"I'm not trying to diminish the achievement"

I'm so glad you said this, because I didn't know I wasn't supposed to enjoy this content!

If you want to both laugh and weep for our future, check out the #FireDepp hashtag on Twitter. It's full of conservatives who didn't care at all about Depp's domestic violence, but really have a problem with him now you betcha!

Directors have a LOT more say in editing than most people think, despite the fact that few directors edit their films themselves— it's very rare that they hand the movie off and disengage. They're definitely not absent from the process.

That's not true at all. Post-production, primarily editing, is incredibly important. It's what distinguishes film from other forms of art, juxtaposing images to create a story. You can create vastly different movies from the same footage by editing it differently. This is going to have a huge impact on how the movie…

If the firing really was the result of creative disputes between Lord/Miller and Kasdan, then Kasdan had better step up and direct it, put his money where his mouth is. Because firing the directors part the way through filming puts the whole project in jeopardy,and you should only take that drastic a step if you…

Even if Kennedy is on the right side of the dispute, firing the directors less than a year before the movie is supposed to come out almost never ends well.

I'd really rather she not take any pages from Feige, although it looks like that's what's happening. Marvel movies are all bland, homogeneous, and indistinguishable from one another. They've lost their fair number of directors, too, due to creative differences.

This sounds a lot like Edgar Wright's split with Marvel. =/

Welp, there goes my interest in the movie, gonna skip it now. And that's not just because I think Lord and Miller were the perfect choice to make a movie like this— which has so much going against it— work, but because this is indicative of Disney/Lucasfilm exerting more and more creative control over the franchise in…

The fact that you think that makes it suddenly a great role is just… ugh.

Ugh, never mind. You don't know what you're talking about.

First of all, it's pretty sad if we're at the point where we're defending Spielberg for including women AT ALL in his films. That's a bad look.

And Jennifer Garner plays a prostitute! Hooray for representation!

(Psst! Maybe part of the problem is Spielberg almost exclusively chooses to tell stories about men!)

A) It's NOT relevant to the quality of his films, and she didn't claim it was!
B) You really don't understand how the most successful, critically acclaimed director of the last 40 years barely having women represented in his films is relevant? Huh.

The lead in that movie is DiCaprio, a man. The second lead is Hanks, another man. You missed her point.

She was technically inaccurate, but her sentiment is spot on: Spielberg has over 40 directing credits, and only 3 have a lead character that's a woman. His movies, as good as they are, are undeniably overwhelmingly male.

Dude, I know what a Mary Sue is. You're basing this on the half-second moment Webby was even in. You don't know the context of the clip, and you're ignoring that male characters in the same series are hyper-competent for no real reason, with no criticism.

I thought the same thing! This gives me hope for a TaleSpin revival. That was my favorite of the Disney Afternoon shows.