“I’m so bereft of true imagination that I can’t see a woman in the role, nor can I invent a compelling reason why I didn’t hire a woman.”

True. Ledger’s death is why we love his Joker as much as we do.

I imagine either getting Joker out of jail would have been part of Bane’s plan, or Nolan just straight up slotted Bane into the Joker role.

Rises falls short because we all know we were denied more Heath Ledger.

We used to do Yankee Swap every year, and the rules of the game have to, have to, HAVE TO be that:

Yeah, but then that leaves November empty and dreary. I spent a year in Canada and hosted an American Thanksgiving for my friends, and they were all glad of something to do.

Unmentioned in this article, but the law was also fucking racist.

True, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that the Flintstones don’t live in a post-apocalypse after the Jetsons society finally fell apart.

I was a Batman kid in the 90s and just gave the series a rewatch on Amazon. It still holds up.

Can we please get a cameo from Sarah Michelle Gellar and Linda Cardenelli as either wacky high school teachers or suspected villains?

Just to add more fuel to this particular fire, when The Jetsons Meet The Flinstones (shudder), George tells Elroy while he’s mowing the yard that the green stuff is grass and he read about it in “ancient history.” Those shots of the ground clearly include some green stuff, so this isn’t as settled as you want to…

With the added benefit of thinking that, though the military is a jingoistic extension of American imperialism, the American President should not make arbitrary policy decisions as if he’s Louis XIV.

Winter is here.

I apologize for not including a Works Cited page in an internet comment.

I think the original has better gender politics because gender is the focus of the film. 2049 glosses over all the gender stuff from the original and therefore doesn’t do the same kind of work that the original did, to its detriment.

This is it! I don’t mean human as homo sapien, I mean that for thousands of years, women were defined (following Aristotle) as deficient men and men were defined as human beings.

Thanks! The other thing is the I really really liked 2049! I teach Blade Runner to college freshman a lot because it’s great for learning about philosophy and analysis together with question things like sexism, racism, and capitalism, so I went into 2049 (after lovvvvving Arrival) hoping for something truly great. And…

Important to the world? Yes. Important to the plot/film? No.

Yes. I’m paraphrasing Simone de Beauvoir.

I was actually thinking about Zhora as defining herself without a relation to man—she’s even killed by Rachel.