Yeah, it’s a real talent to find coloration that takes away all the vibrancy and life associated with a character.
A Superman that allows killing on the first day on the job...WTF? 

I am on my 10+ rewatch of the entire show. It makes me laugh more than any show ever. It is also smart and not just silly. It will be so very missed. 

I love how much Aisha Tyler loves this show.

And I remember being slightly put off, which I usually am about doing anything, because I had to go find this studio in the middle of Tucson. I believe it coincided with me visiting my parents, and I needed to get it done. I knew very little about the show.

“otherwise it would come across as worryingly pro-fascism”

Isn’t this the defining characteristic of his entire oeuvre? I assume the Imperium will be the good guys?

I hope that in whatever reality she now inhabits, Jessica Walter can be happy that she has forever changed the way we say “Star Wars”.

It’s like poetry. It rhymes or something.

ChatGPT is the doctor. You’re thinking of ChatGPT’s Monster.

(And maybe it’s my own ignorance that I don’t connect 300 with some fascist ideal. I just saw the surface-level take on underdogs fighting an overwhelming, evil empire.)

By the way you described it, it seems as though you’re not aware The Wolf in Chiefs Clothing is based on actual events: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/kc-chiefs-superfan-indicted-bank-theft-money-laundering

What is really weird is that ChatGPT Jr is actual the nephew of ChatGPT

Agree in general, but remember that the “good guys” were Spartans. They didn’t have democracy (even in the limited sense that Athenians could be said to have had democracy) but had a military government more similar to fascism. So another layer of ickyness to the movie.

Totally agree on the Bay-Snyder contrast. I will add that what is so frustrating about Snyder’s films is he gets so much right that it gets overshadowed by how much he gets completely wrong.

Generally agreed. Another angle, I think, is that his fans are so rabid that non-fans feel obligated to take a stronger stand against his fundamentally authoritarian worldview. While Bay stands for nothing except typical distracting capitalist excess, Snyder seems like he’d be perfectly okay with having a dictator in…

I can’t speak for others, but to me Bay comes off as someone who makes blockbuster films where things blow up and people tune out for a few hours and that’s it. He doesn’t aspire to any higher art, none of his fans expect anything more than machines punching each other (and maybe some regressive humor) and everyone…

I’m sure if you put it in context, maybe add the sentence before that, it’ll make sense: “How do you cater to fans of something that doesn’t have fans yet? The answer might be to do something that you’d never see in a Star Wars, but then that would draw more Star Wars comparisons.”

The dictionary defines ‘film’ as “become or appear to become covered with a thin layer of something.”  Zack Snyder’s movies all have film...

He has used corn in many of his films, or as the Native Americans call it - ‘Maze.’

The tone of this piece being all over points to AI infused garbage.

The movies of Snyder are numerous in amount. One thing he made was Rebel Moon, or as morons call it, “Mature Star Wars”. Another famous moron was Neville Chamberlain. In conclusion, Snyder is a director of contrast. Thank you.