It's not quite the same, but it's similar to the JK Rowling transphobe thing. On one hand, my enjoyment of and participation in that fandom is mine, and she can't take it away from me. On the other hand, I don't want it to seem like I support her and her transphobia.

I guess I should be thankful my distaste for Dennis Leary kept me from ever watching the movie, so it's one thing Spacey can't ruin for me. Well, and given his characters in The Usual Suspects and Se7en, I guess I could watch those again without him bothering me.

I'm meh on Leary in general, but the screenwriter for The Ref (Richard LaGravenese, who also wrote The Fisher King, Bridges of Madison County and A Little Princess, all of which I fucking love), knew his strengths and wrote to them beautifully. The whole production is just a goldmine of sharp writing and great character acting, and it used to be one of my great pleasures to show it to people who'd never even heard of it and watch them discovering it. And Spacey has (for me, anyway) drained all the joy out of all their work on it.

The Harry Potter movies are a little easier, just because Rowling created the source material but played no active role once the cameras started rolling; each one is very clearly the work of its individual director, building these worlds within worlds along with the actors and set and props and light and sound and costume people and absolutely everyone else. The books themselves make me uncomfortable now, and I'm not sure when/if I'll reread them or how it will feel when I do, but the films are just enough removed from her that it's not visceral or tainting in the same way.

God, I love The Ref. I haven't seen it in years, though. I'm not sure how I'd feel about it now.

I agree about Se7en and The Usual Suspects, though. I actually just watched the latter last week.

I can't wait to see Little Women. I just want it to be ... everything I want it to be. There's no perfect version for me yet -- I'm strangely partial to the 1950s one, although June Allyson as Jo is just weird. I really did NOT like the recent PBS one, but I know I have incredibly intense feelings about the story, so.

I can't wait to see Little Women. I just want it to be ... everything I want it to be.

I've read reviews that say the movie actually makes Amy an awesome character instead of a simpering whiner, which makes me so happy. (I don't understand the hate for Amy -- her growth and character arc are fantastic.)

I can't wait to see Little Women. I think Laurie and Amy are perfect for one another and he gets to be part of the family. I am still waiting for the adaptations of The Old Fashioned Girl and Eight Cousins/Rose in Bloom!

I always liked Amy! You could so clearly see her grow up. And I loved her and Laurie together, which is apparently a very unpopular opinion. I could never see Jo loving him like that. Or being that kind of wife.

Professor Bhaer is right for Jo, I think. He is also fortunately named, so he seems like a Teddy Bear. And he can be loving and kind and calm, which is what she needs. And Jo can still be BFFS with Laurie. Jo is right- they are both too alike and too different to work romantically. They both need grounding, and left together, she would be the one to ground him or they would both kill each other. Amy grounds him just by being and letting him love and indulge her while she loves and indulges him.

Again, I recommend The Old Fashioned Girl for what people wanted Jo and Laurie to be.

Also, I was so young and naive the first time I read this that I thought Laurie was also a girl.

That Gerwig has Amy come right out and tell Laurie "You only courting me after my sister turned you down? You are really not in a position to be chucking asparagus at ME about how unromantic this all is" made me think about spiking my popcorn bucket in delight.

The subtext of "I don't have a lot of choices - if I'm going to essentially give up my status as a separate legal entity, why the hell shouldn't I be well compensated for that?" being made text is apparently putting a lot of people off? And I'm going "That was and still is the choice for far too many folks on this planet? They did come to love one another, which, yay!"

The subtext of "I don't have a lot of choices - if I'm going to essentially give up my status as a separate legal entity, why the hell shouldn't I be well compensated for that?"

Or as Peggy Carter says it in a different context, "I know my worth."