It’s not so much that I’m afraid of Pale Fire as much as I want to take in some of the lesser known works beforehand.

McCoy: “My god Jim…do you not know what death is??”
Kirk: “Well, Bones of course I do. But I’ve heard the phrase cheating death. It seems like one could cheat death as easily as I did the Kobayashi-Maru. I assumed all these men cheated.”
….
Spock: “I’m not touching this one. I’m out.” *Leaves

The Zack Snyder way always seemed particularly weird to me because it’s a visual medium replicating a visual medium and it almost always looks like shit.

I agree. I do think there’s also an issue with adaptation discourse where the priority is usually fidelity to the original text where I prefer Kubrick’s method of shaping the story to make as interesting a film as possible.

*nods in writer with blank page.

Carney framing this all in blatantly capitalist language and Liberals eating it up is goddamn depressing.

I keep thinking David Thewlis in Naked but that’s honestly a really scary thought in context of the film.

We share one of the same favourite books and I swear the thing he took away from it was: “Actually a society structured like a game is very cool and would totally work”. Ergo, Musk clearly didn’t finish or even start the book.

Honestly, at least Force Awakens is mostly fun and still feels like the characters that are being featured.

If they made a Karl Urban Bones movie for some reason, I’d be there day one though. Lol.

*I call it Abrams Trek because Kelvin is too inside baseball for most people. Lol.
On their own terms, I still really like the first half hour of the first movie, Then I think Into Darkness is one of the worst of the films and Beyond is kind of fun, if a little stupid.

God, Into Darkness still is straight up one of the worst of the films, which is saying something.

I’m also talking to Liberal supporters who say I’m wrong when I tell people Mark Carney is super right wing because “he’s the Liberal party leader.”