Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 5hI mean, the studio owners greenlighting all this - and who never would have if there were different endings - certainly have their *reasons* in 2026 to try and discourage any cultural shift back to pro-consequence messaging 010
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 6hOr if Kevin Costner was next to her mansplaining her entire arc 010
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 6hI mean this just sorta sounds like another case for hauling Disney CEOs/board members into open Congressional hearings along with the ones from CNN and the other networks 010
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 16hThose who still think #Digger or #Michael can make Best Picture would argue for them to surpass Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as the worst reviewed BP nominees of all time - so how can they pull it off just like that movie did? #Oscars #BestPicture: nextbestpicture.com/can-michael-...nextbestpicture.comCan "Michael" And "Digger" Overcome Their Reviews To Become Best Picture Nominees? - Next Best PictureThe only consolation for “Digger” right now, when it comes to the Oscar race, is that it is somehow not the lowest-reviewed film still considered to have a shot at major nominations. That position sti... 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 16hI'll buy it when he finally gets around to treating the tech and news owners in his own state as accessories and potential accomplices 100
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 16hWhat they mean - "Please do a new 9/11 so we never have to face the *real* terrorism of letting the trans and women who wont keep quiet about assault back in *our* offices again" 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What to call "Openly laying the groundwork to frame a foreign adversary for a pre-midterm inside job?" 121
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 06/10/20261: Freeze CNN & network news out until past & present Paramount/WB/Universal/Disney CEOs testify in open hearings over last decade of fascist collaboration 2: Demand Skydance/Universal/Disney sell CNN & network news divisions to non profits &/or new CPB in name of national security, or be dissolved 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Counter-counterpoint: Connecting the dots on the owners of the major news networks/Hollywood studios turning the public against MeToo before they had to fire more rapists [& expose their even deeper complicity?] & swinging the 2024 election to finish the job 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 04/10/20262% being told they couldn't hang out/be bros with racists and rapists anymore Or maybe that was the 98 percent part 010
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Have to run it back because for the time being, "What if they make you cut off your racist/rapist bros again - or make you stop doing slurs/rapes yourself?" still has to have the appearance of being subtext 011
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 03/10/2026....coincidentally *exactly* the kind of messaging David Zaslav would deem important enough to throw away $180M on - and the kind his successor is more than anxious to take up the torch on 110
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The scene they showed in the movie was from an early Season 3 episode - which premiered in October 2006 030
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The affirmative consent is "cringe" - and its direct descendant "gay"- subtext plain as day 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 02/10/2026....I mean, they could have just as easily had the real Jeff Zucker say it would be bigger than a different NBC reality show in 2006 100
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ellison thinking: "In 5 years I'll have staved off the threat of MeToo coming back to Hollywood/the country to such an extent, they'll *beg* us to let them cover our debts!" 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So a Brewers-Rays World Series would be a nightmare to a lot more billionaires beyond FOX executives 010
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"#Digger is the “eat the rich” satire to end all “eat the rich” films once and for all, & perhaps an intentional argument that they should end – though that damns the movie as much as it flatters it." #Digger review for @letterboxd.social #TomCruise #RizAhmed: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of Digger (2026)In all the years of the “eat the rich” genre and its more apocalyptic versions, from Parasite and Triangle of Sadness to Don’t Look Up and Bugonia, the most radical takedown of the rich, their politic... 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 01/10/2026& Hollywood boardrooms/owners convinced fascism owning [at least] half the business will dilute any post midterm vibe shift that'd question "...maybe letting up on you guys for protecting racists/rapists/fascists - & buying "Woke gone mad" talk on all your networks - is how we got back in this mess" 001
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Political press: ".....I mean, a reckoning on this stuff means *we* might have to let more of *those people* in our offices/news rooms too - and they might not wanna keep certain things quiet like our white bros do - so...." 030
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Though whatever hawks are left in his ear, they have to figure they've only got 4 week window left to sell him on actually dropping nukes Probably by telling him that then he can do a Truth Social AI dog whistling that NY/LA/Philly/Chicago/his other boogeyman cities are next if they don't vote MAGA 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Then *best* case scenario there won't be anyone going on more than 3 days rest for either game in LA 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Of course it ends on a ball being overturned 010
