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Oh oh oh, I want to know why you have Chuck Palahnuik on notice. I don't have a reason for disliking him other than the fact that I do.

Also "superheroine films"!

Chuck deserves his own entry one day, maybe after I've read more of his work and get to see if he's grown any, but as it stands now I like his work but with EXTREME RESERVATIONS. He's kind of like a casual friend who seems interesting at first so you overlook the fact that he smells or whatever. And then he does some things that show he's kind of a dick - not a huge dick, and maybe it could be chalked up to a bad day - but a dick nonetheless. So whenever you hang out with him, you want to concentrate on how interesting he is but you keep remembering the dick-y stuff he did and then it's kind of like OH MY GOD IT REEKS IN HERE WHY DOES HE HAVE TO SMELL SO MUCH?

In the most general sense, my biggest problems with him are that 1.) he chalks up pretty much any criticism of his work - warranted or not - as a tough-guy "I meant to do that! Fuck you if you can't get it! Neener neener neener" 2.)criticism makes him act like a spazz-attack baby (Laura Miller was really harsh on him in her Salon review, but in his response letter he both flubbed her name and then responded with an immature "So what have you written/you're just jealous!" defense) 3.) he worships macho tough guys while petulantly blaming women for men's problems (some of this can be chalked up to unreliable narrators, but I think he's at least partly speaking from the heart here) 4.) he whines that there are no books for men, which is laughable and 5.) if he wants to put in glaring errors/urban legends in his book as some sort of statement/mood setting, that's fine, but don't turn around and tell me "I SPEAK THE TRUTH OF THE WAY THE WORLD IS" when you're blatantly lying to me.

Superheroine films is on the list not so much because of the idea of it -- I'd love superheroine films. However, pretty much every one has sucked so far, which leads into this totally unfair vicious cycle where the movie studios put out sucky superheroine movies and then go, "Well, audiences don't like superheroine movies!" because they're too sexist/dumb to realize that no, audiences don't like movies that SUCK. They can accept Uma Thurman in a Quentin Tarantino movie but not Wonder Woman? It's ridiculous. It's like if they based their perception of superhero movies on Captain America, Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the original Punisher movie but ignored the success of the original Superman. So until a GOOD superheroine movie comes out and puts this stupid stereotype to rest, the genre is on notice.

That is a fine on notice list. :D

What's "'manga commercial' anime"? And does the thoughts on yaoi meme just annoy you, or ... ?

"Manga commercial" is a term I just made up (I would have put something more descriptive, but the letters were packed too tight). It means an anime that covers a portion of the manga series but makes no effort to stand on its own or come to a logical conclusion if they don't reach the end. I consider examples of this to be Loveless and Kare Kano, which don't end but just stop (as opposed to the anime versions of Gravitation or Ouran Host Club, which don't cover all of the manga's ground but don't leave you with a "OH HEY WE RAN OUT OF EPISODES SORRY ABOUT THAT" feeling at the end and actually bother to wrap up some of the major storylines). When I complained about this someone told me, "You should think of Loveless as a commercial for the manga." Well, no, I shouldn't. An adaption should stand on its own, and I'm not going to sing the praises of something when it can't even bother to be complete.

And I liked the yaoi meme for a long time, but I do think it's getting tired, except for the rare occasions when a n00b walks into it and seriously answers the question. It's kind of a beaded pony by this point. [lame rimshot]

Ahh, I see. Yeah, unfortunately one of my favorite anime is kind of like that. It's a beautiful anime, but then it just stops, leaving all kinds of things unresolved, with the apparent expectation that you can just read the manga to find out what happens. Which was especially frustrating because the manga wasn't available to me the first time I watched it.

It's always amusing when someone tries to answer the yaoi question seriously. Especially if they go on for paragraphs about it. But I see what you mean, it is rather overused aside from that.

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Chuck, Chuck, Bo Buck, Banana Fanna Fo ... um ...

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