Whedon is asshole, why Cyborg hate?

Yes imo there is a problem with cancel culture on the left. There are also problems with the way the Centrist establishment use Identity and canceling. I think there is a lot of hyperbole, disingenuousness and hysteria around the issues, but they do exist.

I thought the whole family would be able to use magic. Under the One Drop Rule (created by whites) they were all black. Dark skin is not guarantor that both parents are dark or that there are no white people in your lineage. Conceivably this means even black people who are passing for white are now able to use magic.

Valid. From my perspective, it’s still questionable how much this film was a mark against Zuckerberg. The movie did not give Zuckerberg a redemption arc, but his achievement is given the filmic treatment usually reserved for polio vaccines and the Space Race.  It didn’t render him a pariah in the public eye. He’s a…

Of course he could. William Randolph Hearst ruined Hollywood careers and he wasn’t in the industry. Bezos is richer and more influential than Hearst ever was. But you are thinking small. Amazon is a major studio, streaming site, on demand and sales platform . It makes a lot of entertainment product. It buys a lot of…

Point to you on Jobs’ widow. Amazon may not be more powerful than China, but it is more powerful than most countries. It’s also shown the ability to bend most state governments to its will and flout federal laws. It has enormous power, which it uses often and it would be silly to suggest otherwise. Harvey Weinstein…

She’s not Steve Jobs or Apple.

Basically, Zuckerberg, as written and portrayed here, is a brilliant jerk. He is so driven by his vision that it outweighs any social or ethical considerations. He creates the world’s most successful friend finder, but ends up friendless, just as he started.

Zey are —how you say — Crazee!

I don’t remember people taking his portrayal in the movie as a positive one.

Then why do we have a movie centered around a rather unflattering portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg?

I think the Air Force (as well as the military in general) has canny and up to date philosophies on marketing and branding. They used the movie to acknowledge the sexism in their past (the implicit message being AF has evolved since then) and simultaneously celebrate female aviators (it is literally the subject of a…

I would say Bezos is more powerful than Trump or Biden, but then again I believe large multinational corporations, rather than politicians, control the country. 

The richest man in the world and owner of a trillion dollar virtual monopoly — that dominates in every retail category and informational infrastructure, and has branches across the entire globe — has many ways of wielding influence. I don’t even know what “really litigious” means in reference to Bezos: even if he…

No, but I’ll check it out. I would argue that South Park is the exception that proves the the rule. I don’t the doubt the sincerity of (what I would describe as) Parker and Stone’s quasi-libertarian POV, but South Park’s satire has come to serve a role in pop culture similar to that of a jester in a royal court. They…

, how has he not been cast as Jeff Bezos in anything yet?

FUN FACT: in French canibus shops a gram of marijuana is called a Royalle with Weed.

That’s why I think the lack of them is an active choice from a very exacting director, though I can only speculate as to Nolan’s motivation.

I’ve seen Willem’s excellent essay already and it was definitely an influence on my conjecture about Nolan’s style. An appreciation of physicality is not a natural thing for Nolan (in fact like Hitchcock I think Nolan avoids violence). He only began to understand it as a valuable storytelling tool as an outgrowth of…

* Yeah, I spent a lot of time wishing this episode had been a little bit better. If your plot is going to be this ludicrous and cliche (and I wish it wasn’t) then everything has to be over the top in an original way, as in a John Woo movie or Con Air. There wasn’t enough wildness to overcome the conventionality of the…