I want to make an insightful feminist comment, but mostly I am thinking of how Chow Yun-Fat can have a slice of MY pie if he wants some.

As a Hydralogist, I have to ask, is Arnim Zola responsible for the current drought?

Or just realize that "just get the best for the job" is a cop-out and a shorthand way of saying "I don't really care if they just get a guy to do it". There is no such thing as "the best for the job" in any field, especially one as subjective as filmmaking. In order to find "the best" you have to test everyone, and…

In the abstract, I think there's a difference between giving one director the run of say Iron Man and giving a director the run of the DC Cinematic Universe as a whole. Of course DC doesn't really have much of a cinematic universe, so it might be moot.

LETS JUST IGNORE THE GLASS CEILING AND LIVE IN A FANTASY WORLD WHERE SEXISM DOES NOT EXIST!!!!!!!

I would really love it if the Wonder Woman film had a female director. Not necessarily because a male director would do it wrong, but more for the ideas of inclusion and empowerment that Wonder Woman stands for. I think it would be a good opportunity to push the industry forward.

Agreed. If they had stuck with the procedural thread, it would done better, or at least get further into mythology. Regardless of eps being aired out of order, they dropped the ball on keeping us interested in mythology.

Shhhh, some of us are still holding out hope for another Dredd movie.

Airing the episodes out of order didn't help, but the show was so deeply flawed that season 2 would have to be a reboot, or at the very least push forward in a completely new direction than the first. I'm not surprised it was canceled and I'm not mad. The show failed on its own merits, as it should have.

Being able to simultaneously criticize and enjoy problematic art is like, step one of critically engaging pop culture. Boycotting everything that isn't 100% egalitarian is something that college freshman do — or something that anti-feminists like to strawmanningly accuse feminists of doing.

You really thought the…

Feel free to disagree, but doing it twice in two films to already under-written female characters where there was precisely zero rationale to have them delivering exposition in their underwear is two times too often.

"The costume stays ON, or some motherfucker is getting a light-sabre where the twin suns of Tattooine don't shine. FYI, I will shoot first - it's the Solo Way."

She's between her parents. She is SOLO BABY. Its says it right there, it's law now.

Oh, I see. Because I criticize something I should never investigate it further? Or if it touches me I turn ideologically impure? Fuck all that. This is my fucking pop culture, and I'm going to smear it all over me and keep criticizing the hell out of it until things get better.

Hahaha I had to freeze my VHS of this movie just so me and my brother could squint real hard at the screen and say "I guess there are Asians in Star Wars".

I totally understand. They had many female roles they could have used in the reboot though. Ensign Rand, Carol Marcus, or even a non hyper sexualized Uhuru. You can point at one or two movies and see a lack of strong female characters... but after a that it is less an issue with the script and more an issue of how…

Just for a different perspective, as I don't mean to tell you how to feel about it: I'm a white woman, and have been a giant LOTR fan since I was 9, which was back in the 70s. So I had a lot of time to think about how LOTR could work as a movie, especially after we heard that Jackson's films were starting.

But why does the presence of minorities have to be something special? That's the whole point. It shouldn't have to be a conscious, thought-out decision to cast minorities in major roles, especially in situations like Star Wars where ethnicity really is not a big deal in that universe. Ideally, every single actor and…

I'm black. I strongly disagree.

I would wonder though, if they made half the dwarves female in the Hobbit, would it have made any difference to the plot? Its not like they aren't all interchangeable for the most part anyway.