What's the point of a revolution without general copulation?

apparently, this is an issue for the actors, too:

Far and away the best of the three. (And the only one I actually mostly enjoyed, really). I went in pretty unspoiled, which was definitely good.

I'm not 100% certain, but for a second there, I think it might have passed the Bechdel test.

Emily VanCamp of ‘Revenge’ Tagged for ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’

According to Deadline.com, Emily VanCamp, best known as Emily Thorne on the hit TV series “Revenge,” will be playing Sharon Carter, the female lead in the comic-inspired adventure, which is said to pick up in Marvel multi-verse where “The Avengers” left off.

VanCamp’s character in “Captain Avenger: The Winter Solider” will be romancing Steve Rogers, the alter ego of Captain America; while Alison Brie, Felicity Jones, and Anna Kendrick were among the actresses said to be in talks for the role, Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming Jr. reports that VanCamp is to be confirmed to play Carter.

Yes, Revenge has gone seriously downhill since Nolan stopped being Emily's chief confidant and they moved into separate storylines (the show shines for those brief moments when they plot together, the rest is meh), but this news still pleases me.

Japanese version, which has a little more - and more spoilery - footage at the end of it than the American version. Although I doubt very much you'll be able to escape the footage in the trailer even if you're trying to remain unspoiled, so may as well dive in.

( Spoilers for the trailer )

Link. There's also a gag reel floating around but sadly it was taken down...

Ah - here?: http://io9.com/5936468/the-avengers-gag-reel-assembles-a-lot-of-laughs

Well, here I am home from VVC! Most of this post was actually typed up on the airplane home – I’m writing quickly while everything is still fresh in my mind, but I’m sure there’s plenty I’ll forget to mention! And I still haven't seen all the vids - missed a bunch from CVV, and from various themed show premieres - but here's what I can say right now:

My overall summary is that the vids were amazing and I may have OD’d. I spent most of my time in vid shows, rather than panels, so there’s a little bit of sensory overload going on for me right now (possibly, that’s also due to the con suite M&M bowl.) Right now, I feel like I’ve done more in the past three days than in the entire four weeks prior. And I just want to shout out a thank you to the con organizers - everything was fun and beautifully coordinated and (from the outside, at least) appeared to run perfectly. Everyone was telling me that VVC is known for being an incredibly well-run con, and that's exactly how it seemed to me. Thank you so much for having me there!

Also, I can report that I have all kinds of muscle soreness in new places, which I attribute to the fact that the hotel management kept the air conditioning at near-Arctic temperatures, and so I spent a lot of the con huddled and shivering in a ball. Which, as it turns out, apparently works as exercise. Who knew? (Thanks, MorganDawn, for posting a warning - otherwise I wouldn't have thought to pack a sweatjacket!)

Best moment: The Sunday noon break, watching everyone gather in the con suite for lunch – which consisted of food scrounged from the suite tables, namely, Swedish fish, M&Ms, pretzels, and potato chips. To be fair, I am in absolutely no position to throw stones when it comes to healthy eating; nonetheless, there was something hilarious about watching adults sit down to eat a meal that was basically the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Dinner. (If it hadn't been for the fact that Laura Shapiro had previously invited me to go to an actual restaurant, I'd have been right there with them.)

Second best moment(s): Watching my own vids on a movie screen. Vanity, I know, but – wow! They look like a real ... thing, there!

Question I was most often asked: How do you pronounce your LJ name?

Most surprising question: Are you having a good con? Not because there is anything surprising in the sentiment, but because this was my very first con – VVC or anything else – so I hadn’t heard that particular turn of phrase before.

Biggest regret: Not getting to at least say hello to everyone I know online. I saw lots of people I “know” but was too shy and retiring to approach. Nonetheless, I was very pleased to meet the many people that I did get to meet.

Second biggest regret: Not getting to talk more with the people I did meet! The days were so packed, I only managed to exchange a few words with most people. But at least now I know the faces - and the regional accents!

Greatest triumph: I won chocolate in Greensilver’s “guess the five most common premiere fandoms” contest. Greensilver announced in advance that she would give chocolate to anyone who could guess the top five fandoms for all premiering vids. I came closest with four, so I won. I guessed Multifandom, Avengers-verse, Game of Thrones, Sherlock BBC, and Community. Community was wrong – it was Harry Potter.

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We're all delighted that Joss Whedon is on board for Avengers 2, but honestly, the great news is that Bret Easton Ellis is out as screenwriter for 50 Shades of Grey.

Incidentally, he stirred up a bit of a Twitter storm with comments about Matt Bomer being too gay to play Christian Grey. (Why Bomer? Why not, apparently.)

Details here (hey, someone besides me remembers Young Americans!) and also I recommend this article on the subject, for this quote:

Playing a heterosexual male is hardly acting's greatest challenge. I would simply imagine the world was created for my benefit, and that everything and everyone was a receptacle for my ego and penis.

Zing!

It was ... reasonably entertaining. Very predictable, went on too long, tripped my embarrassment squick a couple of times (especially when I focused on Matt Bomer), a bit dub con-esque in a couple of places but mostly fleetingly, parts of it were fun, a couple of moments were hilarious. The slash, I assure you, writes itself.

I was entertained by the audience. To my untutored eye, it seemed like a very nice crowd for 11 am on a Friday. The vast majority were women, but there were several men (who I strongly suspect were gay - interestingly, none of the men were with women, they were on their own or in pairs). This is definitely a movie targeting female audiences.

Honestly, this summer Hollywood's gotten more money out of me than in any other summer in recent memory. Hunger Games, Avengers, Snow White and the Huntsman, Brave, Magic Mike - and I still plan on seeing the new Batman movie (though I don't plan to enjoy it). For me, that's a lot.

I also liked a couple of trailers. Apparently, I guess, it's a thing now for Steve Carrell to tell love stories about older people who are trying to rekindle their romance?



It's actually really nice to see romantic comedies that are so ... kind. And blessedly lacking in misogyny.

Also, I am really temped by:



Finally, there was a trailer for something like Pitch Perfect, which, as far as I can tell, is a fairly blatant attempt to capitalize on Glee's popularity. The music seemed entertaining but the trailer was, like, 50% fat (woman) jokes, so I'm giving that one a pass.

How come [Robert Downey Jr.] get[s] the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?

-- Scarlett Johansson, in response to a reporter's gendered questions to RDJ and herself during an Avengers press conference.