I think part of it definitely is Garland’s desire not to offend potential viewers by making the bad guy a generic authoritarian that everyone, liberals and conservatives alike, can rebel against. But a big part of it, again, is that I don’t think Garland actually understands American culture, that any new civil war…

Very true. There’s only been one group and one political party that has actively been using the words civil war and thinking of ways to move us from the nation we’ve been to a fascist or authoritarian regime.

I’d like to know what exactly “extreme left” is defined as when people toss this term around, especially when they laughably use it to describe Biden or any other member of the current Democratic leadership.

Not just cowardly, but deeply dumb.

I can go with trying not to pick a side.

Welp there goes the objectivity of the piece that Garland’s been claiming if he thanked those two 

You call this approach objective; I call it cowardly.

I’m not seeing a movie that thanks Andy Ngo in the credits. Fuck anyone & everyone who associate themselves with that fucking piece of shit.

Absolutely. I’m all for exploring moral gray areas in fiction as well as digging deeper into a fictional universe to poke at its inner workings. But there’s a certain limit. At its core Star Wars is a story born from early 20th Century pulp fiction, and the conflict is between the oppressed and disenfranchised against…

You are 100% right. Star Wars was never complex. It was Jedi are good. Sith/Emprie are bad. Simple. If you wanted more complex Scifi there was Star Trek and countless other media.

As I’ve said before, Neil Gaiman’s “George R.R. Martin is not your bitch” is absolutely a given. But as a reader, I am not George R.R. Martin’s bitch either, and just because I enjoyed the first three books in ASoIaF over twenty years ago it doesn’t mean I’m obligated to read any of the newer books, any more than…

FWIW, you mostly see the kids from the ankles down and the only thing you ever find out about them is their names. Their genders didn’t seem to matter, I don’t even know which kid was supposed to be older.

Fish Jelly Film Reviews on YouTube just posted a spoiler review for Skinamarink.

That Terra is amazing and it’s iconic because it’s the first 3D rendering of a Final Fantasy game’s logo art I’ve ever seen.

... okay.

Seems like you have niche tastes that don’t readily compare with what a lot of other people enjoy.

Username checks out

“There were some nights around that I probably didn’t sleep as well as I would’ve wanted to,” Dano told Entertainment Weekly. Channeling the Riddler is something that took a lot of energy, according to him, and as such, “It was a little hard to come down from this character...you almost have to sustain it once you’re…

It’s funny Lucas though that, because the pacing of the original movie is glacial compared to modern movies, or even Empire Strikes Back. After the opening fight scene it’s like an hour before any of the real action starts. It’s not bad, but you can just tell it was made in a different era. Kind of like the original Ha…

I know that Lucas hated the Tosche Station scenes because they messed up the pacing, but I’ve always enjoyed them. You get a glimpse of what normal life in the galaxy under the Empire is like for people who aren’t star pilots or Jedi Knights-in-training. And Biggs’ warning to Luke about getting drafted is a reminder…