will probably not enjoy it too much.
Frozen (2013)
Nice and Satisfying, but not amazing
Frozen has become massive hit and that is something that really surprises me. It does not have much strength as a story, and its plots is not very compelling or special. It's a nice little movie that kids and their parents will enjoy.
But this movie does not come very close to the truly powerful films we have seen in the past. It does not stand at the same level of Mulan, or Tarzan. Seeing people deem it as a masterpiece is fairly strange. It is as if standards have declined heavily. Could it possibly be that people are being easier on Disney because they haven't been able to produce good movies? I don't know.
In due time, this movie will be forgotten. Hopefully Disney will eventually be able to output a good movie that will truly impress, the way Mulan and Tarzan impressed the world.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Intimidation Game (2015)
Overdramatized and hilariously written. This will be a legendary meme.
This episode is an over dramatization of a hypothetical incident where some men start threatening a woman for her involvement in video games.
It's very unrealistic. The plot is awfully weak, to the point where it becomes laughable how hard they try to make it seem important. The writing is shoddy, featuring some gamer jargon and memes. I ended up chuckling at some of it, especially where it tried to be most compelling.
This episode was made by someone with no sense of the actual conflict that occurs on the internet. It is based entirely off of the coverage of most news networks: the meaningless harassment of a few conniving women.
Still, it is an episode that will probably end up going down in the history of the internet as a meme.