The Screening Room

3:16 PM

@NapoleonWilson Did you see my answer to that Gone Girl question? Don't you think that Ben Affleck and Scott Peterson look a lot alike?

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel Yeah, nice answer indeedsies!

steelersquirrel

You always seem to think that Affleck is so handsome, so I was just curious

That pic that I used was from his mugshot, I believe. He dyed his hair blonde to go to Mexico and be in disguise, but they really do look like eachother.

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel Well, he is, sure.

steelersquirrel

Uhuh

@MovieReel Pretty sure it's Icebreaker with Sean Astin.

Argh! It's so annoying that we can't make suggestions in comments ;-(

Napoleon Wilson

3:41 PM

Boy Soldiers is super awesome, though.

@steelersquirrel Well, you could as well answer it if you think it's a good fit.

A J

2

Q: Why does Frankie welcome The Saint and Emma as familiar persons?

In The Saint (1997), Frankie says to The Saint Emma something like I know you both and also I am waiting for you. Will you buy my art? Actually The Saint and Emma are complete strangers to Frankie and vice versa. Then why is she welcoming them as if they are familiar to her?

@NapoleonWilson This was a suspicious account that I forgot to report, but seems you guys took care of it already.

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson Yeah, but what if it's wrong? Then there are wrong answers instead of a few comments...

Movie Reel

-2

Q: searching for name of movie-

maybe mid to late 70's. set in future where gasoline has become outlawed, a man in a formula 1 car was pumping out old gas station tanks to keep going on some kind of protest is what i remember.....

identify-this-movie

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel Well, then it just won't get accepted. But if it's a good fit with respect to the details, then it's a good answer, I guess.

Seeing if an answer is correct is what the accept button is for, not the comment section.

A J

@MovieReel You are already hammered.

steelersquirrel

3:48 PM

Alright, then.

Napoleon Wilson

That's why there's votes and accept buttons on this site, because multiple answers naturally happen, and some are better than others.

Ankit Sharma

@steelersquirrel I missed it but seems great

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson Yeah, but isn't it different for ID? There's only one right answer

A J

Looks like Guillermo Martínez does not have a Twitter account and his website is down.

Napoleon Wilson

That's the problem of ID questions, not our's. ;-)

We already have a ton of special rules to fight the symptoms, and I don't feel like having too many more.

A J

3:51 PM

@NapoleonWilson Too many more will result in complete ban of ID questions.

steelersquirrel

I just don't know why all of a sudden it's evil to make suggestions in the comments.

Napoleon Wilson

In the same way you could say ID answers don't require proper explanation, since acceptance shows they're correct. But that's not actually how quality content works either.

@steelersquirrel It's not all of a sudden actually, seeing how are debating this on a daily basis for about a year now. ;-)

Ixrec

I haven't even read the transcript but just at a glance this conversation "feels" really familiar

A J

Seems like @Gallifreyan changed his avatar second time today.

steelersquirrel

I never noticed the debate at all. I was just made aware of it. This is why I am always asking if it's policy. If it's so frowned upon, then why aren't users being told this the bazillion times they make ID suggestions in comments?

Ankit Sharma

3:55 PM

@Ixrec lol

@AJ even I don't do that

Napoleon Wilson

Anyway, melon time! \o/

A J

@NapoleonWilson I'd prefer apple.

steelersquirrel

@Ixrec Because my questions never get answered ;)

Ankit Sharma

@AJ no kiwis

#KIwiRules

Gallifreyan

@AJ Sorry.

A J

3:58 PM

@AnkitSharma I'd eat what I have on my plate right now.

@Gallifreyan Why?

Ankit Sharma

@Gallifreyan why sorry O.o

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel They do, sometimes you just don't like the answer. ;-P

A J

hmm

Gallifreyan

I just felt I let someone down.

A J

Nah, you didn't. I was just curious.

Who is that person in your avatar?

