They did reinstate the miniskirts in the name of "honoring the original series," so probably. And they managed to sneak gratuitous bra and panty shots into both movies, so someone's definitely staying on top of that!

Lady Thor and Iron Lady Man are both new characters - they aren't the original characters gender swapped, they coexist with the original Man Thor and Iron Man Man in the same universe. It's kind of like how Bill Clinton and Barack Obama can both be in the same room at the same time, even though they were both the…

Eddie Izzard has actually recently begun identifying as transgender, but Brits seem to have a weird relationship with that word or a different definition or something. I think it's mostly just his way of saying that he identifies deeply with his feminine side and he's not just playing dress-up when he wears heels and…

Yeah, you can see it at about 1:18 here. That trailer also doesn't foreground the father/political plot, so it seems like a pretty deliberate attempt to get more asses into seats by downplaying the thriller elements and suggesting that there's something supernatural afoot. It's too bad, because that sort of marketing…

IIRC, there was a moment in the trailer where his eyes turned red for a moment, so a lot of people went into it expecting some sort of monster twist.

This is the first I'm hearing of The Intervention. Are you sure it's a real movie and not just a beautiful dream I had?

I didn't see Into Darkness so I have no comment on it, but I hated the first one. I hated the characters, especially Kirk, who was such a bad boy/rebel/anti-hero contemporary movie lead snarketype that he was effectively rendered boring by his own ~edginess~. I had absolutely no desire to actually see him become a…

In the US its title was What If, which is a lot harder to remember than The F Word. I kept thinking it was something like "What's up?" and then I finally just IMDB'd it.

He was really charming and naturalistically funny in that romantic comedy with the forgettable name.

My issue is that they wouldn't make that billboard in the first place because they wouldn't try to sell their action movie with a static image of one of their macho heroes being passively choked by another man. Wolverine might broodily sulk in the rain, but if you put him a poster with another person, he's going to be…

I actually find the ad more disturbing in the way it's composed - Mystique is placidly gazing up at him like it's all cool that he has his hand around her throat. It doesn't look like a fight scene, it looks like a woman accepting a man's dominance over her.

I just don't understand people who either can't see or are unwilling to admit the difference between this and all the posters where male superheroes and male villains punch each other. Like the mutuality of action alone makes it incredibly different.

I think the issue is more that you aren't really going to see a poster like this featuring a male superhero. Like, if this was how films commonly advertised their heroes, and this was just a gender switch, that would be one thing. But I can't imagine a poster where Wolverine gets choked out instead of being in an…

Again, dude: saying "I'd like us to drop it now that I have the last word" is not actually a mark of maturity. If you really wanted it "dropped", rather than making a show of what a mature argument-dropper you are, you would have simply not responded to me. I'm pretty sure we're about equal in maturity but I'm at…

Re: your PS: It is not actually a magnanimous mature adult move to have your say and then go "Hey, neither of us are going to change each other's minds, so we might as well halt discussion while I have the last word." If it was about us dropping it, you wouldn't have written the two long paragraphs proceeding your…

You didn't "call out" whatever it is you think you called out. You complained about people "lumping you in with dicks" based on a "vibe" you're getting rather than any specific thing that's actually been said, let alone said repeatedly over a series of articles.

I think the "vibe" you're getting is that nobody really cares about your opinion - which you shouldn't take as an insult, because as you say, you don't have much of an opinion, and therefore it's difficult to have much of an opinion about your opinion. Your opinion is not concerning to anyone, so there's nobody's…

IIRC the AV Club's article about The 100 debacle was actually about how fan demands put the show runner in an untenable position where they have to satisfy the fans rather than make the show they want to make.

Jesus, what's grittier than beheading and castrating your husband?

There also wasn't the same aspect of people feeling like they were "taking [beloved character/property] away from men." Max was still there and still male (and still mad), and Charlize Theron, while not super-sexualized in the film, is blindingly hot and was surrounded by movie star gorgeous women, so there was still…