http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2012/01/3474/ Thoughts on Film Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2012/01/3474/#comment-368 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:53:41 +0000 http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/?p=3474#comment-368 You have a fair point about Hancock, but I suppose this is where the character has to be judged over the actress. (She was also in Reindeer Games.) In the end, I found myself thinking quite a lot about this film well after I saw it, and I think a criticism of the “tween” market is precisely what Cody was going for.

]]> http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2012/01/3474/#comment-365 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:45:33 +0000 http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/?p=3474#comment-365 I have a daughter who is 11. She’s currently pigeonholed as a “tween,” which I’m still not entirely sure is a thing. The whole “young adult” marketing angle is aimed squarely at her, and like Gary, it seems like a creepy delivery mechanism for selling adulthood to those not yet ready for it. Being a grown-up doesn’t mean hitting a certain age at a certain time. It means becoming able to make decisions you can live with years down the road. Theron strikes me as a great choice for this role, but when it comes to proving that she can live with her own decisions. I have my doubts. She did, after all, star in Hancock.

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