Damsel reviews are out from critics as Netflix attempts an expensive girlboss subversion of the fairy tale classic story. It goes about as well as you expect, the dragon villain becomes the best character while the story is predictable from the start. Rather than finding romance the princess gets betrayed and she don't need no prince. This princess can save herself from a dragon that can wipe out entire kingdoms and armies. No-one knows how, but the plot armour will provide the means anyway. The saving grace is that even the critics seem to be getting tired of such shallow pandering and it seems that now, Hollywood really is making movies for no-one. But what do you think? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
@@wa-bu3ke, well. I like the actress who voiced the dragon. And the Dragon had the tragic backstory to justify its actions. The CGI was...good. But suspention of disbelief went out the window.
Oh, sweet Jesus; the writer for this movie also wrote the script for "Wrath of the Titans"?! My God. If nothing else, this proves the International Criminal Court is a joke, has no jurisdiction anywhere, and "crimes against humanity" sets a bar so high it would be impossible for a Harkonnen to meet. 🤷♂️
@@jleewatts4318 Your summation is very good. The acting was good. Robin Wright and Ray Winstone steal every scene they're in. Shohreh Aghdashloo well her voice is out of this World.
Bring back good movies, or if you will use a chick, make her sexy, or a sexy female but nooooooooo, also ok, you want knigth save you girls, be a traditional female, but nooooo, you know, i dont care anymore
There are certain people like her and Ezra Miller that I simply cant understand. They never really put on great performances, aren't particularly talented, are hated by far more people then like them, have few if any real fans, and dont really have any special talents or fill any special roles that anyone else couldnt easily fill but they still get leading roles in blockbuster movies. She's had 3 movies released so far, all with giant budgets and all AAA titles, but all she's done is piss people off and she's still got a couple more big time movies coming out. Most actors and actresses struggle for years to get a break out role, Clint Eastwood for example was an actor for nearly a decade before his first major role, it took Morgan Freeman 25 years to get his first major staring role, and even many child actors still take years of bit parts, commercials, and non-speaking roles before they get to play a main characters kid or something like that but she's had top billing roles pretty much right off the bat for no discernible reason.
@@arthas640 Yes! And I must add Emma Watson to that list. How can she still classify as an actress whilst being plank of wood... Honestly, even Katherine McNamara is a better actress than her. xD And yet Emma is loved by everyone in the industry and is being casted anywhere she wants. Just how...
I'm so over girlboss power fantasy pandering. I've BEEN over it for years now. I want so badly to see a modern female character who's sweet and compassionate who sometimes needs to rely on others when things get overwhelming...just like anyone ELSE would. That's not bad nor misogynistic. It's realistic.
It’s getting people killed in real life, like the poor fighter pilot woman who was waved through after crashing in simulations because her superiors wanted to create a girl boss military moment…and then crashed for real and died.
@@AbsentMinded619They have no problem sacrificing women to there new religion , they dont bat an eye to put a man dressing as a woman into a MMA fight with an actual woman to get her eye socket broken and her skull fractured from being struck by a MAN.
Eowyn went through hell. She was trapped in an awful, awful situation, watching her country crumble. Her people suffer, war breaks out, her brother gets exiled, and her uncle, who was like a father figure to her, becomes ill and twisted by the machinations of this horrible man who was leching on her in his spare time, and there was nothing she could do about it. Nothing but sit at home and tend to Theoden and watch. Her soul has been worn away by the endless waiting. She has no hope that Mordor's power can be defeated because she has watched it invade her very home while she could do nothing. In many ways, she's similar to Denethor, who was destroyed by doing nothing but watching the enemy creep closer. But Denethor's paralysis was by choice. Eowyn has no choice; she rarely does. She has no control over anything. And the one person she thought could save her and her kingdom is leaving on what seems like a hopeless journey. Eowyn is no longer afraid of dying. At this point, she's reached rock bottom. All she wants is a chance to make a difference, to make a choice for once in her life. So, she disguises herself as a soldier and marches off to a battle she doesn't plan to return from. Of course, she takes Merry, who might not be as desperate but also feels helpless. We all know what happens next. That scene is so famous; it's one of the best moments in the book. It's way better in the book than the movie: Eowyn laughs before her "I am no man" line. But looking further into it, the scene is about as heartbreaking as it is fantastic. Eowyn's laughing because, in the end, she's doing something. At last, she can at least try to make a choice. A choice of how she will die, heroically, defending her king and father figure to the last. The Nazgul, whose weapon is soul-crushing despair, has no effect on her because she's faced it day after day. That despair had no face and no form, and she couldn't fight it. And now, finally, in her last moments, she has a chance to fight it. And she does. She kills a Ringwraith, but nothing much changes for Eowyn. She's wounded, and Aragorn leaves her behind to heal while they head off again to a hopeless last stand. Yet again, she’s trapped, helpless, waiting for Mordor to win and overrun everything. That's when she meets Faramir. He’s the first person she lets see her as anything but strong. She allows herself to cry before him and, later on, draws close to him when she thinks the armies of Mordor are coming. This contrasts sharply with how she treated Aragorn, constantly trying to prove her strength to him. She lets Faramir see her pain and her fear. Faramir knows quite a bit about despair, and he’s already watched at least one loved one (his father) be destroyed by it. He wants to save Eowyn from her own hopelessness. The two grow close, and Eowyn allows herself to melt a little, and the two fall in love. Ironically enough, killing the personification of despair didn't conquer Eowyn's depression. Finally, accepting someone else's love and giving herself a chance to heal did. She would never heal by chasing the impossible, striving for a last heroic stand. She had to stop fighting and let herself heal. Tolkien never saw battle as heroic or good. Eowyn’s story is another example of how Tolkien shows us that true strength isn’t killing a terrifying demon but letting yourself hope again. Eowyn's story is not about a battle against evil hordes or even the patriarchy but of a fight against depression. She is so much more than a spunky heroine or a tragic lover. Her character is complex, and her journey is both heartbreaking and inspiring.
@@cthonisprincess4011 And I don't think that could be said any better than this, and shows that Tolkien and his works still thrives and will continue to do so, while things like this movie, will fade into obscurity.
I’m showing my age, but does anyone remember Xena? She was a side character, that became a recurring character, who then received her own shown. All based on the character and the skill of the actress. Xena was absolutely confident in her abilities, why demonstrating considerable personal development from a warlord to a peacemaker. Yet the show never pandered to a men versus women oversimplification. For a campy show, they wrote even minor characters with depth and arcs of their own. Now that was a female lead! I miss the hood old days when campy shows could still be thought provoking and highly entertaining.
She was! She went toe to toe with men, but her battles used strategy and even her hand to hand relief on her skills not overpowering men who were clearly larger. When she had a live interest, she didn’t humiliate or demean him. Script writers could take lessons from that show
The funny thing is.. she is kinda saved by men. I mean she had no way to climb the wall she needed to leave the cave - until her father came in with ropes.. Without that it was clearly given there was no way she would have managed to leave the dragon lair. So in total 4 men lost their lives to save the Damsel! ;)
I mean honestly, I thought the movie was good because of that. The redemption of the father in his sacrifice for his baby, conflicted heart of the prince, and she had to make her way out of a labyrinth
Yeah many of so call "Reviews" are more like we vgrite it based on trailer and mostly write it around idea flip of Hollywood to show ve are not that Woke - We are same as you. She run from dragon for most parts of movie, her development is sort of baset of harsh north origin and she start fighting only after she could loose last parts of her family to pet of something like deth cult more than royal linege from south. So for me more like 5/10 and averange fairy tale - Closer to Ronja Rövardotter than Live action Snow white by Disney what is refilmed after backlash of world to trailers and actors mayhem on fairytale standarts.
Recall that her father was the one who married her off as a sacrifice. That's really low for a man. BUT he had a change of heart. Ultimately, he was courageous and she was forgiving. I don't know man, somehow this movie didn't give off that toxic man vs woman feel for me. I really liked it.
I spent the movie extremely irritated at the main character to stop gasping, screaming and yelling constantly when she wqs supposed to be trying to sneak away from the dragon. It was completely frustrating and atupid.
@splitsecond7116 lol I forgot what topic this was lmao But as for surviving goes actual women had to deal with worse and didn't get their daddies to help them or a best friend dragon lmao Who even says "well real women could never" when referring to a fucking fantasy movie Go sit down lmao.
Who could have seen this coming? I was in the theater to watch Dune Part 2 when I first saw the trailer for this and there was a collective groan from the audience. Glorious
And he couldn't die in 'Troy' because he was Odysseus- a canonical survivor of the war (though they killed off Menelaus & had Paris survive, though it went the opposite in the myth)... I really would have liked to have seen a sequel with him.
What vid did Spoony say this? I thought I've watched all of Spoony's content but don't remember him saying that in one of his masterpieces of video content. I miss old Spoony. I hope he's doing ok but man do I miss his videos
@@DoomTrain84 I know it was one of the FF8 review videos, but can't quite remember which one. Pletty sure it was when they somehow randomly bump into an abandoned spaceship in outer space.
The only way a princess that knows nothing of tactics, swordplay, or the world is totally gonna be able to solo a dragon is if she is a mary sue. there is no reality where this story works.
I watched the movie and i didnt get supertriggered by some impossible thingsshe did. She never had superstrength or something, she basically mostly just runs fall tries to hide. She never until the very end when she has no escape anymore acts strong and fights.
They did try to give her a backstory. She was chopping wood in the beginning, so she has some physical strength, and grew up in a harsh environment, which explains her attitude and general will to survive in a different harsh environment. It had potential, but it was not reached
Guys, keep in mind, Millie Bobby Brown is 5'3". She's 5'3" and probably 125lbs playing a princess in the Middle Ages who, at best, magically learns how to use a sword and fight like an anime MC.
Well to be fair if you watched the movie, she didn't fight at all, but tried to survive. There is only one scene with a sword and every movie has to have it's MC face the impossible odds, so what I am trying to say is that she never fights in the movie to be honest.
Pretty much need magic. Finesse and skill matter a lot in melee combat but it's still hard to overcome a significant size/strength difference in real combat, which is why female warriors are so rare across civilizations and cultures and why you mainly just see them in tribal situations where the tribe mobilizes everyone between the ages of 16 and 60 to fight. Female warriors are rare even in societies where both genders are equal and in societies that are matriarchal so it's not just about sexism. Real melee combat isn't like a 1 v 1 duel like modern fencing where you can realistically expect a better fighter to win regardless of strength differences, but even in a 1 v 1 duel situation IRL there's a reason why virtually every combat sport has both gender and weight classes and doesnt throw 125lb women in against 160+ pound men.
