Like it or not, these are the most profitable American independent films being made and distributed right now. Addressing them is better than ignoring them.

To his credit re: hip sports, if credit is the right word: his presumably non-theistic Cutaway appeared to be a cult classic among skydivers at the base where I started learning to jump.

Becoming a fan in high school circa 2000, I never thought it was really supposed to be socially transgressive at that point in time, nor that it had to be.

There's a recent academic I read (can't remember who) who was doing work with high school students and noted that sports practice and travel to games takes up jocks' free time, but music and theatre trips are co-ed.

He gives a great performance in this year's I Am Not a Serial Killer (see it whenever it goes into wide release), and IMDB indicates he's worked fairly steadily in recent years - and since time immemorial, for that matter.

They could drive the cost down really quickly if they opened up bidding to the nation's elementary schools.

Now its STUCK IN MY HEAD…

Why if you told me in the mid-90s that I'd still be hearing arguments, twenty years later, that the 3 Ninjas movies were inappropriately violent…

Yep, that's the one I remember - except for the 'panty hose' line.

[sigh]

Regional / international release dates likely play a part. If the studio wants my sympathy on a global level, they can try coordinating their US releases with Zambia and Burundi. Most films don't get released in most countries, period.

US papers will take sides, and have a reputation for ideological slants, but I do think that most I've read (from local news on up to the nationally-known) strive to provide information more than advance an agenda. The partisanship tends to come through in editorials and choices of focus for stories. In UK papers,…

Sorry. That's in part, what I mean: the US has terrible, ideologically-driven 'news' television, but a generally responsible print press. In the UK, its the reverse.

What confuses the hell out of me is how it appears that an American was - a lot, by virtue of her 'exotic' American-ness' - could somehow be typed as a sex-crazed-to-the-point-of-murder maniac Italy of all places.

The impression I got (a lot of it, of course, second-hand) was that the coverage varied a lot by country. I thought the American press was the most clear-headed of the lot, despite being an unmistakable genre entry in 'attractive white woman in peril in scary Foreignland'.

My former Scoutmaster - a smart and low-key guy, well-regarded in my hometown, but wary as heck of computers - had an amusing rant one time where he talked about how he could easily see himself having rejected indoor plumbing had he been born in a different era. It happens.

While it may have a "target demographic of one" - who in practice is it actually going to appeal to? Americans who find it hilarious that Canadians have good maple syrup and say 'eh' a lot? Canadians who think Americans really 'get' them and are adept at skewering their cultural peculiarities? New Zealanders who can…

As a Midwestern Protestant dating a (non-practicing) Jewish girl, I'm looking at this and wondering if its a partial vision of my future.

Which makes me wonder: a few decades down the road, will future critics be writing column about how this version of Ben-Hur said something particularly interesting about 2016, intentional or no?

I recognize this and Suicide Squad exist in the abstract, but I can't quite be bothered to care that I could get a ticket and watch them in the theater. They could have come out ten years ago; they could have come out last week. A few months from now we'll forget them existed.