Why is my comment from 10:28am still pending, when you’ve approved more than a dozen comments posted after that?

Very confused as the apparent recasting of Winston as an American?

Also, to hell with Mel Gibson: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/mel-gibson-anti-semitism/620873/

This looks at least somewhat Riddick-ulous (complimentary).

Good example + THANK YOU for the name of the trope - “Lone Wolf and Cub” is helpful framing.

Looks interesting, and eager to see the movie from this trailer, love this director and these actors...but I dunno about “original.” Maybe technically? but the trailer makes it look highly derivative of other properties.

Most centrally: an AI, built to protect us, goes rogue, launches nukes, and then wages war against…

Is it really that surprising that a movie called “The Flash” has partial nudity in it, though?

Well, probably you’re right - and frankly the trailer did not inspire me - but in fairness it is a 6-episode series, not a movie, so the calculus might be somewhat different.

Same.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/mel-gibson-controversies-career-1234696080/

The best treatment I’ve read of this idea was Egan’s Permutation City, though I enjoyed Accelerando, too.

All of this and more.

One thing I wanted to raise that I haven’t seen elsewhere is an admittedly minor point that nonetheless bugged me for how sloppy it felt. (Or tell me what I missed?)

Namely: as soon as Wade puts on the ONI for the first time, he can experience the Oasis in all of his senses: he can taste the…

Bruce Wayne, friend. Bruce Wayne.