It’s not that complicated. You basically outlined it completely in a single paragraph.

You see, there was this thing called Covid recently that shut down the theaters, so some movies started releasing on the internet first, and then sometimes they would come out in theaters *and* online at the same time. (sorry for being a dick)

he learned he was allergic to something in the Pfizer and Moderna shots,

Fargo Season Two has him being great and distinct. He doesn’t look distinct, but in the right role, the man is fantastic and memorable. 

Where are you getting your information as to what occurred? Nothing listed in these articles or released gives any indication as to misuse of the prop by the actor. In fact it specifies that the discharge was *during* filming which suggests the prop was being used as intended. 

He could have very well been in a scene where he was required to fire it at the camera, we don’t know.

I’m a freelancer and have pretty minimal contact with any so-called corporate overlords, but this isn’t a decision unique to the AVC. For movie reviews to not drop whenever the studio lifts an embargo, it would either have to be a movie generating little publicity (and therefore unlikely to be read ASAP), or…

But if every story is just part of the next story, why bother paying attention to any story at all?

As a Jew, I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.  He didn’t say anything anti-semitic and condemned hate speech.  What do you want him to do?

It’s possible to find various negative essays on this story, too. The short version is, Godwin originally intended the story to end positively, but John W. Campbell demanded rewrite after rewrite to make it end negatively, for reasons of his own supposed hard-nosed realism.

I’d hope the movie knows that history and…

I can see how you can say Reality Bites was a bad movie (although I am still fond of it irrationally), but Singles is unquestionably an excellent movie that really captures the zeitgeist of the the early 1990s, and the Seattle scene in particular.

Does he deserve everything that is coming to him though? From what I’ve read the allegations all boil down to the fact that he’s kind of a jerk and not exactly a ray of sunshine to work with. If we start cancelling people for that 75% of the population is going to be out of a job.

I remember there was a Buffy week on the AV club shortly before Kai Cole’s public declaration about him, and the site switched gears pretty fast without any real acknowledgement of the disconnect.

A corollary of people overlooking shitty behavior of artists they like is this trend of people acting like someone who is…

It’s not a blanket thing. Sometimes recasting works and sometimes it doesn’t. Recasting Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther would be a terrible idea. He meant too much to the fans and the Black community. Plus Marvel already has a history with Permutter’s comments regarding black actors being interchangeable. I’d be fine…

It’s a side effect of how “lore” and “world-building” has become more important than telling a story well.

I don’t know why these days everyone seems to be opposed to recasting roles.  I’m not an idiot, my mind won’t melt down trying to process everyone calling some new lady Cara Dune.

“did Trump change anyone’s life in a meaningful way”

I think the kids locked in cages and the people who lost family to Covid found it pretty fucking meaningful. He also undermined our elections and attempted to overthrow the government, which to quote Joe Biden is “A Big Fucking Deal”. I could go on but I’m sick of the fucker. Do not minimize the fucker, shit was not…

I believe it is available to stream on Disney Plus. 

Remember kids, corporations do not make moral decisions, they make financial ones. As industries of Capital, they are only concerned with Capitalsm and Capitalism goes where the money is.