Conflict averse people hate-tweet the most—they can drop a bomb online without the human element that a face-to face insult demands. It’s a haven for cowards. I’d venture a guess that’s a big draw of a place like Twitter, you can be all bark and that’s enough.
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It’s weird how people who frequent a site about film and tv might enjoy reading about aspects of making film and tv.
Just to play Devil’s Advocate, I suspect a lot of people (not necessarily me) would point to the Nolan Bat-trilogy as an example of smarter, more sophisticated big-budget superhero movies. I would even say Burton’s movies, sloppy, clunky movies in many ways, have psychological and mythological underpinnings which are…
That’s certainly an antecedent, as is the more general concept of “modern gladiator games” which pops up a lot in dystopic fiction.
They are two of the many descendants of The Most Dangerous Game
Pretty sure she’s not Mormon. Google says Roman Catholic.
There is no basis for a lawsuit there - that’s like saying that Tolkein could have sued every author who set up an epic story with elves and dwarves in it. There’s lots of room in storytelling for a similar base premise to go in myriad directions. If there weren’t, there wouldn’t be a million retellings of…
They really are not that similar beyond both involving games where kids kill each other, and Hunger Games is very much focused on parodying 2000s reality show and celebrity culture, which have nothing to do with Battle Royale.
Yeah, to me the whole set of the Hunger Games movies (I’ve never read the books) are fascinating because what the movies are really about is using propaganda, marketing, and messaging.
I love Battle Royale and it’s definitely an original but it’s also not without influences of its own. The thing that immediately comes to mind are “last one standing” or king of the hill multiplayer modes that were popular in games back then like Quake or Unreal. But I’m sure if you start digging you could find other…
I mean it is. That's not even debatable. It makes a morally dubious man a hero and does the whole PTSD thing on someone who never mentioned experiencing it. Who bragged about killing black people he didn't even kill. So I guess the answer is probably now and probably next week for good measure. I'll end with…
For all that Lawrence is great as Katniss, these movies gathered an absolutely stellar cast, as noted in the article. My personal favorites probably being Lenny Kravitz as Cinna and Woody Harrelson as Haymitch. The latter brings just the right kind of world-weary realism, while the former is so quietly, remarkably…
Tulsi was aiming for the coveted “Democrat who doesn’t think we meddle with ENOUGH countries” slice of the electorate
It seems less like they asked ‘The Queen’ and more that they asked Granny if she would be okay with them naming the baby after her. The palace flunkies seem to think that they should have asked The Queen, instead of a grandson asking his grandmother.
they can critique someone who is actively pushing a shitty rhetoric. what Rogan is sharing is purposely disingenuous and he’s leaning into it more and more because he’s going to get more money with more listeners.
FFS, IT’S an POP CULTURE CRITICISM WEBSITE!!!!
Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was 11.
George Lucas wanted her to be 11 according to story meeting transcripts.
I suspect it is a decision by the A.G. The President is not supposed to sink his fingers into the legal arguments being presented by the DOJ in Court by second guessing the A.G. I’m sure Trump would not have hesitated, and he had a highly political and partisan A.G., who had no reluctance in making decisions to…
There has been a lot of Dem Senators who are awfully quiet about the filibuster but because they keep their heads down, don’t take any heat. My guess is that there’s a lot more Dems out there, especially the ones who’ve been there forever, who agree with Manchin but don’t want people to know.