Ankit Sharma

4:04 PM

@Gallifreyan lol, you didn't

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson That's not true at all, but...whatever.

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel Yeah, I'm just trying to make fun of it before it's too late. ;-)

Ankit Sharma

Should I wait with my WW question for ToW

steelersquirrel

I was just trying to have a conversation so that I can understand the whole thing. I just want to know if we are supposed to tell users to stop suggesting in comments when they do it.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Okay, you suggested that thing, so it's on you to define a "woman-centric" film for me now. (Of course, under the premise of having a challenge about them that you have to explain to the community and sort questions by after the challenge is over.)

Ankit Sharma

4:13 PM

O.O

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel It really depends, I guess.

Gallifreyan

10

A: The many avatars of SFF.SE

My eighth avatar is Lucifer Morningstar, Samael the Lightbringer. This particular image comes from Lucifer #65, "Morningstar pt. 3". The Lucifer series was written by Mike Carey, and drawn mostly by Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly. The character began in The Sandman series, where he was created b...

Ankit Sharma

I tried to explain many time already, film with females in lead role

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson Depends on what?

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel If it's a rather vague suggestion that doesn't really fit all too much, a comment might be enough if it doesn't justify an actual answer...

Ankit Sharma

4:14 PM

Like Wonder woman, Charlie's angels etc

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel I'm typing. ;-)

@steelersquirrel If you (or whomever) however think it's a reasonable answer, then actually answering the question is better than just trying to "test the waters" and see if you can get an acceptance out of it with a comment before answering. If you have a proper answer, then actually answering is usally better than having it in the comments.

This, however, doesn't necessarily mean every such comment is totally bad and people get told off for it. But suggesting they propose it as an answer rather than having it sit in the comment section is usually not a bad idea.

As many things, it's not super clear-cut and requires both some proper personaly judgment and some adjustment of any comment replies to the particular situation.

I hope this is somewhat of a helpful explanation, though.

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson Thank you! See...that's all I was asking. Do I agree with it? No, but I will deal with it if that's the way it has to be. I won't ask about it again, because now I have an answer.

Napoleon Wilson

(And all this said under the existing premise of all other kinds of considerations, like not answering closed questions in comments or waiting with answers to low-quality questions till there is an improvement. All which don't require any less situational judgment and aren't any more clear-cut. See how difficult this stuff is.) ;-)

This is all based on some inherent SE rules, specifically that we usually want good answers and that comments are rather volatile and not really part of SE's long-term useful content archive.

steelersquirrel

Sure. You answered my question, so that's all I wanted to know.

Napoleon Wilson

...together with the fact that acceptance doesn't really matter all too much and the more specific site policy that ID questions are to be treated at least as similarly as possible to other questions with regards to how useful their answers should be.

I'd be more interested into why you actually don't agree with my elaborations and which specific parts you don't agree with.

But I'm also a little afraid to ask. ;-)

steelersquirrel

4:25 PM

Gheez. You act like I am some horrible person to deal with or something :'(

Napoleon Wilson

Awww, I was half-joking. Don't worry. ;-)

steelersquirrel

You answered my question and I will abide by those rules, so what's it matter what my opinion is.

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel Because it matters, you're part of the community and you're a reasonably thinking person that seems to think there's a flaw to something I on the other hand thought to be a reasonable rule.

Gheez, you seem to think I'm some horrible person that just makes up nonsense rules you have to "abide" by. ;-)

That's why I'd like to know why they're nonsense.

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson What? No I don't. I'm asking what SE's rules are, not your personal rules. I only ask you because you're a moderator.

Napoleon Wilson

I'm joking.

But yeah, I think those rules make sense, so I'd like to know why you think they don't. That's all. Isn't that how these meta discussions work? ;-)

steelersquirrel

4:30 PM

@NapoleonWilson I don't think that they're nonsense, I just don't agree with some of it and you already cleared up some of it by explaining that SE values answers (wrong or not) over comments

Napoleon Wilson

(And I'm not SE's official embassador either. My interpretation might be as stupid/wrong as any other person's.)

steelersquirrel

Uhm...isn't that exactly what a site mod is?

