...is it wrong that I'd be vaguely interested in watching that version of Frankenstein?

And there are men who still react to that idea like they're George Peppard talking about the A-Team. (Hey, in retrospect, Amy Allen was great and often contributed far more to an episode than Templeton Peck!)

I do think it's fair to say though that there are a lot of ensemble action movies where the team could maybe have a higher percentage of women. And in a wider variety of roles. (Remember how good Tig Notaro was when she replaced Chris D'Elia in that zombie movie? She could have been first choice!)

I generally go into a Batman movie expecting most of the conversations in the movie to be about 1) Batman, 2) Bruce Wayne, 3) Crime, 4) the villain, 5) the love interest. So yeah, if we get a conversation between female characters in a Batman movie, the odds are decent that it will be about a man.

And they apply it to the silliest contexts. I remember it used on the Dark Knight. You know, Batman movie. About Batman. Who is a man, by the way. And the primary villain in that movie was the Joker. Another man. And it's an action movie primarily, so conversation isn't a big part.

Which is probably the reason these guys aren't winning the love triangle to begin with.

I love when stories have this kind of dilemma, because, at no point does the dude in Wolverine's role ever consider that the lady may not want a man who let her partner die.

I'd be on board with a goat meat stand though. I like hot dogs, but that sounds amazing.

Me too! It's actually really cool that the guy's career has been so successful and long-lived that someone so young can still recognize him on sight!

Sometimes! I keep thinking my ideal fancast for Charles Xavier is not Patrick Stewart (great as he is) but someone like Giancarlo Esposito. I think he'd really bring out the complexity of the role.

And somehow that age always happens to correspond with the person giving the opinion (give or take a few years). You don't see a lot of twenty-year-olds or sixty-year-olds saying that Peter Parker should be forty.

I really think the hysteria boils down to the fact that, deep down, very few people can accept that they're older and their tastes and interests have moved out of focus. It's kind of the same thing as when people complain Spider-Man, et al, should be older.

Do I think it's sad that a young girl might not have seen, for example, the Princess Bride? Sure. Though for all I know, she has seen it and maybe she wasn't that into it. Or she just associates the guy with something a little more recent and relevant to her life. It's not the end of the world.

"Hold your nose and vote for the least bad option" applies to both sides. And if you're seriously saying that a young leftist is a worse option than a Republican (whether directly or splitting the vote with the Democrat who LOST) then why the hell should we expect them to fall in line?

And yeah, we're going to be looking at Mamdani, because Schumer's a New Yorker. Schumer actually gets to vote in this election. A big, important Democratic figure. Maybe THE big important Democratic figure. And he's not saying who he voted for. So yeah, we're watching that.

That's the deal! That's how it's supposed to work! Blue is better than Red, right? We need the numbers! We need conservatives out of office! We need to prevent greater harm! All of those arguments STILL APPLY. So why exactly is the party leadership seeming to not hold up their end of the deal?

But there's an implicit deal there. Vote Biden instead of Bernie, because Biden got the votes to run where Bernie didn't. Okay, fine. But when the candidate that the leftists like, that the young people like, actually DOES get the votes to advance, then we're supposed to vote for them too!

We are a very divided party and we keep pushing compromise candidates based on the idea that "the left doesn't vote" or "young people don't vote". We keep telling people that "something is better than nothing" and to hold their nose and vote the party line because the other guy is worse.