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New 'F-rated' film category announced.

A new feminist film classification is to be used at this year's Bath Film Festival to highlight the lack of women working in the movie industry.

Organisers believe it is the first UK festival to use the "F-rating" which will go to 17 of the 42 films being shown.

Films with a female lead, director or are about women will get the rating.

Festival producer Holly Tarquini said she hoped it would create debate and equal representation in film.

Full story here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-29739874

So what does everyone think. Good or bad idea? Personally, I don't mind the notion of a category, but think it is a bit silly adding every film with a female lead or director.


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This is a joke, right? Why not make different ratings for films that have a director/lead actor/actress that's a minority while we're at it?
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M Night Shyamalan films should also come with their own rating. I think a suitable one would be CR for crap.

But in all seriousness what a ridiculous idea this is.
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Original post by BullViagra
pathetic

women generally suck at film making as well

name me one decent film directed by a woman (you cant)


Off the top of my head:

Wayne's World
American Psycho
Lost in Translation
Big
The Snowman
The Hurt Locker
Shrek
Pet Sematary
Zero Dark Thirty
Point Break

They may be few and far between, but it's unfair to say there aren't any, Kathryn Bigelow is generally accepted as one of the best action film directors currently around.
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Original post by BullViagra
pathetic

women generally suck at film making as well

name me one decent film directed by a woman (you cant)


Point Break
Hurt Locker

Granted, there's a lot less women directors, but Katherine Bigalow is a good director. I think this problem would be solved if women wanted to be directors more. In the case of Kate Bigalow, she seems to prefer working on male lead films so that's probably worth thinking about if people go on about 'we need a woman to direct a woman lead' etc.


Original post by Arkasia
Off the top of my head:

Wayne's World
American Psycho
Lost in Translation
Big
The Snowman
The Hurt Locker
Shrek
Pet Sematary
Zero Dark Thirty
Point Break


Yeah I didn't know a few of those were made by women. But then what is this feminist rating about? They want an all women cast and crew? You'd be hard pressed to find many films which the cast and crew are all men. Probably not an equal balance, but certainly not a 'all but one crew member were male' situations.
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Original post by Snagprophet
Point Break
Hurt Locker

Granted, there's a lot less women directors, but Katherine Bigalow is a good director. I think this problem would be solved if women wanted to be directors more. In the case of Kate Bigalow, she seems to prefer working on male lead films so that's probably worth thinking about if people go on about 'we need a woman to direct a woman lead' etc.




Yeah I didn't know a few of those were made by women. But then what is this feminist rating about? They want an all women cast and crew? You'd be hard pressed to find many films which the cast and crew are all men. Probably not an equal balance, but certainly not a 'all but one crew member were male' situations.


Well some like Shrek were co-directed, but yeah most were a woman such as Bigelow. Feminist rating means ANY film with a female lead, female director, or is about women, which is why I think it is a bit too nonsensical. Movies like 'The LEGO movie' are a good example where the sequel is going to address the issue by adding more female characters etc

Original post by BullViagra
yeah too bad most of them sucked or are very average compared to the endless list of great films directed by men.

of course women are too oppressed to make films as well i suppose


Perhaps you are just too bitter and biased to acknowledge a film is good when directed by a woman? I bet you loved most of them until you found out who the director was...
Original post by Arkasia
Well some like Shrek were co-directed, but yeah most were a woman such as Bigelow. Feminist rating means ANY film with a female lead, female director, or is about women, which is why I think it is a bit too nonsensical. Movies like 'The LEGO movie' are a good example where the sequel is going to address the issue by adding more female characters etc



Perhaps you are just too bitter and biased to acknowledge a film is good when directed by a woman? I bet you loved most of them until you found out who the director was...


nope, they were all average at best, in a disappointing way.
The Babadook by Jennifer Kent is better than any macho Hollywood horror.
Well, this is very sexist! There should also be a "M" classification for all the Male equivalents, which I guess will leave 42 with a "M" rating.
What difference does it make whether you explicitly state that it has a female in one of those positions?
I doubt the BBFC will adopt this new classification. With that said, I don't see any problem with a film festival using such a classification if it's desired.
Original post by BullViagra
pathetic

women generally suck at film making as well

name me one decent film directed by a woman (you cant)


Original post by Arkasia
Off the top of my head:

Wayne's World
American Psycho
Lost in Translation
Big
The Snowman
The Hurt Locker
Shrek
Pet Sematary
Zero Dark Thirty
Point Break

They may be few and far between, but it's unfair to say there aren't any, Kathryn Bigelow is generally accepted as one of the best action film directors currently around.


Nailed it.

Original post by BullViagra
yeah too bad most of them sucked or are very average compared to the endless list of great films directed by men.of course women are too oppressed to make films as well i suppose


Then your taste in films sucks.
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I thought this was a joke about the weird Blinkbox adverts that are all over the tube!
This is pretty stupid. Women can make films of any genre and target age group, so it's ridiculous they could all be put on the same umbrella.
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Pathetic.
Original post by Arkasia
Off the top of my head:

Wayne's World
American Psycho
Lost in Translation
Big
The Snowman
The Hurt Locker
Shrek
Pet Sematary
Zero Dark Thirty
Point Break

They may be few and far between, but it's unfair to say there aren't any, Kathryn Bigelow is generally accepted as one of the best action film directors currently around.


American psycho is the only good film there. do you have any oscar winners directed by a women ?
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Original post by -Native Briton-
American psycho is the only good film there. do you have any oscar winners directed by a women ?


If you mean directors winning Oscars, Bigelow won in 2010 for 'The Hurt Locker', and most of the movies on the list above (which is really quite limited compared to the amount of good movies directed by women) have won multiple awards from multiple guilds or categories, not necessarily Oscars.

Besides, the Oscars is just a nepotistic, incestuous mess of pretentious fools patting each other on the back, and is not an accurate sign of how 'good' something is, hence why actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Andy Serkis and Gary Oldman have never won it.
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It just seems a bit pointless :s-smilie:
Oh **** off; that's just makes the rest of us feminists look even worse. I'm sick of a cause I actually believe in being pulled through the mud because people are calling bull**** like this a feminist issue.
Just more stupid, facile and meaningless gestures by the feminist lobby. Thankfully, I think the public are finally beginning to see through it now. Hopefully these people will undermine their own legitimacy, and the feminist label can be reclaimed by persons representing genuine, concrete women's rights and equality issues.
Original post by Unkempt_One
Just more stupid, facile and meaningless gestures by the feminist lobby. Thankfully, I think the public are finally beginning to see through it now. Hopefully these people will undermine their own legitimacy, and the feminist label can be reclaimed by persons representing genuine, concrete women's rights and equality issues.

Feminist lobby? This is just some minor film festival we're talking about here. The organisers came up with the idea.

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