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel To some degree, yes.

steelersquirrel

Are you not SE's ambassadors to your particular site?

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel Ah, so that's the part where you disagree then? See, that's good to know and tells me exactly what you think. ;-)

I think a misunderstanding here might be that a wrong answer to an ID question is necessarily a bad thing.

steelersquirrel

4:32 PM

Yeah...I just didn't understand why you would want a bunch of "guesses" as answers, that's all. But, you already explained that

Napoleon Wilson

I don't think that's entirely true once we start treating those questions not like some special sub-site among the "normal" questions here, rather than questions that require answers doing their best to answert the question asked, no matter if ultimately 100% correct.

As said, by that logic a one-line answer to an ID question is awesome, as long as it has been accepted, which I don't think is the case with regards to actual answer quality.

@steelersquirrel They're not just guesses when they're more than just throwing out a movie title, rather than properly argued and sourced answers. That's what I'm saying.

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson Yes. I understand that now :)

Napoleon Wilson

In the same way a page-long essay answer composed of entirely speculative stuff is awesome when explained with specific incidents from the movie, compared to a quote from the author that's just taken from Wikipedia.

Ankit Sharma

Woman's film

The woman's film is a film genre which includes women-centered narratives, female protagonists and is designed to appeal to a female audience. Woman's films usually portray "women's concerns" such as problems revolving around domestic life, the family, motherhood, self-sacrifice, and romance. These films were produced from the silent era through the 1950s and early 1960s, but were most popular in the 1930s and 1940s, reaching their zenith during World War II. Although Hollywood continued to make films characterized by some of the elements of the traditional woman's film in the second half of the...

@NapoleonWilson is this work ^^

Napoleon Wilson

I don't know, you tell me. ;-)

Ankit Sharma

4:38 PM

It seems what I was talking about

Napoleon Wilson

You must have had something specific in mind when proposing the challenge, so I'll trust you to come up with a reasonable definition.

If that Wiki-definition doesn't include Wonder Woman, we're effin' screwed, though. ;-)

Ankit Sharma

lol

> The woman's film is a film genre which includes women-centered narratives, female protagonists and is designed to appeal to a female audience. Woman's films usually portray "women's concerns" such as problems revolving around domestic life, the family, motherhood, self-sacrifice, and romance.

Wonder Woman match it

A J

12

Q: Was Arthur Seldom based on a particular real-life mathematician?

In the 2008 film The Oxford Murders, the late John Hurt plays Arthur Seldom, a renowned professor of mathematics and logic at the University of Oxford. The film also refers to the proof of "Bormat's last theorem" - an obvious reference to Fermat's last theorem - which fixes the setting of the fil...

character the-oxford-murders

Ankit Sharma

women-centered narratives and female protagonists

designed to appeal to a female audience - kind of yes

Napoleon Wilson

Well, I thought Wonder Woman was supposed to appeal to 14 year old comic boys. ;-)

steelersquirrel

4:42 PM

@NapoleonWilson Yes, I understand...doubly now :)

Anyways, I'm going to sleep. Goodnight :)

Napoleon Wilson

@steelersquirrel Okay, sorry. You wanted answers. ;-P

@steelersquirrel Does that mean you haven't slept yet?

<back to annoyed mode>!

steelersquirrel

Back? I didn't even know you were there :'(

Napoleon Wilson

Awww, I'm joking! Gheez, look at all the effin' smilies! ;-)

A J

@NapoleonWilson Well, we're not talking about you. :P And Lynda Carter has become old now.

Napoleon Wilson

@AJ I don't understand that sentence.

