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Joss Whedon really hates this movie.


While a lot of people happen to like this movie, a billion dollar director and writer, and general comic book enthusiast, by the name of Joss Whedon frankly detests it.

Article right here-
http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2008/01/titular-movie-t/
Actual quote-

"I hate Weird Science not a little," he said. "I find it offensive. The boy fantasy of building a girl. Obviously, we were doing the nasty version of it, because I find it grotesque."


To be fair, while the concept is juvenile and a teen boy's fantasy, Hughes did give the boy creation personality and didn't just have her pose for the camera every ten seconds. Give him credit for that.

Thoughts?

...SPOON!

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Joss Whedon is the ideal male feminist: he assumes all men hold the same gross ideas about women that he secretly does.

Lo and behold, like most white knights he was found out to be a creep. And now his career is in the toilet. What a hypocritical ass.

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People who say that kind of white-knighting shit always turn out to be gropey pervs, and sure enough that’s what Whedon was finally exposed as.

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