“Am I the only person who thought...”

Cannot disagree more. There was a real, solid (if simple) story there (“the heroes escape a hierarchical, oppressive society, only to realise the only way to start anew is to go back and transform the tyranny”), with some allegory about the state of our own world thrown in.

It’s just that the movie’s m.o. is to sketch…

What I would give…

For someone critical of the Donner film, you sound like you just read the children’s book adaptation. Donner gave us a farm boy who grew up to marvel his incredible abilities, resent how he had to keep them secret to the detriment of his identity among his childhood peers AND THEN be humbled by the fact that no matter…

You can say it, but I’ll be over here in the corner rolling my eyes.

I’m not saying the movie did what you or Mark Waid or others wanted it to. You and others wanted this movie to be a movie where, similar to the Donner film, Superman is (more or less) a fully formed Superman the moment he puts on the suit. Donner completely bypasses the transition from farmboy to Superman in a 5…

You can say it, but it’s a bad opinion

No. This is the wrongest comment ever. Furiosa was an awesomely nuanced character in a beautiful, deep, thrilling movie.

He’s actually killed Zod far more recently than that, including in Superman 2, where (just as in this comic) he not only kills him but waits to kill him until he’s completely defenseless (and don’t being up deleted scenes).

Tragic footage of man being hit by train.

Yep. I’ve never quite understood how anyone can think the author of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and Stranger In A Strange Land is a full blown conservative.

I’m a sci-fi fan, but I don’t really follow the “community” or any organizations or awards. So I only know about this whole debacle from news and blog posts about it. But it seems kind of like a pyrrhic victory for this Vox Day guy and his minions. In order to fight against (their perception of) the Hugo awards being…

While I totally agree Heinlein would have hated these idiots, I think its oversimplifying things to just call him a conservative. Various of his books and stories take both positions, and even the somewhat militaristic world of Starship Troopers is not quite the fascist Utopia that people like Verhoeven wanted to make…

Theodore Beale can go have a pity party in his corner with his fellow sociopaths. But I think the Sad’s argument is a little more nuanced than that. It’s not that there was a specific cabal that ran a secret slate - rather that there was, in fact, a certain kind of groupthink going on.

I argue for good books. I look for good books. I’ve read a lot of so-called “GREAT” female authors that I can’t stand for more than two sentences. Same for male authors. I’ve read a lot of culturally diverse authors but many have a writing style that almost necessitates being brought up in that culture to follow the…

If the left wing conspiracy exists, they clearly would have eased back in stuffing the ballot during this Sad Puppy era to devalidate the claim that ballot stuffing exists, thus proving to they don’t exist!