NBC: “The all-female 'Ocean's 8' is easily the best film of the franchise. They should've ditched the men sooner.”

fengpi · 2018-06-08T23:32:20+00:00

Having women take the lead, in contrast, has freed the series from the strict hierarchy of the marquee pecking order

Oh, right, because women always work so well together in non-hierarchical teams where everyone gets an equal say over every detail, as the real-life all-female team in your office so amply demonstrates. Just go ahead and watch, if you can stand the drama, bickering and vetos being made out of petty spite.

Bullock playing Clooney backwards and in heels is something else again.

Oh, I love it when people remind us that Ginger Rogers had to dance with Fred Astaire backwards in heels. (Fred was leading, but lay that aside.) Right, well, Ginger was a comedienne who was taught how to dance by Fred Astaire, who just so happened to have been the greatest Hollywood choreographer of all time. It wasn't the case that she brought her skills into the movie fully-formed and was just as good as him from the get-go. He trained her for that role; if she danced well it's because she had the best teacher and I don't think Ginger herself would disagree. But maybe we're gonna start believing that the fresh lab assistant is the equal of the Nobel-laureate who shows her the way forward, I dunno.

See, if you're gonna start commenting on things like film and society, it helps to actually know some shit about film and/or society. Maybe open a paper sandwich that they store on shelves and read the squiggly ink printed inside. I know having a lot of them piled-up on the wall looks smart, but they're not just for decoration!

I swear, every time I see an article penned by someone with the name "Noah" it always turns out to be a big bucket of cringe and an obsequious display of wokeness.

ThePigmanAgain · 2018-06-09T01:30:02+00:00

LOL! Looks like some anti-male piece of crap is in the minority. According to SJW Bible Wikipedia...

Rotten Tomatoes' "critical consensus reads, "Ocean's 8 isn't quite as smooth as its predecessors, but still has enough cast chemistry and flair to enjoyably lift the price of a ticket from filmgoers up for an undemanding caper."

As for box office, "Deadline Hollywood noted that it was tracking on-par with the 2016 all-female Ghostbusters reboot..."

Oh, dear, that can't be good.

Daddie0 · 2018-06-08T23:45:59+00:00

LOL, I didn't even realize it was in the theaters. Last I heard of this movie is when Matt Damon asked a logical question about #metoo and everyone went ape shit. Matt apologized (even though he had nothing to apologize for), said he would just STFU for a while, and then there was an online petition to get him removed from doing whatever work he was doing with the Ocean's 8 film. Just for asking a logical question.

I never checked to see of he stopped working with the film, if he did it was probably a blessing in disguise.

UltimaterializerX · 2018-06-09T06:33:35+00:00

It only made 4 million on opening night, with a budget of 70 million. This movie is on par to be a complete a total flop and do even worse than Ghostbusters 2016.

The public is soundly and thoroughly rejecting the force-fed feminism and I love it.

hmspain · 2018-06-08T23:41:29+00:00

Where the arguments stop is when (if) the movie makes money…

a_unique___username · 2018-06-09T03:28:35+00:00

Its like these filmakers seek out films that just coincidentally have a mostly male cast and remake them with all women purely out of spite.

Ghostbusters, Lord of the Flies, Ocean's 11

Whats next Sandlot?

a_unique___username · 2018-06-09T04:14:22+00:00

The thing is, this is probably a good movie, but the other oceans movies were all fantastic as well.

The problem here is that film is a form of art. We need to stop trying to influence art with social gender and race battles. Let film be made in the mind of the writer and director and put it into the world. If it’s good it’s good, if it sucks it sucks. These social wars should have nothing to do with the art of storytelling.

Jackoffalltrades89 · 2018-06-09T06:01:29+00:00

I'm sorry, but this movie can't be anything other than crap. When they make trailers, they try to pull the most interesting parts that they can without spoiling the movie. And for Ocean's 8, apparently that's the scene where the con artist running a 3 card monte racket shows off her slight of hand to the mark and makes the queen disappear. And yet after seeing that the person he's gambling against can easily manipulate the cards faster than he can see, he still plays instead of punching her in the gob like she deserves. I'm sorry, I can suspend a lot of disbelief, but that's a bridge too damn far.

Rex9 · 2018-06-09T13:29:26+00:00

With a day or two's worth of reviews, it sits at 69% on RT. Likely that's propped up by the SJW reviewers trying to give it an early boost. Give it a week, and I'll bet it ends up lower than Ocean's 12's 54%. O11 has a 82% and O13 70%.

It's beaten the other Ocean's openings earnings so far, but we'll see.

neckbishop · 2018-06-08T23:40:12+00:00

Archive -- http://archive.is/HZadX

Thrown1tawayzzz · 2018-06-09T12:47:49+00:00

The BBC review said it wasn't good... Who do I believe?

thrway_1000 · 2018-06-09T03:20:04+00:00

Just got to love the MSM BS and ass-kissing.

Archive -- https://archive.is/zc2x6

Slade_Riprock · 2018-06-09T05:01:01+00:00

Sorry but none of these even touch the coolness of the original Sinatra Oceans 11.

Why not make. Movies with mixed cast. Why remake every movie into a black version, girl version, etc

snorkelbagel · 2018-06-09T05:47:29+00:00

I have yet to find the gender-swap cast concept either interesting or off-putting. The biggest statement it ever seems to make is, "Damn, a lot of older movies failed the Bechdel Test."

If this movie is better, I'd bet a lot of that is because focusing on an 8-member ensemble cast is easier than one that is larger than that.

CautiousPoisson · 2018-06-09T12:33:36+00:00

The article seems a little desperate, the author protests too much.

nascarracer99316 · 2018-06-09T22:38:45+00:00

Hope nbc likes losing millions.

Hello lawsuits.

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