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Battle of the Sexes (2017)


In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) was billed as the BATTLE OF THE SEXES and became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. The fiercely private King was not only championing for equality, but also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, as her friendship with Marilyn Barnett (Andrea Riseborough) developed. And Riggs, one of the first self-made media-age celebrities, wrestled with his gambling demons, at the expense of his family and wife Priscilla (Elisabeth Shue). Together, Billie and Bobby served up a cultural spectacle that resonated far beyond the tennis court, sparking discussions in bedrooms

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I hope it has some lesbian scenes

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I'm super hyped for this movie

why is jewlywood constantly shoving down our throats women rights and women power ?

It will be funny watching Emma trying to act in a serious drama.

/ourguy/

>Battle of the Sexes is unconcerned with equity in life, sports, or art. This overlong, half-comic rewriting of the history of the 1973 tennis stunt between Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) and Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) is so heavily slanted toward the goal of advancing feminism that it neglects to offer a humanely balanced portrait of the players.
>Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, a husband-wife team, were also behind the trite Little Miss Sunshine, and they continue their heinous, calculated exploitation of trendy, sentimental gender politics here. Riggs’s avuncular brashness is overplayed in the depiction of his gambling addiction and chauvinist clowning, but King is portrayed as a noble, closeted lesbian. Their eventual tennis match — controversial mostly because it is now suspected that Riggs threw it (unshown in the movie) — was less predictable than the filmmakers’ ideological con game: Faris, Dayton, and screenwriter Sean Beaufoy all but canonize King, romanticizing her homosexual identity (King opens up during a relationship with a TV hairdresser, played by Andrea Reisborough). Why isn’t Meryl Streep mimicking this part?

better tennis kino reporting in

>tfw no intellectual gf to go watch feminist kino with at the theatre

>Storytelling like that in Battle of the Sexes isn’t “crowd-pleasing” in the sense of uplifting people; instead, it’s stridently agenda-driven. While pretending to balance Stone’s toothy grin with Carell’s goofish boyishness, the filmmakers forego evenhanded humanism. They’re really unthinking cynics who take insultingly obvious positions on male privilege and female oppression. Over-obviousness was also the major fault when screenwriter Beaufoy simultaneously glamorized poverty and greed in Slumdog Millionaire, the worst film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture until Spotlight.
> Watching recent Oscar-winner Stone bring her unprepossessing tomboy persona to King’s plucky, bespectacled homeliness, while Carell continues to mistake foolish caricature for characterization (as in the vile Foxcatcher) creates a battle of oddballs. It epitomizes Hollywood’s Left-warped, identity-politics reduction of what is human. Though giving lip-service to the idea of pay equity in the scene where King argues about money with sports entrepreneur Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman), the scheme degrades men as testosterone-loaded boors. This isn’t even an ideological battle. Women are heroized; men demeaned as doofuses. The two sexes are set in the cement of progressive ideology.

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That's a woman?

Absolutely based

the only truly original critic of our times

Driving wedges in society. Communism is by design an inversion of the natural order.

>/ourguy/
Literally no one working in Hollywood or MSM is /ourguy/

Reminder that pic related is the best movie releasing this weekend

I don't care about the movie, i just want to see Emily Jean making out with a girl.

Why the fuck would anyone want an "original" critic? I don't care how they present a critique, I just want it to be honest and non biased.

>current year
>watching any of the garbage Hollywood shits out

wew

HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

SHUT IT DOWN

I'm interested in that one but I can't stand Ben Stiller. He was okay in meet the parents but I find him extremely annoying in everything else.

fuck off faggot. No one is watching any of this shit anymore. Your whole industry can fuck off.

I hope it accurately shows their match as a fixed farce it was and King never actually "beat" a man. Riggs obviously threw that game for a quick buck after hyping it up. He was also an overweight, alcoholic, has-been by the time he played King in her absolute prime.

What a shit-show the whole event was. I just hope it got accurately represented by I know it didn't.

This, I hope so too.

I'm so sick of Steve Carell

>A 3rd rate female tennis player, verses a old washed up 5th rate male tennis player

Wow so exciting. How about Serena Williams verses that guy who drank a few beers and played a round of golf before beating her?

You know damn well that's not going to happen.

MEN BTFO

HOW WILL THE UGLIER SEX EVER RECOVER

>childhood is laughing at his reviews
>adulthood is accepting he was always right

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Venus and Serena Williams had claimed that they could beat any male player ranked outside the world's top 200, so Braasch, then ranked 203rd, challenged them both. Braasch was described by one journalist as "a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager". The matches took place on court number 12 in Melbourne Park, after Braasch had finished a round of golf and two beers. He first took on Serena and after leading 5–0, beat her 6–1. Venus then walked on court and again Braasch was victorious, this time winning 6–2. Braasch said afterwards, "500 and above, no chance". He added that he had played like someone ranked 600th in order to keep the game "fun". The Williams sisters adjusted their claim to beating men outside the top 350.

