Apparently it's *provocative.* Imagine, a movie where the villain turns out to be a monstrous queer tampering with the natural way — a "dark mirror," if you will, of the heterosexual lovers we're meant to admire!

It doesn't feel incidental, primarily because the overriding anti-gay narrative has always been UNNATURAL!!! We have a century of exploitative and negative portrayals of gay desire (male and female) as something monstrous, predatory, something that leads people into crime and obsession and madness. The body-horror…

Isn't one of them Pinterest? I was sure one of them was Pinterest…

Secret's out!

I love Some Kind of Wonderful, but I think it had some pacing problems. It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I remember feeling like it was far longer than it really is, which isn't a great sign. Given a strong rewrite/tightening, I think it could've been beloved in the same way that Say Anything is.

Very true! There's never been a film version I think did the book real justice, and that's one big reason. I like isolated bits of the two famous versions — Hepburn's performance in the original and Danes's in the 90s were both fab — but I think people who mainly know it from the movies underestimate its complexity.…

Not an uncommon feeling! I'm a rare breed, as an Amy stan. I liked her very much because she was the only one of the sisters who really had an arc — she *is* insufferable as a kid, and she actively reshapes herself as she matures. It's the scarlet fever scare toward the end of Book One that changes her; she…

Yyyyes, but I'd argue that in this case, the old habit that's dying hard isn't just sympathy for the suffering, but a knee-jerk expectation that male feelings are always of far greater weight and importance than female feelings.

The kind of edgy, equal-opportunity-offender comedy that we just don't get to see anymore, in this PC age!

Sympathy is one thing. I actually think Cryer — who is a better actor than he'll probably ever get credit for, now that Two and a Half Men is the bulk of his acting legacy — plays the character very well, and he's impossible not to feel for. I actually have no beef with the character, really; I think he's sometimes…

Reality Bites is its own case, though, in that everyone in it is spectacularly terrible. I forgave it a lot back when I had a crush on Winona Ryder, but no, honestly. They were all the absolute worst.

I AM READY FOR THE FIGHT!

Fair enough. It wasn't a common evangelical obsession at the time of Lewis' writing, but of course Lewis was a unique person with interests of his own, many of which were quite uncommon.

Eh, I think it's a pretty unsupported leap to imagine that the aggressive femininity of the signifiers Lewis chose — and the fact that they were chosen in conjunction with the most markedly feminine character in the series, whose beauty and motherliness is always contrasted with Lucy's spunk and sensibleness — were…

Well, bless your heart. It's hard to believe there are still people left who don't want to join your team, as superior as you clearly are to them.

Makeup and clothes. Silly girl stuff, you know? I mean, it's right there in the book. What's confusing about that? Girls are liable to get distracted by shiny girl things and let Matters of Great and Eternal Importance slide, as well all know.

If true, it's pretty rich for someone whose life's work was bundling together Anglo-Saxon and Arthurian legend with a candy-coating of angelology and declaring it a national mythology for the English.

I personally kind of like its take on Christian v atheist arguments. It really just boils down to, "You know what? I really *can't* prove any of this, but it brings me joy and makes me a better person, so I think I'll stick with it regardless." I feel like that's a level of honesty and insight that's so often…

Agree to disagree. I think talking mice would've vastly improved the Bible.