Do the Minions even have gender? Those little yellow Tic Tacs all look the same to me. And I forgot about the guy in Paranorman. That was admittedly for a slightly older age group, but still, that was pretty cool.

My guess is that one of the smaller studios will get there first. Disney has so much money tied up in all the merchandise and branding, the parks, and retail to openly antagonize what I'm sure amounts to a large part of their customer base by "promoting the gay agenda" so directly.

Whether they make Elsa a lesbian or not, your point about fan pressure kind of ties this all back into the original point of the article. While I agree with you that artists shouldn't be forced in capitulating to the whims of the internet—which can be capricious, to say the least—it's not necessarily a bad thing for…

Making Elsa a lesbian wouldn't destroy the character, but the reaction to it would.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love it if Disney did whatever they wanted and told everybody who didn't like it to fuck off. I just don't see it happening. They could maybe get away with it under the Pixar umbrella and then let the pro-gay content diffuse into their main brand.

One could make the argument that she doesn't really need to have a romantic life at all. I mean, that's what I thought was kind of revolutionary about Brave—no romance, just a young girl discovering her, well, bravery, and repairing her relationship with her mother. We've been accustomed to Disney princesses being so…

Disney making Elsa a lesbian? First of all, it'll never happen. Disney's a very progressive company, but can you imagine the boycott that would happen if the yahoos who think that you can catch the gay by riding on a godless, NYC subway, found out that Disney was selling lesbianism to their daughters via the…

No, I know, but the periods coincided nicely, so Marvel could point at the comics to quiet the complaints.
But it was also a post-Matrix, super-leathery time, in general. I just like my superheroics done unapologetically.

Maybe for the first movie—the Morrison soft reboot with all the leather was just a year away—but they could have moved a lot quicker once the first movie was a success.

What Lucas did to the original trilogy is a whole different thing. I honestly don't care that he made the adjustments he did; what's ridiculous is keeping the original versions unavailable. I doubt there's any plans to take the original Ghostbusters off the shelves, or digitally replace Dan Ackroyd with Melissa…

I mean, there are plenty of people, myself included, who didn't like the first (or second, really) Ghostbusters trailer because it wasn't funny. But I think it's a great cast—Wiig and McKinnon are fantastic, I'm less into McCarthy, even though she's obviously very talented, and Leslie Jones is kind of still proving…

For me it's always felt like the X-Men movies suffer from hedging their bets. It's taken 15 years and 8 movies (if you count all the Wolverines, minus Deapool) to even get some of the characters into costumes that aren't all non-descript, unembarassing black leather. The Marvel cinematic universe has shown that you…

The trouble is that fandom seems to imply ownership to a lot of people. Remaking Ghostbusters violates that contract by attempting to replace the original, which is spurious logic, considering that the original still exists and, based on the trailer for the remake, will remain the definitive version. But once the fans…

Pretty decent pilot. I started rereading the comic just before I watched it, and I'm really glad they've toned down the super-90s, "edgy!" vibe—everyone's a racist, or a homophobe, or a sexual fetishist, and everybody talks like they wandered out of an off-brand Tarantino movie—while retaining the cartoonishness of…

Super predictable finale. Barry beats Zoom, and it turns out all he needed to do it was time travel (natch), and to be really, really, really pissed off. If only Zoom had done something to piss Barry off earlier! You know, like kidnap his friends, his family, threaten the existence of the people and city that he…

I mean, there's no point even comparing Madonna to Prince in terms of singing ability, musical talent, and dancing ability. He's going to win at every turn. That said… and I'm probably going to regret this… Madonna has more songs that I want to listen to. Sure, Prince has lots of great songs, but once 1995 rolls…

Well, yeah, the stories are repetitious and episodic because Carroll originally was telling them to the Liddell sisters when they were children., and that's how children's stories tend to be. The whole thing is more notable for the creativity of the scenarios rather than the story structure. Part of the reason the…

I mean, I have absolutely no love for the Burton Alice, and the American McGee Alice at least probably (hopefully) wouldn't have Johnny Depp in it, in any capacity.

But it looked so impressive on my shelf. Right there next to Infinite Jest.

For some reason Alice adaptations either want to go super day-glo visual effects extravaganza or dark examination of troubling psychological undertones, which usually has less to do with the texts themselves, and lots to do with Lewis Carroll's presumed predilection for pedophilia. I honestly don't know what a truly…