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Are we supposed to trust that's a woman?

Some people name their children after their favorite television characters without giving much thought to the repercussions.

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TERF.

WTF is a TERF?

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Trans exclusionary radical feminist

Basically a term the pro-trans types call the feminists who don't want men in women's spaces.

JK Rowling was called this a lot when she came out against men claiming to be women in women's bathrooms, locker rooms, etc

Pretty common problem within the feminist movement. Most of them are great at saying they are against certain things (or people) but terrible at concrete definitions suitable for governance. The Supreme Court case recently (where Alito pressed the ACLU lawyer for a specific and legally useful definition of a woman) was an example of this. The lawyer was unable to provide a definition.

Maybe not the greatest but Cardinals have some good names

Bob Gibson
Cy Young
Dizzy Dean
Steve Carlton
Adam Wainwright
Bob Tewkesbury
John Tudor

Tudor was a favorite of mine growing up and finished his STL career with over a 70% winning percentage and an ERA of around 2.4. A largely forgotten player

I liked Tewks a lot for being similar. Beating players with finesse instead of raw heat.

I think the all time list might be the Red Sox but love the all time Dodgers (Koufax, Fernando, Hershiser, Ohtani) and Mets (Seaver obviously but people forgot about Cone with Gooden in the 80s) too.

Tragic

Beautiful woman and lovable on screen

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One guy on twitter thinks it's ambitious, messy, and ultimately worth seeing despite it's flaws.

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If the Hollywood press were to somehow become insightful and actually critically evaluate the movies they cover that would be a rarity.

The whole business model is the opposite.

The consensus from the public seems to be charitably less than was hoped. The conventional critics seem to have a more positive attitude without concrete reasoning

Roger Ebert gave it 3 of 4 stars commenting:

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In a way, it’s a relief to realize that Gyllenhaal doesn’t try to live up to that debut, or repeat herself with “The Bride!,” a mind-bending genre film set in a tangential “Frankenstein” universe. Instead, she swings for the fences freely, gambling liberally with a tale she experiments with in rethinking 1935’s “Bride of Frankenstein.” (The rethinking goes like this: this one is about the Bride, and not so much about the male monster.) The results aren’t always satisfying, but what’s satisfying is to see Gyllenhaal operate in this limitless “I’ll try anything once” mode, an entitlement rarely afforded to women behind the camera

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Essentially seems to say 'go see it because she's a woman and we like female directed movies even when they wouldn't be good if the same movie was directed by a guy'.

The New York Times similarly supported the movie commenting

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Gyllenhaal wrote and directed “The Bride!,” and has made good on that exclamation point with a time-shifting, genre-hopping movie that yowls and growls and shrieks, and every so often breaks out into peppy (literal) song. It doesn’t always make sense tonally and intellectually, but the whole thing is energetic, handsome and stocked with enough expert, appealing performers to hold your interest through the rougher, less coherent passages. Similar to what Emerald Fennell did in her recent adaptation of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights,” Gyllenhaal has taken one of the most famous novels by a 19th-century female writer to again reconsider the vexed, enduringly provocative figure of the monstrous woman.

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As did the USA Today review quoted below

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With Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as the film’s monsters, “The Bride!” (three out of four; rated R; in theaters March 6) is a wild and untamed thing that reflects its patchwork creation. There are elements borrowed from B-movie horror flicks, crime dramas, Broadway musicals and love stories, mashed together in bold and bizarre strokes. And while imperfections exist in the violent, genre-defying romance, they don’t dim Gyllenhaal’s clear-eyed passion, grand ideas and big swings spattered on the screen

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FWIW we really didn't have to look up the reviews to know they were going to be something like this. The media associated with the Hollywood powers that be are anything but impartial or independent.

More Tom Bombadil, Ring Wraiths, and Saruman (especially being turned).

Less Merry and Pippin and laughing hobbits

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it's the best movie robin williams ever made

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Maybe

Dead Poet's Society and Aladdin (the best Robin Williams part) are in the running

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One of the guys on a podcast I listened to said yesterday it’s one of the worst pieces of crap he’s ever seen

And he’s a diehard Frankenstein and horror guy

He said he hasn’t been this disappointed in a long time

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Same

Very disappointed. I like the cast and wanted an interesting Frankenstein movie