Lady Ballers: new comedy film about men invading women's sport

Same here, not my kind of humour. I'd like to be able to appreciate it but strongly suspect there will be at least one scene where everyone does OTT theatrical screaming and I can't stand that sort of thing.

I think comedy movies rarely get better than, "watchable with a few moments that make you laugh", and Lady Ballers delivered along those lines.

I think the production quality was fine, and the acting never became annoying for me. The Matt Walsh character was great I thought. Maybe needs his own spinoff film.

It's kind of strange anyway, that in 2023, they are making a 2000s style comedy, pushing conservative messaging, and it's as watchable as the comedy you would get from Hollywood today.

As a first attempt, and including some people that aren't even actors, they deserve credit!

I couldn’t find it funny because it was the type of spoof that I don’t find funny. But I can see that it would appeal to some people, and I doubt it was made with me in mind.

I watched the film this morning. These are my general thoughts on it.

It's not terrible because let's face it, it was a comedy film begging to be made.

It's a film that should have been made and would have benefitted from being made by an experienced film production company. It needed much better actors in a lot of the parts. Surprisingly Jeremy Boering is a fairly good actor but Matt Walsh is not. Nor are most of the DW crowd.

Not sure what was the point of the Ted Cruz cameo - having managed to get him on board they should have written something wittier for him.

The concept in theory is a gift to comedy and it could have been a Blades of Glory but the people who could have made it the film it should have been were never going to make it. So honestly this Daily Wire effort is probably the best we're going to get.

Overall it's too on the nose. It has some moments where they hit it just right but then ruin it by shoe horning DW monologues that are out of place for a goofy comedy. If they'd just resisted that temptation and gone with show not tell it would feel more like a movie the masses would relate to. That inability to show a bit of restraint on one's pet causes for the sake of art is just the other side of the coin to Russell T Davies.

Final thought. Despite what I said above about the concept being a gift to comedy I couldn't find it funny. I don't think this is solely down to the DW being low budget or preachy. Comedy comes from the absurd and none of this is absurd now.

All this has all happened and worse. It's a well deserved piss take but it's at least 5 years too late. It's not funny to watch Riley Gaines forced to swim next to a dude in a cossie when we already saw that play out in a more ridiculous way that the film portrays. Men in women's showers isn't funny now we know that Riley and her team mates were subjected to this in real life.

TLDR - In a sane world this film would have been made by Hollywood proper before we crossed the rubicon. It wasn't and we crossed it so here we are.

It's a purity spiral. Everyone has to conform to the right way of thinking. Those who don't are shunned. If you associate in any way with a shunned person you are likely to be shunned yourself.

https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a-purity-spiral/

I first came across this concept on this thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3703610-Cast-Off-Diversity-wars-are-raging-in-the-knitting-world

Yup.

Wondering now if I need to get a list from all the people I don't like or agree with, in order to eliminate from my life all books, music and films that they like.

I wouldn't like to be caught liking something that someone yukky liked, after all. I'd be supporting them.

Do people really have the time in their lives and availability to worry about this kind of stuff? Are they more worried about how they'd feel about themselves or afraid that other people might disapprove of them? It seems a pretty fragile way to live, and all about appearances.

It’s different when it’s men speaking up for women’s rights. The TRAs can’t abuse men the way they want to abuse women.

The film looks shit IMO but I don’t tend to enjoy mainstream American comedy films, regardless of the subject matter. I prefer my comedy a bit more subtle and clever. Am totally against men in women’s sport though (and changing rooms, prisons, hospital wards etc).

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a bigger backlash against the film- maybe that’s still to come.

Wow. Must've taken some balls (pardon the pun!) to make this in a world where women get investigated for saying humans can't change sex. Hopefully cinemas won't wimp out from screening it.

https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers

I don't know how long it will be free to watch, but it worked on this link for me.

Involving Ted Cruz also engages a lot of people. If you don’t support men in women’s sport, then you actually ARE on Ted Cruz’s side about this. Is that so hard to acknowledge? Why do you feel alienated from something because it contains someone who you agree with about its subject matter?

You realise if you say the words “I agree with Ted Cruz about this” out loud no one cares and it doesn’t change who you fundamentally are as a person or your political ‘side”?

It seems to be streaming in full right now, no membership required. The feature starts after a minute-and-a-half promo for an upcoming animated series.

Some reviews are in: https://www.dailywire.com/news/like-mrs-doubtfire-but-evil-libs-triggered-by-lady-ballers-release-on-dailywire

@NotBadConsidering wow that's a stretch.
No, I don't support men in women's sport actually. But I think the moment you involve Ted Cruz in anything, you alienate a lot of people.

And it does look a bit hammy, sorry 😬. Still, I hope you enjoy it.

The trailer is brilliant, because it's so TRUE.

I think it does.

Maybe it identifies as a scientific paper.

I’ve just checked back and I can’t see anywhere that I suggested there was any crucial information in the film? I’m speaking generally about people who turn their faces from The Other Side so they can continue to cling to their chosen belief systems, without challenge, as you very well know 😊

Well amazingly, the scientific fact/crucial “information” that there are differences between men and women can’t be answered in a US government committee hearing, so it needs to be presented to the public in a comedy film.

On a thread about a comedy film.

I think it's a general point @Flickersy

It's a comedy film, not a scientific paper. What crucial "information" do you think it contains?

This is why gender ideology is such a gift to conservatives. The woman in the clip was also determined to not be aligned with Ted Cruz, but made him look like the world’s most reasonable person by simply asking “are there differences between men and women?” Regardless of all his other views, he can demonstrate that he’s perfectly normal on this. It’s money for old rope.

It's also why this film is going to brilliant. Not because the film itself is going to be brilliant, but it’s going to be hilarious watching people tie themselves in knots to not “align themselves” with the filmmakers, while not making themselves look a fool who supports men in women’s sport, which of course is impossible and exactly why they made the film.