The millions of people who only know Marvel from movies do not give a crap about Ant Man. They do care about Black Widow.
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Uh, okay. Yay, Claremont X-Men for sucking less than other comics teams? But so what? That is not the conversation going on and talking about the amazingly gender-equitable X-Men *comic books* (of yore) is not a conversation I'm interested in having. I don't think the X-Men franchise is even run by the same studio as…
That would be fine, too.
I KNOW, RIGHT? It could easily be a cool, Bourne-style flick but with even more head-kicks.
No, hon, my rage isn't pent-up. I'm not hysterical or shrill or a Jezebel refugee or any other dismissive, reductive thing you think will put me on the defensive. I'm mad because this is a stupid state of affairs and it is worthy of outrage.
Yeah, it's this thing I was doing where I was taking what you said and extrapolating from it. It's this thing that happens in debates... never mind.
Oh, well, if YOUUUUU didn't find her interesting...
You have no idea how much I know about Birds of Prey (the real one pre-dating the New 52), but it doesn't really count when we're talking about Avengers, JLA and even X-Men, Teen Titans, the Legion, the Outsiders, the JSA, etc. It was never that kind of team. And in its last incarnation, DC foisted a guy onto the…
I would say lack of support or lack of faith, no one who is truly championing the project (or no one with power), unrealistic schedules and no commitment to getting the script right before filming, or just running with a terrible idea and not realizing it for whatever reason. I mean, god, look at Catwoman (don't look…
And as we all know, any time a new version of a story gets made, ALL the other versions just vanish.
Oh, she'll be in the Ant Man movie! As his lady-friend! Yay, supporting roles!
Two Hulk movies. Daredevil. Two crappy Batman movies. A truly execrable third Spider-Man movie. More than one poorly-received Superman movies. We're on our second Dredd. Green Lantern...
Well, first of all, you're just wrong about Whedon. Whedon had to work with what he had and gave Black Widow lots of actual shit to do (and along with Tony actually saved the day so not really "supporting" any more than the rest of the team) and added Maria Hill (who had some cool shit to do) and even included Pepper…
In fairness the gender ratio of all superteams is made of suck and no one but the tiny group that is comics readers is clamoring for an Ant Man movie, but lots of people would love a Black Widow film. Lots of people would love a Wonder Woman movie, but while we're on our second round of Spider-Man, our third round of…
Ugh. God forbid we get a Black Widow movie when *Ant Man* hasn't debuted yet.
Everything sounds like satire, but satire without any context may as well be straight ignorance. Maybe she read it [A Modest Proposal] and is writing something she thinks is satiric but not in the way you think.
Look, every time anything — and I mean ANYTHING — is posted on any Gawker site which is "person proves him/herself ignorant in epic fashion," hordes of people show up to be all blase about how it's impossible the ignorance is real. Everything is fake. We're all being punked. Satire, irony, blah blah blah.
Or that it was really written by a 14-year old.
No, I got that. I was being arch.