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Joey Votto *literally* talking up superiority of Braves roster *seconds* before both blasts 120
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Track record of never treating insurrectionist billionaires operating in California/Hollywood/Silicon Valley as insurrectionists *really* spoke to him 080
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026....a major character who isn't a woman will actually die and stay dead? [Otherwise if the surprise ending is whatever the premise of Secret Wars is, that's been widely guessed already] 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026....back in those years, even if you somehow imagined yourself asking "Why the actual **ck would he make himself look like the President in 2026?" you would *still* be so so SO unprepared.... 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just assume they and/or their bosses have a LOT of racial/sexual harassment/fascisty skeletons that CANNOT become permissible to dig into again post fascism and that usually explains almost everything 020
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Whatever loop Arnold started with his "pass the torch/have fun" cameo in The Rundown has to be closing by him now ripping off Dwayne with an Amazon Santa action movie 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The "Will these people just die once we accelerate the revolution so we can avenge them - and so they can't take the base away from us once we win?" subtext an inch closer to overt 0153
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Eliminating any doubt that we cannot use him for any reason in Game 2 if we want him to have anything left for a Game 3 is barely above no reason 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#DunePartThree didn't play at any fall fests, yet still won big in festival season as maybe the last threat remaining that can break up a #LaBolaNegra vs #TheOdyssey showdown [& now the last WB film standing?] #Dune #TimotheeChalamet #Zendaya #DenisVilleneuve: nextbestpicture.com/dune-part-th...nextbestpicture.com“Dune: Part Three” Is Now The Biggest Wild Card In The Best Picture Race - Next Best PictureMore than a few movies were big winners and losers when they played at Venice, Telluride, and Toronto these last couple of weeks. But a potential big winner of the fall film festival season may be one... 010
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Beginning to think the last truly radical takedown of the rich in a mainstream movie was when Kingsman: The Secret Service blew up every world leader's head into fireworks [including Obama's] after they aided a billionaire's plot to genocide the poor - & that was in 2015 from pre-Disney owned FOX 040
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026May not stop the "They'll just transfer her like a Catholic priest to run CNN" theories 010
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Maybe if A24 released *that* trailer a month earlier 030
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not when your audience is your owners desperate to hold onto fascism/prevent the resurgence of taxes, unions, old and new minority groups in the workplace, and having to fire rapists again 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Even then he never used that newfound capital to put any real pressure on Trump 020
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Enough to swing entire elections/democractic systems just to make people stop nagging that they can't be bros with harassers/abusers/rapists [accomplices?] anymore 020
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also ironically enough, sharing the mantra of every media oligarch similarly tired of cutting off their racist/rapist/fascist bros, sources, social colleagues [and/or accomplices] leading up to 2024 [and fearing a return to that *real* fascism in 2027 & 29] 091
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"What would have happened if Pattinson, Gisondo & Wever weren’t here? If they weren’t, the film would have been guilty of much more than it ended up doing otherwise." #Primetime review for @letterboxd.social #ChrisHansen #RobertPattinson #SkylarGisondo #MerrittWever: letterboxd.com/robertdoc/fi...letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Primetime (2026)When we look back at what we made famous in the 2000s, we tend to wag our fingers in self-pity and hindsight laden shame – between the likes of the War on Terror, the TMZ-ification of celebrity, badly... 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In tone of "But I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs" comic "But I don't want a quality industry, I want to do rapes without anyone nagging me about it" [Also masthead of countless other industries] 0180
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Though considering RoS birthed begging for their approval and/or apologizing later for not getting it as Disney's standard procedure.... 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That's also basically the *entirety* of media right now scrambling to save fascism so they don't have to go back to firing their bros/accomplices 0424
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Making the business decision that if democracy meant another four years of having to fire their racist/rapist/fascist bros, pay taxes and still have human instead of AI workforces, more expedient to end it 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“But if I appease first,” went some law firms, universities, media orgs, and businesses after Trump’s 2nd election, “We can end democracy as revenge for being forced to fire my racist/rapist/fascist bros, paying taxes and dealing with unions" 000
Robert Dougherty @robertdoc1984.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Disney reading half the Brand New Day reviews saying "Finally MCU Spidey has a *real* director" and then giving the old one a Star Warsstatic.klipy.comSO- SO- SO- THAT WAS THE TAKEAWAY? - POISON IVYALT: SO- SO- SO- THAT WAS THE TAKEAWAY? - POISON IVY 031