You remember Leeroy Jenkins. Early modern internet culture meme. Normies played WoW. There was a bridge. The earth was not yet round. I saw the video and laughed, but wasn’t old or online enough to get interested in it. 
Recently I mocked one set of thin arguments people inherit and regurgitate about LotR. I’m completely right but the point is that these arguments don’t come from people actually reading and comprehending the words on the page.
Yes he was racist, sorry Fascists, but by reading the Tolkien Extended Universe in the light of modern understandings of these issues and by including new voices, much of this Franchise can be redeemed.
Lurid headlines notwithstanding, Eastman is a heavy hitter in the legal world. He graduated Chicago Law and clerked for Justice Thomas. Among other things, he taught Con Law at Chapman, serves as a Senior Fellow at Claremont, chairs a Federalist Society practice group, etc, etc. 
Before that, he was a fiction and screenwriter. He wrote a couple of Lon Cheney flicks and won the O Henry award for fiction writing. But he really blew up with Seven Minutes in Eternity. 
Ok, In Person Christi is a big claim. But Miguel is presented as the innocent soul, unlike Tulio the schemer and cynic. It’s no accident that it’s Tulio who hooks up with the too-sultry Chel (herself a La Malinche figure). 
You know about SovCits? It’s hard to give a short and correct definition because it’s a very schizo and dispersed phenomenon. It’s a cult, a school of magic, and it’s grown bigger than ever in the last decade. 
Braxton is actually right in this tweet. Martial arts training will give you an enormous advantage against an unarmed untrained opponent of roughly equal size/strength and gender.
“Theme” isn’t something you can break out and isolate, it’s a layer of meaning that depends on the whole. An attempted theme that fails to convince because of errors elsewhere is like a legal defense that fails on the facts.
It has the benefit of being an ancient archetype, as old as Aesop:
Sure you can say 8 is missing the raw star power of 11-13 or the directorial flair of Soderbergh, you can point out that the film is a cringe girl power reboot of the older series starring Bullock as “Debbie Ocean” who ALSO gets out on parole and immediately plans a heist. 
Nah don’t worry. Not an encomium for aztecs. Don’t start throwing signs. But Gangland offers good lessons about how to operate in Panopticon, and the price. Because some guys do it for real. 
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When writers/critics talk about Plot, Character, Theme, Setting, Motivation, Dialog, etc, they are breaking elements out of a whole to limit the scope of analysis. It’s a way to control complexity for the sake of efficiency. 
And I don’t mean silly fan theories either about Barad Dur being an inside job, I mean the text itself.
You think I’m just selling the thread, but no. Do you know the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America? They’re one of the main “SFF” tastemakers, founded by Damon Knight in 1965. They award the Nebula Prize, which, along with the Hugo, is the premier award for SFF authors. 
Christopher Tolkien's comments on the films are famous, and the more time I spend with both the more I see his perspective. 
I’m honestly surprised by how real it turned out to be. The registration part is mostly untrue, but Guam *does actually require you to register*—mainly to tax you lol. 
“Hey Conan, I’m launching an expedition to Antarctica. We’ll hire a ship and trek into the wastes, settle this once and for all! You in?”
Watch the original if you haven’t. It’s such a pleasant surprise after growing up thinking Godzilla was all goofy kitsch like this:
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