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This. The idea being the message they send to the person they’re threatening is “I have enough money to outlast you in court. Just try me!”

Of course, now that we’re seeing all sorts of reports about how Trump may not be as well off as he likes to present, his own power there has lost much of its menace.

This and Jacob Wohl walking away empty handed after spending the past four years being Trump’s public dancing monkey are the silver linings I take away from this.

(Seriously, I had fun with Tiger King too, but even just on the strength of what we see in that documentary, Joe Exotic’s a fucking creep and sexual

Any noble intention behind the practice died screaming the day Gerald Ford used it to pardon Nixon.

Thus giving a country with an already pronounced problem of sweeping its bad things under the carpet to fester rather than deal with them a previously untapped level of ‘just pretend it never happened!’

Armond White is a guy who’s basically built his career as a critic on performative contrarianism.
Dude will go out of his way to champion films that are generally getting panned and even more out of his way to find hot takes on why generally liked films are actually awful. He’s known for this to such an extent that,

Based on interviews, the difference between Snyder and those better directors ultimately comes down to their grasp of the material.

Those better directors tried. They made a damn concentrated effort to try and translate a work that is very much a product of the medium it’s written in (as is often the case with Alan

If his handling of Jimmy Olsen is anything to go by, expect Snyder to include Gleek, but he’ll be drawn and quartered on screen.

Made all the more darkly funny by the fact the last DC release before this was a movie about people getting what they wished for, but having it come out ‘wrong’ somehow.

Correction - MOST reviewers.

Armond White is already reserving a spot on his ‘Best of 2021' list for it.

full of people patting themselves on the back saying “we did it!” as if they’d caused some massive societal shift by being loud and obnoxious online about a movie?

If DC somehow caves to them, there’s only one way it can be done -
Take a page from Infinite Crisis and have the whole thing caused by Superboy having a tantrum that he looks at the world and sees things are ‘wrong’ and punching reality so hard it fractures.

Cause if ever DC created the perfect way to symbolize that

I’ll die on the hill that The Dead Zone is one of the few genuinely perfect Stephen King endings.
No real deus ex machina and it’s a perfectly logical, if tragic, conclusion to the story he was trying to tell (and really, given the nature of the story, a tragic ending is fitting.)

The only thing I’d argue as a demerit

That was the part of this story where I winced a little.

Still kind of an up-and-coming actor. Not really someone who was seen as a breakout prior (including on this project), and now is largely championed by Zack Snyder fans more as an extension of how Snyder was wronged.

There was no part of this scenario where Fisher

I think the only reason he hasn’t personally murdered anyone (that we know of)

To borrow a phrase heard from someone else:
“They all love the invisible hand of the free market until it smacks them.”

Falls in, and then it takes a cue from American Dad!
*Fett falls in, cuts to another character in a location completely related to the incident*
“That’s it, y’all! Fett’s dead!”
*credits*

How many times does she have to get proven wrong before people stop going to her for industry news?
Still remember back when she insisted Kathleen Kennedy was being sacked pre-RoS.

Joe McCarthy was using the clout of the government to basically publicly slander people he suspected of being Communists, whether they actually were or not.
Not really the same thing as a private company looking at the very public actions of one of the people representing their brand (up to and including her co-stars

To be fair to Raiders, the version where Indy doesn’t get involved means Marion gets tortured and likely murdered by Toht and his goons.

So, all things considered, that one is still more of a net gain that he did take the job.

On the plus side, the fact Larry was cast/written as black this time means they’ll probably be avoiding THAT uncomfortable conversation with his mother.

...and I look back and this now and realize that should have been The Last Temptation of Christ.

My mistake and now I feel awful that I mixed up a movie an acclaimed filmmaker got death threats over with the first major warning signs of another filmmaker’s REALLY sketchy issues with Jewish people.