The only negative about this movie is that it doesn’t follow the Mo Movie Rule. This is offset by the fact that the female member of the heist team is present because of her brains and skill, not her cleavage, and while pretty in a well-scrubbed Midwestern sort of way, is not a model and is not there to provide a romantic subplot for the hero.
It’s so nice to watch a movie that has a well-written script, addresses potential plot holes and deals with exposition intelligently.
So in the wake of RaceFail 2009, John Scalzi rethinks his reflexive “no way am I putting my hand in THAT blender” position, and invites Mary Anne Mohanraj to write a guest blog post. Which she does in a thoughtful, kind, non-blaming, We Can Work It Out sort of way full of linky goodness.
And damn if the thread doesn’t immediately get clunked on by people who amaze you only by their ability to type with fingers jammed firmly in their ears, going OMFG U CALLED ME AN OPPRESSOR!! and “Racism? That’s so twentieth century, darling” and “But shouldn’t we wait for people of color to come to us before we acknowledge they have a role in SF?”
Oh Internets, just once, I would love you to surprise me.
The Queen’s birthday is this week. Still a teenager, and increasingly rolling her eyes at me when I have not heard of something on the Internet (“you’ve never been to 4chan?! I mean not that you’d want to go there but…”) or when I try to interest her in the quaint pastimes of my childhood–
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