Simmons: Right.

Women are brutalized, racist language is spewed and there’s a gun fight in there somewhere

Was it the male-on-male rape use as a joke? Was it the fetishization of black men? Could it have been that the women were only caregivers who fawned over the strong tough men?

When I watch his movies, I can feel him gazing back at himself like Tate watching herself in the movie theater. As if he’s making a movie with the douche bro audience adulation palpably in mind rather than just making a great fucking movie. I think at some point his most rabid fandom became enough for him personally…

I just saw a preview for this in the theater and I had no idea then what the point of the movie was. After reading this I’m 100% sure there is no real story, only a means for Quentin Tarantino to use some naughty words, parade women around like trophies, and let all the men do all the work and talking. HARD PASS.

You are not missing out. I’ve seen most of his films(which I regret) but after the Hateful 8, I’m done. It was one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. Not because of his cinematic vision but because of his content.  Even when making a film with a female protagonist, he finds a way to objectify and demean her.…

The few films of his I’ve seen didn’t appeal to me for the same reasons you mention.  Tarantino is overrated.

This was delightfully vicious and I am HERE FOR IT.

At the risk of outing myself as having terrible taste in film, does anyone else find most of his work unwatchable? I’ve just never understood the appeal of such a high violence to plot ratio and it’s really off-putting to me.

“Plenty of women found him unsettling, and the ones who attended his trial still often saw him a monster”

I actually took away something else from the documentary - I’d only ever heard the much vaguer stories of Bundy, as handsome/charming/intelligent. While I completely agree that the documentary virtually ignores and dehumanizes the victims, I think it actually demystifies Bundy to some extent.

I watched this over the weekend and was rather surprised by the obsession with how charming he was. He wasn’t meeting these women in bars and inviting them back to his place after hours of drunken flirtation. He was literally pretending to be injured and asking for their help carrying stuff to his car or whatever,…

Absofuckinglutely. Our fetishization of serial killers is just as disturbing as the fetishization serial killers have of their victims. Whenever I see people wearing shirts with Manson’s face on them (which, now that I’m not in high school anymore, isn’t as frequent), I wanna ask if they’d wear a shirt with Hitler on…

The fetishization of serial killers needs to be erased from our collective lexicon. This is pain and suffering writ large into the public consciousness. Charles Manson has become some sort of garbage icon with his face on t-shirts and the semi-subject of Tarantino’s next film (Q, I used to love you, but stop it with…

I really don’t think Kendall or any model should be held accountable for this. They are basically contract hires, they were hired to do a job. They get paid crazy $$$ to promote stuff like that all the time. To them it was no different than modelling for a brand or being sponsored by one to be “the face of”/spokespeopl…

From the facts at hand, I don’t see how they could be held complicit for anything. The precedent would open up a massive can of worms. All these girls really did is show up, look sexy on a yacht, get bitten by wild pigs, and post an Instagram. The subpoenas are more for their agencies than the women themselves and…

Wayne did get arrested, I just think that after going to the polling place with him, wearing (frankly quite sad) corresponding shirts and not dragging him off when he started brandishing and verbally abusing people, they bear some of the blame.

“the gun Wayne was flashing was actually a BB gun”

It always bothered me that they explained that the reason Shelly Long’s character wasn’t married to Ed O’Neill anymore was that “she was crazy” and alluded to some undefined mental illness.  I guess they needed a reason for all the kids to be so close to their kind-of-gross dad and estranged from mom, but “woman be…

Didnt Mitch and Cam both work? Anyways yeah that was definitely a major flaw, that in some sense the show was reinforcing certain heteronormative gender roles (Phil and Jay were the bread winners, and Gloria and Claire had fairly typical mom roles), but i think it’s really cool that a major show on a major network had…