Salutations~!

then you draw a comic that gets a book deal. ass.

fcz1, unless you’re a millionaire yourself, there is no compelling reason for you to be rich people’s apologist.

I too remember that the fight scenes in Begins were an incoherent mess of shaky camerawork and choppy editing. Plus a lot of the fights were shot in extremely low lighting, making it even harder to tell what was going on. Thankfully the fight scenes got much better in Dark Knight and Rises, mainly because you could…

People are imagining the Nolanverse’s grimdarkness through the prism of the genuinely dour and self-serious Snyderverse films. The quip-quotient isn’t quite as high as your average Marvel movie, but Nolan’s films are anything but humorless. They even have not one but two non-stop quip machines in Alfred and Lucius…

Christopher Nolan might’ve made launching a new superhero franchise look like an easy thing, but it’s apparently not that easy. Consider Tim Story’s first Fantastic Four movie, in which Marvel’s beloved interstellar-adventurer family comes to life in an incoherent flurry of bad jokes and worse CGI

I don’t know why people hated Sky High.

How do you define “overreacting”, though? Most of the time that I see social justice discussion—and I mean discussion, not just gibberish tweets that people make in general when excited—it’s “hey, I don’t think this is cool” or “whoa that’s kinda sexist”. In turn, a lot of the reactions to those discussions ends up as…

After his early Jack Ryan thrillers (mostly from “The Hunt for Red October” to “The Sum of All Fears”), Tom Clancy put the series seriously off the rails by making Ryan the President, and by putting together stories that looked more and more like wish fulfillment fantasies. Actually, in one of his final novels…

Where have I said anything about you or the OP hating male writers?

“How do you know I’m not arguing in good faith? And by the way, are you trying to say that ALL male showrunners are only hired because they’re dudes?”

So, you are saying that gender, or positive discrimination, should be a factor in hiring practices.

You know, you keep using weasel words (like “the implication”) when talking about the OP’s post. Clearly, if you just took it at face value (which you should), there wouldn’t be an issue here. But I think it’s also pretty clear that...wait...I don’t care.

The point about being the beneficiary of systemic privilege is that you can be either good or bad at your job, AND receive consequences for either, and still be the beneficiary of it. That’s what makes it systemic.

As for your question, “What if they just thought he was the best person for the job?”, well, men have…

It’s pretty hilarious how this dude seems to check off so many boxes.

I don’t have any dog in the Star Wars Purity Fight, but thought it was excellent. If Luke had isolated himself for decades, would he really just be the same guy sitting there waiting for someone to find him and pick up where he left off? His reevaluation of the Jedi didn’t mean throwing out the Force; if anything he’s…

Lord. Once, just once, I’d like to have a reasonable critical discussion of that film that isn’t loaded down with forty tons of pathological entitlement, racism, and misogyny. Despite it being an unequivocal commercial and critical success, it feels like TLJ, with its boldness, ambition, thoughtful bent, willingness…

Can you show us on this doll where Rian Johnson touched your childhood?

Yeah, that $1.3 billion in box office it did really derailed Star Wars.

This is so reductive, it omits so much history, ignores context and brushes aside all objective measures of success that it goes beyond being merely wrong and reaches the edge of dishonest.