Star Wars Episode 7 and Disney buy Lucas Film

[GordonR]

I don't see how you find this about misogyny

Sure, I've haven't had much luck with women in my life so far and I feel threatened by the ones trying to take my rightful place.

No further questions, m'lud.

Everyone else sees it; you never will.  Let's get back to Star Wars.

[Professor Bear]

There are many male versions of Sex and the City: "some mates of the same gender live in a city, they try to get laid, drama/comedy ensues" is pretty much most shows made for men.  You probably just don't notice because they're usually cops or firemen or live in the year 2487.

[ThryllSeekyr]

There are many male versions of Sex and the City: "some mates of the same gender live in a city, they try to get laid, drama/comedy ensues" is pretty much most shows made for men.  You probably just don't notice because they're usually cops or firemen or live in the year 2487.

True, but none of them are called Gender-Swapped Sex in the City. Without reading that article about Entourage be just that. Is the show set in the same universe. Meaning, there are references made to original female characters from Sex in the City?

Simply, put....is Entourage the official spin-off of Sex in the City?

I don't think it is, and that is my point!

Besides, that, I never got it that it might have been and never watched it. Yet regarding, Sex in the City...that name is very bait. It does attract attention. I was expecting more soft-porn with that title and I think it almost is. Still there that seem to be as much with the sex as that Spartacus mini-series was and that one was also well known for it's violence.

[TordelBack]

This thread is the only place in the western world right now where there isn't enough Star Wars.

[Professor Bear]

We can't be blamed because you're slacking off over the holidays.  We're doing our best here.

[Goaty]

What I just read?

[Bat King]

I need to see all the Clone Wars & Rebels cartoons now.

[Steve Green]

I think we'd need to copy paste all the text from the novelisations and the Expanded Universe...

[sheridan]

Well, would you agree that Star Wars started out as primarily a man or boys Scifi-Fantacy and it's slowly acquired female fans after it's main stream success. Yet, I still this a male dominated fantasy and it may be wrong to just have main characters that female or female main characters that are supported by other female characters while pitted against a female villain.

I wouldn't agree with that.  A female character in a 1970s story aimed at boys would not feature a character like Leia.  Neither would Leigh Brackett have been hired to write the first draft of ESB (not sure exactly when she wrote it, but she died in March 1978, so it must have been very soon after ANH was released).

The same goes for this new Ghost-Busters film being taken over by females. So far, it just sounds really dumb. yet, I won't elaborate on this until the film is out. 

All I know about the latest Ghostbusters film is that a) it features women as the Ghostbusters and b) their costumes/uniforms have a double stripe on them.  The former I am indifferent towards, the latter I don't like the look of, but if that's the worst I can say about the new film then this is a good thing.

[sheridan]

This thread is the only place in the western world right now where there isn't enough Star Wars.

Do we still need to us spoiler tags?  When the next film comes out, can we have a spoiler thread and a non-spoiler thread?

[COMMANDO FORCES]

My favourite bit was when it went all Battlestar Galactica!

[von Boom]

My favourite bit was when it went all Battlestar Galactica!

Thank you! There's been an itch about those scenes in the back of my brain since I saw the film. That's where I saw that!

All I know about the latest Ghostbusters film is that a) it features women as the Ghostbusters and b) their costumes/uniforms have a double stripe on them.  The former I am indifferent towards, the latter I don't like the look of, but if that's the worst I can say about the new film then this is a good thing.

It's not the change in gender that bothers me. It's the fact that the women they hired are all very meh and unfunny to me. There are some truly funny women, but these aren't among them.

[Bat King]

This thread is the only place in the western world right now where there isn't enough Star Wars.

Do we still need to us spoiler tags?  When the next film comes out, can we have a spoiler thread and a non-spoiler thread?

Good idea.

[GordonR]

Well, would you agree that Star Wars started out as primarily a man or boys Scifi-Fantacy and it's slowly acquired female fans after it's main stream success. Yet, I still this a male dominated fantasy and it may be wrong to just have main characters that female or female main characters that are supported by other female characters while pitted against a female villain.

I wouldn't agree with that.  A female character in a 1970s story aimed at boys would not feature a character like Leia.  Neither would Leigh Brackett have been hired to write the first draft of ESB (not sure exactly when she wrote it, but she died in March 1978, so it must have been very soon after ANH was released).

The same goes for this new Ghost-Busters film being taken over by females. So far, it just sounds really dumb. yet, I won't elaborate on this until the film is out. 

All I know about the latest Ghostbusters film is that a) it features women as the Ghostbusters and b) their costumes/uniforms have a double stripe on them.  The former I am indifferent towards, the latter I don't like the look of, but if that's the worst I can say about the new film then this is a good thing.

It's the fear and loathing description of the Ghostbusters remake as being "taken over by females" that your mind should really be boggling at.

[Professor Bear]

All I know about the latest Ghostbusters film is that a) it features women as the Ghostbusters and b) their costumes/uniforms have a double stripe on them.  The former I am indifferent towards, the latter I don't like the look of, but if that's the worst I can say about the new film then this is a good thing.

It's not the change in gender that bothers me. It's the fact that the women they hired are all very meh and unfunny to me. There are some truly funny women, but these aren't among them.

My bugbear is the studio and makers insisting that an all-female cast "isn't a gimmick" but something which happened organically.  Hollywood is just not that progressive - not even in 2015 - and every time I see some misogynistic dickhead go off on one about the casting, I can't escape the feeling that the makers actually want that kind of publicity.