Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Misogynist (2013)

Don't get too excited, kids - this one's not as good as the title suggests. Frankly, it's more of just a boring, low-budget drama than anything all that fun or provocative.

Some misogynist douche holds an underground seminar, teaching disgruntled men how they can better use, abuse and control any woman in their lives His sexist brainwashing, however, has a severely negative affect on his young protege's wedding night with his virgin bride who doesn't necessarily appreciate his 'kinky', selfish take on marital copulation.

I couldn't help but think there was a promising concept here - involving a guys secret coarse on molding male minds into sexist scumbags,  though, through clearly incompetent film-making, it was horribly realized, with a flimsy script and just flat out ridiculous, go-nowhere scenes. A huge portion of the movie was devoted to a trio of V-necked frat boys arguing the efficacy of the woman-hating speaker's bitch-taming prowess as well as his treatment of his girlfriend/female subject. At one point we get a flashback sequence showing him killing a pissed off ex in self-defense and presumably arranging for the disposal of her body. This could've been an interesting 'twist' for the character as far as exploring an even more callous and murderous 'edge' that could have taken the movie down some more engaging avenues. However, this is shown as a mere unimportant fluke and the movie, in turn, plummets back into severe monotony, right on through the underwhelming 'climax' and the who-gives-a-fuck end reveal of a greed-fueled motive. When all is said and done, "Misogynist" feels like you just watched a random episode of a soap opera.

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