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It depends on what you want in life. I think people forget that friends are more than just a social commodity. Friends help you move house, get jobs, introduce you to the person/people you date and eventually marry, save you money through their jobs and connections, and so on.
But even if you're financially independent or can count on your family unconditionally, friends do something for us as a social commodity that we can't get from our family, that is not obligatory, that is validating and consoling. So I'd say yes. They are necessary, but unfortunately good ones are hard to find and keep.
Andrew Garfield. Nothing against him personally but his face, though. It's just a punchable one.
Movie - Batman Returns (1992). Penguin, Cat Woman, even Max Shreck - love em all. Not that I don't like the hero, but I just happen to love the villains in this.
TV - Heroes. Sylar. Just a great villain for the most part.
The ones coming to mind:
Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon
Divinyls - Human on the Inside
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
Yeah, those take me back.
No shade, but just to respond to your points:
I think straight women can be manly and that transgender women can be feminine, but the over-the-top quality, used too often, is what I would say bothers me - and I would say that about the overly feminine gay male stereotype too.
I probably don't watch enough content, but i still don't think I'm wrong in saying many women are relegated to these roles in a lot of the content I do watch. It's not uncommon enough for me be think this has changed so greatly it's not an issue.
As for your last statement, I'm thinking of the movie Salt as a clear example of a role written for a man. Did Angelina Jolie lack femininity as the lead? No. But it's still obvious that the role was not written for a woman.
It really depends what direction he's going in, but I think I'll go the route of surprising choice and pick Jensen Ackles. I feel like he can do pretty much what Ben Affleck did, but he's actually likeable. And I think he has more variance in his acting ability than probably the last five men who've played Batman.
Not even a Disney movie?
Movies to me are like books in a way. You come to them at different times and you get something from them, sometimes the exact same thing, or sometimes something totally different. And you realize that what you're actually getting have just as much to say about who you are and who you were, as they do about the movie itself.
I don't care much about the sexual orientation of the actors, but I agree that there's fetishization of the subject matter.
I don't know about worst, but I kind of hate it, if that's any consolation. The brief moments of Fern Gully prettiness is not even worth it imo.
My seafood taste is odd and picky. I like raw tuna, but cooked tuna only in sandwiches. I love salmon, raw or cooked. I like shrimp/prawns if they're cleaned well, in pasta or grilled or barbecued. I love crab, but only in sushi. Sometimes I like squid and sometimes I don't. Not a huge lobster fan. Don't like oysters. The rest is just okay.
I've only read the first three. I reckon if you're not into them by now, you won't love them later. In fact, most people hate the last book, especially the ending.
Fair point. I just feel like there has always been a fair amount of girls who were freaks, nerds and losers.
Examples?
I don't have a problem with women being portrayed as 'manly' in Hollywood, mainly because I don't think that's the issue with women in Hollywood at all. I can't even think of one instance of this. My issue is that female portrayal as a whole is pretty limited, and that there are a few roles women are delegated to playing and nothing much more beyond those, such as love interest, mother or nameless hot girl. And that's even when they're the lead character.
If the issue you have is that the male lead has been swapped out with a female actor, maybe that's more accurate of an issue. It's not necessarily that the character is un-feminine, but that she was written to be played by a man and it's obvious.
Weird. But okay, thanks.
Yeah, when they moved him out of the boyfriend role, he flourished.
I agree that it would make a good tv show, but maybe not a movie. I think a lot of people are missing female-driven supernatural shows like Charmed and Buffy and this as a tv show, something about a family curse and sisters banding together to fight evil and help people out with their relationships etc, could fill that gap.
For some reason, lots of shows of this ilk have started and failed - like The Secret Circle and Witches of East End, but I feel like they didn't stick because they didn't have the same wide audience appeal of say Charmed. But Practical Magic would, since it could feature Sally's teen daughters, Sally and Gillian and the Aunts. It has the strong family connection as well as having a broad range of different aged actors. I don't even think it needs the same actors from the film.
Both handsome dudes, but I prefer Cavill's looks.
The movie Thirteen was written by Nikki Reed when she was fourteen I think, and went on to star in the film. That's the youngest I can think of.
Eric was more 'evil' I guess...but I've always loved the villains from Adam Sandler films in general. You can sympathize with both because Sandler's characters are always incompetent buffoons in contrast to their hard-working deserving characters, but also they're just really fun. Shooter and Eric are both great to me. Choosing which I like more is a tougher question.