Why not just report on what Netflix is doing? This was a weird way of delivering news. Literally zero details on the Netflix story. Were all users notified? Will they be following the same rules that were teased before? Did they make any changes to account for people who are in college or travel a lot?

The Team Joel part was said tongue in cheek in relation to:

If this was just a different world with different morals being necessary to survive, I don’t think he’d have lied to Ellie about it. He clearly knew that what he was doing was going against her wishes, but despite not being her father or her having given her permission to make medical decisions for her, he went…

Not to mention, let’s not pretend that Fireflies were the good guys. They were essentially terrorists in a lot of scenarios, willing to kill innocent people in order to strike at FEDRA and fight against the new order FEDRA ran.

It’d be different to me if they gave her a choice and he took that away, but they didn’t. Combined with how unrealistic it is that even if this worked, how would mass produce and distributed it? She mentioned so many people dying just to get there, what’s that going to be like setting up distribution facilities across…

I don’t really understand the anti-Joel aspect that people have (though didn’t play the game):

1) what certainty do we have that the Fireflies would be able to extract ‘the cure’ from Ellie successfully? What certainty do we have that ‘the cure’ would even work as intended if successfully extracted? Yes, Joel…

Really? Game Joel was running through that hospital throwing molotovs, burning people alive, dousing hallways in flamethrowers, blowing people to bits with fuckin’ nail bombs, beating the shit out of everyone with a baseball bate with scissors and knives taped to it, shooting corpses repeatedly just to see the ragodol…

I think that scene with the Nazi identifying with him is the first time he realizes that maybe he us the bad guy. He doesn’t admit it to himself right away, but I’m sure when he delivers the line at the end he’s thinking about the Nazi.

When I got a bit older it also made me feel a tad uncomfortable because it was as if the film is saying “Yeah D-FENS is racist but he’s not bad racist, like a Nazi is!”

Wait, John Francis Daley?

Exactly. The particular case of a defense contractor losing their job is very tied to the 1990s because fortunately (for them) the never ending War on Terror put them back in business. And more recently maybe more serious threats depending on how long Putin remains in power. And despite what Douglas implied, defense…

As a little kid I highly sympathized with the character right until the end, especially after how he handled the Nazi. But it’s one of those films with an antagonist like in “Law Abiding Citizen” where a certain segment of the population forgets to get off the train and watch it crash into the wall for which it’s…

Frederic Forrest doesn’t have a “k” at the end of his name, he was the lead in a bunch of movies that weren’t great (“Hammett”) but a great character actor. Recently there was a post on some thing about the list of possibilities to play Deckard in Blade Runner and he was a possibility.

The Soviets crush the Mujahideen and 9/11 doesn’t happen?

If Brian Dennehy had just GIVEN RAMBO A SANDWICH AND LET HIM LEAVE TOWN ON HIS OWN!

Truly, it is a wondrous time to be alive.

I imagine most fast food workers aren’t terrified of their bosses, but figure it’s not worth the aggravation to break the rules and have the boss complain.

One great little touch in that scene is that he missed the breakfast deadline so tightly that the meals are still stacked up right behind the counter, and the employees could easily just grab one if they wanted, but still insist on going down the company line probably because they’re terrified of their boss.

It’s interesting as a litmus test just because there’s a much more expansive take than the binary “he’s a hero/he’s a villain”, and that’s that he can both be sympathetic for facing issues everyone does and sometimes wishes they could rail against, while also being an example of someone going off the deep end in a way…

The movie manages to be simultaneously anchored to the exact time it was made (DFENS being a defense contractor who just lost his job due to the end of the Cold War) and more relevant than ever (pathetic middle-aged white guy snapping and going on an increasingly violent rampage).