Ironically, I’d imagine this is his best movie. Certainly the most grown up one. As far as I know, no explosions, almost certainly no cars flying off/through buildings etc. Just a drama for adults aka the kind of movie that hasn’t done well at the box office for the last quarter century or so.

You could listen to the teacher in the beginning. Or notice the constant jingoistic propaganda. Or watch any voice of reason be shouted down.

To each their own but especially these days, it’s important to notice that the road to authoritarianism isn’t a wild swerve from thr status quo but a slow, gradual drift.

Personally, I quite enjoy a movie that respects its audience enough to not have to have the bad guys murder babies for a reasonable viewer to catch on to the what’s going on.

It was fine as a adumb tits n ass action movie when I was 12, realized “hey, this is an actual movie” in my 20s. And that’s fine, if it is somehow too subtle for people, well, so is authoritarianism.

You might try piefed? It’s a fediverse platform so still links/syncs etc with lemmy and everywhere else but the UI is nice and I think it does a lot of the stuff you mention (except for the ama style stuff.) I followed PugJesus here (and am using Piefed right now) and exported all my feeds etc so the switch was relatively painless.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions etc. I probably won’t be able to help but uhhh, I’ll commiserate?

Oh damn, this sounds amazing! A chance to live out my childhood dreams!

Not a real response, but this is a very nice comment and I think it’s the type of thing that makes the fediverse a better place.

I got one a few months ago that is my abslolute favourite, not sure if it counts. Important context, I’m 40 but still play soccer with folks as young as 20. So, one game I’m defending against a young fast kid and beat him to the ball (barely!) a few times in a row on long ball chases. After the third or fourth time he looks over after the race and says “You’re really fast for an… uhhh uh uh, you’re really fast!”

He meant so well and it was adorable watching him realize mid sentence that I probably didn’t want to be called an old man.

They had me at “written by Aaron Sorkin.”