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the lies of minnelli
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My favourite is how Christopher Nolan adapted Atlas Shrugged into The Dark Knight Rises but, no, it's Zack Snyder who's the Randian problem in modern superhero cinema.

The Golden Girls, The Donna Reed Show and The Dick Van Dyke show were big back in the day. He wasn't lacking for industry connections.

As writer and director, I suppose he had nothing to do with how they acted every scene. That'll be Kevin Feige meddling again.

You can't talk like Joss Whedon is known for his super progressive views of women one moment then say there's nothing to it when all the relationships are all written with the same clear puritan morals.

Did you not pay any attention to their body language?

I've seen three of his movies and three seasons of his TV and think that he's one of the few examples where being grandfathered into an industry can be taken literally.

The girlfriends, Pepper and whatever her name is from Thor, are written out; it's considered a good thing that Linda Cardellini is stranded in the middle of nowhere on her own because she's a loving wife with children, but Natasha and Bruce's relationship is ruined because they can't spawn a child; and the only people

If it's impossible to say he isn't talented, I'd assume your examples would go further than one episode.

He's a mediocrity in general but the nasty, moralistic view of sex in that movie is too singleminded to be conveniently hand waved away to save Whedon's reputation.

Linda Cardellini in Age of Ultron.

One episode out of how many seasons and movies? Not a good ratio.

He was never talented, that's why all his shows got cancelled.

All it takes is how he portrayed every female character in Avengers: Age of Ultron to confirm he's a creepy nerd when it comes to women, just like most of his fanbase.

It took at least two hours for The World's Greatest Detective to realise he had to punch Bane in the mouth so I don't trust comic book movie writers to do anything involving intelligent characters.

He's going to be really mad unless it ends with Wonder Woman being a pregnant tradwife, because, really, aren't mothers truly the most wonderful women?

All I want to know is who's playing young Lobot?

I assume his casting in two Disney franchises means that he'll die in Star Wars and Scott Adkins will die in Doctor Strange so Mads can be in the sequels.

She's Scottish.

Randy Lenz' favourite movie.

People are too busy thinking Black Panther has absolved Marvel of any and all identity politics faux pas to care about this.