I thought it would be Central American war flashbacks. Because the gta verse has this Central American war being that worlds vietnam war. But also because Peru 🇵🇪 is a regional powerhouse of South America. But second behind Brazil 🇧🇷
Could’ve had a lot of women that gotten wiped out with a few women to survive a monster attack stronger. In some way. It’s some survival of the fittest theme with a protagonist who happens to be a woman.
There is a fairytale named Blaubart( Blue beard) -I don't know the english title- which is kinda similar and more entertaining that this damsel movie. It follows a young woman who is freshly married to a creppy noble man named Blaubart (weather he is a king or a count, don't know anymore). He is often away and gives his new wife a bunch of keys which she can use to open all rooms in the castle but one key and after his work she has to give them back. Time passes and she explores the whole castle, but the room, which she could open with the forbidden key, is still prohibited. One day, she gets too curious and opens the room with the key; there she sees the hanging corpses of the past wives of Blaubart and everywhere is blood, in utter shock she lets the key fall into the blood. She picks the key up and tries to wash the blood away, but the key is still bloody. When Blaubart comes home and demands his keys back, she fearful does as he says. He sees the blood and knows that his wife didn't follow his orders and wants to kill her. Then my memory is kinda vague,...but in the end she gets rescued by her brothers and they kill Blaubart. For me, it would be a far better movie. The film follows a female lead, a shocking surprise, perhaps a little bit of chasing and she gets rescued not by a love interest but her brothers Sorry for my poor english 🫣
This could have been a good idea. Take a pampered princess and feed her to a monster, she survives, meets a funny side character and hunts down the monster but comes to understand the real monster where the people who fed her to the monster in the first place. She grows as a person, makes mistakes and returns to the castle a stronger person after her hard journey. But, I'm old school and more used to Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley type women. What was I thinking Doh!
That would mean they’d have to write the woman as a fallible human being and they’re incapable of doing that nowadays. This idea as you described it could have been great. A hero’s journey is timeless. Unfortunately we’re in a time where it’s not allowed.
There's a European film, I believe this film takes it's liberties from in terms of the premise (sort of, loosely) and that is 99% better than this movie!
Honestly Girlbossing should become meme at this point. Do people really still make serious movies with Girlbosses? Their self-awareness level most be negative.
I think we're very close to hitting that point tbh. Keep in mind that Hollywood has the agility of a drunken tortoise when it comes to reacting to social trends, since the time required to develop anything is like several years, not to mention many of them are prideful, stubborn, and unbelievably stupid. But sooner or later their narcissistic need for people to like them again will push them to start reversing these very tired and stupid trends, and I think we'll start seeing the 'parody' phase of Girlboss stories start to come out in the next few years.
I'm pretty confident the actress would be unable to actually lift the sword in the combat pose she did in the movie, in real life with an actual iron or steel two-handed sword.
@benjaminthibieroz4155 I'll believe it when she-noodle, who looks like the heaviest weight she's lifted in her life, is an iPhone, actually gets what would appear to be muscle definition. I also challenge anyone to grab a 5lbs Dumbell and do 3 sets of 10x arm raises and then do 3 sets of 10x laterals with their arms raised at chest level (hands out front, then brought out to the sides while level with chest) and tell me with a straight face they ain't burning. Seen grown men and professional athletes struggle and sweat up a storm.
I have lifted genuine swords. Claymore is the closest to what that movie depicted I held. That sword was heavy. I had a hard time controlling its swing, and I'm much beefier than that girl. I can only imagine it would be tremendously difficult for her to lift and control a heavy sword. A rapier, on the other hand, was very light. Was also surprised how easy it was to control it with light flicks of the wrist.
I totally kept thinking this. It irritated me so much. I have seen many programs about ancient battles, and warriors who fought with swords. Swords were heavy as hell. There is reason there were knights and other strong warriors who were celebrated for winning battles. Just lifting a sword would be tiring. Learning to use it with precision and skill would be even more challenging. Then using in a the chaos of a battle fighting one on one over and over. The strength and stamina it must have taken would have been incredible. It is so unbelievable that she could even lift a real sword off of the ground, let alone shove it into dragon scales. My favorite scene from Witcher is in the first season in which Henry Cavill fights a bunch of people in a court yard. He looks amazing in that scene and you absolutely believe he is doing it for real. Then I saw the behind the scenes footage, and he is really doing it, and he has the to use an added skill of stopping just before he actually connects with anybody. Even if the sword was a light prop you could tell that if someone put a real sword in Henry’s hand, he could absolutely take someone out with it. It is insulting to me that you have all of these amazing make actors who work there butts off to buff themselves to look the part, but the actresses just show up looking like Anne Hathaway in Les Miserable, but can suddenly kick all the butt in the world. As a female I don’t want to see this crap any more than any of the men do. I want to see chivalrous have. They don’t have to make the women stupid and completely helpless like they did in some older films, but there is nothing wrong with having a guy help save the damsel. If they want it to be a woman she needs to bulk up, like Gina Carano and even then, you need to have her fight other women. They used to do that all of the time. Those fights were far more believable, and much more entertaining. The smallest guy I know can still lift far more than I can at my strongest. This crap is ridiculous, and they need to stop doing it.
King: "I said slay the dragon, not lay the dragon!" Dragon human hybrid hatchling: *Hugs knight (dad)* "Hey, dad!" *Points at the king* "Is that uncle?"
There is a fantasy novel that starts with the prince saving the dragon from the bratty princess. He shows up to rescue that princess and the dragon is all "PLEASE take that woman away. She's driving me crazy!"
I watched it. Millie Bobby Brown basically mostly yelled or talked through her nose. Is it a film for people with clogged sinuses who have not been represented in cinema so far?
They always try to act like women saving themselves is a new concept. Does anyone remember "Ever After" (with Drew Barrymore)? She saves herself and gets the prince!
In Ever After, Danielle was a fully-realized character. She had dreams, flaws, and vulnerabilities. That’s not allowed in modern female led movies. Female characters have to be powerful all the time now.
You take the same subversion that was done a dozen times already, then you copy it. Bam, you've just subverted convention in a way that even IGN's critics think is overdone.
I think at some point in the movie, you could see the writers give up, it was about 5 seconds in. All they really cared about was the dragon, except whoever decided the dragon should have sheep-looking eyes instead of normal dragon eyes needs to be found and heavily scolded.
Here’s a subversive story. Princess finds out she’s going to be betrothed so she runs away to the local dragon colony and asks to be “captured” because she’d rather be a dragon’s servant than marry a clod. Of course, that’s a book that came out in 1990.
Even before I got to the end of that comment, I was thinking to myself 'I read that book!' I'm mildly surprised that other people also remembered it.... Anyways, if they made that into a movie, they could also have fun with the 'heroes melt the witches by throwing mop-water at them' scenes...
@@fortcastellan1730 We just became best friends. I found the series in the library when I was ten or eleven and loved it. I gave it to my niece two years ago for her eighth birthday, and she's read them multiple times. She absolutely loves all of them.
Btw, did Elodie just forget at the end that the Dragon killed her father?!? I guess she is forgiven because she is a Dragoness... If it was a male Dragon, he would have been killed.
@@brandonlee2746 Plus she had to tell the dragon they lied to her all these years. Like "It's ok if you were killing real daughters of the royal family but you weren't so...."
Lmao 😂 “Élodie, you can’t kill ALL the male dragons-!” “Do as I SAY, dammit! A golden egg encrusted with jewels for the female dragons and DEATH for the males!”
@@freakbiker i mean tbf there is no way she would defeat the royal family without the dragon unless she used GIrlBoSs power but that would be even more cringe
But the funniest part is she gets burned at her right side of the chest inside the cave but once she arrives at the castle the burn appears at the left side 😅
@Be.nj.i rewatched the scene I'll cede that point but the movie is still leagues above the usual girlboss film. its a decent lil flick.if this move is shit than so is alien in how it treats a woman overcoming a shit situation lol
@@shen5533 Cause it wasnt bad and I think you've all just been so raped by modern media that now everything has to check all of YOUR boxes for it to be good, On BOTH sides of the Giant Bitch baby spectrum.
I turned it off after a few minutes. The king and his knights riding their horses and walking through the cave in Air Force squadron flight formation would have been funny in the 70s if it was Monty Python.
@siunami6432 and this is the 5% so fucking what? This fire breath isn't even the same kind we usually see it's like she's barfing molten rock . Like she feeds on the crystals that grow in that cavern and has evolved to use its semi digested form as a weapon. But sure you can just sit there crying "why this dragon different, that's stupid"
@@KashaLupulthe issue is that she should be grievously harmed whenever she uses her molten vomit attack, and just kinda.. catch on fire every time she attacked with it.? If she isn't vulenrable to her own heat, flame, and the molten rock on the inside how is she so vulnerable on the outside. Its not even in some movies where they try to make the dragons more 'realistic' and they have an organic flamethrower type thing going on, her bodies generates the heat. Generaly why you normally see dragons as immune to their own flame or even flame in general. Cause they'd destroy themselves if they didn't ahve that inherent immunity. Example i can give is the game of thrones dragons. Their inherent immunity to flame and heat is why they can produce flames so powerful it can explode rock from the heat shift. If they didn't they'd litreally die the first time they ever breathed fire. An example i can think of where the dragons aren't immune to their own flame is thsi one theoretical 'if dragons were real' show where it of course is taking into account the possiblity of dragons being real creatures. Had adaptations taht made their mouths fireproof and stuff, but being mundane creatures otherwise they were still flammable.
@michaelhurlbut4830 I can see it now. Like Smaug laying on his hoard of wealth, but its just a medieval rendition of the Scarface with his mountain of cocaine.
What about a historical fiction about an Aztec girl thrown into a cenote for sacrifice who manages to escape only to be captured by Cortes' party and brought by them to Tenochtitlan where -- by accident or manipulation -- she turns out to be the catalyst that leads to the destruction of the city and the death of Mocteczuma in _"La Noche Triste" (The Night of Sorrows)?_
@@benjaminthibieroz4155 Yeah... but I want it to go a bit "Once Upon a time in _Mexica"_ and not let Cortes survive and have the protagonist bear his child so maybe some of the lost Narváez expedition are a parallel story that syncs up for a third act where _(having become disillusioned with conquest and genuinely allied with the native groups that rescued and helped them)_ they're the ones to find _[our La Malinche surrogate]_ and help the Aztecs defeat Cortes at Otumba?
That would mean Hollywood would actually want to make a real story and not add their diversity, female empowerment and not add all the forced sexual diversity. Only thing it would have going is that they wouldn't need to think hire too many white actors so they could promote that more proudly.
