I didn’t get Harumph out of that guy!

This.
Particularly the ones who inadvertently suggest the film’s primary value is purely just the humorous racism.

Granted, the film can’t be made today, but that’s less a matter of shirt-ripping over PC culture and more the fact Brooks is riffing on an age of film that is nowhere near as prominent and revered as it was…

I (M-???) am the new guy at my job. I’ve been given an assignment by the higher-ups that they said I NEED to make sure gets done, but my co-workers keep going on about quarantine. I went over one of their (F30s) heads and now she distrusts me and may be getting the others suspicious too. Just trying to do my job. AITA?

This.

Snyder definitely didn’t sleep through his adaptation, but the sad, simple fact is, his understanding of Watchmen was only surface level, so he put a lot into recreating the visuals and missed out on several relevant points in the process.

The ending, in particular, is a massive missing of the point - and I’m not…

There’s an extra level of humor when you consider this attitude is coming from the man who adapted one of Alan Moore’s books and then released three different cuts of said adaptation - none of which, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, Moore has acknowledged any beyond saying “Give my cut to Gibbons.”

That kind of stunt isn’t Eric’s style.
His idea of antics is more “I want to hunt a homeless person for sport.”

Reading this, I just imagined Trump a la Monty Burns

“Osama and I are like peas in a pod, we’re both wealthy failsons and we both had drawn out campaigns to destroy America’s standing in the world. But mine worked, dammit!”

This, prettymuch.
The using is going both ways - the Evangelicals boost their support and in return, Trump and his buddies will let them push the boundary closer to their dreams of theocracy.

Compare what each is getting out of it, and Trump’s the cheap date of the two.

An interesting take. Not sure I agree with all of it, but it’s definitely got some merits.

Gotta say though, one scene I was pretty surprised went unmentioned, because damn, it feels horrifically prescient now - the moment when the Colonel is summoned before the Neo-Tokyo Council.

On one level, it’s pretty bog-standard…

and hopefully it stays that way, but...
...dude WAS talking about starting his own church for a while. I’m not saying that automatically means sexual abuse will ensue, but it IS a sadly notable trend among those who decide to start their own brand of church/religion.

...I realize you were going a different direction with the reference, but find a way to sneak in Ronny Cox and Michael Ironside as recurring antagonists and you’ve got yourself a sale.

For a bit of a more grounded example - Henry Ford revolutionized industry as we know it.
...and was also FAR too open to any number of really disgusting antisemitic conspiracy theories.

I can’t speak for all the titles on that list (only seen six of them) but of those have seen, the man’s definitely got good taste.
And sure, you could claim he’s going for ‘easy’ answers with things like The Shining and The Exorcist...but by comparison, The Changeling and The Innocents haven’t had quite the same level…

I’m still pleasantly surprised at how well Gus and Wally’s relationship has aged given when it was made. Yeah, it’s not perfect, but the show still did well at just making them an old couple who just happened to be two men (and Goddamn, the episode when Kevin discovers that Wally used to be a filmmaker and how he…

This, really.

I feel like there might be a better term for this than the Streisand Effect, but the concept is ultimately the same - the big draw for people is very explicitly ‘It’s the movie that Disney doesn’t want to get out’ (or, in some of the wilder tellings, are forbidden from releasing.)

And every time they say…

“the cure can’t be worse than the disease” — Made all the better/worse by the fact he then followed this up with his repeated endorsements of hydroxochloroquine.

It’s not explicitly political, but I have previously argued that, in light of the last few years, I have my doubts the ending to Stephen King’s The Dead Zone can work anymore.

I mean, for the sake of sanity, I want to believe it can - but after all the shit Trump has gotten a pass on, I feel like Stilson using a baby…

Memory serves, didn’t Portman even say at one point she was worried the films would kill her career?

Luckily didn’t prove to be the case, but given the amount of shit she was getting for her performances in them, I can see why an up and comer would think “...welp. I’m fucked.”

...conversely, by his logic, she’s also Umbridge, Voldemort, Lestrange...

You know...shitty people with shitty ideas about how people different from them should be treated.

Going to assume Graham didn’t think this that far through.

Moments like this I’m glad that he only had a small bit part of Darkplace and so I can…

Part of the problem is, for a lot of them, they don’t actually want ‘small government’

They mean they just want government that doesn’t ask anything of them specificallt. It lets them do what they want, when they want, how they want, and ideally never asks them for taxes.
...by comparison, check out the Venn Diagram of…