There's also the fact that both Whedon and Black were parts of zeitgeist-redefining tv and film series in the 90s. Lethal Weapon would inspire a bit of faith in the investors and Buffy and Firefly certainly have a lot of clout in the nerd community as well. There are other factors to consider in those cases.

Easy there.
Facts and proof are indeed the measure of truth. Don't jump down any throats just because someone doesn't accept your unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence.
It's obviously a fact that sexism exists in almost every industry. Certainly misogyny is a part of comics, even just in the way women are portrayed. But…

Well, maybe chalk it up to professionalism, but Alexander has basically nothing but nice things to say about working with Marvel on her film during the podcast that people are referencing. Lionsgate funded it, released it, and had control over final cut and things like the music choice that you mentioned. So, despite…

I'd agree. I just don't see a point. It's pretty much a self-congratulatory wank article.

This is pretty much spot-on. Wonder Woman is basically a female Superman- a logo and an "icon", but with even less of a compelling core.
Although there's definitely potential there- read Alan Moore's Promethea if you haven't. It's basically an examination of feminism in mythology, pop culture, and comics through the…

Yeah, this is basically stunt casting a director on WB's part. They're playing politics against the "Marvel won't make any movies with/for girls" news (although I bet that behind the scenes things are moving, like the Black Widow movie, they're just cautious enough not to publicly commit too early when things are…

I know it's not cool to like Marvel anymore because of the Avengers and Guardians being so successful, but this just isn't true.
Marvel studios wasn't number one on War Zone, Lionsgate was, just like the first film. They didn't have the power or the clout to make a movie about the Punisher because they hadn't even made…

See above.

Here is a block of text negating your assertion that short swords are not for slashing:

"Beyond the ingestion of HGH, I doubt it's too challenging on an 'acting' level."

Ignore comic book movies because they're terrible?
Well I guess that's one less staff member I'll be paying attention to the opinions of.

Yeah, I felt pretty stupid for about 15 seconds. You were too fast for me.

I'm afraid I do not know to what you were referring, good sir or madam.
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Yeah, but I just hope that Apocalypse is done well. With Singer, I shouldn't have any doubts, but with more mediocre-to-fucking-awful movies than good ones in the X-Men series, it still feels like failure looms on the horizon.

I really liked Days of Future Past. I hope that this one lives up to it, because Age of Apocalypse is my favorite X-Men arc.

12 Monkeys? Tideland? Fear and Loathing? (although I don't actually expect you to like the latter, it's obviously too plebeian for a man of your impressive pomposity)

As a huge Neil Gaiman fan, I will honestly tell you that Stardust the film is far superior to the book. It's kind of a generic book, but the movie has a lot of energy and added quite a few interesting aspects. I actually feel that Coraline the film is better, too.

Yes, he would love to make a Wonder Woman film… that looks and acts in all respects like Sucker Punch 2.

I never really thought about the ridiculousness of that…
But then again, Russia has been aggressively reasserting itself as an evil empire, recently. It's not that laughable to think that they've been up to the evil stuff the whole time, although prior to say, 2008, it was much harder to see on the surface.

An excellent analysis of Gilliam's body of work. Do you have a website?
While I agree with your assertion that Gilliam's ultra-wide-angle approach adds an interesting and unique dimension to his films, I think that even those of his which don't use it still have his most important trademark; that being his knack for…