At least you’re not a flat earther. Etidorpha, am I right?

I just want a decent pair of boxer briefs with little red hearts on them

You have now, officially, crossed the line.

This is Baphomet slander. They’re not evil.

Dude 100% thinks “capitalism” means commerce. Do market socialism and call it a day

I heard the Bad Lip Reading logo in my head

Maybe a tax rebate based on tread-wear of the damaged tire? If it still has 50% of the tread, you get a 50% rebate on your tire tax.

As someone who had FernGully on VHS, there are marked similarities, though it’s not exactly 1-to-1. The main conflict is resource extraction, although instead of a gung-ho colonel we get Tim Curry as literal pollution. The protagonist gets transformed to fit in with the locals, but it’s an accident by one of the locals instead of deliberate choice. Instead of a cranky Sigourney Weaver, we get a spastic Robin Williams as a bat.

Overall, Avatar is closer to FernGully than to a lot of other going-native movies. Environmental conservation is the driving theme of both films.

Consider yourself lucky.

I used them exactly one time. The driver brought the wrong food, the name and order weren’t even close.

Doordash refused to send a new driver, best they could offer was a credit for not even half the price. Even escalating customer service just got the credit converted to a refund, again for less than half of the charge. The rep could not explain to me what service I had received to justify keeping most of my money.

I wore a bandana pirate-style

But my hair was only shoulder length. I’d probably combine that with a bun.

Like V for Vendetta?

“If you vary the timeline too much, you will cease to exist.”

Even if you want to be altruistic enough to sacrifice yourself for the good of humanity, you’ll be wiped out long before you’re able to change enough to lead to lasting improvement.

This actually has a name, it’s called Goodhart’s Law

It was the only point that seemed worth engaging with, since it raised the one good exception, and I’d already addressed it.

Was it an accurate telling when Shakespeare himself was involved in the production? When the actors were exclusively pasty English men?

16th century English theater and modern film are wildly different things. When you have basically unlimited access to actors of every physical description, there’s no excuse not to be accurate.

Do the actors need to actually be 16 and 13? Or can maybe young looking adults be used?

I specifically noted looking the part.

Should we go back to the original Italian spelling of their names or is anglicisation in this case ok?

What? It was written by an English playwright, and what difference is there anyway? It’s Italian, not Chinese. It’s the same alphabet.

Why does your suspension of disbelief only stop when the skin color changes?

I never said that it did. I’d be equally annoyed by other obvious anachronisms and inaccuracies

What even does an Italian look like? Rome was a commercial hub for centuries that saw settlers from all over the known world. Are they not Italian?

Like people with deep northern Mediterranean ancestry. Sure, there were plenty of immigrants of varied ethnicities, but they probably didn’t have names like Montague and Capulet.

Otherwise, bro, it’s a movie, everything about it is a lie.

But when it’s a movie with a specific setting and characters, deviations from the characteristics of that setting are immersion breaking. When I’m watching a movie, I don’t want to be reminded that it’s just a movie. I want to buy into it. I can’t do that when Genghis Khan is being played by John Wayne.

Again, if you want to reimagine a basic story in a new setting, sure that’s fine. Change the characters to your heart’s content, so long as they’re consistent with the new setting.

What’s even better is there’s a great opportunity to use subtext to tell a much deeper story with Romeo and Juliet specifically by making one of the families black, because the specific beef between the Montague’s and Capulet’s isn’t really discussed.

Yeah… you mean like West Side Story? That’s a reimagining, I specifically said that was fine.

Am I allowed to be annoyed at race swapping if I’m consistent? If you’re going to make a movie about characters with a canon appearance, the actor should conform to that appearance.

If you’re making Romeo and Juliet, the actors should at least look Italian. Now, if you’re doing a full reimagining, that’s a different thing. If you’re making West Side Story, half your cast should look Puerto Rican. But if you’re just doing a straight telling of a story, especially a historical one, casting choices shouldn’t distract from the story.

To imagine the geodesic from c to d, pretend a hair got inside your condom.

It’s a fun enough sci-fi show in it’s own right, I like the whole Brother Dawn/Day/Dusk thing. But it is not really a faithful adaptation at all, and is super frustrating to watch when they just change key story elements.

Honestly most of the time I get by fine with Tinkercad if I’m making something functional, Blender if it’s decorative.

Damn, Gary got hit by the gay bomb