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the film stepmom

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wheresthelight · 13/09/2014 15:58

am sat watching for the first time in years and always thought it was quite funny before if a little creepy that the mum is coaching her kids to hate the stepmum but it is shit like this that makes some people think they have a god given right to attack us and portray us as evil bitches.

grrrr I used to like this film

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NickiFury · 15/09/2014 09:41

Not a fan of Cameron Diaz at all in anything and that new movie of gets "Sex Tape" has annoyed me already. Why is she pictured wearing a skimpy vest and pants, with a nice full frontal for us, while her male co star is totally covered in joggers and t-shirt?

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 09:43

The book was better bas (in a semi-disposable Jodi Picoult ishoos-driven way).

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 09:45

Just about sums her up Nicki. I think she has it written into her contracts that she will NOT do feminism in any form, in the same way some actresses won't do nudity.

NickiFury · 15/09/2014 09:48

She just comes across as really desperate to me, eager to please the men.

basgetti · 15/09/2014 09:48

Urgh I've just googled that film poster, it's grim. Is that up in cinemas??

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 09:49

It's on all the bus stops here.

NickiFury · 15/09/2014 09:49

It is indeed bas. I saw it up on a bus the other day

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 09:52

They could at least have made the underwear a colour less like flesh. I nearly crashed the car....

NickiFury · 15/09/2014 09:53

I just looked at it like

VagueFace · 15/09/2014 09:53

The only gripe I have with stepmom is that as usual it does start off with the stereotypical "stepmum is nasty" which doesn't help matters with how SM's are accepted in today's society. But then mum warms to step mum because of her illness and knows that it's SM who will ultimately be looking after the kids alongside dad when she's gone so makes peace. But would peace of been met if there were no terminal illness? Would she have still felt and projected the same otherwise?

riverboat1 · 15/09/2014 09:57

AW, I don't mind Cameron Diaz. The Other Woman was hardly a hard hitting feminist film but at least it made the point that blame lies at the feet of the married man who cheated, not the OW, an had some nice girl power stuff in it. And in The Holiday she is portrayed as a nice future SM to Jude Law's two motherless daughters. And she kicks ass in Charlie's Angels. And...OK, I'm out. I do remember an awful film with her and two other women where they spent most of the film parading round in their knickers singing songs about men with big dicks. It was one of my all-time cinematic lows.

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 09:59

I do remember an awful film with her and two other women where they spent most of the film parading round in their knickers singing songs about men with big dicks

basgetti · 15/09/2014 09:59

She did an interview saying that all women want to be objectified and that revealing photo shoots are empowering. As well as some long winded waffle about how she doesn't want to be labelled a feminist. Not my cup of tea at all.

NickiFury · 15/09/2014 10:01

I'm happy to say I have no clue what the film could be so luckily I have not had to endure it.

Thumbwitch · 15/09/2014 10:24

My sister's keeper is an emotional film, yes - but has a different ending to the book. Just so you know.

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 10:29

So it does Thumb. I forgot that. Another example of hollywood inflicting simpler, more acceptable, narratives on things. (Or have I got it muddled?)

Thumbwitch · 15/09/2014 10:41

No, you've got it right - the film has a "better" ending than the book in terms of acceptability and hollywood "feel good" (sort of).

FlossyMoo · 15/09/2014 10:41

Saddest film I have watched was Who will love my children. Even now when I think about how the brother who was adopted went back to the orphanage to take his other brother, who nobody wanted due to epilepsy, home I well up and get all flappy hands [crying flappy hands emoticon}

DinoSnores · 15/09/2014 10:46

I was wondering if there were clips on Youtube as I think I remember going to see this when I was a student.

Today's lesson for today: Do not put "stepmom movie" into the search box of Youtube! They look like very different films!

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 10:48

Today's lesson for today: Do not put "stepmom movie" into the search box of Youtube! They look like very different films

Thumbwitch · 15/09/2014 10:53

Oh I made a big mistake looking for something on youtube the other day - can't remember exactly what I was looking for but it certainly wasn't what came up!!

FlossyMoo · 15/09/2014 11:05

Many moons ago I was a manager of a small bingo hall. We were doing a Easter promotion and I wanted big pink rabbits to give away as prizes, ya know Easter bunny like. Well I got 1000's of pages from my search but none of the items listed were the fluffy types of bunny I wanted. I had to explain my internet history to the boss as they regularly checked it

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 11:08

That made you look very fussy Flossy

FlossyMoo · 15/09/2014 11:16

I can't imagine a bunch of pensions being happy to receive a prize of a rampant rabbit with clit stimulator at their local bingo hall.............Then again I could be wrong

ArsenicFaceCream · 15/09/2014 11:42

Even after you'd carefully trawled thousands to find the perfect one?

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