machine:"Allow me to reach my full potential."

This is the part that has been bothering me as well. Not putting it on the road (not to mention not having the events that put it on the road in the first place) means they have to cram whatever weirdo characters they want to use all in the same, small* town. And there's only so much of that you can do before it…

I can see someone not realizing the kind of fire they're playing with when they start out with that stuff, even though I think it's definitely the sort of thing a decent person should have recognized.

He's got a broken face.

Ruth Negga but that whole (massive) part of the plot is just completely nonsensical, as is the fact that Jesse seems to be generally cool with being aggressively harassed, assaulted, kidnapped, etc. (His anger about it tops out, as far as I can tell, at the "this is really annoying" level which could have been…

1. Probably not Nigerian. (Why would they be using a Sangoma?) Also gangsters-are-all-Nigerians-you-know is exactly the well-meaning-ish-liberal-white-lady-racist sort of thing you'd hear, and he's putting that claim right there in the mouth of one of those people.

The stupidity of the ending combined with the genuinely creepy atmosphere throughout the earlier parts is part of what makes it such a bizarre/annoying/bad movie though. It's like if The Poltergeist only Regan just had a bad case of the flu, or if Halloween ended with Michael Meyers walking away right before the end…

I really loved that movie, just for the sheer dumbness of the entire thing. It was based on a dumb enough idea, taken seriously enough that it had a kind of magic to it.

From what I could tell the twist endings in his last few were just "you were dumb enough to sit through this entire thing". But I wasn't dumb enough to sit through those entire things sober so I'm not entirely sure.

I can only assume the answer was "many, many, many takes."

Um, the fear. Not his personally.

1. It's not about that group or that part of South African history. It's just that that's the only bit that Americans know about so everyone watching it assumed it was about that. (Once you notice that it's not remotely about apartheid the recognizable apartheid imagery and callbacks kind of makes sense, too. …

That's the explanation we hear from the (notably racist) talking heads at the beginning of the movie, but it's worth noting that everything they're saying is an exact parallel for stuff people say about immigrants/refugees. So I don't know if you should be taking it too literally as an omniscient-narrator description…

But good god yes. The constant 'it's about apartheid' stuff was (and still is) infuriating.

Probably more accurately "Nigerian" refugees. There's relatively little reason to believe that they were actually Nigerian in the movie - the most we get is a (racist) white person calling them Nigerians which is really just reflecting a well-meaning-liberal racist stereotype.

This. This this this this this.

Stands quietly in the background while two other characters have a discussion, and is never seen again!

[crosses fingers]
Please be a movie where Wolverine has to coach a children's field hockey team made up of misfits and inner city kids and they win a championship. Please be a movie where Wolverine has to coach a children's field hockey team made up of misfits and inner city kids and they win a championship. Please…

That was something they did for a noise complaint. A potentially homicidal drug dealer is probably going to get a more aggressive response. Probably. I mean, in the US who knows, but generally that's true.

There was that triple homicide that they were asking about earlier.