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Battle of the Sexes

poweRob

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Anyone seen it? Headed to the movies here in a couple hours to see it. Got pretty good Rotten Tomato scores.
 
poweRob said:
Anyone seen it? Headed to the movies here in a couple hours to see it. Got pretty good Rotten Tomato scores.
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I saw it live. Good show.
 
calamity said:
I saw it live. Good show.
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I remember the hubub when it was going on but I don't recall watching the match. Steve Carrell looks like he's the perfect match for that role in the trailers.
 
poweRob said:
Anyone seen it? Headed to the movies here in a couple hours to see it. Got pretty good Rotten Tomato scores.
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It looks like one of them movies that is well liked because it sells the right political message rather than because it is good art, though I will see it if it turns up on Netflix or some such because I try to see all of Emma Stones work. I also suspect that Steve Carrell is good here, this is his kinda thing.

EDIT: I just noticed that this is a commercial bomb, so the legacy of this movie is as a political statement of those who made it.
 
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They're replaying Billie Jean King and Bobbie Riggs?
 
Just got back. Good flick. It was neat to see a lot of the back-stories for the characters.
 
poweRob said:
I remember the hubub when it was going on but I don't recall watching the match. Steve Carrell looks like he's the perfect match for that role in the trailers.
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I think I was about 10. It was must see TV. But, for the life of me I can't remember a thing about it other than that we called feminists "Women's Libbers" back then. ERA was steamrolling to ratification, and all was going to usher in a brave new world. And, then the Righties showed up, religious nuts gained more and more control of the government and crushed all hope for peace and love. So, we went from singing Kumbaya to singing the National Anthem in less than 5 years, elected Ronnie Raygun and never looked back.

I think watching that movie would send me into a depression. :(
 
In 1973, New York Times reporter Grace Lichtenstein followed the women’s pro circuit to write A Long Way, Baby, a dishy chronicle of the season. The climax of the book—for better or for worse—was the Battle of the Sexes. In 2005, Lichtenstein told sportswriter Johnette Howard, “the fact that what was really an inconsequential, made-for-television, silly matchup—an absolute circus—has gone on to attain this mythical status is remarkable, because it shouldn’t have been a landmark of anything.” It was a stunt, a side show, a distraction from real issues in sports and in American society. Nevertheless, it tapped into something so primal that 44 years later the makers of a feature film really didn’t need to change much to make it seem all too relevant to contemporary viewers.
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Fact vs. fiction in the movie Battle of the Sexes.

Considering that the movie is a flop in spite of all of its star power, all the money behind it and its ridiculously trendy Hollywood politics....maybe not.
 
Interestingly enough there is another movie out woven in the same fabric as this, which is even more of a box office bomb....Professor Marston & The Wonder Women.....$240 per screen this weekend, one of the four worst in the top 50 this week-end which means that it was expected to do way better. America might be tiring of being bludgened over the head by Hollywood on politics, especially now, especially their UP WITH WOMEN campaign.....Weistein et al.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/professor_marston_and_the_wonder_women

Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) - Daily Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo

Weekend Box Office Results for October 20-22, 2017 - Box Office Mojo
 
calamity said:
I think I was about 10. It was must see TV. But, for the life of me I can't remember a thing about it other than that we called feminists "Women's Libbers" back then. ERA was steamrolling to ratification, and all was going to usher in a brave new world. And, then the Righties showed up, religious nuts gained more and more control of the government and crushed all hope for peace and love. So, we went from singing Kumbaya to singing the National Anthem in less than 5 years, elected Ronnie Raygun and never looked back.

I think watching that movie would send me into a depression. :(
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It was pretty cool. I didn't know but basically it started as a fued between BJK and the head of the tennis league at the time. She was pissed because the women matches sold the same amount of tickets as the mens but the prize money was eight times less. So she headed up the women in the league to split off and start their own league altogether. Then Bobby Riggs came into the picture. He was a character. That was all show and whatnot but that other feud was more heated. And Bobby had this really bad gambling addiction and was married to a sugar mamma that made him look even sillier bitching about women in power.
 
calamity said:
In 1973 I was all in on Chris Evert. Man, I was in love.
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Same. Her vs Navratilova was like the cold war stand-off at the time.

Then on the mens side it was Conners vs Borg juuuuust before big mouthed McEnroe popped onto the scene.

The tennis personalities were larger than the game it seemed back then.
 
poweRob said:
Stop bringing your politics into this non political thread.
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Given that Hollywood product has gotten so overtly political that's going to happen..... I did not cause it, I am simply dealing with reality as it is.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Given that Hollywood product has gotten so overtly political that's going to happen..... I did not cause it, I am simply dealing with reality as it is.
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There's a whole forum on this site called "Bais in the Media". Go bitch about it there.
 
poweRob said:
It was pretty cool. I didn't know but basically it started as a fued between BJK and the head of the tennis league at the time. She was pissed because the women matches sold the same amount of tickets as the mens but the prize money was eight times less. So she headed up the women in the league to split off and start their own league altogether. Then Bobby Riggs came into the picture. He was a character. That was all show and whatnot but that other feud was more heated. And Bobby had this really bad gambling addiction and was married to a sugar mamma that made him look even sillier bitching about women in power.
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Lol...that's rich.
 
calamity said:
Lol...that's rich.
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I really think he could give a rats ass about the women's lib movement. He reminds me of Mayweather vs O'Connell fight where they spent so much time talking trash to hype up the sales of tickets. It's all that guy was about. He had people so worked up that they had to watch it.
 
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