I literally would have argued up until 3 seconds ago that the incest fic is probably enabled by the knowledge that the actors aren't really related/characters are fictional so there is no real incest possible but then the commenter above mention the Vlogbrothers real-people incest fanfiction and now I have to go for a…

Anything with real people is creepy. I have friends who write RPF and I just do not understand it except that for some people fandom = fanfiction and if your fandom is sports or music, well then!

Yeah, I don't think there's any way to argue that isn't just straight-up objectification.

OMG #4 So much OMG. While this was not specifically about slash, it was still from the same mindset.

I am not surprised. I wish it were the exception, but at least online, it seems to be a very very common thread in this sort of slash fandom. Sherlock fandom is especially toxic for some reason but every fandom I've ever followed online generally has just awful awful misogynistic strains.

I have long had reservations about this, too, and for the same reasons as Kiri states.

Sorry, that was kind of flip. I don't have an issue with modern filmmakers making statements — I mean, so what? I hope they're at least trying to do something interesting with all that money and work they're putting into making a film. If they want to use b/w for some reason, to evoke a mood or whatever, if the film…

Well, no Doinel is Truffaut and he and Caulfield are both from the 1950s. You'll find a lot of readers cannot with Catcher in the Rye because it's old — and that's all I was caveating in my earlier reply but also being from 50s was not the context I'm talking about.

Apparently it was one of Astaire's favorites as the script directly addressed the age difference in the leads. Also it has Leslie Caron which is always a good thing. It's definitely an idiosyncratic choice and I find it making me want to rewatch the movie!

I will assemble my viewing kit and put it on my to-see list!

I don't really agree on that. If someone is a purely modern viewer, it can be hard to appreciate older films for various reasons — black and white photography, innovations seem too familiar since their influence was so vast in what came after ("I don't get what the fuss about Citizen Kane is!"), etc.

It is considered one of the foundational works of the French New Wave, so... ;)

Maybe if they'd used a guillotine it would've been done right. ALAS!

It depends on the kind of film-watcher you are. If you love film and film history and what has influenced what you see now and how and which films led to major changes in film-making then do see it.

I've seen about 20 of these and *those* were all good so I'm going to conclude that this is an awesome list ;)

I like how she managed to work in fat-shaming there in her list of ways her generation went wrong trying to be SO SO NICE OMG WE WERE JUST TRYING TO BE NICE.

GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!

If only this could happen to ALLLL the trolls. *evil laughter*

I can imagine! It was bad enough seeing it with a friend, but with my mom? A movie about divorce where the mom leaves? Oh, the 70s!

that's about how old I was too!