Seems like a good story well told wouldn’t require that kind of stretching.

If ROS had been him turning into a credible threat (or choosing not to) that could have been an interesting conflict to base the movie on.  But that would require thought and creativity.

Interesting.  I don’t remember any of that being in the actual movie, though.

At the time I think he was forced into Cougar by his record company (that was a thing way back then,) got them to let him out his actual name on the end for his second album. Then, a few years later, after some more hits, he dropped it all together.

Why? Movies without diverse casts make a ton of money.

This movie has only been out four days and is already canceled.

“Literally” has an informal usage. That is a long way from an accepted usage. Want to know the know the difference? Try using the word “literally” in it’s informal sense in a legal document. Or more accurately, try defending the lawsuit that’s coming when you claim that “I didn’t mean ‘literally’ LITERALLY.”

“Literally” is literally an example of what I’m talking about.  What national organization or group of people decided as a group that, by fiat, “literally” now means something else and that everybody should use it that way?

Not for specific people whose gender is known. If somebody goes through the transition and now wants to be called “he” or “she” whichever and I got no problem. But one specific person isn’t a “they" unless they are the monarch of something. 

Check out the link if only to revisit how good the writing on this site used to be.

The current site is very different from the old. Not for the best in most cases.

It's almost a tacit admission that this site is a ghost of what it was.

People didn’t because that was a slow, natural change in the language that happened organically over time. That’s how language works. The “they” pronoun usage for a singular specific person is people trying to say ”That word that has a specific meaning and usage now also has a very different meaning because we say it…

Build a tunnel that can have TWO cars in it?

“The Flophouse” did it all ready.  Is HDTGM still just people talking over each other and shouting astonishment at what they are seeing?

Iron Giant is based on a book that predates ET by 15 years.

Her entrance in the movie, floating on an emergency raft in a black party dress soaked sheer by the ocean, had a powerful effect on seven year old me.

I never thought that I ever needed to see a giant ape knock a dinosaur out with a right cross but then I saw this movie. My life would have been incomplete. 

And the Van Gogh original actually exists. The art world scam is that people pay are convinced to pay too much for real things. The NFT scam is getting people to pay for nothing.

If your sun is excited about paying loads of money for “exclusive” ownership of a copy of a computer video that is an inferior version of what can be seen for free on Youtube, then he is an idiot. And if you think that’s art and not the digital version of the Beanie Baby craze, then I see where he gets it from.