By now you've probably heard about the upcoming Ocean's 8 – and it's starring all girls, playing thieves!  How hysterical is that? Sandra Bullock and seven other girl-thieves plot to steal some jewelry from someone.  This is an appropriation of Ocean's 11, of course, which starred mostly men.  (George Clooney fits into that category anatomically, if not psychologically.) Ocean's 11 itself was a remake of a 1960 version of the film, but that one also starred men.  What Warner Brothers is doing is taking a franchise where the main characters are played by men and substituting them with women.  It's as if Warner Brothers doesn't feel that an original film starring women will attract audiences, so the company has to remake a film that became popular when it was cast with men. This is the most patronizing strategy Hollywood can follow.  If movie studios really feel that people want to see action films starring...(Read Full Post)