Yeah - while its entirely plausible that a newly-out trans actor would be willing to be professional about it and continue to play a female role (its not like there’s not a long history of cross-dressing in theater), if there’s any show where a character could say ‘hey, I’m a guy now’ and have it work perfectly fine,…
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Yeah, that reference is confusing in all kinds of ways. If she meant Middle Eastern then she has no idea how much hello-kissing there is; if she meant Asia then ‘Asian men are manly’ is the opposite of what someone with her views usually thinks. Maybe she meant manly Eastern Europeans? Except she probably thinks…
Yeah, details matter here. If Lois was being relegated to taking care of the kids and never got any actual journalism plots, then yes, that’s shitty. But if she was trying to suggest ‘hey, let’s dedicate massive chunks of this superhero show to storylines that reflect women, like about how hard it is to find a good…
It depends on how you define the star trek legacy - if you’re talking format or look, then sure, the track record isn’t great. But I think when most people say ‘this is/isn’t star trek’ they’re talking about the outlook/morality, i.e. a world of federation ideals where good people try their best to do the right thing…
I loved both the movie and him in it, but I think everyone forgets that was him (...its the hair)
I blame Orlando Bloom’s relative-obscurity on everyone getting sick of the Pirates movies. (I did like him in Carnival Row, though, critical reviews be damned).
The pessimist in me would counter that most Americans don’t know much about anything, up to and including China’s atrocities.
Ah, I forgot about the thread.
I can’t remember, do we know how exactly the baby died (i.e. what killed him)? I’ve been assuming that it was an accident -the kidnappers weren’t paying close enough attention, baby dies through misadventure, they sew his eyes open so they don’t lose out on the money.
Except, the how of it says so much about the character. It would have been entirely out of place for him to act off-the-cuff, or to cause a mess, or to take a painful way out. He wanted to put his best foot forward, to do his best to make it pleasant for himself and for whoever found him. (I asked my mom why she…
Aaaah - why are shows/movies incapable of casting actual musicians? It’s not like the acting pool is short on musical types. If you’re hiring someone to play The Fiddler, maybe find an actor that can, you know, fiddle? Or at least convincingly fake it? Or if all else fails, film it from the back with a ‘stunt’ double?…
aaaaaaah *sticks fingers in ears*
I call that storytelling approach “the Barry Allen.”
Part of what makes it so perfect (and is a characteristic of good spoofs/satire generally) is that they do actually know their stuff. We watched the witch scene in high school when we were learning about medieval scholasticism, and the whole ‘no basis for a system of government’ joke is way funnier because its kinda…
I tracked down some episodes of the original show after the movie came out, and the show holds up surprisingly well.
I always read that slight embarrassment as intentional, since it was showing his early days as superman and flying around in tights saving people has got to be slightly weird the first few times. “Nice outfit.” “My...mother made it for me?”
We knew my nephew would do just fine in life when he asked ‘Santa’ for a particular robot toy for Christmas, was told Santa couldn’t afford such an expensive present, and promptly went around asking every relative for $20 for Christmas.
I actually thought it served a very useful purpose in 1917 - the poor guy kept having to push through with barely a minute to breath, and the point of the movie was to make us feel it. The (false) single take approach really helped keep the energy up - having long takes made it feel like a single race to the finish…
If by “in a long time” you mean a decade (or two), just a heads up - the misogyny in the early Bond films is probably worse than you remember. Admittedly I don’t have any strong nostalgia for them, but I found them very difficult to re-watch as an adult. I can forgive a fair amount in the name of “different times,”…