And, specifically, that it's "influence" often manifests itself in ways that fundamentally contradict the movie's themes.

The change he made to Kovacs' transformation into Rorschach is the best evidence I've yet seen of the man's fundamentally immature conception of "badass."

The 300 Spartans did get most of those 5,000 other troops out of there by holding the cliffs while they executed a retreat.

You keep forgetting a key part that should begin any list of what we know about Spartan culture:

Yeah, we're so lucky we have all those Athenian sources to tell us that Sparta was entirely bereft of art and philosophy!

I adore the way he portrays the Kryptonian soldiers in fight scenes.

Oh, what a difference 10 years makes:

Yup.

Skyfall is heavily indebted to that, actually.

And, realistically, Logan IS the action movie of 2017.

Yeah, there's a school of thought that it was Athenian propaganda.

In fairness…they called the Athenians boy-lovers, not the Persians.

BECAUSE HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM IF WE ACCEPT THE CAPACITY FOR NUANCE?!

It's ironic that you're making fun of people for "craving the middle" even as you profess that you don't believe in the absence of God.

A lot of it is people with those social policies and moderate Republican economic policies trying to find local candidates who line up with them.

I actually find agnosticism to be a meaningful distinction from atheism.

Don't forget democratic socialists in that agnostic category!

Meanwhile, I know plenty of people who are fiscally moderate-to-conservative and extremely socially liberal…but they don't live in Massachusetts, so neither political party represents their belief system.

Also…those are weird, dark books.

Eh, I like Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Grocery Games isn't bad hungover-watching, either.