I’d argue that it would also take a serious concatenation of events to get Texas and California to unite against the rest of the States, as many people have been pointing out since the first trailer was released. Again, I was never arguing or asking why Garland didn’t set it in the UK, but for the sake of discussion,…

I was actually arguing that he probably should have set the movie in a fictional country, even if it was obviously based on the States, if he genuinely didn’t want people focusing on the “sides.” He keeps claiming the focus of his movie is attacks on journalism, which is by no means unique to America. OTOH, for most…

I haven’t seen anyone offended by the fact that he’s saying that America isn’t special. For me it’s a matter of, hey, this shit IS real and it IS happening around the world. Given how serious the subject matter is, I think anything he has to say would be more powerful if he told any of the stories, even in a…

disingenuous*

If he didn’t have anything to say about America, and he’s seeing “the same stuff happening” in Britain, then I don’t understand why he set it in America. I think he could have better avoided people mapping their political views onto his story if he just made up a country, or used analogs of American cities and states…

I was always puzzled by the people insisting Dune is this huge, cultural phenomenon. I’ve seen some people claim the first movie made boatloads of money, but it only made a modest amount at the box office (largely thanks to COVID, but objectively not record-breaking amounts). 

If he has a reputation of abusing coworkers, then that’s absolutely information that I’d like to see the AVC include but at no point in this article does it blame the “potentially bad quality of the show.” It says that “something was very wrong with the show,” which would be true if he was fired for abusing a staff…

I agree that there was some decent character development (IMO Dick’s transition into Nightwing was unnecessarily prolonged), and I mostly liked enjoyed watching the show for what it was. I still thought it was wildly inconsistent, gratuitous, and overall an unsatisfying adaptation of any incarnation of the Teen Titans…

abortion fund organizers are saying they’ve been asked to stop distributing contraceptives at the artist’s show because “children are present at the concerts.” (Which both we, and the organizers themselves, would argue, is kind of the point—sexually active teenagers aren’t going to stop being sexually active

I hope it’s not because of his OnlyFans.

It’d be nice if we got a proper adaptation of the Teen Titans to wash the Titans out of our memories.

you can not possibly take yourself seriously especially with all the FACTS that the v hurt and kill people by the thousands.

I mean you clearly got to say something here.

That diversity is what makes it so hard to believe that those two states would first secede and then unite. A movie about either Texas or California seceding from the United States against the will of a large portion of its population would be a tense thriller on its own.

I’m just going to assume that the Texas and California in the movie isn’t the same as the Texas and California in our world, for various reasons, but mainly because if civil war breaks out in the States anytime soon, I don’t think it’s because states are going to secede and declare war on the remaining states. I think…

It seems like a lose-lose situation to me, because I’m skeptical that people won’t just project simplified modern politics onto the movie anyway by cherry-picking whichever traits about either side they either like or don’t like.

Civil War is not about the military, or the President, or the origins of this particular conflict, because Garland knows that a 2024 audience is smart enough to draw their own conclusions on those fronts.

What’s the point then?

Same. I’m always surprised when a Geoff Keighley article gets posted without the author and the readers snarking on him. This particular article is the most I’ve ever felt something resembling sympathy for him, because he’s the last prominent person in the marketing industry to say anything about something that wasn’t…

Source material. Ares has been one of Wonder Woman’s main bad guys for decades; has never had anything to do with the creation with the Amazons on Themyscira (originally Paradise Island).