I hate to break it to you, but this whackjob was already making the rounds on social media.

If anything, AV Club is fashionably late to the party and you’ve been lucky to dodge that bullet.

that boomers would like you to think are nicer than the ones they ever had.

It’s getting harder and harder to pretend that, as a country and as a people, we aren’t broken - possibly irreparably so.

and thanks to the pervasive and insidious nature of the myth of American exceptionalism, too many will refuse to see the problem, or try to pin the fault elsewhere rather than recognize they need to…

The idea of the social contract is anathema to these guys.
Get them started on taxes, see how far you get before it turns into ‘They’re using MY money to help THOSE people!’

As far as they’re concerned, it’s about them and MAYBE a few people in their immediate circle (maybe)
The rest of us can pound sand.

Not all of them.
Some probably just kept calling it ‘God’s punishment’ and intended to just sit back and laugh as the death toll rose

The big trick of the whole ‘silent majority’ lie - its logical conclusion is ‘They haven’t said they’re not one of us, therefore they’re with us’

You joke, but I’ve seen arguments like this tried before (years ago, the NRA had put out a list of what they called the top ‘pro-gun’ movies.
One of those picks was The Road Warrior - a film in which there are exactly two firearms, one of which barely works most of the time because the ammo Rockatansky has to work with…

Well, we now have a government in place that seems to be trying to curb it as opposed to ‘Just pretend it’s not there and hope it only sticks to blue cities and it’ll burn itself out soon enough’ so that’s a pretty safe bet you have going there.

This choice is akin to asking which knee you’d prefer to be shot in. There’s no pick that isn’t riddled with regret.

I’m still amazed they never tried to option Ex Machina as a TV series before. From every report had seen, they kept aiming straight to movies, but the whole premise lends itself so much better to serialized drama to let the day to day of the city hall elements breathe.

I’ll argue Temple and Crusade are watchable, but yeah. It’s a diminishing returns ride for me.

That said, here’s a hot take - Ilsa Schneider is the worst main woman out of all the Indy movies. Yes, even worse than Willie. Willie’s annoying, but
1) that’s understandable - she’s a club singer who was basically dragged…

To this day, I remain skeptical how much of an actual narrative plan there was vs how much was Lucas knowing where he had to park the car after the ride was over leading us to believe he had this all mapped out the whole time.

Cause from a narrative standpoint, TPM is prettymuch the story equivalent of Lucas doing…

Basically it was just like Solo: A Star Wars Story but 30 years earlier. But i was made by Spielberg in his prime so we allow it.

And somewhere, Armond White gets his katana from the closet.

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

It hasn’t been a thing for them for a while now. This is just the end result of a party that has spent decades capitulating to the loudest voice at the table in order to keep up a solid voter base.

The base gets crazier and you either fall in line with those they’ve deemed best reflect their madness or they’ll replace…

To borrow a line from Matt Holness, I see the debates breaking down as such:

See, I just keep reminding myself - he’s got three years of shitty eating, sedentary life style, legal battles, and having to travel to get his fix for public adulation while in his 70s, having served one term in a job with a reputation as a widow-maker, and having battled with a bout of COVID that required them to…

Several of them have already seen this cycle play out before in the party through numerous other groups. They’ve seen what happens to the nails that stick up.

It’s the greatest irony of American conservatism - it prizes individualism to a fault, but God help you if you speak out against the prevailing will in the party.

What about Colbert on Harvey Birdman?

Over a year AND the gift of hindsight to retool some things based on fan reactions to the earlier cut
(Like with George Lucas’s claims about how much of his SW movies was pre-planned, I take any assertion that this was all the original plan the whole time with a big horkin’ grain of salt.)