Which were those?

Fair enough. Possibly the role was beefed up after Binoche turned it down? I don't know, nor do I know for sure Ellie was the part she was offered to begin with, although it's hard to think what else it would have been.

I don't think she feels personally owed a lead role by either of them.

Maybe I am - I haven't seen it in five years or more, but I remember Ellie Sadler coming a distant-ish third to the two male scientists.

You make a fair point, and I'm mostly agreeing with you, just saying Coppola in particular hasn't been insulated from your line of criticism.

Isn't it? I doubt she was offered the role of Alan Grant or Ian Malcolm, so it seems likely her turning down whatever she was offered is consistent with her criticism.

What danger is there of doing a female lead a disservice if you can so competently write and direct secondary female characters?

I'm thinking specifically of the 'lip my stockings' bit, but yeah.

I mean, as others have pointed out, Banks has had a very, very short career as a director so far. But also, Coppola *has* been repeatedly called out for various aspects of her privilege, including but not limited to her kind of gross treatment of Japanese people in Lost in Translation.

Did she suck someone's dick while he was unconscious?

"This is Killer Croc. We really didn't think the BET gag through and honestly we'd rather not talk about the implications."

"She doesn't speak English, until she weirdly does. You could say it makes her…I don't know, inscrutable if you like. Also her mask is the Japanese flag to signify that she is Japanese."

Deez nuts is my nuts, deez nuts is your nuts

Oh right, my bad!

I don't think there's anything worse on Twitter than people role playing as Aaron Sorkin characters.

A friend of a friend used to work as a production assistant on The Bachelor AU and said she couldn't watch UnREAL because it hit way too close to why she quit in the first place.

Were there any characters in that movie created in the last 20 years?

Okay; the third and fourth Superman and Batman movies, the Tom Jane Punisher, the Ben Affleck Daredevil, Green Lantern…I mean, the list goes on.

Marvel Studios people have always had pretty positive things to say about DC movies. The comics are a different kettle of fish, obviously.

I've seen a fair bit of patting Suicide Squad on the back for being diverse, which you pretty much have to entirely ignore the content of the film to do.