I wouldn’t mind this nearly as much if there wasn’t so much overlap with people professing admiration for Joe Exotic - a dude who, even in the documentary that made him popular, is presented as a manipulative sexual predator, a grifter, a straight-up animal murderer, and all this before he tried to have Baskin whacked.

It also helps keep the memory fresh in people’s minds what an absolute piece of shit McConnell is and always has been.

That it’s been getting noticed (and getting him a lot more hate) over this past decade is one of the few silver linings I have these days.

Man, I still remember seeing this in theaters - and while I like a lot of the doc overall, this scene I was just shaking my head and thinking “Al...Al, stop talking. Stop talking, Al. Al, that’s eno—Goddamit...”

The Christmas episodes are sort of in their own distinct continuity, much like Blood Crieth Unto Heaven.

“This is crazy! Are you seriously going to kill four people over twenty dollars?!”
“Klaus, you’re asking this to a guy who last week killed five people over nineteen dollars.”
“Oh yeah...”

I love the times where characters try and question the logistics issues with his characters:

“Wait...you’ve been married for all those years? When do you find the time?!”
“If it’s important to you, you make the time!”

and

Yeah.

That tweak also led to one of the more unfortunate pieces of SW fan lore, where it was alleged this was done because they thought Prowse would blab.
Part of this being born out of an interview done before ESB was even written where Prowse was talking about how anything could happen in the next movie and, among the…

This was why I didn’t understand when fans of the Legends timeline complained about the derivative nature of Starkiller Base.

“World Devastators? Sun Crusher? Darksaber? Any of these ringing a bell? You’re just gonna pretend the old timeline wasn’t guilty as fuck of this?”

Granted, that sums up a lot of my issues with…

Just gonna remind everyone - a few years back, he said one of his biggest directorial aspirations was to direct an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead.

Just saying, it tracks with this on that ‘if I can’t do it my way, then blow it the fuck up’ attitude.

For me, it always gets supplanted by the impression by Michael Brooks (RIP).

Much like another famous Miller whose work took a nose dive post-9/11 (okay, I’ll be fair - Frank was always pretty right wing/reactionary, but GodDAMN, after 9/11 he was never the same.)

Replicants?

The Big Chill is a pleasant surprise in this regard.

Yeah, it’s easy in some ways to see it as part of that nostalgia-wank, but damn if it also isn’t one of those rare films of the Boomer movement that’s willing to take a look at the generation and go “Holy shit, how did we turn our backs this hard on so much of what…

‘the darkest blemish on his otherwise good track record’

I’m gonna disagree on two counts.
If you mean as a director, I will remind you he DID also make Jack.
If you mean in film in general, the motherfucker bankrolled Victor Salva movies multiple times.

Given how Abrams had nothing but nice things to say about Johnson’s script when he was an EP for TLJ and not attached to make the follow-up, I hate to say it, but there may be something to your glad-handing yes man theory.

That or he is just way too Goddamn passive for the level of power he’s given, which is even less…

Clearly, you’re more optimistic than I then.
I give it about six months before the Stilson truthers start insisting:
a) it never happened
b) the footage was doctored
or
c) Sarah and her family were trying to sabotage Stilson and in cahoots with Johnny

Welcome to 2020 - There is no bottom anymore.

The single most disturbing thing about watching The Dead Zone now is that moment when you realize Greg Stilson using an infant as a shield wouldn’t dampen his political ambitions for long anymore.
At most, he sits out an election cycle or two and then he’s back in the game.

Well, thanks to The Good Place officially deeming it a suitable tune for Hell, it’d work here.

This is, honestly, the most curious part of Snyder for me -

Thing with absurdity is, a little goes a long way.
The original scene is meant to be ridiculous, but people don’t come out the other side of it going “Holy shit, that’s bad” the way they do with the movie version because Moore and Gibbons didn’t feel like they need to put the pedal to the medal with it. Like, the scene…