It’s my hope that it was simply a case of overreliance on digital filmmaking crutches (background replacement, relighting, etc) that caused him to shoot everything in the same medium zoom, blocked off boring angles to have multiple camera shots on every take to facilitate fx work in post.

Hopefully, the brilliant filmmaker who made Alien and Blade Runner is still in there somewhere.

He’s gotta be playing Long John Silver. Honestly kinda interested in how he’ll play it.

Hopefully Ridley Scott’s cured himself of whatever caused him to make Gladiator II.

Inb4 Russian tank AI fires on its own troops

If nine people go and sit with a racist at a table, that table has ten racists at it.

Sorry. If you voluntarily leap across what should be an elementary moral boundary for your talking head, I have no time for you now or ever.

Ex-MAGA are welcome to join hands and support each other and pat each other on the back for their newfound clearheaded Democratic fervor, but keep it the hell away from me.

Platforming a virulent racist for the last 10 years and cheering his attempts to destroy our country isn’t in the “Oops, sorry!” class of mistakes.

Good on you for opening your eyes. Now fuck off.

Why wouldn’t an actual bank be the Iron Bank?

Exactly. It was never about streamlining paperwork or whatever bullshit they’re trying to spin it as. Its only ever been about taking away representation from anything that isn’t standard Judeo-Christianity.

I’m sure the Mormons are going to love that.

I don’t know if anyone has ever attempted, in their misspent youth, to try and tell Mormon missionaries that they’re not Christian, but they don’t generally enjoy it, in my experience.

I was fine until the pro-corporate return to normal where no one seems to learn a fucking thing.

Granted, this is probably the most realistic response, but the response to the world’s apathy shouldn’t be to portray it as inescapable.

SAFETY ROD