@@llYossarian Well for starters if they going to plan to make a movie about Aztecs, maybe have the actors actually look like they were from that culture. I don't have problem with any people, but I do dislike the obvious diversity decisions done for just for the sake of it.
The part that really made me bust out laughing was towards the end: she can climb a rope to escape while the dragon is luckily distracted but she can't keep from loudly grunting every inch of progress up the rope. 😂
Or the sister screeching when she stood on her wounded leg. You'd think being in danger of getting mauled by a dragon would make ppl have their pain in silence.
Fiona is a badass but even she couldn't take out a dragon by herself. Some things are just too unbelievable. In Shrek 1 and 4, they outsmarted the dragon and trapped it.
@@racheljames7 20 years old, 20 YEARS! and it has better written female heroines than today. Goes to show that a lot of studios and films are going backward.
Netflix was in the pitch meeting like, “ok we need another girlboss movie. So, let’s take everything that was great about blue eye samurai, and do none of that. Everyone, I present… DAMSEL.”
If the Princess developed a relationship with a talking, intelligent dragon, held captive in a cave and being used to dispose of inconvenient political adversaries over multiple encounters where the hero barely escapes by running away and hiding, shouting questions at her pursuer that he cannot really answer to his own satisfaction, and eventually convincing him to rebel against his oppressors and forming an uneasy partnership so they can both be free, well....
Ah yes so brave and original. Subverting a fairy tale narrative - Shrek (2004). Subverting a tale about dragons - Dragonheart (1996). Woman is about to get married but her in-laws have evil plans - Ready or Not (2019). So stunning and brave!
They are mad because a consultant group didn't come in to get money for a shitty flick, Netflix tried it on their own. Results were the same though.. it fails.
Because the movie didn't push the typical girlboss "I don't need no man" narrative as much but rather tried to show an exceptional girl rise to the occasion.
Here's a better story: the dragon is actually a decent fellow who'd been held captive by the mean ol royals and they keep tossing people down at him. They almost all die from the impact of, you know, falling several stories onto solid rock... she survives by sheer luck, and the dragon leads her to a tiny crack in the rock she can slip out of, then helps him escape by banding with a group of rebels who oppose the tyrannical regime of the kingdom.
That actually sounds worse than the actual movie. How did they even capture a dragon and why keep it alive by feeding it? For war? I doubt they could keep it in control. Making an army to go against a tyrannical kingdom plot is overused. Disney already did a war plot with the Alice and the Wonderland remake. Narnia also did a war plot. A lot of fantasy movies tend to do war plots.
Yes, she is in her 20, never in her life lifth something heavy, she has no muscle at all, and she out of no where she can figth a dragon, meanwhile in reality, you can be an entire life training, just to learn to handle a sword, and she magicaly learn to use one, nice, i mean come on, is just sad, the only good scene the man throwing away the princes that is not even sexy,
Any one remember "Dragon Slayer" I think they tackled the sacrifice thing with the strong kings daughter thing. Love when the trombones fire up when dragon shows up in the sky.
In this way, I suggest for you to look at movie called "I am Dragon" or in originial On- Drakon, its 2015 Russian fantasy so you need to kinda forgive them some acting and stuff... But the story its basically better version of this. its about Russian princess, who's about to marry a grandson(?) of a famous dragon hunter. The wedding was set as old sarcificial ritual for maidens being offered to dragons, but since there's no more dragons it was transfered into wedding ritual. But surprise surprise, the dragon came and kidnapped the girl... Right now, even though the movies is not somethign absolutely amazing, as I said the actors are just handsome models etc... the story itself do really working tho. Its a fairytale fantasy so a lot of stuff is forgiving.... The princess is represented as clever and actually curious about dragons, wishing for them to exists, she actually wish to be brave warrior although she isn't. But as she happened to be trapped ina cave on an island, she work her way to get out of there... Look it up, I don't want to spoil it, don't hate it for the country it was filmed please... I think that story is a great example of good 'reverse' damsel in distress with dragon in it.
I was looking to see if anyone else would mention it before I do! It's clear as day to me this movie was inspired by On - drakon, but decided to "modernize" it and also kill the romance.
the number of movies and shows we can point to with great female characters going back to the 1970s or even earlier is astounding, and they weren't even trying to be "diverse" back then. And yet they did it FAR better.
Shit Red Sonja is a master piece compared to most of the modern empowerment films hell atleast it wasnt like woman king where they took the villain of the story in reality and in the film tried to pass them off as the brave heroes rather than the weak low lifes who got massacred for there crimes.
This is the kind of fantasy movie that people who have never read good fantasy novels create. Sadly that has become the rule rather than the exception.
Most men work hard so that the women in our lives don't have to deal with misery like we do. It is disheartening to see them portrayed this way, at least for me. I guess maybe it appeals to women that have no men in their lives? Who knows.
Honestly the way wamans, not womans, wamans, today hate us, and threat us like garbage so honestly with me they broke the conditioning, so me whatever, they supposly are stronger and better than men so me, ok
Other than the massive plotholes, I don't get how the movie panders to girl bosses? She was perfectly fine and content to be in love with the prince at the beginning. She wasn't trying to overthrow the current kingdom to replace the current royals or anything. She was just there, and she's content with that as long as it feeds her people. She survived, because she had to?there was literally nobody else inside there. It ain't perfect, but she wasn't a Mary Sue as big as Rey Skypaltine was.
The dragon *was* the best character in the film. The plot, of course, was stupid beyond belief. King goes into dragon lair (the whole mountain, which was quite a cool setting) and kills the dragon's brood (men being evil ... again). The King begs for mercy and the dragon comes up with some ridiculous payback that lasts centuries - "I'm going to eat three princesses every generation to make you feel my pain." Good grief ... How about this? The dragon eats the King immediately because, you know, it's a dragon. It then flies out of its lair and destroys every single building and kills every single person on the island as retribution. The dragon then lays more eggs and now knows that her new brood will be entirely safe because all of the humans have been annihilated. Kind of like a dragon-centric John Wick. So we can dump the entire plot of the movie after 90 seconds and come up with a revenge tale far more satisfying for the next 90 minutes. This new film will satisfy lovers of dragons, and females, because the dragon was female (the laying eggs kind of gives that away). Not quite on the scale of Ellen Ripley, but then again, no-one ever will scale those heights again.
When was the last time we had a basic, knight saves the girl fantasy? I'm 50 and I honestly can't think of one. Willow (1988) is like the only one, and that's on a technicality.
emma watson has had a few successes since harry potter. the perks of being a wall flower, little woman, the bling ring and beauty and the beast. Outside of movies she has a business with her brother. She hasn't acted in a while but that doesn't mean she is not successful
Oh,Emma Wattson is still doing things? Last I heard of her was her "self-partnering" years ago while still holding her V-card(which...yeah right,its Hollywood,she probably got that card cashed in during the HP casting).
I don't understand why people suddenly think this whole girl boss schtick is something new. I mean did everyone forget Xena the Warrior Princess from like 30 years ago...? Not sure if she was actually the first girl boss, probably not, but she was probably the most famous one. I mean it literally made Lucy Lawless' career and all and was a very successful show back in the day.
I watched movie just for the laughs. My favorite part has to be when she takes on the dragon singlehandley when apparently an entire Kingdom can't do anything to it. She randomly builds a complicated contraption to distract the dragon (we believe she can because the movie literally tells you she is Elodie and can do anything) and is able to dodge it's attacks and stab it. I like how Netflix also made sure to fill part of their diversity quota, black stepmother has literally no character background and plays no significant part. You can actually remove Angela Basset's character and it wouldn't even make a difference. Why didn't they give her more than 10 lines and 5 minutes to create an actual relationship between the protagonist. I burst out laughing when they shoehorned in a random Asian girl and family near the end of the movie. Great woke girlboss movie all around XD
I liked Angela Basset/her character for the small amount she was in it. Would have been interesting to see more of that interaction and character growth.
@@HastSkull It's not the actors fault, but the stupid line of having to force diversity. Even the kingdom were they were and she had lost real mother. How did the father get the only black woman to be the stepmother? Like what was the plot point there and she was just from a rope making family...come on. If they at least had made her character be a noble from other country where the majority are dark skinned then that would have been more plausible for her to be new stepmother. I would have actually made the little sister be half-sister too, give the father too little bit more reason to sacrifice the older daughter for the kingdom.
Seeing movies like this is just sad. I'm not joking or trolling. It honestly makes me sad. Wtf is wrong with the movies these days. And it's only getting worse
They could have made it a huge horror story with the prince transforming into the dragon because of his ancestors and in each night before the wedding there would be a killing spree and if he could stop himself from killing and merry the damsel the curse would be broken. And at the end the damsel saves the day by kissing him into the dragon form. And all would believe the curse is broken, but at the end after they merry and consummate when she sleeps the camera pans on her belly showing she is already pregnant, but is not a normal baby is a dragon one, because the curse was not broken, she kissed the dragon, the prince didn't stop himself from killing as a dragon... The end!
I love how even random people in a RUclips comments section have better creative writing skills then professionals working on AAA titles in Hollywood. I'm convinced they just hire someone's nephew to write a screenplay as favor to some Hollywood insider or because they owe someone important a favor. I used to be one of those nerds who spent hours on fan fiction websites reading crap written by teenagers and tweens and no joke I've read better stories there then we're seeing in AAA titles lately. Hollywood films made with budgets that exceed the annual government budgets of a small country should have better writing then a Naruto x Sonic crossover fanfic written by a teenage girl with a B- in English class.
I remember trying to kick heroin cold turkey, and being so sick and on the verge of death and hallucination. I cried watching "Power Rangers", because they "were such good friends". Of course I cried every time I saw happy youths on T.V., because it reminded me of my wasted youth...
That's one thing that was problem. She wasn't even fit. I say watch Mirror Mirror. That is an example of girl power done right. She started out as a normal princess but than later after the queen tried to kill her, she had to learn how to fight with a sword. And it was a more realistic sword too. One that She could actually hold. You probably know of it. It's basically a snow-white story. One that was done right. And she appreciated the man too.
I've read a story about a female dragon slayer that actually made sense. Firstly it was her profession and a family tradition at that. Secondly she's described as pretty buff. And then there's the family secret on how to fight dragons: You poison them first with bait before you go and "fight" them. Fighting them outright would be stupid and next to suicidal.
