re: Nic Cage's new movie "The Surfer" successfully confronts toxic masculinity

The trailer looks interesting, and the often violent, 'locals only' depiction is completely in line with anecdotes from every surfer I've ever known. As mentioned, especially in Hawaii.

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The funnier thing is that you know this movie makes way more sense in Hawaii with their whole "kill howlie" culture but they would never highlight that.

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Knew a guy that was a victim of that decades ago, murdered by local.

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When has advertising some woke angle for a movie ever led to increased ticket sales?

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If you go to the film's metacritic page, you will not see the phrase "toxic masculinity". The only place you'll see it is in RT's AI-generated Critics' Consensus. As for the actual reviews linked on RT, you have to comb through and cherry pick the handful that feature the phrase in the fratured blurb. Who knows how many of those full reviews actually use the phrase, and I'm sure several people here will have no problem lying about reading them.

This thread was created to spark outrage about a tiny indie film and the critics writing about it. Your outrage would be better directed at RT for trying hard to spoonfeed you a narrative only partially reflected in the content it's aggregating, on top of its stupid binary rating system.

Even his vocabulary screams indoctrination

Any time a man¨ or group of men act like assholes, some morons will call it toxic masculinity. Doesn't mean the movie is trying to make that point.

Ok, we are back from the theater.

First of all, it's weird af!

Second of all, we loved it!

Regarding the idea of "toxic masculinity," Nobody or nothing is preaching anything about T.M. in this film. It's not political and there's nothing "social justice-ish-y" in this film.

I watched a lot of toxic in Saving Private Ryan.

There is nothing toxic about masculinity.

It’s a pretty awesome movie. Julian McMahon, god rest his soul, is fricking terrific.