The Walking Dead has overstayed its welcome for many, many years at this point.

It’s the best kind of adaptation, one which not only suits the material to the medium, but also jettisons elements which didn’t even work in the original medium.

Balderdash! Folderol! Turner D. Century cares not for your hokum but only yearns for the peacefulness of a gentler time.

Can’t wait for the online arguments where someone responds with, “Oh, that wasn’t really what I meant. The AI added that part.” or something

In fact, we think this will help people write more confidently, and ultimately improve the quality of the content they publish or submit.”

I can pronounce them easily due to the fact that I’m a lush.

I guess I’m more of an oenophile than I thought, because I’ve never had any trouble pronouncing those, and I failed French. Twice.

“Conscription is slavery and no just society or sound military body can endure based on forced service”

Only from reading your description, I see the book hits about half of Umberto Eco’s 14 characteristics of a fascist movement. In particular it’s hitting #10 “contempt for the weak” (ie people who don’t “volunteer” for military service) and #11 “everybody is educated to become a hero”.

Yeah, but people don’t always get Robocop either. They just like watching a robot blow people away.

Gambol: You think you can just steal from us and walk away?!

To be fair, the Snyder-verse movies do contain what I guess Zack Snyder considers to be “jokes,” but they’re more of the “what if Jimmy Olsen got his brains blown out in the opening scene” and “ha ha Lex gave pee pee to the mean politician lady” variety.

It’s important to note, I think, that it’s not parody. Spaceballs is a work of parody - it has affection for its source material while poking fun at its inherent ridiculousness. Starship Troopers, as a genre piece, is exactly what it says on the tin. It is an over-the-top, absurd sci-fi action flick, it is not…

The best satire doesn’t have to be subtle, it has to be earnest. If you think that “the Irish should eat their babies if they’re so hungry” is subtle, then you might want to either recalibrate your scale for subtlety or seriously reevaluate your view on the Irish.

Bruce Wayne : Well today I found out what Batman can’t do. He can’t endure this. Today you get to say “I told you so.”

Batman: I’m not the one wearing hockey pads.

Back when the Film Club podcast was still running (sign), A.A. Dowd said that “Tenet is the kind of movie that Nolan’s detractors accuse him of always making” and I think that sums it up pretty well.

yeah if anything Tenet is pretty much all of Nolan’s worst tendencies rolled into one movie.

I was just talking about Tenet the other night. Nolan at his worst. Uninspired story, flat characters, and a puzzle box gimmick that gets tiresome by the third act. And I liked Inception!