Omg I think I read the same short story but can't remember where! The slayer is old and the dragon is one of the last and it shapeshifts into her new apprentice to try and trick her right? Awesome story.
i just watched the movie and id honestly give it a 6.8/ 10 . My main issue with the plot is that whether or not the dragon was killing girls with royal blood or girls without royal blood........ the girls would be innocent either way. It made no sense for millie to spare the dragon in the end and it made even less sense for the dragon to befriend millie. Honestly, im not saying that this show is a materpeice or whatever, (it aint) but i knew what it was going in, and I had fun.
Oh my goodness, i saw this on Netflix last night and wondered why Dispy hadnt done a review 😂 You always deliver. I should have known better than to doubt you.
It was horrible. Every guy was an idiot. She was godlike. At the end, She controlled the dragon to kill everyone in the city. And that's supposed to be the good ending. And somehow the black girl that was stabbed. Finds The girl randomly in the woods. And survives the ending to get everything.😂 The stepmom is godlike too. And overall it was her idea to get the girls married to the nobles.😂 Ridiculous. But they twisted and make it like the guy was the one responsible.
So I've just finished watching it. I will say. It's not a power fantasy. Absolutely not. She's not super strong and she struggles Absolutely. There were moments like her cutting her hair and saying she will not be told what to do which I didn't understand. But for the most part. It was very natural progression. She's shown tk come from a land where its more about survival due to harsh winters. So I would believe she would use smarts to try and save her family. And she's not unlikeable. She's not the most developed character I don't think but from what disney and Co have churned out. It is a breathe of fresh air.
If you want a good 'girlbossing the dragon' story? Try Simon R. Green's Blue Moon Rising from 1991. Two of the four main characters are explicitly meant to just go off and die as far as their families are concerned, one of those is 'sacrificed' to a dragon, and she has a personality that's much, much more forceful than the butterfly collecting dragon, so he can't kill her. It's a damn good read with several follow up books that do a much better job of 'subverting' fairy tale tropes than anything that's come out of Hollowwood in years.
I like the short story, where all the knights fail to kill the one-eyed dragon. Along comes a woman warrior... who succeeds. She douses herself in the hottest pepper juice known to man and lets the dragon get a good taste, after which it begs to be put out of its misery. The punch line is... apropos.
@@michaelhurlbut4830 YES!!!! OMG- 'The Fairy Godmother' is my favourite of them, but 'One Good Knight' is probably a much better version of this story. 'Black Swan' (a take on 'Swan Lake'/ 'The Swan Princess') was also rather compelling. I really love the one of her 'Elemental Masters' series ('Pheonix & Ashes' is the only one I've read, sadly- my library didn't have the others)- & I even read a cute little short story she wrote, 'The River's Gift' - all **much** better...
Im surprised people are still paying attention to movies. I just really search for old movies i haven't seen yet. Yea a good one might squeek through every once and a while but i get no hopes up anymore. But that's movies, music most games. The Entertainment business is just a tiny part of my life now.
Same here. I prefer to read indie comics, fiction podcasts, manga, anime and RUclips now. Heck, I'm trying to write a sword and sorcery tale as well as a portal fantasy.
Damsel reviews are out from critics as Netflix attempts an expensive girlboss subversion of the fairy tale classic story. It goes about as well as you expect, the dragon villain becomes the best character while the story is predictable from the start. Rather than finding romance the princess gets betrayed and she don't need no prince. This princess can save herself from a dragon that can wipe out entire kingdoms and armies. No-one knows how, but the plot armour will provide the means anyway. The saving grace is that even the critics seem to be getting tired of such shallow pandering and it seems that now, Hollywood really is making movies for no-one. But what do you think? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
The Dragon was great. And it was not the villian.
So you liked it
@@wa-bu3ke, well. I like the actress who voiced the dragon. And the Dragon had the tragic backstory to justify its actions. The CGI was...good. But suspention of disbelief went out the window.
Oh, sweet Jesus; the writer for this movie also wrote the script for "Wrath of the Titans"?!
My God. If nothing else, this proves the International Criminal Court is a joke, has no jurisdiction anywhere, and "crimes against humanity" sets a bar so high it would be impossible for a Harkonnen to meet. 🤷♂️
@@jleewatts4318 Your summation is very good. The acting was good. Robin Wright and Ray Winstone steal every scene they're in. Shohreh Aghdashloo well her voice is out of this World.
I am over "subversion."
Bring back sincerity.
Yeah, I just commented something similar before I saw your comment. Subvert is such a red flag these days
WELL SAID. 👏🏾👍🏾
Bring back good movies, or if you will use a chick, make her sexy, or a sexy female but nooooooooo, also ok, you want knigth save you girls, be a traditional female, but nooooo, you know, i dont care anymore
The only way they could subvert my expectations is to actually make something good.
Sincerity in a movie would definitely subvert my expectations.
My grandmother told me "No matter what they say in fairy tales. That dragon is black!"
Hahahaha too damn funny. Love it.
Ha ha
😂😂😂😂😂😂
What does that mean? 😅
lol
Damn, Rachel Zegler must be PISSED she didn't get this part 😂
Best comment ever! 😆
"WeIrd . . wEiRd . . weIrD" 😄
@@halojames7778 🤣🤣
There are certain people like her and Ezra Miller that I simply cant understand. They never really put on great performances, aren't particularly talented, are hated by far more people then like them, have few if any real fans, and dont really have any special talents or fill any special roles that anyone else couldnt easily fill but they still get leading roles in blockbuster movies. She's had 3 movies released so far, all with giant budgets and all AAA titles, but all she's done is piss people off and she's still got a couple more big time movies coming out. Most actors and actresses struggle for years to get a break out role, Clint Eastwood for example was an actor for nearly a decade before his first major role, it took Morgan Freeman 25 years to get his first major staring role, and even many child actors still take years of bit parts, commercials, and non-speaking roles before they get to play a main characters kid or something like that but she's had top billing roles pretty much right off the bat for no discernible reason.
@@arthas640 Yes! And I must add Emma Watson to that list. How can she still classify as an actress whilst being plank of wood...
Honestly, even Katherine McNamara is a better actress than her. xD And yet Emma is loved by everyone in the industry and is being casted anywhere she wants. Just how...
He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.
And I remember he said “This spider research is perfect.” to which she could only reply, “It will be, once it’s written by a woman.”
I'm a wooommaaaaaannnn.
just another example of a man taking credit for a woman's work
And then, somehow Palpatine came back.
Nah, she was researching dragons, then got thrown in the pit.
There was a movie that subverted the "damsel in distress" trope far better.
It was called Shrek.
No, I didn't like that part of it. The Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life series is the best thing to ever come of that film.
The difference is Fiona was likable. Elodie isn’t likable in the least.
Agreed
Gollum failed to kill Frodo but killed an entire developer studio. I bet J.R.R. Tolkien didnt see that coming.
It most definitely wasn't mercy that stayed the blade! Someone was out for the lifeblood of a studio.
That videogame must have been one hard, hard turd to pass.
I'm so over girlboss power fantasy pandering. I've BEEN over it for years now. I want so badly to see a modern female character who's sweet and compassionate who sometimes needs to rely on others when things get overwhelming...just like anyone ELSE would. That's not bad nor misogynistic. It's realistic.
Im a girl, and I agree. I'm sick to death or boring cows with chips on their shoulders.
It's HUMAN. I wish female characters were still allowed to be that.
It’s getting people killed in real life, like the poor fighter pilot woman who was waved through after crashing in simulations because her superiors wanted to create a girl boss military moment…and then crashed for real and died.
@@AbsentMinded619They have no problem sacrificing women to there new religion , they dont bat an eye to put a man dressing as a woman into a MMA fight with an actual woman to get her eye socket broken and her skull fractured from being struck by a MAN.
@@AbsentMinded619 not sure if it applies, but i have a saying to that: "the stupid pay the price".
The dragon is being fed stunning and brave women?
Clearly the dragon is the hero!
the dragon is a female dragon, just FYI :)
@@ondrejm5042 No one is saying that a female can't be a hero. This dragon joins characters like Elen Ripley or Sarah Connor ;).
wild how that one single “i am no man” scene from LotR is still better than all girlboss attempts from Hollywood in the last 15 years
That's because the LOTR folks knew that strong female characters also need good writing. It's as if the "girlboss" folks forgot that was needed.
Because in Tolkien's work, that line made sense and was actually--gasp!--clever.
Eowyn went through hell. She was trapped in an awful, awful situation, watching her country crumble. Her people suffer, war breaks out, her brother gets exiled, and her uncle, who was like a father figure to her, becomes ill and twisted by the machinations of this horrible man who was leching on her in his spare time, and there was nothing she could do about it. Nothing but sit at home and tend to Theoden and watch.
Her soul has been worn away by the endless waiting. She has no hope that Mordor's power can be defeated because she has watched it invade her very home while she could do nothing. In many ways, she's similar to Denethor, who was destroyed by doing nothing but watching the enemy creep closer. But Denethor's paralysis was by choice. Eowyn has no choice; she rarely does. She has no control over anything. And the one person she thought could save her and her kingdom is leaving on what seems like a hopeless journey.
Eowyn is no longer afraid of dying. At this point, she's reached rock bottom. All she wants is a chance to make a difference, to make a choice for once in her life. So, she disguises herself as a soldier and marches off to a battle she doesn't plan to return from.
Of course, she takes Merry, who might not be as desperate but also feels helpless.
We all know what happens next. That scene is so famous; it's one of the best moments in the book. It's way better in the book than the movie: Eowyn laughs before her "I am no man" line. But looking further into it, the scene is about as heartbreaking as it is fantastic. Eowyn's laughing because, in the end, she's doing something.
At last, she can at least try to make a choice. A choice of how she will die, heroically, defending her king and father figure to the last. The Nazgul, whose weapon is soul-crushing despair, has no effect on her because she's faced it day after day. That despair had no face and no form, and she couldn't fight it. And now, finally, in her last moments, she has a chance to fight it.
And she does.
She kills a Ringwraith, but nothing much changes for Eowyn. She's wounded, and Aragorn leaves her behind to heal while they head off again to a hopeless last stand. Yet again, she’s trapped, helpless, waiting for Mordor to win and overrun everything. That's when she meets Faramir.
He’s the first person she lets see her as anything but strong. She allows herself to cry before him and, later on, draws close to him when she thinks the armies of Mordor are coming. This contrasts sharply with how she treated Aragorn, constantly trying to prove her strength to him. She lets Faramir see her pain and her fear. Faramir knows quite a bit about despair, and he’s already watched at least one loved one (his father) be destroyed by it. He wants to save Eowyn from her own hopelessness. The two grow close, and Eowyn allows herself to melt a little, and the two fall in love.