A J

4:45 PM

Lynda Carter

Lynda Carter (born Linda Jean Córdova Carter; July 24, 1951) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World America 1972 and also the star of the TV series Wonder Woman from 1975 to 1979. == Early lifeEdit == Carter was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the daughter of Juanita (née Córdova) and Colby Carter. Her father is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry, and her mother is of Mexican, Spanish and French descent. Carter made her public television debut on Lew King's Talent Show at age 5. During high school, Carter performed in a band called Just...

Napoleon Wilson

Yeah, she played the one from the TV-show. That much I know.

A J

I am just saying that you might have watched it when you're 14 and it might have appealed you at that time.

Napoleon Wilson

I have never seen that TV-show. Isn't it from the 70s?

A J

Yes.

Napoleon Wilson

Personally, I always found the concept of Wonder Woman a little ridiculous.

But I also am absolutely no comic expert and that new DCEU stuff looks reasonably reasonable.

A J

4:50 PM

ok

I just spent enough time to research in order to answer a question. I am exhausted now. BBL.

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Would it be okay to leave the compisition of the challenge question and the selection of the winners to you?

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson Awwwww. I'm sorry. I rarely use smiles when I'm this tired, or notice others using them ;)

Catija

@AnkitSharma no. Please no.

A J

@NapoleonWilson Monthly Answer Reward Challenge is pending for two months. Can you please tell do that? I am asking as I also participated in it.

steelersquirrel

There. I used a winky smile, just for you!

Napoleon Wilson

4:54 PM

@steelersquirrel It's okay. I'm just sad you're so tired. :'(

@AJ Yes, it's already on my plan for this extended weekend.

steelersquirrel

@NapoleonWilson Awwwww. Don't worry. I will get all the sleep I need when I'm dead ;-*

A J

@NapoleonWilson And there is another entry from my side for this month.

steelersquirrel

@AJ For June?

A J

Yes.

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija I was just about to ask you to help him figure out a reasonable definition, since you seem to be a little more well-versed in the intricacies of a topic that I adimittedly feel can get a little problematic if not done properly.

@steelersquirrel Awww. Hehe!

@steelersquirrel Hehe! ;-*

A J

4:56 PM

2

A: Was Arthur Seldom based on a particular real-life mathematician?

It appears that it was not. Arthur Seldom was not based on a particular real-life mathematician. It was just a character that writer picked it up from his previous work, About Roderer, and that also shares some traits of the same character in About Roderer. From an interview with writer Guiller...

steelersquirrel

@AJ Which one? I will be actively campaigning against you so that mine will win. Just sayin' ;)

Napoleon Wilson

@AJ Yeah yeah, I've seen, I've seen.

steelersquirrel

I was too slow...

A J

@NapoleonWilson Okay, okay.

Catija

Im sorry but a Topic of the Week that centers around films where women are doing "women's thing", like raising families, doing chores and all of that other crap is the exact opposite of what Wonder Woman stands for. It makes me sick.

2

Napoleon Wilson

4:57 PM

See, I didn't know that's what that Wikipedia article was about.

steelersquirrel

@Catija Oh, God. Please don't get sick :(

Napoleon Wilson

...which is surprising since that's pretty much the first sentence of that article. ;-)

So yeah, maybe not that.

Ixrec

@Catija super agreed

steelersquirrel

@AJ I have seen it! I already upvoted!

Catija

@NapoleonWilson @AnkitSharma just quoted a chunk of it that said what I just reacted to.

Napoleon Wilson

4:59 PM

I know why I dreaded that challenge proposal. ;-)

A J

@NapoleonWilson I shared a few links containing movies that are women-centric and have women as lead protagonist. Lemme find that for ya.

Napoleon Wilson

A list doesn't help. Since people won't just ask questions about stuff from that list.

A J

We can use them as examples.

steelersquirrel

I think I asked Ankit the same thing in chat the other day, because I was confused about the criteria as well

Catija

What about films with female directors? Or would that be too difficult to ascertain?

Napoleon Wilson

5:02 PM

Most users voting have the luxury of not actually implementing that thing, which I can't blame them for.

