It's even more interesting when they all turn on you over it. I remember when The Usual Suspects came out and people were raving about it. I remarked that I didn't like it and people demanded why I wouldn't to which I replied that it was boring and predictable and pretty obvious what the ending was going to be. At…

The important thing is to stay angry.

Thank you. That's a very good way of putting it and very much the thing I'm trying to get at. Well intentioned but reliant on what I consider a flawed and actually destructive world view.

Oh that's right. I remembered a relationship but not what it was. Son, yeah - that's right.

Maybe another person a bit pissed off by articles by you saying that if you don't want to watch the new Ghostbusters movie you're provably a misogynist.

I'm not sure the movie does suggest that there's any inherent difference to the species; merely that, in a less enlightened age, cultural differences led to an understandable variation in behavior

No, I don't think you can tell me what the message of Zootopia "actually" is. Everything I listed is supportable by things referenced from the film. I have no doubt whatsoever that the film is well-intentioned. But it very definitely is using species as its analogue for races and in doing so makes intrinsic the idea…

It doesn't need to be. Explain to me why Russian presence in the Crimea is a "tipping point" for a country half-way around the world from there where hardly any of its citizens live? What makes it a "tipping point" for the USA other than people like Hilary Clinton wanting it to be one? And if your response is anything…

Anyhow, as for the "Red Scare," if you really don't see the problem with
Russia's interfering with the election, or Trump's coziness with Putin,
there really is no rational conversation with you

b/c they're scared of his lunatic voters and what might happen to them in two years.

Oh I don't know. Jesse writing an article saying that if you didn't want to see the new Ghostbusters it was now a proven fact that you hate women has to be a contender, no?

I think there's definitely a lot of finger pointing going around, but it usually comes down to the idea that Clinton failed to appeal to minorities because they're the people who were expected to save her by turning out in droves to stop Trump.

Yes. Many people weren't voting for Trump so much as they were voting against the Establishment. Bernie Sanders would have done as well for many of them and been preferable to some.

"Just a single person".

One of the first messages I got after Trump was elected was from a Russian friend and it read "LOL - America!". I was feeling something similar myself though I think it was mainly shock as I genuinely hadn't expected him to win .Then the second message from the same friend came and it was confusedly asking if it were…

I don't think mediocre would be the appropriate word. Disastrous would be better as she showed several signs of being very keen to lead the US closer to war with Russia.

Still sore about Venger, eh?

I was pretty high when I saw it

I didn't like the mesage of Zootopia which was "different races should get along despite their differences" when I am strongly of the opinion that races should not be enshrined as different. It's a dangerous analogy - foxes are like this, bunnies are like that but we can still get along. It seems positive on the…

Not one mention of The Neon Demon ? That's disappointing - I enjoyed that film so much and both the directing and cast were excellent. Wonderful lighting, too!