I keep forgetting that was from 89; I think of it as a 90s movie. Katzenberg didn’t want to greenlight it because he thought it would lose money.

Apologies for the confusion!

The original post of the whole thread concerned Peter Thiel loving The Lord of the Rings while completely misunderstanding its themes.

Peter Thiel, misogynist tech bro.

I love LOTR, don’t get me wrong, but it was a product of its time, when very few SFF works (even among those written by women) let female characters be anything but love interests or villains. For me it’s a bug, but for Thiel it’s a feature.

One of his favorite things about the trilogy: barely any women.

The Harper Hall Trilogy is the best for young readers, IMO. Menolly is a heroine to root for.

Only the Empire Trilogy has significant female characters, though.

🎶We should put you away where you can’t kill or maim us,
But this is LA, and you’re rich and famous…🎶

If you wanted to make Serak the Preparer cry, mission accomplished!

I love reading novels. I’m always amazed by folks who don’t read fiction. There is nothing better, to me, than being in the middle of a book that you can’t wait to return to. It’s like living two lives at once.

The soundtrack is a banger as well.

I find people a bit unlikable who refuse to watch black and white movies or listen to music more than ten years old. But that’s me.

The Secret of NIMH. This and The Last Unicorn were the only Western animated features of the decade to have female protagonists.

As a Gen-X child, I got the message from kids' entertainment loud and clear:
Boys matter. Girls don't.
Boys have adventures and befriend each other and defeat evil. Girls fall in love, and that's about it.
I can't remember EVER seeing myself in a girl character until Mokey Fraggle showed up.

And two out of three of these were actually good, too!

The Little Mermaid almost didn't happen because Katzenberg thought female leads weren't marketable.
As a Gen-X woman, I've been nursing anger about this kind of thing for decades.

I will love this collection of poems till the day I die.

Lucky. I've been looking everywhere to stream this darn thing, and I'm still coming up dry.
I do not understand why some studios are so bloody STINGY about making their classics accessible.

Where did you see this?

Schindler's List
Hidden Figures
Oppenheimer
I'm Still Here (Brazil)

Universal led the horror movie race in the 1930s, though RKO and Paramount had contenders with King Kong and 1931's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But in the 40's, after the banger that was The Wolf Man, they lost their hold on the torch, and Lewton picked it up.

It’s Actually Insane That Disney Hasn’t Greenlit More Muppet Show Yet - ToughPigs It's not easy being greenlit.

We're just saying what everyone's already thinking: It's insane that Disney hasn't greenlit more Muppet Show specials or episodes yet.

www.toughpigs.com/just-renew-t...

Love the shout-out to Thomas Newman's score for The Green Mile! Newman doesn't get enough credit.

A crying baby won’t physically hurt you, but it sure as hell can ruin your experience of a film.

For a good example of writing complex female characters and giving them interesting storylines, look to Deep Space Nine. It’s the gold standard.

Also, no more Misogynistic Alien Cultures (TM). It’s overplayed and outdated.

Absolutely!

#BookSky

I Honestly Love You
I Just Called to Say I Love You
Olivia Newton-John and Stevie Wonder have sung some great songs, but these are not among them.

“You’re pitiful,
You’re pitiful,
You’re pitiful, it’s true;
Never had a date
That you couldn’t inflate,
And you smell repulsive too.
What a bummer being you.”
Weird Al Yankovic