Rewatching LA Confidential for the first time, now after I've read the book. It's a pretty good adaptation, but it doesn't quite get across how deeply fucked up the characters are. Like, the script and Guy Pierce do a pretty good job getting across that Ed Exley is someone pretending to be an idealized "good cop" in order to advance his political career, but not that he's a supremely pathetic fraud. In the book, he's only motivated to do his only genuinely heroic act out of self hatred, but in the movie he's like "I became a cop to help people."

Edit: also the character of Inez is reduced to a victim who only briefly appears in two scenes and they erase the cool stuff she does later in the book and replace her with a white woman character for one of her important scenes.

Bolsonaro is in the hospital again lmao

They have Harry Potter in the DPRK.

hell yeah

That sounds like something Jordan Peterson would say tbh

Excellent

Oh yeah. I think it was over something else DS9 related, but I can't remember.

Hexbear is sort of like a village of eldritch abomination worshippers in a Lovecraftian horror story - isolated, insular, entirely wrapped up in their own esoteric rituals and ideas and language, and immediately and collectively hostile to outsiders.

The Shadow Over Hexxsmouth

I don't think you can call it a genocide if there's no evidence anyone actually died. It was definitely a forced displacement, or a species cleansing.

But even then, the Maquis did it to the Cardassians first. It's a brutal calculation but it was a brutal situation- if you're going to poison a planetary atmosphere so you can settle it, then the same thing happens to one of your planets and you have to swap with the people you just displaced.