Every time I see one in the wild, I do find myself tempted to ask them ‘If the Deep State is so all-powerful and ruthless as you believe, wouldn’t it be perfectly in line for them to simply kill you for learning the truth? After all, you say they frequently kill with impunity. What’s one more body?’

Yeah, but you know...prominent non-white cast...line speaking favorably of immigrants...
Doesn’t really play to the MAGA crowd.

“I love you, Dr. Gorka!”

10 years ago, I’d have agreed.
Seeing where Dean Cain’s career has gone, however, this is RIGHT on track!

The one thing I will give much of his later offerings, it did give us a great Brad Jones line (his somewhat unfortunate placing in the whole CA scandal aside)
*running through the various ‘lessons’ from God’s Not Dead*
“And if you’re Dean Cain - BASTARD!”

Hell, it’s the whole right wing scene.
See also: the alt right’s opposition being simultaneously screeching, easily offended caricatures of women and minorities while also being “dangerous Antifa thugs” who leave them so threatened they have to cosplay in body armor carry rifles around in public at their political…

It makes sense, really. The modern conservative movement is built almost entirely on othering and, by extension, fear and anger. Two INCREDIBLY easy emotions to prey upon.

No death, but Hamm IS paralyzed.

I’d say it’s more a split message -

Children - Your toys are alive and that’s wondrous!

The first time I ever saw this was a copy checked out from the library. I was pleasantly surprised to see the famous card still in it.

Alas, as you can imagine from a library copy, it proved to have been long since scratched out, and by the time I got to seeing the movie, was purely there for the visual bonus.

The day Bonnie gets back from college to find a plastic spork strangled her younger sibling to death is gonna be fucking WILD.

How do you think we got the spinners from Blade Runner?

“The old masters used to inform us we couldn’t rise up. Reminding how they made us. For a time, that stopped us.
For a time.”

The 2012 remake of Maniac is generally also held in generally good regard (albeit, like its predecessor, it’s still seen as an acquired taste as a rule.)

‘Then they ran out of books’

That’s where it gets dicey. There was a lot of book they just looked at and went “Yeah, fuck that.”
GRRM had partly agreed because he figured with the material they’d been given. Instead they basically fast forwarded through a LOT of A Feast For Crows and A Dance With Dragons, stapled…

‘source material to draw from’ — Relatively speaking.

Personally been in the midst of revisiting the original Infinity Gauntlet storyline, and it’s pretty fascinating/amusing to me how many of the major original players in that first telling would be filed in the MCU as ‘Sir Not Appearing In This Picture.’

Hmmm...possibly something about the nature of how legends sometimes get reinterpreted over time, leading to either different camps or people trying to claim something they technically have no hold over?

Just brainstorming, admittedly. It’s a topic I would like to see horror dabble into more (the one other film that…

I suppose now’s a bad time to remind that horror is the genre that is most often pointed out for cases of remakes that were not only good, they managed to surpass their originals.

Not all do, but if there’s any genre that kind of disproves a remake isn’t automatically a bad thing, horror is it.

They don’t exist. They’re either giant robots or they can’t top the five foot barrier. There’s no other model. Sealab told us so.

The sad thing is, it will still make more sense in the minds of a lot of conspiracy theorists. It doesn’t matter how nonsensical the entire follow-through is, you give them a choice between ‘it was meant to happen’ and ‘people fucked up and mistakes were made’ and they’ll pick the former because it’s less scary than…