He's an MRA. He doesn't want women to be able to get any kind of justice in rape cases.

....and suddenly, the day just got a bit more hopeful.

You're not at all that far off. I remember thinking during a battle that I had to make my peace with being raped OR tortured if captured. And then I thought.....it's only torture when the enemy does it? Same act, different rapist, suddenly it's not a war crime? Or do we only care when the rapist is an enemy? When it's…

Hm......interesting. I'll have to keep an eye out. The Berg-directed flicks I've found always have a surprising humanity to them, even though they're usually, nominally, popcorn flicks.

Yeah, their helplessness gets on the nerves. I remember how Susan? in "Salem's Lot" tripped just as they were fleeing from the vampire. Which they went to see at about sunset.

Hmmmmm.....interesting. I really liked "The Kingdom" because it humanized the Saudi characters so nicely, but then again, Mann did that extraordinary version of "The Last of The Mohicans", didn't he?

Two examples do not a trend make, moron.

Yeah, that movie as a whole is pretty damned amazing. Was that a Peter Berg movie? Because he seems to have this effect on movies he's in, even if he doesn't direct. "The Kingdom"——which he did, though it's not a Cruise movie——is another flick which has some surprising emotional impact. Ahem. Sorry.

He was absolutely riveting in "Collateral. "

Yeah, his female characters are defined by their marital status, degree of religious fervor, attractiveness, and if they trip while running from the vampire. Or whatever.

Yeah, she has a stunning tin ear. Natalie Portman's got a few jaw droppers to her credit, too. There's one where she talked about the recession was kind of thrilling, that people were facing exciting choices or something.....

There's a deleted scene where The Other is threatening Loki with something that hints at what he might already have endured.

Yeah, the only way this wouldn't be a stupid story is if certain guys were in the sweats. Only a few guys could wear them and not look like Al Bundy.

For me, the ick factor has always been the way she sneered one time, "I'm sorry, I just can't act like somebody who makes $25, 000 a year."

Yeah, exactly. He even has Frannie mouth one of the classic MRA whines, too.

One girl versus a posse of horrible shrews plus a monstrous religious freak mother? Delores is the rare occasion he got it right——but then there's "Misery." He does seem to write pre-adolescent girls well.....but their mothers are cyphers.

Waistband's just string. Even a derringer would be solid metal.

I dunno. His female characters always seem to get stuck in the "girlfriend" or "girl" roles.....wives, girlfriends. The men have dreams and imaginations in King's books——-the women just have shopping lists at best. And that telepathy thing really needs to go away. It's just sloppy writing.

Well, she was in a casual setting in the movie, so... She had a pretty small scene, though.

I want to know how a firearm in sweatpants doesn't involve dragging them down. Are we supposed to buy this?