Ironically enough, killing the personification of despair didn't conquer Eowyn's depression. Finally, accepting someone else's love and giving herself a chance to heal did. She would never heal by chasing the impossible, striving for a last heroic stand. She had to stop fighting and let herself heal.
Tolkien never saw battle as heroic or good. Eowyn’s story is another example of how Tolkien shows us that true strength isn’t killing a terrifying demon but letting yourself hope again.
Eowyn's story is not about a battle against evil hordes or even the patriarchy but of a fight against depression. She is so much more than a spunky heroine or a tragic lover. Her character is complex, and her journey is both heartbreaking and inspiring.
@@cthonisprincess4011 And I don't think that could be said any better than this, and shows that Tolkien and his works still thrives and will continue to do so, while things like this movie, will fade into obscurity.
I’m showing my age, but does anyone remember Xena? She was a side character, that became a recurring character, who then received her own shown. All based on the character and the skill of the actress. Xena was absolutely confident in her abilities, why demonstrating considerable personal development from a warlord to a peacemaker. Yet the show never pandered to a men versus women oversimplification. For a campy show, they wrote even minor characters with depth and arcs of their own. Now that was a female lead! I miss the hood old days when campy shows could still be thought provoking and highly entertaining.
I loved Xena, she was a real Warrior!
"Does anyone remember that character from that show I'm not gonna bother to name?"
She was! She went toe to toe with men, but her battles used strategy and even her hand to hand relief on her skills not overpowering men who were clearly larger. When she had a live interest, she didn’t humiliate or demean him. Script writers could take lessons from that show
I was never into Xena but love Buffy the vampire slayer. Great female lead
@@zombifiedpariah7392the show is called Xena, just as the main character
The funny thing is.. she is kinda saved by men. I mean she had no way to climb the wall she needed to leave the cave - until her father came in with ropes.. Without that it was clearly given there was no way she would have managed to leave the dragon lair. So in total 4 men lost their lives to save the Damsel! ;)
I mean honestly, I thought the movie was good because of that. The redemption of the father in his sacrifice for his baby, conflicted heart of the prince, and she had to make her way out of a labyrinth
To be fair, that's probably why the MM gave it such a low score. She should have climbed out by herself, and kicked all their asses, etc 😂
Yeah many of so call "Reviews" are more like we vgrite it based on trailer and mostly write it around idea flip of Hollywood to show ve are not that Woke - We are same as you. She run from dragon for most parts of movie, her development is sort of baset of harsh north origin and she start fighting only after she could loose last parts of her family to pet of something like deth cult more than royal linege from south. So for me more like 5/10 and averange fairy tale - Closer to Ronja Rövardotter than Live action Snow white by Disney what is refilmed after backlash of world to trailers and actors mayhem on fairytale standarts.
Recall that her father was the one who married her off as a sacrifice. That's really low for a man. BUT he had a change of heart. Ultimately, he was courageous and she was forgiving.
I don't know man, somehow this movie didn't give off that toxic man vs woman feel for me. I really liked it.
@@Masterofmultiverse The plot was very uninteresting.
I spent the movie extremely irritated at the main character to stop gasping, screaming and yelling constantly when she wqs supposed to be trying to sneak away from the dragon. It was completely frustrating and atupid.
Do you want her to be a woman or do you want her to be a well trained high pain tolerance marine. Yall just being mad to be mad with this movie.
@@KashaLupul You cannot suspend disbelief.
@@KashaLupulI don't think a real woman would have survived half the things she did
@splitsecond7116 lol I forgot what topic this was lmao
But as for surviving goes actual women had to deal with worse and didn't get their daddies to help them or a best friend dragon lmao
Who even says "well real women could never" when referring to a fucking fantasy movie
Go sit down lmao.
Who could have seen this coming? I was in the theater to watch Dune Part 2 when I first saw the trailer for this and there was a collective groan from the audience.
Glorious
I've read Dune and it was better than the trailer.
Well, yeah. Did you think the book was the bad version?
Subverting my expectations at this point would be having the dragon be the princess.
🤣 love this idea!
I'd watch a movie like that, but than I remember Shrek has the pretty princess turning into an oger... It has beying done already...
@@carloshenriquezimmer7543and Donkey marries the Dragon, so, yeah, Shrek really _did_ do it already.
That made me laugh out loud 🤣 I would be interested in seeing that movie!
Shrek did nostalgia, comedy, 4th wall breaks, deconstruction and subversion, and had an original story that puts it up there with classic fairytales.
Imagine if they subverted our expectations by actually making a good movie, how groundbreaking would that be?
Damn! 😄
Sean Bean dies in all his movies in order to restore the karmic balance he upset by cheating death all those times as "Richard Sharpe".
Sharpe was great.
And he couldn't die in 'Troy' because he was Odysseus- a canonical survivor of the war (though they killed off Menelaus & had Paris survive, though it went the opposite in the myth)... I really would have liked to have seen a sequel with him.
Now that’s soldiering !
Sean Bean did not die in National Treasure even thou he was the bad guy. Saved by PG- rating.
Sean Bean doesnt die in Ronin. He just figures out he's out of his depth and nopes out of there.
"She fights a dragon in high heels and a dress!"
Enchanted(2007) did it first.
Jurassic world did it too lol.
aint it weird, the 2000s seem to have done what these woke movies are trying to do, but in the right way.
back when it was implied you needed to have something between your ears to get a budget or a script published@@angel_of_rust
Actually she doesn’t fight it in a dress and high heels.
True, but not true ?@@AzraealGamer
”You can’t just go filling plotholes with bullshit! I’ve had acid-flashbacks with more narrative coherence than this!!!” - Noah ”Spoony” Antwiler.
What vid did Spoony say this? I thought I've watched all of Spoony's content but don't remember him saying that in one of his masterpieces of video content. I miss old Spoony. I hope he's doing ok but man do I miss his videos
it's been an age since i've heard that name
@@DoomTrain84 I know it was one of the FF8 review videos, but can't quite remember which one. Pletty sure it was when they somehow randomly bump into an abandoned spaceship in outer space.
kill bill is a movie that can be used as example of a plot where the protagonist is a female seeking revenge.
One of the worst movies I've ever seen
@@jeffersonhassan4558 ok
@jeffersonhassan4558 you're in the minority lol
Kill Bill was memorable, no matter what the average bloke scores it.
Damsel will be forgotten by week's end.
@@Big_fat_monkey_balls I know, my opinion still stands
The only way a princess that knows nothing of tactics, swordplay, or the world is totally gonna be able to solo a dragon is if she is a mary sue.
there is no reality where this story works.
I watched the movie and i didnt get supertriggered by some impossible thingsshe did. She never had superstrength or something, she basically mostly just runs fall tries to hide. She never until the very end when she has no escape anymore acts strong and fights.
also she was shown to be a strong worker cutting up wood. but they should have shown her using a sword for training.
They did try to give her a backstory. She was chopping wood in the beginning, so she has some physical strength, and grew up in a harsh environment, which explains her attitude and general will to survive in a different harsh environment. It had potential, but it was not reached
Our through very lucky comedic mishap. But that's a completely different type of film.
@@reniefuwaI've chopped wood. I can confirm that it does nothing to teach you how to fight
Guys, keep in mind, Millie Bobby Brown is 5'3". She's 5'3" and probably 125lbs playing a princess in the Middle Ages who, at best, magically learns how to use a sword and fight like an anime MC.
Well to be fair if you watched the movie, she didn't fight at all, but tried to survive. There is only one scene with a sword and every movie has to have it's MC face the impossible odds, so what I am trying to say is that she never fights in the movie to be honest.
@@thamor4746 Uh-huh. 'Tried to survive.' Just like every other princess before her who all failed. Until it came time to throw down the white chick? 🤨
Pretty much need magic. Finesse and skill matter a lot in melee combat but it's still hard to overcome a significant size/strength difference in real combat, which is why female warriors are so rare across civilizations and cultures and why you mainly just see them in tribal situations where the tribe mobilizes everyone between the ages of 16 and 60 to fight. Female warriors are rare even in societies where both genders are equal and in societies that are matriarchal so it's not just about sexism. Real melee combat isn't like a 1 v 1 duel like modern fencing where you can realistically expect a better fighter to win regardless of strength differences, but even in a 1 v 1 duel situation IRL there's a reason why virtually every combat sport has both gender and weight classes and doesnt throw 125lb women in against 160+ pound men.
@@thamor4746 Uh-huh. "Tried to survive' where all the other princesses failed. Until they send the white princess in. 🤨
@PrayingPanda So just like Joey King in "The Princess" (2022)? I didn't mind the movie, it was mindless but at least fight scenes were entertaining.
Between you and Az I’m starting to get Vietnam flashbacks every time I hear that “I’m a woman” clip
I thought it would be Central American war flashbacks. Because the gta verse has this Central American war being that worlds vietnam war. But also because Peru 🇵🇪 is a regional powerhouse of South America. But second behind Brazil 🇧🇷
"I can still hear the choppers man. The Hueys"
"She makes Rambo looks soft" ☠️what in the delusional hell
Could’ve had a lot of women that gotten wiped out with a few women to survive a monster attack stronger. In some way. It’s some survival of the fittest theme with a protagonist who happens to be a woman.
There is a fairytale named Blaubart( Blue beard) -I don't know the english title- which is kinda similar and more entertaining that this damsel movie.
It follows a young woman who is freshly married to a creppy noble man named Blaubart (weather he is a king or a count, don't know anymore). He is often away and gives his new wife a bunch of keys which she can use to open all rooms in the castle but one key and after his work she has to give them back.
Time passes and she explores the whole castle, but the room, which she could open with the forbidden key, is still prohibited.
One day, she gets too curious and opens the room with the key; there she sees the hanging corpses of the past wives of Blaubart and everywhere is blood, in utter shock she lets the key fall into the blood.
She picks the key up and tries to wash the blood away, but the key is still bloody. When Blaubart comes home and demands his keys back, she fearful does as he says. He sees the blood and knows that his wife didn't follow his orders and wants to kill her.
Then my memory is kinda vague,...but in the end she gets rescued by her brothers and they kill Blaubart.
For me, it would be a far better movie. The film follows a female lead, a shocking surprise, perhaps a little bit of chasing and she gets rescued not by a love interest but her brothers
Sorry for my poor english 🫣
Never heard of that story. Honestly, it would likely be more well received because it's unique
@@matthewmosier8439 Its one of the Brothers Grimm stories
Your english is better than my
This could have been a good idea. Take a pampered princess and feed her to a monster, she survives, meets a funny side character and hunts down the monster but comes to understand the real monster where the people who fed her to the monster in the first place. She grows as a person, makes mistakes and returns to the castle a stronger person after her hard journey. But, I'm old school and more used to Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley type women. What was I thinking Doh!
