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Going 'Overboard': Hollywood's glut of gender-swap remakes
Yahoo ^
| June 5, 2018
| Staff
Posted on 06/05/2018 11:01:13 AM PDT by C19fan
From the polarizing "Ghostbusters" remake to the controversy over female versions of James Bond and Doctor Who, Hollywood's proclivity for gender-swapped retreads is among its most enduring and contentious.
The trend -- seen as empowering or annoying, depending on who you ask -- is getting fresh attention with "Ocean's 8" due for release on Friday, "Overboard" still in theaters and "What Men Want" coming out in January.
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TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: feminism; hollywood; overboard
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To: C19fan
I’ll pass on any “gender-swap” remake of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”.
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:34:13 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: dfwgator
Not to be too critical, but that looks an awful lot like the “Batley Townswomen’s Guild re-enactment of the first heart transplant”.
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:38:16 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: KC_Lion
How about a movie about 2 dudes that leave their abusive wives and go on a cross country journey of discovery in a convertible. Call it “Thomas & Louis”.
To: Boogieman
Only if they beat up some women in a parking lot.
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:39:44 AM PDT
by
anton
To: Dilbert San Diego; RightGeek
Joan Watson can share living quarters with me anytime.
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:45:09 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: C19fan
Keep it up and they’re going to find out fast a few blockbusters aren’t going to financially bail them out.
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:45:24 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
To: WayneS; dfwgator
Hee… hee…
I last saw them recreating the Seminole Indian Wars in 2017.
I've used them lots in the past, but Google algorithms don't index FR like it used to.
-PJ
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:54:02 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: RightGeek
I guess Rosanne should have said, a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and The Ghost Busters.
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:56:05 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(The only good Commie is a dead Commie. Cast your Ballot Accordingly.)
To: Snickering Hound
The only movie I know of that was killed by it’s own previews. What a turd. lol
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:56:28 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(oks like)
To: C19fan
How about something like an all-woman remake of Alfred Hitchcock's
Lifeboat?
Who wouldn't want to see a boat of stranded women deciding which ones to toss overboard?
-PJ
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:56:38 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: BenLurkin
Joan Watson can share living quarters with me anytime. Just don't piss her off....
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posted on
06/05/2018 11:58:15 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Political Junkie Too
The movie would only be about fifteen minutes long.
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posted on
06/05/2018 12:06:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Spruce
The Guns of Navarrone with an all female cast? I like it! We are thinking on the same wave length. I was wondering when they will remake The Longest Day with an all-female cast except for that French Underground woman.
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posted on
06/05/2018 12:12:06 PM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: OldMissileer
I was wondering when they will remake The Longest Day with an all-female cast except for that French Underground woman.
Rules!
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posted on
06/05/2018 12:13:06 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
In the new movie that character would be played by Ru Paul.
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posted on
06/05/2018 12:18:28 PM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: BenLurkin
LOL!
But if it stars the A-list of Hollywood liberals, Ashley Judd's scene would take that long just by herself! And it would take another 15 minutes just to get Rosie O'Donnell out of the lifeboat.
-PJ
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posted on
06/05/2018 12:21:12 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: OldMissileer
Hah!
Or Patton with that friggin meryl streep in the lead role.
Or Planet of the Apes, where all of the apes are white dudes and Chuck Heston’s part would be played by Oprah
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posted on
06/05/2018 12:31:31 PM PDT
by
Spruce
To: Dilbert San Diego
“Also, the show “Elementary” on CBS, is a Sherlock Holmes inspired series, in which Dr. Watson is a woman.”
Love that Lucy Liu.
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posted on
06/05/2018 12:49:17 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
To: rbg81
“And throw in some black female Nazis. Yeah—that’s the ticket!!”
All with Cowboys cheerleader bodies.
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posted on
06/05/2018 12:50:36 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
To: OldMissileer
They already had Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS filmed on the set of Hogans Heroes.
They burned it down and demolished it since the show had been canceled anyway.
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