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After watching a long-winded, idiotic rant about Frozen, I started thinking about how many movies I watch would actually pass the Bedchel test. Now, I don't select which movies to watch based on this comic's criteria. If I did, I'd have missed out on some of my favorite films, including the original Star Wars trilogy. I also have problems because many films catered to a female audience would also fail this test if the conditions were applied to the male characters in the film. I simply believe a lot of these films are catered to gear to an audience, and that the director is not trying to make a political statement. Disney was obviously trying to appeal to little girls with Frozen, and it's not a surprise the movie's main characters are female.
Now, which movies have I watched recently that would pass the test?
Frozen
Cake
Divergent
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Carrie
Near Misses:
Dead Before Dawn (It has plenty of female characters, but they're almost always talking about the men in the film.)
Obviously, since my list also includes The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies, Pacific Rim, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Dark Knight Rises and X-Men: Days of Future Past I'm not selecting which films I watch based on any political criteria. I want a movie to be entertaining. The only standard I have for a summer film is that it has to look like I would enjoy it. Sometimes my initial judgement of the film is wrong. For example, I thought the Dark Knight Rises was far more confusing than it needed to be, and The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies contained many scenes that actual physics would not allow. Almost all of the blatantly physics-defying scenes featured Legolas, a character who isn't even in the book on which the movie is based.
The only real complaint I have about the current movie scene is that Marvel's Ant Man got his own movie and Booster Gold, a far more interesting character from DC, has yet to be given his own TV show.
Now, which movies have I watched recently that would pass the test?
Frozen
Cake
Divergent
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Carrie
Near Misses:
Dead Before Dawn (It has plenty of female characters, but they're almost always talking about the men in the film.)
Obviously, since my list also includes The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies, Pacific Rim, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Dark Knight Rises and X-Men: Days of Future Past I'm not selecting which films I watch based on any political criteria. I want a movie to be entertaining. The only standard I have for a summer film is that it has to look like I would enjoy it. Sometimes my initial judgement of the film is wrong. For example, I thought the Dark Knight Rises was far more confusing than it needed to be, and The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies contained many scenes that actual physics would not allow. Almost all of the blatantly physics-defying scenes featured Legolas, a character who isn't even in the book on which the movie is based.
The only real complaint I have about the current movie scene is that Marvel's Ant Man got his own movie and Booster Gold, a far more interesting character from DC, has yet to be given his own TV show.