That would mean they’d have to write the woman as a fallible human being and they’re incapable of doing that nowadays. This idea as you described it could have been great. A hero’s journey is timeless. Unfortunately we’re in a time where it’s not allowed.
Please write this down and publish it.
I am not joking.
There's a European film, I believe this film takes it's liberties from in terms of the premise (sort of, loosely) and that is 99% better than this movie!
That was my thought as well. The trailer had potential. If darn right, it could be interesting.
So you've watched it then?
Honestly Girlbossing should become meme at this point. Do people really still make serious movies with Girlbosses? Their self-awareness level most be negative.
I think we're very close to hitting that point tbh. Keep in mind that Hollywood has the agility of a drunken tortoise when it comes to reacting to social trends, since the time required to develop anything is like several years, not to mention many of them are prideful, stubborn, and unbelievably stupid. But sooner or later their narcissistic need for people to like them again will push them to start reversing these very tired and stupid trends, and I think we'll start seeing the 'parody' phase of Girlboss stories start to come out in the next few years.
I'm pretty confident the actress would be unable to actually lift the sword in the combat pose she did in the movie, in real life with an actual iron or steel two-handed sword.
well swords aren't heavy, lifting them into poses is fine. Can she actually fight with it though? Doubt it...
Swinging them is the hard part
@benjaminthibieroz4155 I'll believe it when she-noodle, who looks like the heaviest weight she's lifted in her life, is an iPhone, actually gets what would appear to be muscle definition.
I also challenge anyone to grab a 5lbs Dumbell and do 3 sets of 10x arm raises and then do 3 sets of 10x laterals with their arms raised at chest level (hands out front, then brought out to the sides while level with chest) and tell me with a straight face they ain't burning.
Seen grown men and professional athletes struggle and sweat up a storm.
I have lifted genuine swords. Claymore is the closest to what that movie depicted I held. That sword was heavy. I had a hard time controlling its swing, and I'm much beefier than that girl. I can only imagine it would be tremendously difficult for her to lift and control a heavy sword. A rapier, on the other hand, was very light. Was also surprised how easy it was to control it with light flicks of the wrist.
I totally kept thinking this. It irritated me so much. I have seen many programs about ancient battles, and warriors who fought with swords. Swords were heavy as hell. There is reason there were knights and other strong warriors who were celebrated for winning battles. Just lifting a sword would be tiring. Learning to use it with precision and skill would be even more challenging. Then using in a the chaos of a battle fighting one on one over and over. The strength and stamina it must have taken would have been incredible. It is so unbelievable that she could even lift a real sword off of the ground, let alone shove it into dragon scales. My favorite scene from Witcher is in the first season in which Henry Cavill fights a bunch of people in a court yard. He looks amazing in that scene and you absolutely believe he is doing it for real. Then I saw the behind the scenes footage, and he is really doing it, and he has the to use an added skill of stopping just before he actually connects with anybody. Even if the sword was a light prop you could tell that if someone put a real sword in Henry’s hand, he could absolutely take someone out with it. It is insulting to me that you have all of these amazing make actors who work there butts off to buff themselves to look the part, but the actresses just show up looking like Anne Hathaway in Les Miserable, but can suddenly kick all the butt in the world. As a female I don’t want to see this crap any more than any of the men do. I want to see chivalrous have. They don’t have to make the women stupid and completely helpless like they did in some older films, but there is nothing wrong with having a guy help save the damsel. If they want it to be a woman she needs to bulk up, like Gina Carano and even then, you need to have her fight other women. They used to do that all of the time. Those fights were far more believable, and much more entertaining. The smallest guy I know can still lift far more than I can at my strongest. This crap is ridiculous, and they need to stop doing it.
If you wanted to make it actually subversive make the dragon save the prince from the bratty princess.
That would be pretty hilarious to see.
Sounds like an awesome parody, lol
King: "I said slay the dragon, not lay the dragon!"
Dragon human hybrid hatchling: *Hugs knight (dad)* "Hey, dad!" *Points at the king* "Is that uncle?"
There is a fantasy novel that starts with the prince saving the dragon from the bratty princess. He shows up to rescue that princess and the dragon is all "PLEASE take that woman away. She's driving me crazy!"
Now there's a movie I'd watch.
I watched it. Millie Bobby Brown basically mostly yelled or talked through her nose. Is it a film for people with clogged sinuses who have not been represented in cinema so far?
Me too, it is so bad I laughed all the way through.
i thought all the left and east coast people talked like that
@@LT-dn7mtMBB is fairly awful and incredibly annoying.
The constipated were well represented...
@@LT-dn7mtbingo...you win the prize for being closest to 100% correct...imo.
They always try to act like women saving themselves is a new concept. Does anyone remember "Ever After" (with Drew Barrymore)? She saves herself and gets the prince!
In Ever After, Danielle was a fully-realized character. She had dreams, flaws, and vulnerabilities. That’s not allowed in modern female led movies. Female characters have to be powerful all the time now.
@@khfan4life365 And they have to make men weak and dumb in order for the woman to be a greater contrast.
2:18 "If you put Eleven in it, they don't know what to do" - I see what you did there.
how the heck can you “subvert convention in FAMILIAR ways?” lol
She’s flauting society’s conventions! It’s egregious, ridiculous , outrageous!- Jackie Childs, Esq
I hope that was the point. It is just a cheap copy.
You take the same subversion that was done a dozen times already, then you copy it.
Bam, you've just subverted convention in a way that even IGN's critics think is overdone.
I think at some point in the movie, you could see the writers give up, it was about 5 seconds in. All they really cared about was the dragon, except whoever decided the dragon should have sheep-looking eyes instead of normal dragon eyes needs to be found and heavily scolded.
even better, fed to the dragon with sheepy eyes.
Here’s a subversive story. Princess finds out she’s going to be betrothed so she runs away to the local dragon colony and asks to be “captured” because she’d rather be a dragon’s servant than marry a clod. Of course, that’s a book that came out in 1990.
What's the name of the book with the Princess running away to a dragon colony?
Patricia C. Wrede! (Talking to Dragons series)
Even before I got to the end of that comment, I was thinking to myself 'I read that book!' I'm mildly surprised that other people also remembered it.... Anyways, if they made that into a movie, they could also have fun with the 'heroes melt the witches by throwing mop-water at them' scenes...
@@fortcastellan1730 We just became best friends. I found the series in the library when I was ten or eleven and loved it. I gave it to my niece two years ago for her eighth birthday, and she's read them multiple times. She absolutely loves all of them.
@@mariahhalbur9249 Leaving this comment has made me feel less alone.
Btw, did Elodie just forget at the end that the Dragon killed her father?!? I guess she is forgiven because she is a Dragoness... If it was a male Dragon, he would have been killed.
I thought of the same thing. You really gonna forgive this dragon that tormented you and many others?
@@brandonlee2746 Plus she had to tell the dragon they lied to her all these years. Like "It's ok if you were killing real daughters of the royal family but you weren't so...."
Penises are bad
Lmao 😂 “Élodie, you can’t kill ALL the male dragons-!”
“Do as I SAY, dammit! A golden egg encrusted with jewels for the female dragons and DEATH for the males!”
@@freakbiker i mean tbf there is no way she would defeat the royal family without the dragon unless she used GIrlBoSs power but that would be even more cringe
But the funniest part is she gets burned at her right side of the chest inside the cave but once she arrives at the castle the burn appears at the left side 😅
That's dirt, she healed herself before going to the castle.
@@KashaLupul there is clearly a scar there btw
@Be.nj.i rewatched the scene I'll cede that point but the movie is still leagues above the usual girlboss film. its a decent lil flick.if this move is shit than so is alien in how it treats a woman overcoming a shit situation lol
This fellow here really fighting for the honor of this movie 😂😂@@KashaLupul
@@shen5533 Cause it wasnt bad and I think you've all just been so raped by modern media that now everything has to check all of YOUR boxes for it to be good, On BOTH sides of the Giant Bitch baby spectrum.
they cheated the dragon bro. the dragon fire was no match to the girlboss power.
My wife and I said this is too violent for kids but far too stupid to be for adults.
I saw her outrun the dragon's fire in the trailer and I knew it would be a trash movie
It cant be worse then what
Happened in alice madness
the princess should of pushed
"The patriarchy dragon" in front
Of a train.
@@Ramzeis
Shes a legendary girlboss
Cant wait for the wicked
Movie to embrace more
Cringe so i can make
Fun of it.
The shitty pathetic excuse of a she-dragon got burned by it's own fire!! 🤣🤣🤣
I turned it off after a few minutes. The king and his knights riding their horses and walking through the cave in Air Force squadron flight formation would have been funny in the 70s if it was Monty Python.
and most if not all of them (except the king) had a shield. they'd have survived longer than they did.
I brought the coconuts
@@mikusoxlongius😂
@@mikusoxlongiusand how did the coconut get here?
they should have runaway.
in what fantasy world can a dragon be hurt by it's own breath weapon?
A world where dragons kill and eat one another.
@@KashaLupul in 95% of stories with dragons, they are immune to their own fire/or breath. Dragons who fight each other, don't share the same breath.
@siunami6432 and this is the 5% so fucking what? This fire breath isn't even the same kind we usually see it's like she's barfing molten rock . Like she feeds on the crystals that grow in that cavern and has evolved to use its semi digested form as a weapon. But sure you can just sit there crying "why this dragon different, that's stupid"
@@KashaLupul sure, but the rest of the story was meh at best... it wasn't great and wasn't terrible.
@@KashaLupulthe issue is that she should be grievously harmed whenever she uses her molten vomit attack, and just kinda.. catch on fire every time she attacked with it.? If she isn't vulenrable to her own heat, flame, and the molten rock on the inside how is she so vulnerable on the outside. Its not even in some movies where they try to make the dragons more 'realistic' and they have an organic flamethrower type thing going on, her bodies generates the heat.
Generaly why you normally see dragons as immune to their own flame or even flame in general. Cause they'd destroy themselves if they didn't ahve that inherent immunity.
Example i can give is the game of thrones dragons. Their inherent immunity to flame and heat is why they can produce flames so powerful it can explode rock from the heat shift. If they didn't they'd litreally die the first time they ever breathed fire.
An example i can think of where the dragons aren't immune to their own flame is thsi one theoretical 'if dragons were real' show where it of course is taking into account the possiblity of dragons being real creatures. Had adaptations taht made their mouths fireproof and stuff, but being mundane creatures otherwise they were still flammable.
