January 23, 2012
richardrushfield: If say, Judd Apatow had ever made a character as shrewish, morally bankrupt and shallow as the Rachel McAdams character in Midnight in Paris, he would have been run out of the industry on a rail. Judd’s done some 2d female characters in his time and been lambasted for them, but never one as harsh and vapid as this.  But instead, we are saying: An American Master back in top form!  Such an adorable dreamy love letter to…arts!   A film with a great message about the best of times is now! Yay Woody! More to come on this, but suffice it for now to say that if you have one character as hollow as this one, there’s not much chance the rest of the film is a complex multi-layered work of art. Yes! I could not have said this any better. And I liked this movie. Well, I wanted to like it more than I actually did like it, but precisely because OH MY GOD how is anyone such a horrible bitch? And how are we to sympathize with a main character who wants to marry said horrible bitch? That whole shit is just as unlikely, if not more so, than the unexplained time travel modern-schlub sexual appeal. Not that Woody Allen being sexist and/or misogynistic is any real surprise, but everyone so blatantly ignoring that? Yikes. Didn’t realize I felt so strongly about this until just now!

richardrushfield:

If say, Judd Apatow had ever made a character as shrewish, morally bankrupt and shallow as the Rachel McAdams character in Midnight in Paris, he would have been run out of the industry on a rail. Judd’s done some 2d female characters in his time and been lambasted for them, but never one as harsh and vapid as this.  

But instead, we are saying: An American Master back in top form!  Such an adorable dreamy love letter to…arts!   A film with a great message about the best of times is now! Yay Woody!

More to come on this, but suffice it for now to say that if you have one character as hollow as this one, there’s not much chance the rest of the film is a complex multi-layered work of art.

Yes! I could not have said this any better. And I liked this movie. Well, I wanted to like it more than I actually did like it, but precisely because OH MY GOD how is anyone such a horrible bitch? And how are we to sympathize with a main character who wants to marry said horrible bitch? That whole shit is just as unlikely, if not more so, than the unexplained time travel modern-schlub sexual appeal. Not that Woody Allen being sexist and/or misogynistic is any real surprise, but everyone so blatantly ignoring that? Yikes.

Didn’t realize I felt so strongly about this until just now!

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  1. spaghettiandnoodles reblogged this from richardrushfield and added:
    Yes! I could not...said this any better. And I liked this movie. Well, I wanted to like it...
  2. tylercoates said: But also! There was that French girl! I’ve already given up on this argument but I’ll post this anyway.
  3. elisabethdonnelly said: Thank you. I have been like, jeez, all the females (even MC-the-muse gets punished/mocked to a degree) in this film are shrews, how is this a good film beyond the Shouts and Murmurs fantasy of it?
  4. kicksabound said: troof!
  5. mootpoint said: So confused as to why this has been so popular and well received.
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