a bleak pasta that will have you questioning the basic decency of humanity

oh yeah, I did forget about the Asian store owner.

And I'll say this for Schumacher, he's willing to take risks and experiment. I'll take a bad movie with risks over a safe mediocre movie.

Was the main character racist? Doesn't he kill the racist store owner of the surplus store because he mistakenly thought Douglas' character was sympathetic to white supremacy?

Ha, did a headcock at your comment, then I saw that the OP said "good" knockoffs, which for some reason I missed. Yeah, that movie was a complete piece of shit.

Trickle Down?

She should have eaten the book by David Frosting Wallace instead.

"I haven't seen a politician this clueless and humorless since Cleon of Athens."

I think your last question does capture the essence of its success. Critics didn't know what to make of it at the time, it wasn't quite the Rambo movie people expected. When works break a mold, it sometimes takes a while for adults, who can be more calcified in their thinking, to catch up. Younger folk—-I was but a…

I'm going for maximum incompetence here.
Disqus is going to be hard to beat. Good luck to you my friend.

2 Days in the Valley

(shot of Dutch's team) Six men…(shot of Arnold and Jesse)…two governors…[Dutch: You're one…*ugly* motherfucker!]…one ugly motherfucker…

It also starred the future governor of Minnesota.

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What you describe could definitely be the basis of a good movie, and sorry this will sound glib, but they could also have not written a mother-daughter story at all. In 2012, movies still hadn't left the gaping maw of "princess" stories; Brave promised to be a different tale, one where the girl got to be the tough…

'Make it "written in literal ferret shit and delivered by humans" and I'll write out a check.' -Marc Andreessen

"There was water coming out of her eyes, water coming out of her wherever."

Well, that was the working title for years, but then Yogi Bear came out in 2010 and threw that plan off.

No but you need a crank to be the political instrument of a Russian Czar.

"Hey, let's do 2012 again but take out the wink-wink politics."