are the movies shit? do you take into account that every movie stands on the shoulder of all the films before it and so rehashes the same shit usually the same way? can you appreciate that the good filmmakers raise the bar on what is acceptable and that a lot of the slop coming out can’t pass it?

I’ve given up on giving a chance to substandard crap. oh it picks up in the 2nd halp or third season or whatever - get fucked. how can pluribus grab me in the first five minutes? how can hell or high water do the same?

risk? risk what? there is evidently no consequence to any of the shit they pull. when you add the idea that the fucks in power are completely divorced from everyday people shit, they got even less of concept of risk vs reward. who’s gonna rebel? who’s gonna rise up?

you got “federal” goons invading states, kidnapping and killing people, commandeering the state’s military, i.e. the national guard and the head of state is like “here’s a tweetdunk”.

garland’s Civil War (2024) had an overly optimistic premise - that some people will have enough at some point.