If female genital mutilation is real and horrifyingly traumatic for thousands of people, portraying it in an exploitative manner - as simply another thing to make gorehounds go "whoa that is sick lol" - is pretty vile.

It's not that they had to be Asian. It's that the movie decided they had to be white.

I think I remember Jon Favreau saying in an interview that Hancock did "drunk superhero" already so they aren't gonna.

Dante Basco is Filipino.

@avclub-ecbdad96460f85751944de9d6c2d50fe:disqus To be fair, it wasn't just that line. And it wasn't even just Ms. Richards' performance. I actually think the character as conceived is pretty interesting; an extremely intelligent woman who just happens to look like Denise Richards and has a big chip on her shoulder…

@avclub-a70b90ac4dd557918e5a1c5cb19399ec:disqus Good point. I think the Brosnan era was when shit  got straightened out over at EON and they finally started trying to define the classic Bond formula instead of imitating the last popular cinematic trend. And yes, Die Another Day reflected their attempts, as crappy as…

Cliff Curtis is the furthest thing from bland. THE FURTHEST.

I like to think you are as wrong about everything, literally every fucking thing, as you are wrong about Superman.

@avclub-2a5866203b479586ecc9183837a2d3e0:disqus I thought the rule was that the actor's 3rd Bond film is his best. Even heard that bandied about during The World is Not Enough.

I don't dislike Moore because I can't dislike any of them period, but he's definitely the weakest Bond next to Lazenby. The problem with Moore is that he just isn't believable as a man of action. His action scenes are the most heavily green-screened, and he can't pull off a good fight scene nor even fire a gun in a…

Incidentally, toasting every table with the aid of drinking sidekicks is something every Chinese groom has to do at his wedding. I have Robinned quite a few Batmans in my day, and the extent to which I will save him from getting blotto in front of his in-laws varies greatly depending on how much - or whether - I like…

I've never found snatches pretty. I mean, if a chick is cute I'd be interested to see her tits, 'cos those are aesthetically appealing. Vaginas, not so much. Oh don't get me wrong, pussies don't freak me out or anything. Get me in bed with a possessor of one, and I will gladly and enthusiastically eat hers out. But…

The creep may also have been Kirk Douglas, owing to his sleeping with a Farrah Fawcett who looks barely 18.

Understanding filmmaking makes it impossible to appreciate mediocre films. But it makes great films all the more awesome.

Actually, there's Su Can, or Beggar So. Best known as the old hobo who taught Jackie Chan how to fight while drunk. He's got a whole backstory to him, so he's ripe for kungfu movie canonization.

Hong Kong just loooves their pseudo-historical kungfu folk heroes. Their entire film industry probably creamed itself when they realized there's this guy called Ip Man who's never had a movie made about him yet. (And he was Bruce Lee's master! He's a license to print money!!)

Ironic sexism isn't funny when it's indistinguishable from sexism, period.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any AV Club article concerning a work of Jane Austen must be in want of comments paraphrasing the "It is a truth universally acknowledged" line.

To be fair, Willis' given-fuck-less performance is only one of the things that made that movie shit.

My personal favourite Lovecraft story is the first one of his I ever read, "The Rats in the Walls". The narrator going totally bugfuck insane at the end blew my young mind.