“But let’s be real: Betty was gay as fuck—and now that’s actually canon. Betty will be an openly gay woman in the Paramount+ Rugrats series, and she’ll be voiced by queer actor Natalie Morales”

The actual change to the character is whatever - representation is good, points people make in other comments that they…

Yeah, I specified that in my comment. Also, I’m too new of a fan to be that hardcore but the sense I get is that most Trekkers don’t really care as much for the newer stuff as they do the old anyway lol.

Yes, I’m sure the guy who has played footsie with anti-vaxxers for years, and recently voiced doubts about the COVID vaccines, really did get the vaccine and can be trusted on his word about it.

Like, okay, it’s not impossible that he still contracted it after being vaccinated but....come on. How is every outlet so…

Eh his guests are generally pretty shit too.

Thing is, even Star Trek is largely available on the other major services (for now....I realize that could change once those contracts expire, if Viacom decides it wants to make them exclusive to its platform). Obviously the newest shows aren’t, and a few of the movies have migrated off Prime/Netflix/Hulu, but all the…

There’s no way most of the writers on this site nowadays have even seen any of his films. They’re not film literate.

Honestly, after 20 years of the “war on terror” and everything else that “never forget” has wrought, 9/11 memorial rallies should also probably be banned.

“Start slideshow” yeah lol no

To be honest with you I would probably label Saving Private Ryan as a right-wing movie. I like Spielberg and I even think it’s a pretty good movie, but it ends with the damn American flag. It’s long been analyzed in that light, particularly given that it came out in the late 90s when there was sort of an ambivalence…

(Sorry this is late, I disappear here for a while and then catch-up sometimes) For what it’s worth, I love a lot of action movies lol. I think that’s one of the reasons I’m attuned to it in the way I am. I watched Commando actually a few weeks ago and it is definitely deeply problematic and troubling in its politics,…

(Sorry this is late, I’m catching up, and) Thanks for letting me know. I’m only on here sporadically so I didn’t recognize their name or anything.

I’m sure you’re an expert on whatever is inside my head at all times. They’re high profile movies. I like Larson a lot as an actor and my stance is not necessarily that I think she should be treated like someone who did the Watergate break-in for taking an acting role. It’s just that if I take the stance that it’s…

Sorry this was a while ago, catching up. No, I don’t think they sat down and decided to do that per se, but I also don’t think it really matters. As I’ve said in other comments, I don’t think they care that much about propagandizing but I also think they see it as a legitimate thing to do if it makes money (in that…

“I think Aziz really got unfairly maligned in this whole thing, and he even apologized for what essentially to me sounded like a bad date with REALLY poor communication between both people in said date. This was not a Kevin Spacey type situation”

A lot of problems with this narrative, but among them is that worse…

I hated that episode, but the idea that a cartoon episode on Comedy Central is mainly responsible for recent bills in legislatures is ridiculous. Shows like South Park reflect the culture they’re part of, they don’t direct it, and in any case stodgy people in the Congress don’t watch fucking South Park.

Maybe they haven’t, I don’t know. (They certainly carry such products in their stores, though.) Do they ritually abuse their workers on the lower end of the chain, often to exhaustion and occasionally literally to death, while the upper management decides this is fine as long as the line on the chart keeps going up?…

In actual terms, they Avengers ARE the military in their universe. Sure they’re their own agency or whatever but the point is the same. They are meant to be the stand-ins for the army in our own world. They’re part of the goddamn government, I mean that is the entire point, man. Even to the extent that individual…

I mean hey I love big dumb blockbusters too lol. I’ve been pretty critical of them in a lot of my comments (and the Marvel ones are all straight up trash IMO, and not just for their politics) but I came back from Godzilla vs. Kong today and honestly I had a pretty good time. I’m not against those movies as a general…

I mean, I don’t know if I really care about that. I’m not explicitly taking a side on it, but if we all decide that Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to work in Hollywood movies or whatever, then fine I guess. I’m a socialist, if I was directing a film I probably wouldn’t want to work with anyone anywhere to the right…

Well man all I can tell you is that I don’t really don’t give a shit about “nerd culture” which is why of the two films I mentioned only one is a “nerd culture” film and I picked it in part because those “nerd culture” films are basically all of fucking popular film at this point. I don’t watch the Marvel films in…