I know, I'm not saying there isn't an unfair double standard here, I'm just saying the problem in my mind is not "older woman isn't cast" but rather "older man is cast".

The internet sure does have a thing for postmodern jokes that take substantially more time to execute than they can possibly remain funny for.

He's like the Stanley Kubrick of commenters!

Psycho, at least for the first 40 minutes or so.

To me, that just means the mistake was casting Maguire, not failing to cast Banks. Tom Holland is the first Spiderman who actually looks somewhat appropriately aged for the role.

I also loved Lincoln and think it's a bit under-rated. It's not often you see an historical movie about someone as revered as Abe Lincoln that both gives him a goofy voice (which is apparently very historically accurate) and which shows that he was willing to deal in a little corruption to get the job done.

Now I'm just trying guess which ones go in which category. I'll take a stab:

It's anecdotal, not data, but I did see Wonder Woman with a female friend who did seem super hyped by it afterwards. I personally didn't even think it was that great (although certainly better than the crap DC had been putting out before), but I was still happy for her to have a superhero movie like that to get…

"Back to troubled male leads for me!"

"I thought these numerous awards, regular appearances of my films on lists of the greatest of all time and status as the most famous and iconic film director in history would cheer me up, but nothing fills the void!"

It's a bit of a double-edged sword for women in porn. They do get paid more for an individual shoot, but their careers are much less stable. Porn studios will often hire a handful of male actors in permanent positions who will perform in hundreds or even thousands of films with just that studio over the course of…

They even end up with about 90% of the screen time and dialog!

What's the deal with that? It's not just Scorsese either, it seems like Hollywood in general has always been on his side. It just doesn't make any sense to me. Like, I'm an electronic engineer, but if I hear about some notable engineer in industry has raped someone, I don't feel compelled to take their side just…

It's not really a coincidence, just a subconscious tendency, which I think we all suffer from. I think in general, most people's default setting for a "standard character" is one like themselves, particularly for white people in western society. If you went to China and told 100 people to write a story about a…

And let's not forget the velociraptor who was a clever girl.

Ditto on Scorsese. I do think this is why you need more women working at the top to see more women in films though. I generally expect people to write characters who are sort of like themselves in some way, because people write what they know.

No no no no no!

I wouldn't say the lawyer's death was protracted, it was pretty fast. But with that they at least tried to set the lawyer up as a contemptible character, whose death was a direct result of his own cowardice and abandonment of the children, which is why his death was sort-of played for laughs. Unlike the Jurassic World…

I had the "alert" sound from Metal Gear Solid for a good while (this one: https://youtu.be/2P5qbcRAXVk). It scared a lot of people.

Video games these days are more or less interactive movies