It's pretty depressing that anything should be considered not able to cross "racial/political lines" between a muscled White guy and a Black Woman with two kids. I mean is there some reason why they shouldn't discuss anything at all that makes the Purge films some special "wow - look how it crossed the divide" case? I…

As an employer, I would support Unspeakable Axe in their statement. There are few jobs where losing a person who has been doing that job for sometime isn't a signifiant blow. People are not replaceable. Then you have to also factor in the secondary effects. Maybe so and so wasn't murdered but her husband or her father…

The whole idea is pretty dumb. Killing someone is pretty easy. Even high profile targets you have a good chance of getting at. The difficult part of assassination / murder is getting away with it. Purge Night removes the hard part of murder and leaves the easy part. All sorts of ways you could kill or punish even…

Ha ha ha! I love this idea. That a load of professionals use Purge Night to skip out on health and safety and other regulations. Like a bunch of doctors and hospital managers get together for it and say "Fuck it! We're going to do as many surgeries and unapproved operations as we like. Want to have that op that I'm…

I honestly find the concept at it's core more something that I would dismiss with a few minutes thought, tbh. I don't find it very interesting at all.

It also shows a gross misunderstanding of the way presidential power works. As if the pressures and constraints that cause a president to act a certain way will change because the person those pressures are exerted on has a prize! Goldman Sachs is not going to offer you a different deal / threat because you have a…

Hey, didn't you know that if you acknowledge the criticisms before people get a chance to make tham at you, that those criticism are now no longer valid?

I would say an 8% increase in votes amongst Blacks [i]is[/i] significant. Obviously significant is a word without an explicit value attached to it, but given the balance of votes on the night, the increases Trump made with different ethnic groups do matter, imo. An 8% gain is no small thing. Especially when, if you…

Yep. Honestly, the film seemed pretty darn racist to me.

Why wouldn't that shop owner just take a box of candy bars and empty it out of the window to her. I mean, sure, you may not want to. But do you want to die over $20 of sweets?

I'm not even convinced such people became that much more outspoken so much as many on the Left decided to make such people their chief target in lieu of other things they might campaign on. Most of my awareness of mysogyny, racism et al., comes from sites like AV Club devoting large amounts of space to what someone…

The difference between this and the Ghostbusters remake is that Anna Kendrick is genuinely funny and the huge number of people who just frankly thought Ghostbusters wasn't very good wont get called mysogynistic by AV Club writers, because this one might actually be fun.

My regard for Cinema Sins jumped markedly when they decided to Cinema Sins themselves. They used to just hammer away at perfectly legitimate things (which they admit to doing) in a humorlous tirade, but they've actually been getting much better.

I suspect you may be taking it at face value.

Sorry to disappoint, but the shallow arbitrariness of the central romance is deliberate. The book goes even further in emphasizing explicitly how the love doesn't really have any solid base beneath it. The book spells out that Buttercup is really dumb for a start. It's also filled to bursting with other relationships…

Thing is though, I like it when they stick to actually bad movies. Or at least movies with a lot of egregious flaws. That was what they originally used to do all the time until around Captain America: Winter Soldier where they got around half-way through the trailer before saying "fuck it - this is actually a really…

Nuh-uh. It's a translation into English from the original by S. W. Morganstern.

Life is painkillers, Hillaryty. Anybody who says differently is selling something. (Probably painkillers).

You should read the book. Astonishingly, and in different ways it is actually better than the film. And I regard the film very, very highly.

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