This is both true and key. He was already a borderline household name, but he wasn’t yet an A-list star. Fast Five was the first megahit he needed to take his career to the next level.

Because male and female performers don’t compete with each other for roles. You’re free to argue to get rid of separate categories in spite of that obvious fact, but you don’t get to pretend there’s no logical reason for separate categories in the first place.

The movie itself, and its characters, could absolutely be more or less the same. The movie’s reception would perhaps be quite different, but that’s another matter. And you’re the one wandering off on whatever tangent suits your fancy.

We see mainstream depictions of depression in black men so often that nobody would point out how novel it is to finally see a movie about a depressed person that isn’t white?

“to repair an institution built on sand”

It doesn’t matter one bit if a man or woman or nonbinary person does the costume design or sound editing on, say, Wonder Woman.

It’s just as arbitrary as the contention that male awards and female awards should be divided because they’re for roles played by two different genders of people

“even if it feels like a half-measure that doesn’t really address why there are gendered categories in the first place”

Ooh, that would indeed have been epic! But I’m fairly confident Hammer will return (outside of the one-shot) to the MCU at some point.

It’s not just the generic third act and its nonsensical, instant-daylight conclusion that’s faulty - the whole script is a mess. Remember when Diana mentioned how she’d read books upon books on erotic pleasure, and spoke every language known to humankind, but had to ask what freaking marriage was?!

Crispy fresh take: it wasn’t the more important movie, for a number of very valid reasons, but as a piece of storytelling, script, and acting, Iron Man 2 is better than Wonder Woman (yes, the first one).

That might well go against the message of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but it does also sound bad-ass. As opposed to what this show has become, which just sounds bad.

Lex Luthor *should* be a bit creepy and deranged - the guy hates Superman, for Pete’s sake. That’s what made Spacey’s portrayal great: here was a guy that really was twisted enough to kill our Big Blue Boy Scout.

“Before they were the only type of film”

Came here for this. The most expensive non-English language show of all time, and it barely gets mentioned over Stateside!

Yeah, I far prefer the cozy jokes Colbert makes to his crew, and cutaways to his wife, over faceless crowds who’ll laugh at anything, and the cloying patter between him and Jean-Baptiste.

I get that reference!

Three Kings?! :)

“In this situation though, ‘fact’ is purely semantic.” So is the word “child” when applied to post-pubescents. What biological reason is there to make 18 the moment at which kids become adults? There is none. If anything, given the evidence that brains keep forming until 25 or so, biology would suggest that people in…

Are you seeing what “recognitions” is posting in this subthread? Because it’s absolute insanity, and by ignoring it, you’re implicitly endorsing, and associating yourself with, their lunacy.