Honest Trailer’s basically just casts it as Sex and the City for dudes - a very specific flavor of escapism. And considering how much it made, obviously that 64% male audience is a pretty tiny sample of men in general.

The thing that GoT has that’s pretty much right in line with the list as you give it is that it’s unapologetic in what it sets out to be. There’s no question Farscape showrunners would put things together all the time and say, “you know we’re going to lose viewers over this.” For me, they’re not universal shows but…

Or it’s acknowledging that the history of the MCU predates where you’d prefer to start it. Let’s see those loans happen without Spider-Man or X-Men. Let’s take bets on whether or not Feige had to account for what happened on Daredevil and Hulk when he was getting that money. Movie production has a history. Things…

At the end of the day, Marvel had multiple hits and misses with their properties in X-Men and Spider-Man and the Hulk properties before Marvel studios EVER had their skin in the game. Yes, the heavy lifting was done by other studios that both had hits and misses to their credit before Marvel essentially cribbed what…

Not sure I get that takeaway if the cause of this is Tomorrowland which wasn’t necessarily targeted to boys at all. I do agree Disney has probably gotten cynical with it, but until the general audience gets to the level of cynicism I have about Disney I don’t think they have much to worry about. Hell, they’ve got…

Martin got a free pass because at the time ASOIAF became popular, this was not a major discussion throughout fandom at large. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t have been discussed; it simply wasn’t. Like a lot of material, it existed as a product of the time it was written but I’d also argue whether you draw the line at…

The point has been brought up elsewhere, Max has been a viewpoint character for other people’s stories before. It’s just been so long that we haven’t talked about it.

That’s because WyattEarth wasn’t respecting his own point. If plurality was being respected, there would have been no cause to respond in the negative towards Kristivas WHILE offering admonishment for intolerance of opposing viewpoints. All that is, is arguing while preemptively trying to frame any counterargument as…

Yea, it is genuinely hard to watch the plight of the innocents in GoT. It never really gets easier.

The problem with both Tommen and Joffrey before him is that they were both consistently groomed to be proxies for Cersei. Joffrey took on so many of Cersei’s worst qualities while being independent like his mother but also nutty. Tommen seems to have actually been taught to defer to such an extent he is easy prey for…

And while that’s an opinion, you need to realize the other opinion exists and always will. Both opinions have always existed. There has always been disagreement between how much realism/grittiness is acceptable in escapism and the truth is the answer varies between people and always has.

Isn’t this a fundamental misunderstanding of what Musk’s business plan is? Wasn’t the ENTIRE purpose of the Roadster to continually build the top end so that the technology would eventually be there for a less expensive car and defray the costs of early adoption to those who were going to be willing to spend the money…

How is Hollywood going to demand directors like that when Whedon, Bay, and 3D appear to be how they are making their money? I don’t even have that much of a problem with Whedon, EXCEPT that either because he wants it or Marvel wants it, we regularly get “umm, really?” frames that if you pause the movie just look…

My opinion is DC is just confused because they’re failing to see a lot of criticism as standard Marvel vs. DC and taking too much of it to heart. And the problem with that is, the criticism changes no matter what they do. First they needed to be like the MCU (connected.) Then when they start making that change, the…

I agree with Cashman’s point (the entire point of those milestones is the prestige it brings to the club which is entirely undone because of what A-Rod did) but from a legal standpoint he’s boned. Contract law is about what is written on the page that both parties signed. It is not based on the premise behind the…

Technically? Your entire argument is speculation which is why I can’t follow it. You think there’s hypocrisy here, but really you’re just committing a presupposition fallacy and calling it a day. “X probably took land from from Y, so I as Z don’t need to consider my ignoring of X’s wishes since Y is the real victim.”

Boats and natural selection probably. When they claimed that ‘lil chunk of land, the Polynesian settlers were not displacing a native population or at least we don’t have a record of that happening. They have fought with each other.

That would be a ballsier position if the telescope was going to be placed in Mecca or on the wailing wall. However in reality, this is going on the sacred sight of indiginous peoples, some thing we as a culture seem to have no problem doing and never have.

An ant has now quarrel with a boot - Loki.

I’m not sure how you can watch TDK, TDKR, or Batman Begins and get that though. What people think of as the poster children for grimdark are essentially philosophical/psychological think pieces. They don’t have perfect answers but I fail to see that in just about any grimdark film property out there.