neuroticmoose
Neuroticmoose
neuroticmoose

Ugh, acclaimed? By who? Octogenarians?

Romantic comedies from that period were all predicated on the protagonist acting terribly, While You Were Sleeping for instance is about a woman stalking a man and lying to his family after he gets put in a coma, its basically The Big Sick but with lies. There’s also Pretty Woman where Richard Gere basically pays

No question, it’s definitely problematic on paper. I think the reason the film is fondly remembered though is because it is able to turn what could potentially be the plot to a horror film or a psycho-sexual thriller into a feel good romantic comedy. There’s no reason it should work at all with that premise, but

From what I recall, Russell doesn’t make any advances on her until after she has her memory back, so it’s a lot less rapey than everyone likes to make it sound.

Wasn’t Russell’s character a contractor in the original? It seems more than a little insulting to change the profession to carpet cleaner for Faris’ gender swapped role

and ironically the only three you’d be left with would be Weinstein, Cosby and Polanski, dudes were super against sharing their screeners.

The victim very clearly has this opinion publicly because every time this stuff comes up in the news it brings back up her trauma and derails her life. Personally I want the bastard to die in prison, his behavior in the years since the trial is the mark of a man who doesn’t believe he did anything wrong by drugging

It’s a Discworld reference. That’s how Death talks in those books

Death is actually doing a bit, I think it started awhile back when I mentioned to them that all caps is how Terry Pratchett’s Death talks in the Discworld books

Well, convicted of having sex, but we all know Polanski straight up raped her, Quaaludes aren’t usually used if you’re trying to have consensual sex with a person.

Um...was she in Miller’s run? Matt and her dated in the stuff preceding it, but Miller largely focused on Elektra during that run.

Even with what you just listed the character has mainly been in supporting roles or guest appearances, she was always very firmly in the C or D list, people know who she is and she isn’t obscure, but nobody was ever really clamoring for her either (at least in the comic reading circles I was in growing up) She

It would only be something I’d be excited for (and I love the character) if they adapted Greg Rucka’s short run on the character that introduced the second Black Widow and had them both try to kill each other.

Would Katherine Bigelow have been too obvious a choice? 

Sigh, “That’s the joke” also what hill am I dying on? I left it at just the initial post which was an intentionally stream of consciousness style ramble befitting this nonsensical sounding movie. I didn’t feel like joking about the premise or the actors or whatever, I just thought the name was kind of well, bad. Like

The title makes no sense, like, calling someone a “good Samaritan” alludes to the biblical Parable about someone literally from Samaria. So the term Samaritan has come to be associated with that as well as “good Samaritan” as an idiom to describe someone who is charitable or helpful. Changing it to Bad Samaritan would

or the backstory for Tom Waits’ character from Seven Psychopaths, or the premise to that horrible slasher film The Collector, or any number of other trashy horror and thriller films/novels/TV Shows.

He could also drill out most locks with your standard power drill, which would probably be something a serial killer would have among his torture tools, or like, a workbench.

Or better yet a ratchet set, which was used to bolt it in in the first place? even if they’re super long industrial bolts it shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes

Are you saying the ultra rich serial killer didn’t have some bolt cutters lying around somewhere? That seems implausible...