@kdupree: Oh Tom Bombadil, I love you so much. My anger about that was abated some when I listened to the commentary on the first film. Elijah Wood totally called BS on leaving Bombadil out of the film and said, in his mind, the whole Old Woods story happened, when the characters left the Shire, it just never made…

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: The fourth dimension is Micheal Bay running up and down they aisles making explosion noises along with the movie.

@kdupree: They did it to LOTR (I will never forgive them for resigning Marry and Pippin to the status of nobodies, instead of the heroes of the Shire that lead it into the next age), why wouldn't they feel free to do whatever they please to The Hobbit.

@Segador: Actually (spoilers) the lens flares are officially the villains in this one.

@Shin-GO: I could agree with that. The idea that making a woman as an action hero makes people consider her motivations and intent much more than a male, so it is a very simple way to bring more depth to the character. But over using that is what leads to the shallow 'warrior woman' stereotype.

@WookieLifeDay: The only difference between the rated and the unrated versions of the second Charlie's Angles films is that in the unrated version, when Drew Barrymore gets punched in the face, bloods comes spurting out of her mouth. Somehow someone thought that was so offensive, that if you hurt a woman she bleeds,…

@wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!: I can't stop laughing from that.

@Brangdon: I never thought of the end of Aliens like that. The vulnerability she shows by simply taking off her clothes is a really big part of that scene, and it wouldn't have worked with a man.

@WookieLifeDay: There is the idea of a smaller opponent being faster and more nimble than a larger one, and then there is the idea that a woman with arms like a stick can inflict any kind of damage on a target.

@serenada: One of the best parts of the Winchester boys is that they aren't stereotypical anything. I think anytime you have good characters of any gender breaking expectations it's good for all genders.

@serenada: He's also a performer.

@lierinwait: I would argue that even great characters, like Starbuck, started out that horrible 'warrior woman' stereotype. After a while some of them (like Starbuck) out grow it, but it's pretty easy to mae it just a butch, aggressive, woman.

@Charlie Jane Anders: Charlie Jane, never leave us.

Swiss Miss? I guess I see the miss, with boobies and all, but Swiss?

@lierinwait: If a weak, helpless female only weak and helpless to make her attractive to males is that sexist? Yes.

@gschristopher: His attraction knows no bounds.

@Bill-Lee: Along with the lost tribe of Israel. How they got here...

@Shin-GO: Good points from an audience perspective, but what does it allow women to do in the narrative that a man could not do?

@gschristopher: I'm going to ignore what ever mud you seem to be slinging, and simply say, I don't typically like the alpha males, but Dean Winchester makes me doubt that stance.

Ok, since he didn't have anything insightful to say (though the notion that a woman by her very presences is always a sexual object, whereas a man is not is a topic worth discussing, but it might be a little off topic), let's share our theories about what separates female and male actions stars (besides the boobs).