Oh, Wizard of Oz is such a silly children’s story! No, it’s an incomprehensible screed about the gold standard, the lion and the scarecrow and the tinman are supposed to be biting depictions of, like, long dead guys in 19th century US politics. What was it trying to argue? Fucking no idea anymore.

Let’s make a Jack Black film about Gulliver’s Travels! What… it’s supposed to be about the British empire? What do you mean, it’s just a funny story about little guys!

Flatland is like 2% science fiction and 98% about class society, but don’t tell that to the guys who spent a whole documentary misinterpreting what researchers mean by “observe” when talking about quantum physics.

I’m tired of these obvious political satires, make it inscrutable again! It doesn’t matter how clearly you spell it out, people are gonna miss it anyway, so why not give anime artists another weird thing to draw on for when they run out of source comics?