Every time Disparu plays that Batgirl clip I get “🎵WAAAAH!! I’M A WOMAN!!!🎵” stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Be a number 1 ring tone 😂
BAT WOMEN!!!!!
Don’t taint the good name of Barbra Gordon by associating her with…. That!!
“If Dragon Dogma did a line of coke you would have a more coherent mid evil plot than this movie”
- Rotten Tomatoes
"Cocaine Dragon" would be an awesome movie!!
@@michaelhurlbut4830 It worked for us Bears.
@michaelhurlbut4830 I can see it now. Like Smaug laying on his hoard of wealth, but its just a medieval rendition of the Scarface with his mountain of cocaine.
Slut dragons from Rick & Morty came to my mind
@@michaelhurlbut4830 So, Snowflame then lol
What about a historical fiction about an Aztec girl thrown into a cenote for sacrifice who manages to escape only to be captured by Cortes' party and brought by them to Tenochtitlan where -- by accident or manipulation -- she turns out to be the catalyst that leads to the destruction of the city and the death of Mocteczuma in _"La Noche Triste" (The Night of Sorrows)?_
Well, there's pretty much an actual historical girl already existing that pretty much fits that story.
@@benjaminthibieroz4155 Yeah... but I want it to go a bit "Once Upon a time in _Mexica"_ and not let Cortes survive and have the protagonist bear his child so maybe some of the lost Narváez expedition are a parallel story that syncs up for a third act where _(having become disillusioned with conquest and genuinely allied with the native groups that rescued and helped them)_ they're the ones to find _[our La Malinche surrogate]_ and help the Aztecs defeat Cortes at Otumba?
That would mean Hollywood would actually want to make a real story and not add their diversity, female empowerment and not add all the forced sexual diversity. Only thing it would have going is that they wouldn't need to think hire too many white actors so they could promote that more proudly.
@@thamor4746 Would you mind telling us what it is you would rather they did than did not?
@@llYossarian Well for starters if they going to plan to make a movie about Aztecs, maybe have the actors actually look like they were from that culture. I don't have problem with any people, but I do dislike the obvious diversity decisions done for just for the sake of it.
The part that really made me bust out laughing was towards the end: she can climb a rope to escape while the dragon is luckily distracted but she can't keep from loudly grunting every inch of progress up the rope. 😂
It would have been forgovable of she was just loudly grunting. she screamed all the way through that damn cave.
Or the sister screeching when she stood on her wounded leg. You'd think being in danger of getting mauled by a dragon would make ppl have their pain in silence.
Or when she randomly cut her hair outta nowhere just cz she wanted to go rescue her sister? 😂😂
Fuck even Shrek did it better, SHREK!
Edit: Shrek is a amazing movie BTW.
Shrek was brilliant.
Fiona is a badass but even she couldn't take out a dragon by herself. Some things are just too unbelievable. In Shrek 1 and 4, they outsmarted the dragon and trapped it.
Fiona was more developed than this eleven damsel lady
Plus she wanted to be a mother.
@@racheljames7 20 years old, 20 YEARS! and it has better written female heroines than today. Goes to show that a lot of studios and films are going backward.
Netflix was in the pitch meeting like, “ok we need another girlboss movie. So, let’s take everything that was great about blue eye samurai, and do none of that. Everyone, I present… DAMSEL.”
Just finished 'Blue Eye Samurai.' Was so much fun.
HALO REACH
A Girlboss movie called "Damsel"........not gonna be cringe at all.
Glad I steered clear of this thing.
@@jeffersonhassan4558 Oh stop it. What are you, 13?
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@jeffersonhassan4558 Learn to spell and we MAYBE we'll take you seriously.
Netflix ony makes movies for girls, blks and LGB.
@@jeffersonhassan4558get help kiddo
If the Princess developed a relationship with a talking, intelligent dragon, held captive in a cave and being used to dispose of inconvenient political adversaries over multiple encounters where the hero barely escapes by running away and hiding, shouting questions at her pursuer that he cannot really answer to his own satisfaction, and eventually convincing him to rebel against his oppressors and forming an uneasy partnership so they can both be free, well....
Russian movie "I am Dragon" 2015.
Ah yes so brave and original. Subverting a fairy tale narrative - Shrek (2004). Subverting a tale about dragons - Dragonheart (1996). Woman is about to get married but her in-laws have evil plans - Ready or Not (2019). So stunning and brave!
Generally, if the hero is taking down enormous dragons, they shouldn’t look like they haven’t hit the gym in a decade
Dragons don't go to the gym either so... checkmate?
@@kaykutcher2103Clearly you don't either, Scarash Lord of Cinders and Devourer of Kingdoms broke his wing curl record just yesterday.
@@thatguy6482O' truest of the dragons, lend me thy strength.
Fore fathers, one and all. Bear witness!
@kaykutcher2103 neither has a great white shark but you wont win a 1v1 in the ocean
I watched it.
It's a story about white-ruled kingdom who is in debt to a female dragon. All princesses are from the kingdom called "California".
They are mad because a consultant group didn't come in to get money for a shitty flick, Netflix tried it on their own. Results were the same though.. it fails.
How is this getting review bombed by media outlets when The Rings of Power is the same thing?
Because the movie didn't push the typical girlboss "I don't need no man" narrative as much but rather tried to show an exceptional girl rise to the occasion.
Amazon paid, Netflix don't.
Here's a better story: the dragon is actually a decent fellow who'd been held captive by the mean ol royals and they keep tossing people down at him. They almost all die from the impact of, you know, falling several stories onto solid rock... she survives by sheer luck, and the dragon leads her to a tiny crack in the rock she can slip out of, then helps him escape by banding with a group of rebels who oppose the tyrannical regime of the kingdom.
That actually sounds worse than the actual movie. How did they even capture a dragon and why keep it alive by feeding it? For war? I doubt they could keep it in control. Making an army to go against a tyrannical kingdom plot is overused. Disney already did a war plot with the Alice and the Wonderland remake. Narnia also did a war plot. A lot of fantasy movies tend to do war plots.
Yes, she is in her 20, never in her life lifth something heavy, she has no muscle at all, and she out of no where she can figth a dragon, meanwhile in reality, you can be an entire life training, just to learn to handle a sword, and she magicaly learn to use one, nice, i mean come on, is just sad, the only good scene the man throwing away the princes that is not even sexy,
She also has negative charisma and talks as if her sinuses were clogged with blow.
Any one remember "Dragon Slayer" I think they tackled the sacrifice thing with the strong kings daughter thing. Love when the trombones fire up when dragon shows up in the sky.
This film is the adopted lesbian love child of Dragonslayer and Shrek
In this way, I suggest for you to look at movie called "I am Dragon" or in originial On- Drakon, its 2015 Russian fantasy so you need to kinda forgive them some acting and stuff... But the story its basically better version of this.
its about Russian princess, who's about to marry a grandson(?) of a famous dragon hunter. The wedding was set as old sarcificial ritual for maidens being offered to dragons, but since there's no more dragons it was transfered into wedding ritual. But surprise surprise, the dragon came and kidnapped the girl...
Right now, even though the movies is not somethign absolutely amazing, as I said the actors are just handsome models etc... the story itself do really working tho. Its a fairytale fantasy so a lot of stuff is forgiving.... The princess is represented as clever and actually curious about dragons, wishing for them to exists, she actually wish to be brave warrior although she isn't. But as she happened to be trapped ina cave on an island, she work her way to get out of there...
Look it up, I don't want to spoil it, don't hate it for the country it was filmed please... I think that story is a great example of good 'reverse' damsel in distress with dragon in it.
I love that movie! It's so beautiful and I love the romance of it!
I was looking to see if anyone else would mention it before I do! It's clear as day to me this movie was inspired by On - drakon, but decided to "modernize" it and also kill the romance.
My main complaint: she was too loud for someone hiding from a dragon actively listening for her lol.
Millie as an action star is bloody hilarious.
Most female action characters in recent movies are cringe.
Guyladriel was pathetic.
Remember a time when action stars actually look like thay can beat you up.
Where are the tv show's and movies that uplift our young boys at? 🤯🤔
I'll stick to Red Sonja, thanks. Even the flops of yesteryear are leagues above this stuff written for a modern audience.
the number of movies and shows we can point to with great female characters going back to the 1970s or even earlier is astounding, and they weren't even trying to be "diverse" back then. And yet they did it FAR better.
Shit Red Sonja is a master piece compared to most of the modern empowerment films hell atleast it wasnt like woman king where they took the villain of the story in reality and in the film tried to pass them off as the brave heroes rather than the weak low lifes who got massacred for there crimes.
Ah, I think you mean Black Red Sonja.
An audience that doesn't exist, never HAS existed, and never WILL exist.
@@SoloRenegade Think you can make a few recommendations?
This is the kind of fantasy movie that people who have never read good fantasy novels create. Sadly that has become the rule rather than the exception.
reminds me of how pre-Dark Knight and pre-MCU there were tons of comic book/superhero movies made by people who hated comics and superheros.
If she had Nuclear Powers I’d want to see this. *”THE HEAT IS ON!” - Firestorm*
The movie studio forgot to pay IGN for their review.
Most men work hard so that the women in our lives don't have to deal with misery like we do. It is disheartening to see them portrayed this way, at least for me. I guess maybe it appeals to women that have no men in their lives? Who knows.
As a stay at home, homeschool mother, I'm grateful to men like you. 👍
Honestly the way wamans, not womans, wamans, today hate us, and threat us like garbage so honestly with me they broke the conditioning, so me whatever, they supposly are stronger and better than men so me, ok
As a sahw I 100% agree with you
Nope. We just get tired and annoyed that we have to do everything ourselves.
Nah, just the brainwashed left.
Other than the massive plotholes, I don't get how the movie panders to girl bosses? She was perfectly fine and content to be in love with the prince at the beginning. She wasn't trying to overthrow the current kingdom to replace the current royals or anything. She was just there, and she's content with that as long as it feeds her people. She survived, because she had to?there was literally nobody else inside there. It ain't perfect, but she wasn't a Mary Sue as big as Rey Skypaltine was.
So many people thought Millie Bobby Brown was going to be some amazing actress😬
I know. Disappointing.
IGN is trying to save their business. That's why they are finally, but reluctantly telling the truth.
Problem is they can spit out this shit, then blame toxic masculinity for its failures.
"Subversion and modern audiences!
yeah every one of em need to drink the stuff under the sink
Mibbee time to take off the 'Do Not Drink' labels & let nature happen lol
not recommended if kids in home* wee disclaimer 😁
Modern audiences = 💩
The dragon *was* the best character in the film. The plot, of course, was stupid beyond belief. King goes into dragon lair (the whole mountain, which was quite a cool setting) and kills the dragon's brood (men being evil ... again). The King begs for mercy and the dragon comes up with some ridiculous payback that lasts centuries - "I'm going to eat three princesses every generation to make you feel my pain." Good grief ...
