Happily, when punishing cop unions, the issue of non assholes does not arise

She's weirdly _cute_ in a way I've never seen in her other performances- she's intensely charming in Bonnie and Clyde, and affecting in Chinatown, but after she and Redford are allies there are a few scenes here where she's straight up adorable

It's mildly disconcerting, because it feels like it's going to be the Parallax View, but it winds up being (relatively) more mainstream- like, it's still nasty and cynical, but it isn't the paranoiac horrorshow that the other movies in the cycle wound up being.

The impression I get is that Wayne was an unreconstructed racist who was also a personally reasonably decent man, who didn't necessarily think to cross reference his racist views with his experiences with the actual human beings of those races he met. I've known people like that, and admittedly, they're often easier…

" I believe in white supremacy until blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people…. The academic community has developed certain tests that determine whether the blacks are sufficiently equipped scholastically…. I…

"In the years after The Enforcer, Eastwood directed some of his best films: The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Gauntlet, Bronco Billy, and Honkytonk Man. Each was very different than the other, and none could be easily read as fascist fantasies."

Cap being someone who was willing to defy the government- and common attitudes, his friends, and presumably God himself- in the name of his ideals, which are themselves particularly leftist ones- is the thing I like best about the character, because making him an aspirational rather than literal idea of America makes…

I mean… there's like legal testimony to that effect? You can disbelieve it if you want I guess but there actually is like court entered real alive evidence about it

no it's obviously because she's part of the vast feminist sjw conspiracy to destroy the good names of fine upstanding men

oh jesus let's not start on the list of people who will fucking kill me if it turns out they pulled this kind of shit

oh good i'm glad detective genji is on the case to discredit yet another one of those pesky victims

I don't know, because she has not spoken about those! Maybe she does not feel emotionally prepared to do so, but wanted to discuss the one she did feel she could talk about while making it clear that this was neither an aberration nor the worst of the problem!

It seems as though everyone alive today is at some point going to have to deal with a celebrity that they love and who is really important to them having plausible accusations of sexual harassment or assault or what have you placed against them, and come to grips with what that means.

Because she had repressed it and it just came rushing back to her? Like it says in the very article at the top of the page you typed this post on?

i'm a little worried that with the new one they'll move in the other direction and imply essentially that the world needs 'assets' because ooh scary terrorism or something, but that's based solely on the teaser

maoist ypj unit dirty dozening their way through isis territory

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wPuG…

I mean there are the Bourne movies, which were pretty consciously responding to Bushian politics, and there are plenty of action movies that are like hard anti-fascist or anti-racist or whatever. It's hard to have like a _liberal_ action movie, though (as opposed to a generally more left wing one) because liberalism,…

There's a weird tension there, because like- Death Wish isn't seductive at all, it's goofy bullshit that wears its bloodlust on its sleeve. Dirty Harry keeps almost talking you into it, because there's a lot of talent going into making it seem halfway reasonable.

the games are played 100% for real and nobody's fucking around particularly?