He calls homosexuality pure and beautiful. I don't at all think it's fair to characterize his remarks as homophobic. Not even remotely. He was expressing that homosexuality is great but it's also important not to place every depiction of male love, and even sensitive masculinity, c into the gay bucket.

Mackie’s response was clearly (and weirdly) homophobic.

Audiences looking for more queer representation from Marvel’s cinematic and televisual output have more than a right to be annoyed at Mackie’s response

I agree with Mackie’s larger point that fans should stop trying to read queer subtext into every close male relationship in film. People have been doing the shipping thing for a long time now in fandom circles, and it’s really not great. When there’s this push to say “oh, Frodo and Sam are definitely gay,” it degrades…

Or is that what the Russian Yeti wants us to think??

It was one of those shows where the general public went nuts over its “dark, gritty realism” when really most of it was just cynical, miserable and horrifying. Terrible people doing terrible things to each other, almost all of the genuinely positive and honorable characters getting killed off or forced to become…

It was also Denzel’s choice to do the scene himself when the director was going to use a stunt double, which is definitely a different power dynamic.

They also took dogs raping a girl out, so holding GRRM up as some standard is dubious at best. 

Yeah, it was pretty clear what was happening/going to happen. It was a very, very, very dark/creepy scene. One reason why my girls haven’t seen it yet. 

Those guys had issues, didn’t they?

Yeah, IIRC, Denzel Washington was waterboarded in “Safe House” but in a way that made sure he wasn’t, you know, actually being tortured.

I felt like that was heavily implied.  Maybe I’m just misremembering at this point, but my recollection is that the scene cut just before that was clearly going to happen.

She did manage to clarify that the scene was originally planned to be even more horrific than what we ended up seeing on screen, as it was supposed to end with undead knight the Mountain (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) raping Unella

I've never seen this show but for some reason I keep hearing about more and more reasons not to start. The fact a director sounds like he could be this clueless about something that could cause serious physical injury to an actor filming scenes for him sounds awful and dreadfully irresponsible for someone nominally in…

Seriously - don’t go looking on Twitter for what the Snyder Superfans are saying about him and the Snyder Cut. It’s genuinely like a different world. One where no-one progressed beyond a 13 year old boy’s idea of what’s “awesome”.

The man had zero excuse for how bad BvS was and the problems it created for the overall narrative are what made Justice League DOA.

This also just reinforces, there wasn’t a Snydercut before. It wasn’t ready to go or it’d have been out the door. He’s had to do millions in new shoots. This just shows how little was usable in the can when he was fired.

So Snyder just told the art department to design Steppenwolf and then forgot to tell them to stop?

I can’t wait for this to come out and be just as terrible as the original version.

That Steppenwolf design sure is subtle, ain’t it?