Sat down with my favourite guys. amped for a good film. This film was a waste of 2 hours. The plot was ill-constructed and weak. The characters were not well developed.
Rant: If you’re using your imagination to escape a mental asylum why would you escape to an equally horrendous place. Seriously! I’m expected to believe a woman in any reality would dream of being a prostitute/erotic dancer. This isn’t Showgirls.
This film was insulting to me as woman. It’s a man’s fantasy about what woman really want. We all don’t want to be prostitutes. We don’t all wish we could wear outfits that show too much cleavage and our butt-cheeks.
It’s insulting that in Baby Doll’s fantasy from the mental institution. the only way a group of woman can distract or get the best of their captors was dance erotically. That is an awful message. And the action-fantasy sequences that are the escape from the first fantasy. are weak. I felt like every time the so-called wise man showed up it was Bosley telling the Angels what their mission was. There was no context. Why were their Nazis? Why was their a dragon? Why did Jon Hamm get top billing for a movie he was barely in?
Also it lacked any and all plot points. The dialogue wasn’t believable and every world rang false. It was would have worked better as just a trailer.
It was also a really big downer. Not something that makes you go: wow that was good, or wow that made me feel good. Neither. Just made me feel punched in the gut.