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Karo stupidly posted...

When she finally runs out of instructions, she just curls up in a ball and cries about how she isnt a mommy anymore and tries to kill herself until her man comes back from the dead to tell her what to do.
This kind of extreme sexism makes it difficult to enjoy any other aspect of the movie, such as its impressive visual effects, and leaves one wondering how in the living hell did it get made in this day and age.

This has to be one of the worst takes I've ever seen on this list. She's going to die. She's in the most extremely inhospitable environment a human has ever been. She's on her first fucking mission. And she has a dream where her brain is trying to rationalize things by using the only other person they hired for the movie, who happens to be on his umpteen millionth mission, as the constructively thinking, rational part of her brain. Her reaction is completely the type of reaction I would expect from a real person. I'm sorry that utterly asinine sort of behavior you get out of Arnie films isn't here, but this is much more tangible and relatable than gun-toting machismo with no internal reflection.

You've also never had an overabundance of adrenaline pumping through you. When I had the car accident on the Red River bridge where I nearly died, afterwards, I curled up in a ball in my parents' backseat and cried. And the tears weren't even out of anything so much as my body dealing with this poison coursing through the veins for no reason. I couldn't stop shaking. When you go through a traumatic event, your body has to process, and adrenaline causes some really extreme behavior in people, especially when they stop moving and the adrenaline keeps pumping. This was extremely realistic and it's not sexist at all. I watched this movie originally with a friend who had spent a tour in Iraq as a doctor, and he told me afterwards that it reminded him of what some of his buddies went through, in terms of how she reacted. After being under fire, people have a difficult to readjusting in that moment. And while they don't necessarily have PTSD, they were crying without even realizing it in the moments afterwards. You're just trying to suppress the adrenaline and think clearly. For Ryan, it's even worse because she's trying to do that while still in danger in a situation she isn't totally prepared for and facing odds that are overwhelming negative.

There is definite sexism on this list. This isn't that. If that's sexism, explain what I went through for just having a car hang over the side of a bridge?
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