Went to see The Girl on the Train this past weekend. It started out as an interesting mystery/suspense flick. We'd really been looking forward to seeing it for some time. But by the last third of the movie, it began to morph into something that you'd see on Lifetime Movie Network. It went off the rails quicker than any train could (pun intended). Where it started out with a seemingly solid plot, it devolved into a purely feminist message movie, and nothing more. Every male in the movie, who was something more than a minor character, victimized women in some way, shape or form. The main character, who we thought was the cause of her divorce because she was a raging drunk, and the husband, who we thought was a patient guy who had to put up with her alcoholism and stalking... their roles were flipped. Turns out that he was a horrible, horrible sorry excuse for a man. He must pay for his sins and misdeeds against women (Stevie Wonder could see it coming down 4th Avenue). And she was actually the poor, innocent victim of his controlling behavior, infidelity and treachery. Even the secondary male character, the husband of the girl who went missing (who was also a victim of every male who had been in her life), was actually a controlling brute, who tempted our poor, recovering alcoholic protagonist with alcohol.
Save yourself some money and skip this turd. Just walk around chanting, "women good... men bad" for a few hours and send $25 to N.O.W. That will accomplish the same thing and you can spend 90 minutes doing something more interesting... like counting lint balls on your carpet.
Because of this movie selection, my girlfriend is no longer allowed to pick movies that we'll attend together. Hey, maybe some fragile, whiny SJW type will make a movie about me. :nanner:
Plus, I knew what was going to happen to the Tommy Lee Jones character before it happened and who was going to save the day. Hollywood seems to have a formula that must be followed these days. I guess they use focus groups to decide which character is shown in a particular light (heroic, strong, evil, etc.)?
