In defense of Cloud Atlas, they meant well. It’s not like they didn’t have actors and actresses of multiple ethnicities in leading and important roles.

Honestly, I generally advocate for “radical” honesty with kids, but letting kids believe in Santa doesn’t really bother me.

Yeah, but even when it was less derivative, Twilight was still fanfic-y. Normally, I don’t buy main characters being Mary Sues, but Bella Swan might be the exception. Loved by everyone for basically no reason and her only character traits are that she has low self esteem and she reads.

See, I’d call that an Audience Avatar, not a Mary Sue. Lots of stories have the character that is impressive and exciting and the audience sees the movie from their perspective, rather than just as a 3rd party observer. Harry Potter, Aragorn, and almost every Will Smith role are good examples. And many of those were…

No worries. You’re right, she is OP, but then we don’t know her backstory yet. My theory is that, since we know they start Jedi training super-young, she had training before being abandoned and either forgot or just didn’t feel the need to bring it up. And it does make sense that she’s a good mechanic and pilot: she’s…

Just because it’s a trope doesn’t mean it’s not a character flaw. And they do imply that she’s waiting for someone, but it’s also pretty clear that she was left there as a child, and whoever she’s been waiting for, it’s been a ridiculously long time. We don’t have all the details and this could be up for debate, but…

Exactly. Sure, Rey’s skills are a bit more glamorous, and she is clearly the main character, but in general the movie presents them as equals.

But she does have clear weaknesses. We don’t yet know why, but despite clearly being excited and wanting to help the resistance, she was terrified of leaving her crappy desert planet life. When the lightsaber is calling to her, she panics and runs. Those are significant flaws.

Generally, I’d say fuck anything having to do with this guy, but if it’s money? Keep it. If you really want to send a strong “Fuck You” to the asshole (goodness knows he deserves it) donate it to HIV/AIDS, or get the best lawyer money can buy to convict him.

Presumably the people who live there have enough sense to avoid the apes.

...Because of the writing and the plot and the cinematography? And the old women motorcycle gang, and the fact that a big part of what makes the evil guy evil is the fact that he objectifies women, and how Furiosa’s the real badass and Max respects that.

Part of the issue is that, since at least in the US we have frequent diet related health problems (diabetes, heart problems, etc.) an emphasis on being skinny is seen as healthy/socially beneficial, despite the fact that body fat is not an accurate predictor for health and it’s almost always healthier to be slightly…

I’ve had 3 teachers that gave us “finite exclamation points” in class. The theory was that they’re meant to denote excitement, and the more you use, the less they mean. These tended to be the same professors who didn’t allow the word “like”.

As a 26-year-old who’s just barely starting to accept lower grammatical standards for texts (and only because actual writers I know apparently care less than I do), I think it has as much to do with education/personality as with age. Some of us are just more neurotic about language.

And it’s also something you could say about every single man in this industry from time to time. I don’t care who the guy is, somewhere there are ten girls with the same stories about him, possibly true, possibly not, probably somewhere in the middle.

That honestly made me wonder whether he’s also the sort of asshole who thinks you can’t rape prostitutes/doesn’t believe in marital rape.

Respect for stay-at-home mothers has been poisoned by a toxic combination of the village elders’ war on the traditional family and radical feminism’s misogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect.

The radical feminists misogynists are stealing them in the middle of the night. No one knows what happens to them after that, but my guess is that they’re turning them gay before releasing them back into society, to further cripple traditional family values.

Also, if you really want to make something from pies that is cold, why wouldn’t you just use pies that are meant to be served cold? There’s French Silk, key lime, lemon meringue... They’d be disgusting combined, but at least it wouldn’t be as much of an abomination as deliberately serving cold cherry pie!

Backstory: Boyfriend had moved to Japan for work, I was finishing up school and re-watching Sailor Moon to keep from moping.