"Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel)

[Greylock Crescent]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

This appears pretty misogynistic to me:

He looked at Vina for a few seconds, then said, without so much as a grain of pity or regret in his voice, “Sorry.” A split second later his sword was impaled in her heart. She didn’t even have time to scream; only a few gurgles left her mouth.

Source (linked from 3D Master's Story Homepage)

How can such violence against women be tolerated in a work of fiction?

Exactly where did I advocate that violence can't be used in a work of fiction, let alone violence in a drama that is dramatic?

So violence can be used in a work of fiction? It just has to be the right kind of violence (i.e. a woman can't beat up a man for laughs, but a man can slaughter a woman for dramatic effect)? One is unequivocally misandry but the other is absolutely not misogyny?

Come now, if Your Highness is an example of misandry (violence against men), how is your story not an example misogyny (violence against women)? Do tell!

Thanks for the laughs, by the way. Top-notch humor.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

No, you're wrong.

I just love when people starts to express their opinion with that.

However, that has in no way shape or form got anything to do with whether or not characters are likeable. A character beats up another person for no reason whatsoever, that character is no longer likable.

You should really hate Looney Tunes.

I think a guy that needs to make himself out to be better and stronger than he is to impress girls must be a very hollow man, and looking for very shallow girls. Your mileage may vary, of course.

And that's got what to do with the topic.

I don't know, it was you starting to digress how "every single man in existence" "makes himself out to be better and stronger than he is to impress a girl". Who's the misandrist again?

Humor isn't a difficult concept. Realizing when something isn't funny when you've been conditioned from birth to seeing it as funny, that's difficult.

Ah, I see. Everybody is conditioned and brainwashed, except for you. I hope you enjoy your solitary spot on top of that high horse.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Oh 3D Master... he never fails to entertain

 

[Thestral]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Oh 3D Master... he never fails to entertain

Don't mock him, he's a hero, standing up for the equal rights
of us poor mistreated men against the Evil Manhating Conspiracy.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Oh dear, that looked like a serious fall! He could have broken a limb or possibly suffered a concussion. And given the sorry state of medieval medicine, we could be talking infection and gangrene. He's just undergone serious physical trauma, by god. There's nothing funny about it!

Seriously, I doubt that he needs to go to the emergency room after Natalie beats him up. Chances are, he springs up like a jack-in-the-box and is perfectly fine the very next scene . . . .

Yeah, the bruises and the chafing... That's gotta hurt. Not to mention the charlie horse from it all Poor guy, never gets a break...

 

[Saga]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

what the? well this thread took an interesting turn. i know! this should fix things!

 

[Greg Cox]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

^ God bless you for setting our priorities straight!

 

[JD]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Ok, that literally mad me completely forget what I was about to say.
Oh, now I remember.
I actually think this looks like it could be pretty funny. I really liked Pineapple Express and I like most of the cast, so as long as this isn't universally loathed, I'm pretty sure it'll be a Netflixer (unless it get spectacular reviews).
As the other debate, it really amazes me how seriously people take this kind of stuff sometimes. When it come to these kinds of movies you need to just turn off you're brain and embrace the stupidity.
EDIT: Just looked it up on wikipedia and found out something mildly interesting. Apparently the movie was entirely ad libbed. It says all they had was an outline co-written by Danny McBride and Ben Best.

 

[TheBrew]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

what the? well this thread took an interesting turn. i know! this should fix things!

The drama was getting dramatic.

 

[TrueBlueMug]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Apparently the movie was entirely ad libbed. It says all they had was an outline co-written by Danny McBride and Ben Best.

That's pretty crazy. I mean it could be a disaster, but you know I tend to think humor is at its best when it's less thought out. I was watching SNL the other day and the skits were just painful, but whenever the actors broke I just couldn't stop chuckling.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

^^ Danny McBride does a lot of improv, it's that way on Eastbound & Down on HBO. Plus, it's worked well for Curb Your Enthusiasm. I do agree thought that results can be mixed for such experiments so we'll see.

 

[Greg Cox]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

what the? well this thread took an interesting turn. i know! this should fix things!

The drama was getting dramatic.

But was it funny?

 

[Owain Taggart]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

^^ Danny McBride does a lot of improv, it's that way on Eastbound & Down on HBO. Plus, it's worked well for Curb Your Enthusiasm. I do agree thought that results can be mixed for such experiments so we'll see.

I love Curb Your Enthusiasm. Improv works well for it. I wish more shows would be like that. Gotta admit though, whenever I see Eastbound & Down as a title, I always think it's a Smokey & The Bandit TV series.

 

[Aragorn]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Another red band trailer (NOT SAFE for work).

 

[Hyperspace05]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Yet another?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Another red band trailer (NOT SAFE for work).

I wonder if having to enter fake birthdate on those videos actually offers any legal protection for sites with these videos.

 

[JD]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

I've wondered that myself. I mean all you need to be able to get past them is the ability to do math.

 

[Checkmate]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

Why do you assume they need legal protection?

Those sorts of protections are a simple courtesy to areas that are uppity about pornography. It has little to nothing to do with any actual concern about being shut down by "The Man," and everything to do with not dealing with email spam from a coalition of soccer moms. Who, incidentally, are the ones who should be getting the email spam for not monitoring what their children are doing.

 

[Captain Craig]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

I've wondered that myself. I mean all you need to be able to get past them is the ability to do math.

I've seen some of the youth of our public high schools. I travel around within our Metro system and you'd be surprised I bet. Probably more of a deterent than you'd think.

 

[Char Aznable]

Re: "Your Highness" red band trailer (Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel

You wanna test if it was misandry? Imagine the guy beating and kicking the living shit out of her in the same way. Still laughing?

Actually, that just makes the scene funnier to me!