Man, they screwed up not calling the movie A Bathtub Full of Psychics. There's still time to change the name of the TV show, right?

You'll go far.

It doesn't cost a ton if they nix the fee.

"They misunderestimated me."
—Alan W. Turing

How I Maimed Your Mustang?

The "Reverse Bechdel" (a) has two [REDACTED] women who (b) [REDACTED] each other (c) [REDACTED] something [REDACTED] a man.

To be Frank, I'm surprised Fassbender's still getting Jobs after his career went Haywire.

Well, if a profound meditation on female sexuality like the Baby Got Back intro fails the Bechdel Test, that just invalidates the whole exercise right there.

Do the shit-weasels talk to each other about something other than the movie's horrendously misjudged premise?

The test is, does Thomas Jane talk to a named woman about something other than wanting his kids back?

And if it specifies "Thomas Jane" then you're in real trouble.

Is it inherently benign because it doesn't denounce slavery? Is that what defines it as benign?

It's been a long time since I've seen Gone With the Wind. My recollection is that it's not "about" slavery, but rather about an idealized and sentimental view of the pre-war South. I think telling a sympathetic story about noble plantation aristocrats, with the people they owned as secondary characters who support…

I did like the finale. I had some residual sympathy for Walt and I like the general arc of a character who gets beaten down by being "good" and ends up finding his true calling by being bad. They managed to hit on something genuinely affecting with that.

Wait—The Hunger Games is a historical drama?

There are two issues here. The first is whether historical dramas alter historical events in order to soft-pedal the evils of slavery, slaveowners, etc. Obviously Django isn't relevant to that discussion, because it's a fantasy. It does do something else, though, which is to portray slaveowners and their allies in…

Solomon Northup said "There never was a more kind, noble, candid Christian man than William Ford." Should they not have made the movie because Northup's interpretation of his own experiences conflicts with your preferences for how history should be portrayed?

So what? Presumably if Hollywood released a big-budget action movie in which the African-American characters were cartoonishly evil antebellum slaves you wouldn't just say, "Oh, well, it's too over-the-top to be taken seriously."

Why wouldn't Django count? You can't arbitrarily exclude evidence that contradicts your argument.

When you say movies "like this," which do you have in mind?