Validation for the "Girl Love" rant
THIS. Sweet Baby Burger Flipping Jesus, THIS.
Though I only kind of offhandly mentioned it in the last post, the inspiration for that "Girl Love rant" was all the hate geared toward Diablo Cody and her new movie Jennifer's Body in the mainstream press and the feminist blogosphere. It seemed like a good portion of the reviews didn't even wait to see it before writing it off, or at the very least went into the picture with a very specific predetermined mindset. But this post over at GirlDrive debunks all the haters and takes on the biggest cliches their reviews share, which amounts to *gasp* an actual film review rather than recycled Focus on the Family tactics.
[side note: by actual film review, I'm not meaning "yay, it's positive!" I'm all for well-thought out criticisms of films or filmmaking styles - not filmmakers' personal lives and life choices, distinction! - and would be just as cool with a reviewer that didn't dig the movie. What wedges the stick up my ass are the reviews that start out "I don't even have to see the film to know that it's hack-eyed Hollywood tripe written by an ex-stripper who pretends to be subversive"... and boy howdy, are there a lot of them out there!]
At any rate, I'm going to do a proper writeup of the film soon. I was just super pumped to read this blog post. It always feels nice to have your thoughts validated by another person.
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