I will admit that art is subjective and so is the historical study of it. But I think finding out things like how much our pre-human ancestors used art in their everyday lives is a much more important find than some lady who sat for a picture.

Very cool idea. So cool I'm adding a #tips tag because I love everything CJA says about writing, and this would be a good one. Hmm, some sense is going off that she might have done something about it, maybe when talking about writing believable characters period. I must investigate.

Which is why very, very few people except nuts actually will say that. Hell, I'm a crazy feminist and I usually only even think about the 'rules' one out of every ten movies I watch.

I do a lot of writing and never have that problem. The idea is that if they are full fledged characters with real lives in a real world, natural interactions between two women will just happen. Of course even literary heavyweights like Stephen King struggle with it. Writing believable women is one of the real…

Be good, be good, be good.....

I do think that taken to its extreme the Bechdel test is a bit absurd. It would off hand dismiss a lot of amazing films with amazing women in them. But, it makes a very good point in its third measure that so much of what women talk about in film is men, as though women have no reason to talk to each other except to…

Yeah, I realized after it came out that Peter Pan wasn't the best example, but I didn't want to rack my brain for a better one.

Silly you, FEMALE nudity is evil. Male nudity, waist up, is the norm, and waist down is some ungodly horror.

"Bechdel test provides a convenient shorthand to measure female presence and voice."

Your points are all very well taken, and I completely agree that respecting source material that is as intrenched in history as this is requires some cultural understanding. And I didn't mean the 'choosing not to' the way I think it came out. I did quite literally mean, he had the goal to make a faithful adaptation…

Thanks for pointed this out, I didn't know that they were non-source characters at all. That is a bit problematic if you ask me.

" I guess I'll give them something of a pass, they are working with source material"

A reboot of the original Highlander seems to work counter the trend of finding a franchise they can use to make 3-5 films. They are setting themselves up to bet stuck in the same hole as the first franchise, aliens and other utter poppycock will be required to get a sequel out of it.

Looks good. I have one small problem, I had to go 14 slots down on the cast list to find a female and she was credited as 'lady in a phonebox/ old lady.'

"The North American PlayStation.blog indicates an official announcement similar to the one issued for Europe will be coming soon."

Just to be clear, 'fresh ideas' and 'way out there ideas (that are actually capitalizing on popular movie and book themes) shoved into old formulas' are not the same thing.

Richard Branagh?

A quick search of the author reveals she is some what of a crank -

I have always found the idea that nature makes such random yet beautiful thing to be a much more worthwhile idea than lame space ships. I mean they would have to be pretty lame, crashing all the time, doing utterly bizarre and useless things while visiting us.

I was sort of feeling guiltily for seeing Thor a second time and not going to see Priest, at least to try something new. Thanks Annalee, for making me feel better about my choice.