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	[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="Zseni"][quote name="Fussbett"][quote]If you go back to some of the great romantic comedies of the 30s and 40s — Bombshell, The Awful Truth, The Women, Midnight, Ball of Fire, The Lady Eve, Adam's Rib — you'll see that women got to be at least as witty as the men, and that was very witty indeed.[/quote] Referencing the 1940s as superior film making = AUTOMATIC FUCKING ---------> LOSE[/quote] Whoa you took the one true sentence in the entire review and disagreed with it. The movies are a wasteland of Dumb Tits these days. How bad is it? It's so bad that Megan Fox's "I'm Only A Little Regressive" star turn as an EVIL JOCK CONCUBINE stands out as the strongest female performance of the summer. Movie women are shrill, stupid, needy, and gorgeous nowadays, whereas in so many of the sharp wordy films Our Reviewer mentions, they were rather more independent and sharp. I mean, you could even see, between the women in a particular movie, which ones were dumb and which ones were smart. Now they're all the same: Woman Smart, where she's a lawyer or a doctor (sure honey whatever) who can't think of a comeback or do anything for herself besides dress really nicely and she really just needs some loosening up, <i>dick-style</i>. So does her mom/sister/best friends/whatever! In both kinds of movies, there's plenty of entry-level misogyny on the lines of A Woman's Life Is A Big Fucking Void Waiting For Dick, but at least, in the 40's, sometimes a woman just walked away from the dick. Even if it meant walking into the void for good. Maybe you don't understand what it means when all movie women secretly want nothing more than to be Jessica Biel with more dicks in her, but Pfizer and I understand it only too well.[/quote] There are plenty of modern movies where women walk away from dick, but they're sad, so you didn't see them. Regardless, my mission is not to say that the movies of the 1940s weren't well written. Of course they were. They're fucking crammed to the margins with words, no character shutting up for a second -- how can there <i>not</i> be some good lines? They're also boring, and if you use modern eyes to view them, it's like watching aliens going about their wordy alien lives. Aside from being the patented Ebert Attack on Anything™, saying that black and white movies were better is like talking about flaws in a modern band and citing classical music as better. Not relevant! No matter how many Fibonacci successions appear in the works of Bach, it's not applicable to a discussion of Pearl Jam versus Bobby Brown. All participants would rather hear the worst Pearl Jam song mixed with the worst Bobby Brown song than listen to Bach's anything. Secondly, in my high school experience, when you crack a joke, surrounding girls either laugh or roll their eyes. They don't throw an awesome tag onto the joke. I know, I know, I was probably doing my material on the wrong girls. This maybe true, but I'm sure not going to waste good lines on the uglies. This discussion eventually spins into why there are so few women comedians, and the "aggressive" nature of comedy.[/quote]