Is it effective? Then congratulations, the movie won.

I have friends who genuinely, *genuinely,* prefer the American version.

And I just don't understand it.

Right?

That’s exactly it.

It really does feel like they're embarrassed by the edgy arthouse vibes of the original and want to distance themselves as far from it as possible. Replace it with this slick hi-def big budget blockbuster.

Hell yeah it is, baby!

"This isn't for me" is like a breath of fresh air.

You know-

It's genuinely weird that *that's* a refreshing take, yeah? Because everything has to be extremes-

An award-winning jack-of-all-aces... or a war crime against all human decency.

*that spiritually

I'm friends with folk who can be a little insularly hipster.

Ha, right? Everything has to be an extreme.

... "superhero workcom" as a pitch, in small doses, and the art style doesn't really bother me. It's pretty standard post-Kirkman, post-2000s, fare. I've seen worse.

Now, I don't think they meant that literally, but more than *spiritually* it's "AI-drivel."

But, and putting aside the discourse over describing any flawed human art as spiritually akin to AI slop...

I am, strangely, more motivated to give it a whirl for myself. I'm a little more open to...

I was kinda thinking it’d be cozier for Terry this way, like so: