The Corman one is actually alright, in a charming, shitty B-movie kind of way.

I don't think so - the kid in my video was pretty composed throughout.

You haven't judged my argument at all - you flatly told me to "stop" using an argument I wasn't using, with no substantive followup to that request, and then vaguely told me my second post "leads to issues". And now I'm using an unappreciated "passive voice", apparently, when talking about society in macrocosm. This…

I almost forgot the video of RDJ presenting that kid with the prosthetic Iron Man arm, in character as Tony Stark.

And to top it off, he's right that they actually hire interesting people to write, direct, and act in their films. James Gunn makes summer blockbuster movies now. That would have been a ridiculous sentence 5 years ago..

I mean.. he isn't wrong. The Avengers actors all clearly enjoy making those movies (the Avengers press junkets are always filled with hilarious interviews), a bunch of them are close to renegotiating for large paydays, and the Marvel films (especially in the last couple of years) have been pretty universally well…

I'm not "resigned" to anything - I acknowledged factual reality. And the factual reality is that societal norms of what constitutes "beauty" have been around for centuries, and are reinforced all around in ways big and small, inside and outside Hollywood. So a Hollywood exec focusing on those norms is understandable…

I didn't make a "normative argument" - I said societal impressions of what constitutes "'beauty" have been with us for hundreds of years, not that the standard has been exactly the same for that entire period. It has been continually morphing for that entire period… as I said.

You know, I sort of get the idea that directors or producers might be obsessed with women who conform to a certain image of female fitness and beauty, and I get the idea that that standard is enforced differently for men (hence an old man like Tom Cruise keeps playing 30 year olds, with 20 year old romantic…

If this was his point, then he did a terrible job making it. "OH, I bet ALL of your heroes are secretly shitty!" isn't an explanation - it's a lame rationalization.

That, or the fall of Reach, would both make awesome movies.

BL 1 was fun. BL 2 was great mechanically, but some of the characters were… grating. The meme humour also got pretty old.

Could be fine. I mean, the world from the games is interesting enough, and could be a neat alien-space-desert-western thing - it all comes down to how they choose to implement the license.

Could work as a film, as long as they don't try to shoehorn in game references, or the characters from the games.

Barbara was one of the worst-written female characters on television in a long-ass time. The evil turn felt like a hail mary by the writers to save her shitty character.

Make another Dredd movie, god dammit.

They've never made it clear that Batman creates his own enemies - but they have left it as an interesting, partly unanswered philosophical question, that he may have some part in it.

The only line in this film that struck me as a little too "on the nose" from a feminist perspective, was when Immortan Joe yells "They''re my property!" about the women Furiosa was helping escape. Struck me as the equivalent of a villain bellowing "get the heroes!", as far as leaden script writing is concerned.

George Miller doing a Superman film actually kinda excited me. It'd hopefully introduce some saturated colour to the DC films, at least.

The show should have been nothing but Gordon taking on corruption and the mob, with families like the Waynes, Elliots, and Cobblepots in the background.