@Catija Well, that seems quite well-defined indeed.

But I'm not sure that goes too much against the original proposal.

Ixrec

@Catija I think that's not great for a topic since most of us simply don't remember which films have what directors, much less which of them had female directors

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija Seems rather easy to ascertain, no? Usually IMDb lists at least one director for each film.

Ixrec

it'd boil down to everyone looking up a list of such films and seeing what they recognize

A J

imdb.com/list/ls051488552

Napoleon Wilson

Also true.

A J

5:04 PM

imdb.com/list/ls076769518

io9.gizmodo.com/…

Catija

@Ixrec hence the second half of my comment.... but if the goal is to make those films more present on the site, it may not be a bad thing...

Ixrec

unlike, say, a solo female protagonist

Napoleon Wilson

Hmm, I'd think that's a little broad. But on closer thought, maybe it isn't.

Catija

@Ixrec Darn... having to do a little work??? 😝

Ixrec

@NapoleonWilson the more I think about it the more I find it hard to distinguish "solo protagonist" from "multiple major characters any of which is arguably 'the' protagonist"

Catija

5:06 PM

You can tell I'm on mobile because of the emoji.

Ixrec

but I'm not very good at categorizing stuff

Napoleon Wilson

@Ixrec Well, yeah.

I'm glad that discussion is going, though. Less glad I didn't incite it a week ago already.

Ixrec

like when SFF had a ladies' movie night and The Terminator won...which is not a movie I'd ever noticed for having a strong female character in it, but in retrospect duh

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson You are not going to watch Wonder Woman film??

@NapoleonWilson okay, I will do it

A J

@AnkitSharma Apparently, not. It doesn't appeal him. ;)

Ankit Sharma

5:11 PM

@Catija what?? You have something in mind ?

@steelersquirrel lol

Ixrec

well, of course WW is ridiculous, but no more so than any other superhero film

A J

Super boring and irritating Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chasmah show is on TV

Ankit Sharma

@Catija That wikipedia definition didn't said that but I am open for suggestions

Napoleon Wilson

@AnkitSharma Sure I am, it looks awesome.

@AnkitSharma Which is not so say you might not want to gather some more input from this lively chat discussion. ;-)

A J

I am loosing interest to watch WW.

Napoleon Wilson

5:14 PM

@AJ I don't know why you think that.

@AnkitSharma It...says it pretty much in its first sentence. ;-)

A J

@NapoleonWilson I am just kidding.

Napoleon Wilson

@AJ Sure, but even jokes need an existing premise to work on.

Ankit Sharma

@Ixrec terminator , really O.o

@NapoleonWilson I am reading and responding to it now

@AJ bummer

Now I am confused @Ixrec @Catija @NapoleonWilson @AJ :D

Napoleon Wilson

18 mins ago, by Napoleon Wilson

I know why I dreaded that challenge proposal. ;-)

Ixrec

16

Q: April Movie Night Special - It's Ladies' Night!

Update. At midnight the votes were counted and verified by our judges. The clear winner with 23 points (20 upvotes + 3 bonus points) is MissMonicaE's The Terminator. I'll be creating a new post shortly to formally announce the winner and confirm the date/time of our next Movie Night event in th...

discussion movie-night

Napoleon Wilson

5:18 PM

@Ixrec Well, they have it a little easier really. It lists some specific criteria and they're not even mandatory. You can basically come up with whatever crap you want.

A J

@NapoleonWilson You already established a premise that WW only appeals to 14 year old boys.

Napoleon Wilson

Ah, I see.

That was pretty much right before saying that the DCEU stuff looks quite interesting, though.

Catija

Movies featuring "self-rescuing princesses".

Napoleon Wilson

Like Xena, the warrior princess?

A J

Movies with women as lead protagonist. That's it.

Napoleon Wilson

5:20 PM

That still seems the most reasonable so far.

I keep thinking it's too broad, but maybe they're really not that many films with women as primary protagonists.