Sup Forums is full of children who love his reviews.

mmmm make you feel better bby
they're all children!!

>The Williams sisters adjusted their claim to beating men outside the top 350.
This is the funny part because at the time they said that the guy who just beat them was ranked 344.

>Another event dubbed a "Battle of the Sexes" took place during the 1998 Australian Open[51] between Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters. Venus and Serena Williams had claimed that they could beat any male player ranked outside the world's top 200, so Braasch, then ranked 203rd, challenged them both.

>Braasch was described by one journalist as "a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager".[52][51]

>The matches took place on court number 12 in Melbourne Park,[53] after Braasch had finished a round of golf and two beers. He first took on Serena and after leading 5–0, beat her 6–1. Venus then walked on court and again Braasch was victorious, this time winning 6–2.[54]

>He added that he had played like someone ranked 600th in order to keep the game "fun".[55]

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>"500 and above, no chance"
Womens tennis is a joke, that just proved it to the world.

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The fact he absolutely smashed Margaret Court, who was better than King, proves their game was bullshit. She'll deny it forever because it's pretty much the single great feminist sporting victory ever but it's a farce.

Fucking amazing.

damn
he looks like zach braff took up tennis

>50syo retired tennis player against a woman active in their career

Why don't the put the guy who beat 2 women tennis and he was just the 700 number in ATP? Oh yeah this one because she won against a retired fat fuck.

fuck you jews, not gonna watch it.

>Slumdog Millionaire, the worst film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture until Spotlight

I love this madman

sad to see carell doing this shit

I wonder if they will include that the dude slaughtered his first female opponent after King first rejected his offer

this

based armond. im sorry i once doubted you

Why are you even here?

It's the redhead chick from Oblivion before Olga Kurylenko turns up. But skeletonized by Hollywood.

Wouldn't have recognized her at all, but the posted Armond White review mentions her by name.

>It's the redhead chick from Oblivion before Olga Kurylenko turns up.
no fucking way
looks like a completely different person

Reminder that her ass and thighs got bigger for this role. I'll be watching, with my penis in hand and ready.

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>Reminder that her ass and thighs got bigger for this role
And yet she still needed a stunt double while Stevey did all his scenes on the court.

>Braasch said afterwards, "500 and above, no chance"
BASED
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I don't like you. See you in 5 days

Do you think she has had anal sex recently? Honest question

She has herpes

only kissless virgins don't have it

The fact that women thought the best female tennis player beating some guy who was retired for years, fat, smoking while on the court and clearly not giving a single fuck is recognized as some incredible accomplishmebt goes to show their inferiority on multiple levels.

I mean it seems pretty obvious the movie is about the personal lives not about it being an amazing accomplishment on her part.
I mean the trailer literally opens up with Steve pitching the match for the media hype.

women=heroic
men=pigs
under the guise of a docudrama about a thrown publicity tennis stunt

Someone should cast Emma Stone as John Lennon.

They treated it like it was a huge accomplishment irl

>that the guy who just beat them was ranked 344.
Not at the time, but he dropped in the rankings not long after. And when they made the 350 claim he said 'I'm dropping in the rankings soon, so maybe they'd like a rematch'

Why not have the best girl tennis player play the best boy tennis player now, if women are so great?

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nah John Denver

Daily reminder that she loses their first match.

she's been brainwashed by the SJWs

Not a meme. He really is /ourguy/ and King of Sup Forums

I'm sure the movie goes like this if the trailer is anything to go off of.
>Stone gets beat just barely!
>Carell is a huge douche "go back to the kitchen girly"
>Stone decimates in the second match which is clearly more important
>Carrell loses and overreacts like a cartoon character and acts like a huge bitch
>Stone takes it gracefully!
>Legend has it if you watch the movie from the top of the Himalayas you can just barely make out the final scene in which Steve carrell says GOOD GAME over all the YASSS QUEEN!!!!s

Is this shopped?

>engineering your own scenario to get mad at
mmm

Nope

Knuckles is right

>Slumdog Millionaire, the worst film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture until Spotlight

That's what I've been saying.

>Implying implications
I'm not mad at all, it's a silly movie

can you have ass herpes?

emma stone has so many anal warts fucking her butt would be like lining a fleshlight with bubblewrap

You can get forehead herpes so what do you think?

Anyway Borg McEnroe will be the real tennis kino of 2017

Not really, the implication that a woman can compete in men's sports IS an exception and most definitely not the status quo

Yeah I gave it a bit of thought and it's not as easy as that kids show made it out to be.
For example, a male dominated field is very likely to be afraid of letting women in and will try hard to keep them away.

Delete this! Delete it!

wow holy shit BTFO

this is exactly why i was afraid of
they take the movie too seriously and make steve carell the evil douchebag

dubs of truth

>making all these shitty tennis flicks
>still no infinite jest kino