Dear 'Playback'

If you have no original ideas, perhaps you should just not be a movie. Bringing heretofore unattempted levels of misogyny to your tired and cliched premise doesn't make it fresh or exciting, merely dispiriting.

A response no one wants to have watching a film.

You're the kind of movie that makes people hate movies.

The Simpsons Went Super-Misogynistic This Week!

I know the terribleness of the Simpsons should be a surprise to no one at this point - least of all me, but every now and then it plumbs a depth of unfunny inappropriateness that even I didn't think it was capable of. Such was the case a few seasons back when an episode revolved around (and I'm not remembering a Family Guy episode by accident - this really happened on a real episode of the Simpsons) a pregnant 14-year-old tricking Bart into marriage so that she could identify him as the father of her child.

I thought that particular woman-hating bar would never be raised any further, and then last Sunday(the 8th of May, 2011)'s episode came along. The technique it used to be more unpleasant than any previous episode? Both the A and the B stories are devoted to the awfulness of the modern woman!

Shuttle Hates Women

I don’t mean that in the normal way that torture porn movies hate women, either. You know, the whole ‘let’s show the brutal victimization of women in underwear because of the sick thrill it offers freaks’ kind of way. Although it does that as well.

No, Shuttle hates women in that it depicts them as being considerably dumber than coral.

Here is a brief illustrated list of the things the film Shuttle believes women are too stupid to do-

Run away from people who are trying to kill you.