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Alamo Drafthouse hosting women-only Wonder Woman screenings June 6th
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Is that the subtitle of Game Change 2016 now?
shanshan310
Member
Great point. Especially with a lot of comic book culture being pretty intimidating male dominated space from the perspective of non-nerds. Kind of a chance to introduce it to girls and women who never thought about watching this kind of movie as they assumed it wasn't for them. If I lived in the US I'd totally invite some of my non-nerd lady friends to this kind of event.
Ziltoidia 9
Member
Also when they are listing off a bunch of movies for potential all men screenings, it proves the ultimate point.
It's not the first woman superhero movie
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
An all sharks showing for 47 meters down
An all cousins showing for My Cousin Rachel
An all Minions showing for Despicable Me 3
An all autobots opening for Transformers
where does the madness end !
Can't forget about Cat woman.
Yeah. I thought this company was the name of a bar and what I was thinking about.
shanshan310
Member
Mmmmm, none of those movies really screamed to me "a movie that embodies men" in the same way that wonder woman does for women. I can't really think of a film that would do that for men... I guess men have a variety of male role models to choose from already.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
Member
If they really wanted to shake people up they could do black only showings for that tupac movie
Sure we can, its in the best interest of everyone.
ScriptedReality
Member
Delete.
that would be Supergirl (1984) IIRC
Something I want to point out:
Unless they did this at other Alamo theatres, this is literally only at one theatre, the Ritz one in Austin, and there's still a showtime that isn't women only.
You can find another time to see the movie, I think this is really cool that Alamo is doing this.
Unless they did this at other Alamo theatres, this is literally only at one theatre, the Ritz one in Austin, and there's still a showtime that isn't women only.
You can find another time to see the movie, I think this is really cool that Alamo is doing this.
benicillin
Banned
It's extremely telling that events like this meant for empowering/celebrating women are always met with cries for "what about male only events!" which blatantly give away the fact that for them it's more about excluding women than celebrating men.
Dan, this is a showing of a two hour movie.
Lol
Yeah. Literally every live chat session and almost every comment section on Youtube I've come across is pretty horrible.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
From Mad Max to Star Wars to Ghostbusters, a lot of shitty guys, specifically nerd bros, really don't like it when women have something that is catered to them.
It's not the first but it's the first to possibly be successful critically and financially and become influential for future female led superhero movies.
lightskintwin
Banned
Nah, they want that White money. LOL
Well, that's pretty much covered by how they phrased the statement: They explicitly are not making themselves such.
Sold out in Australia.
hammysaurusrex
Member
I think women having a movie that celebrates a cultural icon is progress. I think allowing women to have a particular movie in a particular city on a particular day at a particular time to celebrate a cultural icon for them is not a big fucking deal.
I think hyper-sensitive men that act as gender equality police and insist that any sliver of perceived discrimination against them is unacceptable, after an eternity of shitting all over women, is embarrassing for both themselves and men in general.
Riposte
Member
While reading the site the irony occurred to me that the whole point of Wonder Woman is that she leaves an all-woman island to fight alongside men.
Off-topic: The Germans being the bad guys in a WW1 movie rubs me the wrong way. I wonder if they are going to be superficial about it. It would be weird if they make it seem Ares is only influencing one side. "taking the fight to the Kaiser and to Ares himself" - good grief.
Off-topic: The Germans being the bad guys in a WW1 movie rubs me the wrong way. I wonder if they are going to be superficial about it. It would be weird if they make it seem Ares is only influencing one side. "taking the fight to the Kaiser and to Ares himself" - good grief.
thiscoldblack
Unconfirmed Member
Very cool of Alamo Drafthouse. I hope the showings are a big success.
I don't think they care
All that's happening is this
But all they're seeing is this
and they're equating that to this
Faynwulf
Member
Huh?
You know that everyone is allowed to watch whatever sport they want, right? No one is going to deny a woman the right to watch football. (the real european football, what elese would you watch?)
Or do you mean a sport that's only allowed to be played by men? Which one would that be? You do know that WW doesn't have an all-women cast, right? So that comparison doesn't really work.
Just curious what you mean.
Personally I don't really care what the Alamo Drafthouse does. I think a local cinema does couple nights. I'm not in arms about that either.
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
I love this.
Like the MRA snowflakes offended by this were ever going to see WW anyway, lol
Like the MRA snowflakes offended by this were ever going to see WW anyway, lol
If anything, I'm thinking this is a little bit shitty for non-Austin women - no fault of Alamo there, of course! Hopefully other places will consider following suit.
Messofanego
Banned
Glad this kind of thing is finally for a movie better than Fifty Shades Of Grey or Twilight.
I could see this kind of thing happening for more female-majority films like Rough Night and Girls Trip.
I could see this kind of thing happening for more female-majority films like Rough Night and Girls Trip.
Stallion Dan
Member
What men only sports?
IamDodongo
Member
For real, dude.
Where are these defenders of equality when it actually matters?
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
This is great. People are jackasses.
Man, can't wait for the Alamo Drafthouse in Los Angeles to open.
Seems like such a cool place. I really want to watch Episode VIII there.
Man, can't wait for the Alamo Drafthouse in Los Angeles to open.
Seems like such a cool place. I really want to watch Episode VIII there.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
She leaves Themyscira cuz she's the only Amazon that believes she can change "Man's World" for the better.
lol
Captain Tuttle
Member
Perfect response
Angelus Errare
Banned
Telling everyone that we've achieved equality, so all these minority rights groups are pointless and that the only group in danger are men (but they only focus/care about the issues of white men).
Mohonky
Member
You say this isn't a big deal, but have a look at the responses in this thread celebrating the idea followed immediately by the goading of the idea of 'çis white men' like it's some sort of collective?
The whole thing is really strange to me to be honest.
Rumblebones
Banned
This is amazing.
broncobuster
Banned
Having seen it, the conflict isn't portrayed as black and white. No.
ebullientprism
Member
Holy shit LMAO.