{"id":283758,"date":"2018-09-18T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/18\/if-movies-about-men-got-reviewed-the-same-way\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:08:37","slug":"if-movies-about-men-got-reviewed-the-same-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/18\/if-movies-about-men-got-reviewed-the-same-way\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/roxilalonde.tumblr.com\/post\/177565982452\" target=\"_blank\">roxilalonde<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>if movies about men got reviewed the same way movies about women did<\/h1>\n<p>\u201cLook. Don\u2019t get me wrong: no one is happier than me to see a man finally starring in a lead role in an action movie (especially when they look as tantalizing in a tank top as Mr. Willis.) but at the end of the day, the hard truth about Die Hard is this: it\u2019s mediocre. The script is bland, the pacing is excruciating, and although it has a few decent lines, it\u2019s trying way, way too hard to be funny and only succeeding half the time. The focus on \u201cmale empowerment\u201d is way too overt and comes across as ham-fisted, like the movie is trying to beat the audience over the head with \u201cSEE? MEN CAN LEAD ACTION MOVIES, TOO!\u201d without seeming to have anything more nuanced to say about the matter. Ultimately, Bruce Willis climbing around a building and beating up terrorists for two hours isn\u2019t quite interesting enough to hold this reviewer\u2019s attention. If you can shut off your brain and pretend not to notice the glaringly obvious plot holes riddled through this corporate-engineered script, then Die Hard may be the film for you. If not, however, you\u2019ll probably be better off rewatching Ocean\u2019s 8 instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>roxilalonde: if movies about men got reviewed the same way movies about women did \u201cLook. Don\u2019t get me wrong: no one is happier than me to see a man finally starring in a lead role in an action movie (especially when they look as tantalizing in a tank top as Mr. Willis.) but at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/18\/if-movies-about-men-got-reviewed-the-same-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[57,21790,21791,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}