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SFF: Heart of Stone
Aug. 22nd, 2023 10:33 pmThis popped up on Netflix, so I decided to watch it (because the preview was mildly entertaining, and I'm always down for "women who are spies and punch things").
And it was great - I won't say it's perfect or whatever, but it did a lot of things in the time it had, and I loved 99% of them (the 1% is the bit I wanted to punch someone for). I would seriously love a sequel, and there's total setup for it. I AM HERE FOR THIS, NETFLIX AND SUNDANCE.
The reasons: it was entertaining. Also, there were multiple female characters, who had conversations. ALSO, and this is something that still annoys the fuck out of me about most Action Women movies: a good 50% of the background characters were women. This was where The 355 fell down for me, because, yes, that movie had four (five?) women as a team, but every single person they encountered or walked past was a dude. Women didn't exist in that movie outside of them, and it made the movie terrible for me (aside from the laser focus on all the dudes, ugh, I'm getting off my soap box now).
Right. Heart of Stone (2023) stars Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighöfer, Paul Ready, Jing Lusi, and Alia Bhatt
There will be spoilers beneath the cut, but also for Person of Interest (seriously, if you've watched POI and you watch this, there are a couple of moments where you will cackle like hell, because, really? REALLY?)
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And it was great - I won't say it's perfect or whatever, but it did a lot of things in the time it had, and I loved 99% of them (the 1% is the bit I wanted to punch someone for). I would seriously love a sequel, and there's total setup for it. I AM HERE FOR THIS, NETFLIX AND SUNDANCE.
The reasons: it was entertaining. Also, there were multiple female characters, who had conversations. ALSO, and this is something that still annoys the fuck out of me about most Action Women movies: a good 50% of the background characters were women. This was where The 355 fell down for me, because, yes, that movie had four (five?) women as a team, but every single person they encountered or walked past was a dude. Women didn't exist in that movie outside of them, and it made the movie terrible for me (aside from the laser focus on all the dudes, ugh, I'm getting off my soap box now).
Right. Heart of Stone (2023) stars Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighöfer, Paul Ready, Jing Lusi, and Alia Bhatt
There will be spoilers beneath the cut, but also for Person of Interest (seriously, if you've watched POI and you watch this, there are a couple of moments where you will cackle like hell, because, really? REALLY?)
( Read more... )
