This is disappointing on many levels.

The number of films a filmmaker has made has no bearing on whether or not the audience is laughing at their film or with it at these midnight screenings. It depends on the individual movie.

I'm pretty sure PTA can pull it off. Pynchon was on board for the first time ever, so that suggests strong results.

I guess this is where we'll go to find people claiming the first Wolf Creek is worthwhile. That's always interesting.

This is exciting news, but the reminder about Inherent Vice just rockets up the anticipation again.

Wow. It seems like you do in fact really care about this bad movie. I feel the same way about people who think 2 1/2 Men is funny as I do about people who think Showgirls is funny. If people don't get it, you can't teach it to them.

That's more of a joke about Phil's enthusiastic/clueless personality than him wanting to feel up on Gloria, in my view.

Starship Troopers is a successful black comedy because it's actually funny. Showgirls may have been going for that, but it's unfunny and so mawkish that it never coalesces into anything resembling that. And, yeah, that gang rape is really campy fun!

You and I obviously have different levels of regard for these terms. I never read any actual desire into Phil's actions there.

I'm not saying they weren't going for irony. They missed the mark badly, though. It is a bad, bad movie.

A meaningless distinction, really. Mal is very much real to Ariadne and Dom in the dream world, and she is an incredibly important character throughout the story. She still counts as a female character.

The "I've Got Gloria" thing is pretty far from "continually go to ridiculous lengths to touch and flirt with her." I don't remember a single time Phil has flirted with Gloria, actually.

Someone on my Facebook feed said "the media is more racist than Sterling." What?

I think the commercial is trying to talk about succeeding on your own in today's still-fragile economy, rather than anything about gender. That might explain the bizarre nature of its tone - it inadvertently brings up questions it has no idea how to answer.

It lacks a screenplay longer than 10 pages, you mean.

The scene in Inception where Ariadne and Mal talk is actually one of the more chilling and important plot scenes in the film.

Holy shit I hope not. That's more frightening than any of the stats brought up in this article. Sub Mike D'Angelo-reasoning would be required to back up that statement.

Is that the scene where they discuss eating dog food?

I agree wholeheartedly with this article (in fact, several of my band practices have had this exact conversation). However, it is interesting to find movies that are irrepressibly/irresponsibly sexist that actually do pass the test on a technicality. Sexist film that passes that is actually a good movie - Goldfinger…

Yep. Pearl Harbor has more fascinating protagonists than 3 Women. Makes sense.