You really don't have to poke around to find virulent sexist sentiment. You know how the Ghostbusters trailer is the only trailer to make the top 100 disliked videos on Youtube? Check out the comments section to see why. However bad the Ghostbusters trailer is, it's as disliked as it is because of loud, angry…

I don't really get this idea that it's just marketing itself simply on having women, or "grrlpower," or whatever. It's certainly marketing itself on its cast, which happens to be full of women, but so does any other film. The trailers don't really have any "you go, girl!" moments. Where is it selling itself on…

It wasn't fundamentally sexist, but some of the reaction honestly kind of was about sexism. I read a number of reviews in which they called Joel Edgerton's character a "neutered" or "impotent" or otherwise not-sufficently-masculine MacReady while totally missing the fact that Mary Elizabeth Winstead's character was…

In basically any comments section about the casting, before the producers even said anything besides "we cast these ladies," there was massive blowback about the cast being women. This is really not a chicken and the egg situation - the freakout over Ghostbusters being female came first.

If your main cite is Sigourney Weaver in Alien, it sounds like you're fine with woman. That's not quite the same thing as being fine with women.

Shock Treatment is great, although I think it probably plays better if you regard it as the alternate universe adventures of Brad and Janet rather than a sequel.

This movie is such a weird hill to die on for the "having women in something is just making a point" argument because it's a fucking Paul Feig film. It's not a one-off by some nobody or an otherwise dude-centric filmmaker who needs that sweet "hey look, it's gals!" press, it's a comedy starring women by a guy who…

rather than if it was appropriate or not.

What about Querns? He was outright mustache-strokingly evil.

I think that was actually the point he was making - Ghostbusters 2 is terrible, but no one sees it as illegitimate or not part of the franchise in the same way they disavow the new Ghostbusters.

What part of it is "a sop to our current PC culture" besides casting women, though? Given how little we know about the movie, that seems to assume that they were cast because they're women rather than because they're funny, and that paying attention to women is "PC" rather than reasonable.

I think the main thing people like about it is being able to do something as an adult that doesn't have to be meaningful or functional. You have something to show for it - a colored-in picture - so you get a sense of satisfaction at having completed something, but it's not important or useful in any way so it's also…

If he didn't act, then he's not a pedophile. That's like calling someone with rape fantasies a rapist.

Lady Sovereign did it better like 15 years ago with "I ain't got the biggest breasteses / But I write all the best disses."

Shadowboxer had more weird incest stuff going on.

Zombie attempted to fix it by essentially saying, "Yeah, but him being a bullied psycho with a stripper mom still doesn't really explain why he became a serial killer! Lots of kids get bullied and have stripper moms and don't become Michael Meyers!" Okay, then why was it in the movie?

I don't think the lead character's gayness (or the sex scenes) were incidental to I Love You, Phillip Morris. Part of his motivation for everything he did was the joy he got from freely exercising his sexuality, and the way he saw being a specifically queer criminal as a sharp contrast to his previous…

Agency is the capacity to make choices within one's given circumstances. Acknowledging the circumstances that shaped her choices is not robbing her of agency.

The teenager-grooming thing seems pretty relevant to Manhattan.

Sort of. The film presents Wicca as a matriarchal power system (Sarah gets her power from her mother; their Wiccan mentor is female) and Nancy was disobeying the fundamental laws of that - she may have fought the system by killing dudes, but she acceded to the fundamental values of the system by favoring violence and…