It’s my favorite Paul Feig movie, but then, I don’t like Paul Feig movies that much. I enjoyed a lot of individual things (Kate McKinnon, the effects, big dumb Chris Hemsworth, the villain concept), and while a lot of the humor didn’t land for me, it also felt like the typical Feig humor that doesn’t land for me, so I…

Maybe because they don’t want to be pigeonholed into that romantic comedy type of role, and so try to do something really far the opposite. I mean, I’d guess for John Krasinski, even as he seems up for an Office reunion here, probably doesn’t want casting directors dismissing him because they can’t imagine Jim Halpert…

I’m the same, I never made Sims of real people, not even myself. And looking at this I do feel a little weird now that I’ve never made a Sim of myself? But the idea totally weirds me out. I’ll stick to made up people/fictional characters from other media. 

Actually, it’s not. They don’t specify this in the article, but if you look at the linked data, women reviewers also give higher ratings to movies with *male* protagonists - that 3 percent difference is that the average score for a movie with a male protagonist from women reviewers is 73%, while from men it’s 70%. Men…

SHE. STOLE. A. CHILD. I mean, what the fuck? She has been complicit in ENSLAVING WOMEN, INCLUDING JUNE. This is very obviously not a surrogacy arrangement in any gooddamn form. You don’t kidnap a surrogate, you don’t force them on threat of death to be your surrogate, you don’t RAPE YOUR SURROGATE to get her pregnant…

Okay, I get the issue here, but neither June’s nor Janine’s children have been adopted, they’ve been stolen. Serena can’t have that connection because she has stolen that child. Yes, that difference shouldn’t necessarily affect the babies’ behavior, and there can be unfortunate implications to that, but no one in this…

A work derivative of something from the public domain is still protected by copyright. The fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” is in the public domain, but Disney’s particular version of it is very much copyrighted.

I’m not sure it’s something Star Wars really needs, but I mean, I wouldn’t mind something like an anthology for side characters. I thought that was what From a Certain Point of View would be, but tying itself so much to A New Hope meant that most of the stories were just largely rewriting scenes from that movie, which…

The term fridging refers to the injury or death of a female character to advance a male character’s plot, because this is a very common trope in pretty much all media. It’s a part of a larger framework of female characters often largely existing to serve male characters’ stories, whether as damsels in distress to be…

There’s no need to track dvd service availability because the dvd collection is much broader and very rarely changes. Netflix doesn’t have to acquire any special licensing to buy movies and mail them to people - it does have to do that for streaming, so that’s why streaming availability changes so often.

As someone who actually preferred Incredibles 2 to the original, I actually sort of liked the similarities? Like this movie really could have been the original, and while I love The Incredibles, I had more fun watching Elastigirl taking on the main ‘superhero’ role and I just liked the whole Screenslaver plot more…

Okay, I may be misremembering, but the only time in the movie when I can really recall Bob openly voicing his misgivings and jealousies toward Helen about her being the one to take on the “superhero” spotlight was initially after they got the offer from Devtech. I guess there was also the scene near the beginning when…

They wanted a completely distinct toy “for girls.” Like I’m enjoying how much people are in-universe defending this. THEY WANTED A TOY FOR GIRLS. The fact that she is not only white but *purple sparkly* conveys that well enough. Plastic White-With-Purple-Glitter Girl Dragon Toy coming soon to... well Amazon I guess…

I agree with you on Oleg - I think we can take the idea that Elizabeth and Philip made it back to Russia to head off the coup against Gorbachev as a hopeful sign for him. We don’t know for sure - we don’t even know for sure that Elizabeth and Philip will succeed (though we can presume that there is no successful coup…

I’m not sure what was ‘apoplectic’ about quoting a line of canon. Also, from the wookiepedia article you linked:

“Traveling through hyperspace isn’t like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?”

I guess it’s a good thing people don’t die in Marvel movies anymore.

Oh, please. Like Han/Leia isn’t a fundamental part of the original trilogy. Romance is and has always been a part of the SW franchise, asking it to include queer characters isn’t some huge difference

I agree with you, but I also think there’s a point where this becomes a catch-22 for interviewees. I mean, there have definitely been cases when it seems like the studio/filmmakers have really pushed this kind of thing when it doesn’t amount to much onscreen (I’m thinking of the Power Rangers instance in particular…

What’s weird to me is that the footrest was automatic. I enjoy the big recliner seats a lot of theaters have now, but they’re not automatic, you have to press a button to move them. That this footrest was automatic and apparently couldn’t be stopped seems really strange.