“Generic dystopia” indeed, but I’m guessing the creators’ primary inspirations were the music videos for Ladytron’s “Seventeen” and Laibach’s “The Whistleblowers”.

I think a fairly large segment of the movie-going public gave up on Shyamalan a long time ago, because they outright disliked The Sixth Sense to begin with, or never thought his later stuff equaled it. Meanwhile, a sizeable bloc has been genuinely impressed by those “generally agreed upon” hits, and willing to forgive…

Maybe they had to file for bankruptcy after the events of the first film, and effectively relaunched the business?

Was it too much to ask for them to wait until after Avengers: Endgame for them to confirm that all the deaths in the last one were meaningless and going to be reset?

“I’m gonna recommend Fleetwood Mac to all my friends!”

Nope. Time to visit the “shallower” parts of Wikipedia:

I’ll have to take your word for that, as my acquaintance with the social history of software development is limited.

Don’t mind it in my chocolate. Wouldn’t want it in my computer.

To say nothing of the soft ‘g’ making it sound like peanut butter.

Oh, jeez... Don’t get us started on how great things were before “The Kinjaning”.

Eve comes across like a stilted Stepford Wife automaton even before the character is brought back in test-tube form

I think it’s a bit of a stretch to class comic-Thanos as an “Incel” — I think that implies broader misogyny and bitterness than he displays. He’s definitely obsessive and “stalkery” toward Death (though I don’t think any “power imbalance” can be asserted there), but I don’t think he displays any special contempt for…

Sequels are generally linear — multiple stories involving the same character or characters.

There’d been transporter accidents in the original series, but always more esoteric stuff like swapping you with your double in the “Mirror” universe, or splitting you into hyper-passive and aggressive versions of yourself. Scotty once described underpowered transporters as potentially reducing their subjects to…

I guess dehydration might be a risk in the desert, but I would think a dog would readily free itself from that situation within a few hours of hunger pangs setting in.

Nevertheless, these sorts of tales are educational for what others project onto them.

And that he’s finally getting some help with his ovulation.

There’s a scene near the beginning of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities where a coach is making its way along through a heavy fog, and on guard against highwaymen. In explaining the whole highwayman “trope” to my daughter, I mentioned “Dennis Moore”, and also, of course, went right to YouTube for “Stand and Deliver”.

Does something count as a “prediction” if it’s been true for centuries?

I don’t think Thanos and Hitler are at all alike. Hitler essentially believed in survival of the fittest, and that Germany/the Aryan race had either to dominate and exploit its “lessers” or be overrun by them. In the end he believed Germany had “failed him” and thus proven itself unfit.