As posted on facebook:

I don't know why people like this movie. It's Tarantino-esque, meaning machismo up the ass, ruthless and brutal violence that breaks the weak plot backbone by tons. Frat people were watching it today when Mike and I got back, and I tried to watch it, but my bullshitometer instantly went off. It's also...not misogyist so much as...sexist, I suppose. The main guy, who is a glorified psycho, getting plenty of slow-motion rock-music scenes, tells his girlfriend's friend that he can't go to the store "without meeting 9 guys she's fucked." So she's a slut, apparently (a gender-specific term, of course), and women are worthless and deplorable if they've had sex with a certain number of guys. This same character also complains, when his group is holding a woman at gunpoint, that he always has to be on "bitch duty."

I feel almost precluded from criticizing these things in the movie because other people seemed to like it a lot, taking it no doubt as something you're just supposed to "have fun with." I'm not sure why it's easy for people to see racism in movies (let's say an equivalent movie but with a racial minority replacing women--it would be widely and almost unanimously criticized), but if sexism is present, the people who point it out are looking too hard, thinking too hard, or being man-hating feminists.

I left early because I felt that watching the movie was pointless and I wouldn't get anything out of it. Movies like this that are SO machismo, with bad-ass serial killers/drug lords/whatever, alarm me. Why trivialize the deaths of people (even "deserving" criminals) or glorify murder and violence? I don't prescribe to the idea that video games and movies make kids more violent, but there is some evidence to boost that (from the animal world, surprisingly). Nonetheless, I think that the gratuitous violence in American films is far more destructive and harmful than the gratuitous (to some people) sex in European films.

I'm just going to end here. I wish I didn't have to be called certain things or judged certain ways for having this opinion (this legitimizes dissenters' high/good opinion of the film). But whatever, I'm just putting my view out here. If anyone would like to enlighten me or defend the movie I'd be interested in hearing it.