What is it with the current spate of Baby movies?
There’s another one too, but I can’t work-out what it was called… and while this thread is in imminent danger of collapsing, I have to add the following one, which covers a subject which seems absent in every story I’ve heard about teen pregnancy:
My original point was to ask what the hell was going on with regard to this sudden spate of baby movies and the whole “motherhood” thing… and to ask whether the American media is attempting to encourage its viewers to squeeze one out for the country (as they’ve lost a few in that international skirmish called “Iraq”).
However, as I’ve only got three examples as compared to the 17 plus “Action” movies, the thread is officially unsustainable.
However, what I will ask is:
- Why Hollywood seems obsessed with making women who want kids and women who are pregnant odd and weird? This whole “hormonal” instability thing is really boring.
- Why there aren’t more believable heroines out there in movie-land (that’s with an E, meaning a female hero, not the nose powder of the incas).
I don’t include those horrendous mis-fires Catwoman and Elektra which were terrible!
Let’s see a movie about Boudica or Jenny Sparks, or even Judge Anderson. Fiction and fact is rife with strong female characters*, yet we keep getting Jane Austen thrust down our throats!
There are plenty of strong females in history, and in fiction… so why are they ignored?
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* Co-incidentally, Sigourney Weaver, who played one of the most believable female heroes of the last 30 years is in Example One
