Yeah, I realize "they" is pretty vague - I was just being flippant and trying to make my point quickly.  I was refering to producers and studio execs, not critics - like the Warner Bros president who put out the "no more female leads" decree after The Brave One tanked. 

One of the most irritating things about hollywood is that when a movie featuring a female lead makes a ton of money (The Hunger Games, Sex and the City, etc.) they shrug it off as a fluke or chalk it up to other factors.  But when a movie with a female lead bombs (The Brave One), they throw up their hands and say…

That's exactly what I was thinking, but you said it better. 
Actually, the shitty bro comedies are what came to my mind as being directly analogous to rom coms.  And yet nobody ever points to those as evidence that all men have bad taste and don't deserve movies that reflect their experiences.

Los Locos kick your face!

I think that was Julia Roberts character, and yes, it was horrible - possibly the worst part of the whole series.

I love Hellboy 2, but I do think Del Toro could have written him out a little more smoothly if he didn't want to use him.  If they wanted to be really true to the comics, Myers should have died horribly in the first scene, since that seems to be the fate of most of the non-supernatural agents in the Hellboy world. …

The women characters were never the strongest part of the Ocean's movies, but I was still kind of sad to see them cut.  It really underscored how they never make those kinds of movies about women (Bridesmaids is the closest, I guess, since it had a big ensemble cast of famous women, but it's nowhere near the same…

There was a picture of him in a locket that Tony Stark wears, but they cut that scene out of the movie.

Oh good, so we have more Thor/Jane Foster to look forward to in Thor 2?  Because there's a romance that really set the screen on fire…

Good call on Myers.  I never really warmed to his character, and I can see why they didn't want to use him in the 2nd film, but dismissing him with one line like that was pretty cheap.  It also makes Hellboy seem like an asshole, but I guess they were trying to play up how immature he is at the beginning of the…

He should have gotten his own spinoff series!

Well, I did see both those films at big multiplexes, which tend to attract a less sophisticated crowd than the little arthouse theatres, so maybe that explains it to some extent?  But still, I feel like those are both pretty crowd-pleasing films…  I don't know, bad luck I guess.

Well, gay marriage leads to cannibalism, it says right in the bible!

I always figured it was just a standard WW3 scenario and everyone dropped bombs on everyone until we got a nice nuclear winter out of it.  But then the narrative picks up 5 years or so afterward, and I admit I'm really curious about how those intervening years played out.  I mean, he basically tells us, but I'd like…

I understand how these endings can frustrate audiences who like their conclusions conclusive: I vividly remember a theater full of people groaning and screaming after the cut to black that ended John Sayles’ Limbo.

It's definitely not just you.  They sound exactly the same, except Attack the Block is awesome.  Oh, and The Watch probably cost 10 times more money to make. 

The whole time I was watching the Savages trailer I kept wishing that Salma Hayek and Benecio Del Toro were the main characters instead of those two boring white guys and their boring girlfriend. Seriously, did you see how awesome they look? Like a Hispanic Boris and Natasha. 

Holy shit, I had no idea.  How did anyone ever discover this?  Why are people blowing into vaginas?  That's not how it works…it's not a beachball, guys.

Yeah, I'm no doctor, but that seems….unlikely.

Sorry, I'm 30, but if being a real adult means I can't enjoy Prometheus or Moonrise Kingdom then I'm really not interested in being one.  I guess you adults can just watch Last Year at Marienbad over and over until fall?