A J

IMDb and Wikipedia listing actresses as lead protagonist.

Catija

@NapoleonWilson Not necessarily literally princesses... women who get themselves through their troubles rather than relying on a "prince" to rescue them.

Ixrec

I'm honestly having trouble coming up with ones where the woman is clearly the primary protagonist rather than "one of" the protagonists

Napoleon Wilson

@Catija Oh, so that wasn't a joke proposal. ;-) That does sound nice, but also a little vague maybe.

Catija

@Ixrec Working Girl.

Ixrec

5:22 PM

well, Pan's Labyrinth is the first one that came to mind since we watched that yesterday on SFF

Napoleon Wilson

Or Flashdance?

A J

@Ixrec Resident Evils, Charlie's Angels

S S

@AJ I am watching cricket.

Ixrec

@AJ yeah those work

though I've only seen one of those

Kill Bill

A J

Bandidas.

Catija

5:24 PM

If you're going to count Charlie's Angels, you could include the New Ghostbusters.

A J

@SS Good.

Napoleon Wilson

Well, sure, wasn't that the entire premise of that weird reboot?

A J

@Catija Didn't see that one.

Catija

And it was over the top. Too many gadgets.

Ixrec

Catwoman!

runs

A J

5:25 PM

Sure.

Catija

Labyrinth.

@Ixrec you'd better run!

A J

@Catija Ixrec already suggested it.

Ixrec

Labyrinth and Pan's Labyrinth are different movies

Napoleon Wilson

If that is explained in a nice little one-sentence paragraph, I think we might be onto something here.

A J

Ohh

Ixrec

5:26 PM

I've never seen the former so no idea about its protagonist

Catija

@AJ Pan's Labyrinth is way different. Labyrinth is a classic.

Napoleon Wilson

Even if that requires reading a ton of Wikipedia summaries in about 1-2 weeks.

A J

Yeah, you'd need to analyze those entries.

Napoleon Wilson

@Ixrec It's 14-year old Jennifer Connelly, maturing from a spoiled little princess to a responsible woman.

Catija

And it has Jim Henson puppets and David Bowie. ... in very tight tights.

Napoleon Wilson

5:28 PM

...with the help of David friggin' Bowie and his songs of course, and a ton of Jim Henson things.

Catija

Ankit Sharma

@Ixrec lol

Electra too then

Napoleon Wilson

I should maybe rewatch that after seeing the other Labyrinth thing yesterday. Maybe it will even qualify for that challenge.

Ankit Sharma

Maybe I should just drop that ToW idea

Movie Reel

0

Q: How did the acid burnt Man in Alien Covenant die?

This is a different subject than my last dock structure question I asked earlier. However this is a smaller spoiler. In Alien Covenant, I thought about an alternative scenario which would have the same consequence both literally and figuratively.

plot-explanation alien-covenant

Napoleon Wilson

5:43 PM

@AnkitSharma Why? People brought up some reasonable ideas in chat.

Ankit Sharma

But I am confused more

and can't think any straight about it

Ixrec

what was confusing?

Ankit Sharma

that what is the final definition :D

Napoleon Wilson

It might be a little too late for retracting it now.

Ankit Sharma

hmmmm

so?

Napoleon Wilson

5:53 PM

Well, properly judge the input you got from the chat discussion and try to come up with something reasonable.

It's how these things work.

The idea of women who solve their own crap seems quite reasonable and not too vague at least.

Movie Reel

1

Q: Harry Morgan Connection on Dexter?

In the series Dexter Harry Morgan is the name of the Dexter's father. Harry Morgan is also the name of the well known character actor who starred in such shows as M*A*S*H as well as Dragnet - (1967). It doesn't seem "Hollywood" would copy a name like this (at least to me), Is there any relation...

character dexter harry-morgan

Ankit Sharma

Films with women-centered narratives with female protagonists who deals with there own issues themselves ??

