Let's not kid ourselves. Any publication looking back on the presidency will be called The Scrolls of the Before Time and they'll be found in a cave near the Glowing Sea.

Guess how? Putin bows.

I doubt most people would know if they got IFC even if their TV magically vomited gold coins every time you tuned to it.

My favorite: "I don't care if you're green, purple, or polka-dotted…"

Which is why a runaway hit like this is important. They can't wiggle around it too much.

Studio execs care and they decide what gets made. And if your big examples are more than two years old, they aren't listening. They can come up with any number of reasons why a movie flops (timing, advertising, etc) or succeeds ("because we knew it would be great" usually). When it's a woman- or minority- centric…

Added to which, I'm sure all of the movies you listed there were used as reasons why a studio wouldn't put money behind more female-led action/superhero movies because "well, see, it didn't make money." Leaving out the fact that all of them were bad movies.

And yet Stephen Frears has not gotten a humanitarian award or anything for that.

They'd just look around and say, "Same assholes, fewer top hats."

Kid's gotta learn somehow that life doesn't hand you anything and if you want some stewed carrots, you best be prepared to rip some throats out.

If you'd gotten it on tape you'd have owned the internet.

The fact that there's one, maybe two examples per decade that aren't strictly romantic-comedy is a big part of it. And, yes, WW the way WW has performed at the box office makes it a big deal regardless, but because of the circumstances especially so.

You're right. I should fact-check jokes from here on out.

Too late.

She Chews Up Food and Spits It in Her Kid's Mouth.

She has a point. I mean, we've had so many of these films that we've stopped having the "Can women head up a comedy?", "Can a woman lead an action film?", "Is there a market for women-centric films?", and "Why aren't there more women directors?" discussions.

I just meant that that film disappears its own ass the further along it goes, tripping over itself to pedestal every little thing. Why not throw Gray a bone while you're at it? (I'm also not serious.)

I admire the drive even if sometimes it throws me out of movies because I'm seeing the effort and not the art. But that's true for a lot of his acting, too.

I feel like we've had this conversation before.

With the way SOC shook out by the end I was surprised there wasn't a scene where they talk about how great the director of FRIDAY is.