How about this? The dragon eats the King immediately because, you know, it's a dragon. It then flies out of its lair and destroys every single building and kills every single person on the island as retribution. The dragon then lays more eggs and now knows that her new brood will be entirely safe because all of the humans have been annihilated. Kind of like a dragon-centric John Wick. So we can dump the entire plot of the movie after 90 seconds and come up with a revenge tale far more satisfying for the next 90 minutes. This new film will satisfy lovers of dragons, and females, because the dragon was female (the laying eggs kind of gives that away). Not quite on the scale of Ellen Ripley, but then again, no-one ever will scale those heights again.
I would watch that film and it would a fantasy version of an Kaiju film as a bonus.
Now I know why you aren't a writer,you are just as equally dumb
THAT would actually be subversive. Make you think it's gonna be your standard fairy tale then turn it into the dragon's story. Lmao
@@georgeray1906 Medieval Kaiju flick. Lol
Take my money.
I watched it. It wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, the dragon was pretty good.
When was the last time we had a basic, knight saves the girl fantasy? I'm 50 and I honestly can't think of one. Willow (1988) is like the only one, and that's on a technicality.
Millie Bobbie Brown might be on track to wind up where the girl from Harry Potter is. Famous for the first thing she was in, followed by flops.
Outside of harry potter Emma Wattsons greatest feat is being the #1 searched woman on wiki feet
emma watson has had a few successes since harry potter. the perks of being a wall flower, little woman, the bling ring and beauty and the beast. Outside of movies she has a business with her brother. She hasn't acted in a while but that doesn't mean she is not successful
Oh,Emma Wattson is still doing things?
Last I heard of her was her "self-partnering" years ago while still holding her V-card(which...yeah right,its Hollywood,she probably got that card cashed in during the HP casting).
@@nic3525 Given what we've learned about Hollywood recently, sure, it's a disgusting comment, but an accurate one.
@@MykeLewisMusic go and take ur disgusting comments elsewhere
I don't understand why people suddenly think this whole girl boss schtick is something new. I mean did everyone forget Xena the Warrior Princess from like 30 years ago...? Not sure if she was actually the first girl boss, probably not, but she was probably the most famous one. I mean it literally made Lucy Lawless' career and all and was a very successful show back in the day.
More like Spinster Boss
She DON'T Need No Future
I watched movie just for the laughs. My favorite part has to be when she takes on the dragon singlehandley when apparently an entire Kingdom can't do anything to it. She randomly builds a complicated contraption to distract the dragon (we believe she can because the movie literally tells you she is Elodie and can do anything) and is able to dodge it's attacks and stab it.
I like how Netflix also made sure to fill part of their diversity quota, black stepmother has literally no character background and plays no significant part. You can actually remove Angela Basset's character and it wouldn't even make a difference. Why didn't they give her more than 10 lines and 5 minutes to create an actual relationship between the protagonist. I burst out laughing when they shoehorned in a random Asian girl and family near the end of the movie.
Great woke girlboss movie all around XD
I liked Angela Basset/her character for the small amount she was in it. Would have been interesting to see more of that interaction and character growth.
@@HastSkull It's not the actors fault, but the stupid line of having to force diversity. Even the kingdom were they were and she had lost real mother. How did the father get the only black woman to be the stepmother? Like what was the plot point there and she was just from a rope making family...come on. If they at least had made her character be a noble from other country where the majority are dark skinned then that would have been more plausible for her to be new stepmother. I would have actually made the little sister be half-sister too, give the father too little bit more reason to sacrifice the older daughter for the kingdom.
The Indian Express:
Journalism of Curry-ge
They really walked into this one 😂
"Shrek?" "Star Wars" did it in 1977.
GI Jane as well
Seeing movies like this is just sad. I'm not joking or trolling. It honestly makes me sad. Wtf is wrong with the movies these days. And it's only getting worse
Neo-Marxism is what's wrong with them.
Poor misogynist
Hollywood still think people want Girl Boss fantacy , spoiler , they never did !
Someone needs to make a meme of this where Millie Bobbie Brown pulls out her sword and immediately the dragon squashes her flat with his front paw.
They could have made it a huge horror story with the prince transforming into the dragon because of his ancestors and in each night before the wedding there would be a killing spree and if he could stop himself from killing and merry the damsel the curse would be broken. And at the end the damsel saves the day by kissing him into the dragon form. And all would believe the curse is broken, but at the end after they merry and consummate when she sleeps the camera pans on her belly showing she is already pregnant, but is not a normal baby is a dragon one, because the curse was not broken, she kissed the dragon, the prince didn't stop himself from killing as a dragon... The end!
I love how even random people in a RUclips comments section have better creative writing skills then professionals working on AAA titles in Hollywood. I'm convinced they just hire someone's nephew to write a screenplay as favor to some Hollywood insider or because they owe someone important a favor. I used to be one of those nerds who spent hours on fan fiction websites reading crap written by teenagers and tweens and no joke I've read better stories there then we're seeing in AAA titles lately. Hollywood films made with budgets that exceed the annual government budgets of a small country should have better writing then a Naruto x Sonic crossover fanfic written by a teenage girl with a B- in English class.
I remember trying to kick heroin cold turkey, and being so sick and on the verge of death and hallucination. I cried watching "Power Rangers", because they "were such good friends". Of course I cried every time I saw happy youths on T.V., because it reminded me of my wasted youth...
I hope you are feeling better now.
That's deep
@@kaidose It's not, but cheers!
@@muiresuilgorm3452 Actually now that I'm clean my health has taken a dive, isn't that ironic!😅
Girl's gonna need to do a *_lot_* more daily pushups before I believe she can hold that sword.
That's one thing that was problem. She wasn't even fit.
I say watch Mirror Mirror. That is an example of girl power done right. She started out as a normal princess but than later after the queen tried to kill her, she had to learn how to fight with a sword. And it was a more realistic sword too. One that She could actually hold.
You probably know of it. It's basically a snow-white story. One that was done right. And she appreciated the man too.
I've read a story about a female dragon slayer that actually made sense.
Firstly it was her profession and a family tradition at that.
Secondly she's described as pretty buff.
And then there's the family secret on how to fight dragons: You poison them first with bait before you go and "fight" them. Fighting them outright would be stupid and next to suicidal.
Omg I think I read the same short story but can't remember where! The slayer is old and the dragon is one of the last and it shapeshifts into her new apprentice to try and trick her right? Awesome story.
A mansell in distress.
Dis dress
A mancel in a dress.
They also put most of the movie into the trailer
i just watched the movie and id honestly give it a 6.8/ 10 . My main issue with the plot is that whether or not the dragon was killing girls with royal blood or girls without royal blood........ the girls would be innocent either way. It made no sense for millie to spare the dragon in the end and it made even less sense for the dragon to befriend millie.
Honestly, im not saying that this show is a materpeice or whatever, (it aint) but i knew what it was going in, and I had fun.
Oh my goodness, i saw this on Netflix last night and wondered why Dispy hadnt done a review 😂 You always deliver. I should have known better than to doubt you.
Fast Ten is out? Damn. I had the perfect title: Fast Ten...your seatbelts.
😂😂😂😂
You made me snort juice.
I read that in the 90's movie narrator voice from the movies, I hope you remember him, "Fast-en your seatbelts for a new adventure starring..."
Dad is that you
It was horrible. Every guy was an idiot. She was godlike. At the end, She controlled the dragon to kill everyone in the city. And that's supposed to be the good ending. And somehow the black girl that was stabbed. Finds The girl randomly in the woods. And survives the ending to get everything.😂 The stepmom is godlike too. And overall it was her idea to get the girls married to the nobles.😂 Ridiculous. But they twisted and make it like the guy was the one responsible.
Just got the DAMSEL ad when I clicked on the video LMFAO
And even the 5 seconds of that ad I was like: Nope, another trash film.
If Sean bean does not die in the first act, it definitely won’t be a 10
So I've just finished watching it. I will say. It's not a power fantasy. Absolutely not. She's not super strong and she struggles Absolutely. There were moments like her cutting her hair and saying she will not be told what to do which I didn't understand. But for the most part. It was very natural progression. She's shown tk come from a land where its more about survival due to harsh winters. So I would believe she would use smarts to try and save her family. And she's not unlikeable. She's not the most developed character I don't think but from what disney and Co have churned out. It is a breathe of fresh air.
She can shave her head and Scream and Swing swords... But she will never be Denton Van Zan.
Guy throws princess off cliff..."that's pretty based" lol😂
8:29 to 8:41 - Very true. It's like they're pretending that we all have amnesia.
If you want a good 'girlbossing the dragon' story? Try Simon R. Green's Blue Moon Rising from 1991. Two of the four main characters are explicitly meant to just go off and die as far as their families are concerned, one of those is 'sacrificed' to a dragon, and she has a personality that's much, much more forceful than the butterfly collecting dragon, so he can't kill her. It's a damn good read with several follow up books that do a much better job of 'subverting' fairy tale tropes than anything that's come out of Hollowwood in years.
Thank you for the recommendation!!
Bet if it was adapted, the roles will be reversed.
Mercedes Lackey has done a series of books 'subverting' fairy tales. She did it in a more coherent way and didn't constantly trash men.
I like the short story, where all the knights fail to kill the one-eyed dragon.
Along comes a woman warrior... who succeeds.
She douses herself in the hottest pepper juice known to man and lets the dragon get a good taste, after which it begs to be put out of its misery.
The punch line is... apropos.
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YES!!!!
OMG- 'The Fairy Godmother' is my favourite of them, but 'One Good Knight' is probably a much better version of this story.
'Black Swan' (a take on 'Swan Lake'/ 'The Swan Princess') was also rather compelling.
I really love the one of her 'Elemental Masters' series ('Pheonix & Ashes' is the only one I've read, sadly- my library didn't have the others)- & I even read a cute little short story she wrote, 'The River's Gift' - all **much** better...
Im surprised people are still paying attention to movies. I just really search for old movies i haven't seen yet. Yea a good one might squeek through every once and a while but i get no hopes up anymore. But that's movies, music most games. The Entertainment business is just a tiny part of my life now.
Same here. I prefer to read indie comics, fiction podcasts, manga, anime and RUclips now.
Heck, I'm trying to write a sword and sorcery tale as well as a portal fantasy.
I'm not paying attention to movies so much as I'm paying attention to entertaining reviews and commentaries of movies.