Teenage girl coming-of-age movies.

[cgannon64]

So I saw an ad for "The Ice Princess" and I realized something: There are no movies for little girls that involve an ugly girl growing up, staying ugly, and being OK with it. Every one involves an ugly girl suddenly becoming magically sexy, and everything working out.

I'm not usually one to say that the media sets bad examples and what-not, but this does seem pretty bad. How do the litle ugly girls feel when they fall in love with these movies and they grow up and they stay ugly?

 

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Real Women Have Curves

 

[Perfection]

Alls I know is that the trailer says the girl is into math. If someone watches the movie and I find out she ceases to be interested in math, I'm going to destroy every copy of the movie.

 

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I was really confused until I realized you were talking about the Ice Princess movie.

 

[Perfection]

Real Women Have Curves

That girl is far from ugly.

 

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How can you tell? There's no picture of her.

 

[Perfection]

How can you tell? There's no picture of her.

Umm yes there is http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296166/photogallery

 

[ummmm........]

yeah, but those are publicity stills. It doesn't have any shots from the movie.

 

[Perfection]

yeah, but those are publicity stills. It doesn't have any shots from the movie.

Okay well, read Owen Thompson's review

 

[Babbler]

Alls I know is that the trailer says the girl is into math. If someone watches the movie and I find out she ceases to be interested in math, I'm going to destroy every copy of the movie.

I found that part completely stupid! She is able to proform those great physical acts on the ice by computing it in her head.

Note to Disney: Calculating physical equations and actually DOING them are two different things. If they weren't, then should be able to fly, doing the right calculations in my head.

 

[Hundegesicht]

I was real ugly as a little girl, but that was okay, because everyone I knew told me that I was like a caterpillar. Eventually, I'd cocoon, and then sprout wings and fly away as a beautiful butterfly.

Well eventually I cocooned, and sprouted wings... and ended up being a moth. Not even caterpillars have fair lives. Sucks, eh?

 

[amadeus]

Premises for movies today are all alike. Nobody seems to have any original ideas anymore.

 

[Babbler]

Premises for movies today are all alike. Nobody seems to have any original ideas anymore.

Have there every been? Most plots are same, only with different proportions of sex and violence.

 

[stratego]

Ugly girls who stay ugly don't go out to watch movies anyways. There is no point in making movie for an audience that isn't there.

 

[Perfection]

I found that part completely stupid! She is able to proform those great physical acts on the ice by computing it in her head.

Note to Disney: Calculating physical equations and actually DOING them are two different things. If they weren't, then should be able to fly, doing the right calculations in my head.

Not to mention the fact that slow serial process of concious calculation is agonizingly slow compared to specialized parrellel processing of the cerebellum and moter cortex. Anyone who could conciously do calculations of physical systems faster then that would be the greatest mathematical mind to grace the planet. In that case, screw figure skating, you could frickin' take over the world!

 

[Babbler]

Not to mention the fact that slow serial process of concious calculation is agonizingly slow compared to specialized parrellel processing of the cerebellum and moter cortex. Anyone who could conciously do calculations of physical systems faster then that would be the greatest mathematical mind to grace the planet. In that case, screw figure skating, you could frickin' take over the world!

Hey, you be like Neo!

 

[Perfection]

Hey, you be like Neo!

No, Neo just hacked into the Matrix using his mind. This is far more complex.

 

[ainwood]

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[CurtSibling]

So I saw an ad for "The Ice Princess" and I realized something: There are no movies for little girls that involve an ugly girl growing up, staying ugly, and being OK with it. Every one involves an ugly girl suddenly becoming magically sexy, and everything working out.

I'm not usually one to say that the media sets bad examples and what-not, but this does seem pretty bad. How do the litle ugly girls feel when they fall in love with these movies and they grow up and they stay ugly?

Personally, I find it silly how our sad, contrived Western society is geared
towards enforcing an impossible demand upon women to socially and mentally
fit into their consumer role as the baby producers, housewives and also the
make-up smothered fashion victim also.

The periodicals hint that the alternative is being a social outcast.
A fate that seems to terrify a woman's herding instinct.

Such contradictory role models are impossible to reconcile, hence why
most women are flaky maniacs, with unrealistic views and a burning need
to conform to whatever is 'current' in a commercial magazine or on the TV.

I am sure most of you have had a girl in your life that fits this description.

 

[LLXerxes]

Well, can we h ave a good movie about, some girl, ugly or not who DOESN'T fall in love. Can't we have like an adventure or comedy without people falling in love? Even in TV, every show is based on love. If this ticke me off I wonder wuzzit be like when I'm an adult