On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Simon Wilcox wrote:
> Perhaps I am naive [1] but these women seem to me to be extremely
> powerful in Hollywood (well Barrymore & Diaz anyway) and I like to
> think that they could put a stop to anything they felt uncomfortable
> with.
Indeed, didn't they help write it? Wasn't Barrymore the producer? I
thought she was the one that had Tom Green's [pointless] role added.
Indeed she did, sez IMDB: <http://us.imdb.com/Details?0160127>
There were a lot of in-jokes, too: <http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0160127>.
The movie itself might have been pretty dumb, but it made a lot of
references to other great movies, placing it along side "Theres Something
About Mary" and "Independence Day" in the 'standing on the shoulders of
giants' school of filmmaking...
> On the assumption that they felt comfortable with the film, I don't
> see that it is our place to judge it. In fact I would say that, if
> anything, the film served to demonstrate what a witless, gullible lot
> men are, to be taken in by the visible exterior, only to get their
> arses kicked. Surely a feminist message if ever there was one ?!
Well that and it just made everyone look silly, men and women alike. I see
what you mean about the sexism Dave, but there's a lot against that point
of view as well, and in the end the movie was just too silly to try to
take seriously as sexist or feminist or whatever else...
</passes soapbox on to the next person>
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
