This.

The Marvel tie-ins as ‘The prologue to...’ are really just self-contained little check-ins on a couple of the characters for the new movie and have little actual impact on the events of the movie (Hell, the mini-arc before TFA is only really connected as a small piece of Poe’s backstory.)

Seconding this.
It’s basically the same issue we have now with the electoral college - thanks to how people are distributed in the country, people in big cities would see their votes reduced to literal chump change while votes in some of the so-called flyover states would carry considerably more clout in turn.

This, in…

I DO find it interesting how his comic book movies all seem to have a throughline of him including a ‘common man hurts God’ theme.

Even when it’s not in the original source and altogether unearned, like in Watchmen.

Fucking this.

His inability to really connect with Batman really surprises me thanks to a recent rewatch of Mask of the Phantasm. Bruce Timm & co made a genuinely human Batman story that went into his motivations and his grappling with his feelings about his mission in 90 minutes. Snyder took twice that time and got a…

Fortunately, we’re already pretty used to getting blamed for other generations’ fuckery.

Doesn’t make it right, but it’s at least nothing new.

I get that you’re making a Simpsons joke, but I’m picturing this and now part of me just really wants the arrival of the White Walkers in The Long Night to take a huge cue from the March of the Dead from Army of Darkness.

“Ooooh no. Nice try, you will NOT be blaming this on us!” — Neo-Tokyo’s psychic research development program, already anticipating taking the heat for this one.

It’s not Olympics, but Fatal Games is at least an alright stand-in (high school gymnasts trying for ‘Nationals.’

That said, was made in the 80s, so be warned some bits are... ... ...dated (without saying too much, it borrows the infamous twist ending of another notable slasher of the era.)

Man, I still remember the day I first found/played The Gun on MAME.
It was...definitely a weird deviation from its source, but a fascinating one (interesting to me is that its most faithful nod to the movie itself is that fairly grim ending - you survive the alien threat only to get cut down by W-Y in the ever popular…

“Did they write the script?”
Actually, yes. Yes they did (well, O’Bannon did, but Shusett does also get story credit.)

YOU WILL PERISH IN FLAMES!
*bolts out of the restaurant, knocking over a trashcan in the process*

Honestly, I’d believe it from everything I’ve heard (which, while a shame, does at least make for the small punchline of ‘The right wing media sphere got its shorts in a wad over THIS?!’)

In this case, more stepping in to clarify with regards to the South Park criticism - which even they’ve at least once copped to not…

Only because they said no to him performing ‘Der Furher’s Face’

Just a reminder for those playing at home, the big reason the term ‘white’ caught on was due to certain chunks of European descent looking at the changing demographic and realizing it was getting browner than they were comfortable with. Faced with the possibility of no longer having a majority, they decided they were…

Also not Bart’s first time being expelled.

...are we absolutely sure this isn’t being auto-written now?

To be fair, John Ford isn’t being marketed directly to kids the way Disney is.
Kind of a big difference there.

As awkward as the siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp are, they’re still only runner up to the siamese cat in The Aristocats.

Everybody Wants to Be a Cat is mostly a perfectly harmless song...then that cat shows and it takes a brief hard sidestop into fucking YIKES.

Possible, but unlikely. Those people are more likely to be furiously masturbating to Birth of a Nation for the 100th time this month.

Song of the South is...unfortunate, to be sure, but it seems more misguided than willfully trying to push a message the way something like MK or BoaN is.

That said, personally, I’m team…

In a case like this, I think it’s less specifically ‘this doesn’t align with my views’ as it is ‘I feel the point this is making is disingenuous.’

Again, as people have pointed out, over time, South Park’s ‘both sides are equally terrible’ line has started to ring more hollow thanks to one side pretty openly embracing…

I’m gonna have to insist that, despite the impulse to make them a barbarian, you consider making them a rogue.

That way, you can double it as a Shaw Brothers tribute.