Does anybody, anywhere, disagree with the premise that deeply supportive communities and education are essential?

I would disagree that it has changed the way we tell stories, though. If we're talking about fantasy writing, I'd say A Song of Ice & Fire's moral relativism is much more likely to have a lasting effect.

I appreciated the opportunity to voice them - thank you!

Yeah, for a lot of the same reasons that I fault Iron Man 3 for - it had a lot that didn't quite click together, and a lot that felt awfully familiar or was really under-developed. The fight choreography was great, and the acting was spot-on, but they skimmed over the really interesting stories - the actual collapse…

There were a lot of good ideas in there, the problem I found was that there were 4 different movies trying to happen at the same time - the Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-in movie, the highlights of Shane Black's Lethal Weapons, the political commentary film with the faux terrorist, and the incredibly stupid phoned-in…

2 was a mess, no doubt, but it wasn't half as hackneyed and incoherent.

No, I think that twist was well planned in an earlier draft of the script, it's just that the movie that centered on that misdirect was probably much stronger than the actual meandering mess of a movie that was actually shot.

Nope, and nope. If I had to teach a screenwriting class, I'd use that as a worst case example - at least Thor 1 was coherent, despite its flaws.

It was the only remotely decent part of that trainwreck of a movie. Too bad whatever greater media-driven terror-hysteria that they were setting themselves up to comment on was scrubbed from the movie by the time it made it to the screen. The worst MCU film, by a good stretch.

It sounds like perhaps you'd be interested in Dungeon World.

Sure, but black people: still people, Christianity: still made up.

Loud? It's such a quiet, pensive film.

I love that movie - was captivated every moment of it. I didn't need to see the alien, but I was thrilled by that moment of sacrifice at the end.

You said it better than I could - it was a great end to a dynamic story that was far more about the journey than the destination, anyway.

That's what Manara does.

I said something along those lines out loud to my wife while I was I was watching the trailers - looks cool, but that line is awfully weak.

A) still not a problem because, as always, caveat emptor B) reviews are inherently deeply subjective, regardless C) the entire world of gaming - and most media - journalism hinges on regurgitating press releases for ad sales and pretending that there's some sort of journalistic integrity underpinning that is…

As always, apply Betteridge's Law to find your answer. There is no solution to this problem that will be reached through warfare. The IS is using our own weapons to fill the power vacuum that we created, after we fabricated justifications for doing so for decades, after the previous regime used the weapons we sold…

'Elysium's Sharlto Copley'? Surely he's still 'District 9's Sharlto Copley' or, even, 'Europa Report's Sharlto Copley' - Elysium was such a mess, I'd hate for that to be his pop culture shorthand.

Very well put - there's a lot of politically conservative ideas I would be willing to discuss and consider, but the albatross of the modern social conservatives makes the party impossibly unappealing.