I agree that horror frequently works better in small doses, like short stories or segments within an anthology film (or episodic anthology series). Stranger Things isn’t entirely horror though, as it cribs heavily from kid-friendly films like E.T, and the Goonies. Perhaps we could add The Neverending Story to that…

Expensive bail might not be considered “excessive”. However, denying even the possibility of bail is effectively an infinite amount.

I think the relevant movie clip to post after your comment would be from Peter Greenaway’s “A Zed and Two Noughts”. But then I also thought that inspired the snails from season 3 of “Hannibal”, since they also cribbed from “The Cook, the Thief...”, but apparently Janice Poon just came up with it without reference to…

When cash bail is prohibited, judges tend to deny bail more.

I’m somewhat confused by your stance on demographic statistics. Is it because you don’t actually regard those numbers as accurate, or you think it’s irrelevant what the numbers actually are? I’m sure that plenty of facts can be “weaponized by oppressors”, but that certainly doesn’t imply one should ignore them.…

Soylent Green is an adaptation of the novel “Make Room! Make Room!” in which soylent really is soy+lentils* and euthanasia is depicted as an unambiguously good thing in the context of overpopulation.

My understanding is that something like 2-3% of women are lesbians, so one might expect that means there’s an order of magnitude more possible actors to choose from compared to the 0.1% of people who are trans. And I know there are some people who say the real person was really just a lesbian with a masculine nickname…

Good point about her being a producer with a say on casting. But as someone else noted, I don’t think the alternative to casting her is that the movie gets made with a trans actor. I would imagine that it’s easier for someone else to make a movie about a real person than a work of fiction that is owned by someone,…

I didn’t think Brooker was a boomer. And The Toast did dunk on the show as “What if phones, but too much?”

I think you’re right and I feel stupid for confusing you with another commenter. My best attempt to save face is to blame Kinja.

I don’t think we do. My understanding is that the future/adult version of John only appears at the beginning of T2.

My only disagreement is that I think he actually does torpedo those scenes. Terminator movies should not be kids movies.

I’m one of the few T3 defenders (I dislike T2 and appreciate that T3 tried to repair some of the damage and do something different), but I’ll also give some credit to the tv series for having some interesting characters from the future. Unfortunately, they acted like Sarah’s arc from the first film never happened and…

The life of a repo man is always intense.

I’ll fully cop to being cynical. I think cynicism tends to be accurate, including about cynicism*. And from the inside outraged people may really think they are helping out the underprivileged. But in the comment which initiated this, you made a sweeping statement about the relationship between minorities and…

I think rather than “giving power back to the people”, you’d instead by giving it to whoever is next in line in the order of presidential succession depending on when your revolutionary tribunal gets puts down by the police/military.

Theoretically, someone with a worldview different from your own could provide more opportunity for learning, as you probably spend more time reading worldviews similar to yours and hit diminishing marginal returns. A potential downside is inferential distance, including jargon familiar to one set of people which comes…

An impressively reasoned response. If only I had thought of that earlier, how much more quickly could I have gotten to the point.

He may be boring, but he’s still the protagonist.

“don’t think he isn’t” contains a double-negative. Your last sentence indicates to me you intended for it to be a single negative. Is that correct?