@NapoleonWilson @Catija @Ixrec @AJ ^^

Napoleon Wilson

Makes sense, I guess.

Ixrec

that sounds more confusing than any of the suggestions I saw actually suggested here

Ankit Sharma

lol

@MovieReel i expect none

Napoleon Wilson

6:04 PM

Well, maybe leave away the "women centered narratives" thing. Because that's basically everything.

Ankit Sharma

Films with female protagonists who deal with their own issues themselves?

Napoleon Wilson

46 mins ago, by Catija

@NapoleonWilson Not necessarily literally princesses... women who get themselves through their troubles rather than relying on a "prince" to rescue them.

Without the prince-part maybe.

Woot! Victoria is on TV tonight. I always wanted to see that. \o/

Ankit Sharma

Film with female protagonists who get themselves through their troubles rather than relying on others?

Napoleon Wilson

And Terminator: Genisys as well as The Amazing Spide-Man 2, hard choice.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson they don;t deal with there own issue and need saving from others

Napoleon Wilson

6:12 PM

@AnkitSharma I'm not talking about that stuff anyway.

2 mins ago, by Napoleon Wilson

Woot! Victoria is on TV tonight. I always wanted to see that. \o/

Ankit Sharma

So I am going with this :

2 mins ago, by Ankit Sharma

Film with female protagonists who get themselves through their troubles rather than relying on others?

S S

Only protagonists? Not antagonists?

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson ohhh, then I will say both films suck, better switch off TV

@SS no

Ankit Sharma

6:28 PM

@NapoleonWilson can you check if it's fine

Napoleon Wilson

Maybe "relying on others" is a little vague/broad, too.

Ankit Sharma

then what you suggest

or anyone else ?

Napoleon Wilson

Hmm...

Maybe "relying on being rescued by men".

But maybe that's a little too in-your-face.

A J

Keep only female as lead protagonist part. Leave the rest.

Napoleon Wilson

Or maybe let's go back to "get themselves through their troubles on their own".

Anyway, it's not really urgent. There's still a few hours to go and maybe Catija has some input with a little more sensible wording when she comes back.

A J

6:36 PM

It would create more confusion.

They always needed help in some manner.

Therefore, keep lead protagonist part only.

I Spit on Your Grave can be one as you mentioned, but every movie with women as lead protagonist I watched always had a character that helped them in some way.

I gotta sleep. Gotta go to work tomorrow. GN :)

JohnP

Hey all

If I could get a couple reopen votes on the gasoline ID movie, I believe I have the answer for it.

Napoleon Wilson

Also true.

@JohnP I don't know what question you're talking about, but just to make sure, you know reopenability is not the same as quality and that someone finding an answer doesn't magically make an ID question a good one, right?

Just to make sure, but maybe the question already got improved by other means.

JohnP

@NapoleonWilson I know, but I'm in a rep whore mood this morning. :) I suppose I could edit it and see if he approves the edit.

Napoleon Wilson

You're...not actually talking about this one, are you?

Please tell me you're not.

If yes, then yeah, what I just said in the previous messages, but with a few imagined exclamation marks more. ;-)

JohnP

Yes, I can ID the film from that. :p

Napoleon Wilson

6:47 PM

Good for you. ;-P

JohnP

@NapoleonWilson- See if you like the edits.

Napoleon Wilson

Well, they seem to make sense, sure.

And it's much appreciated you made them (even if after reopen-voting it and hitting granite when trying to gather support for that unimproved reopening). ;-)

JohnP

@NapoleonWilson Yeah, well, I'm in a weird mood this morning. See you in a bit, going to take the kids out for lunch.

Napoleon Wilson

Have fun.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson but I am too sleepy and can't make it any longer

Napoleon Wilson

7:02 PM

@AnkitSharma Don't worry, I'll undelete it later and create the event.

Ankit Sharma

great

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Dafuq wut? The new season of Sherlock is on TV and I totally missed it!

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