Oh my God this site. This is an article about a great advertisement tinged with virtue signaling (congrats on not LARPing with the non-prostitutes, though) on a web site that is now like half sponsored content. How do I even know where the marketing ends and the journalism begins. I guess it’s sort of poetic that…

Right. Well, I guess it depends on your own personal selection of media. What art, for you, dealt with these particular themes in a better way? If Three Billboards is derivative, and I’m not saying it isn’t, what is it derivative of?

It’s like intellectual pollution. Many of the people who engage in it only seem dimly aware of where their bad ideas are coming from. So yes, I’m fairly invested and many of my interlocutors aren’t, because they haven’t thought about it twice or, in many cases, once.

The central tenets of Identity Politics are that moral authority comes from victimization and that people who are not members of a victim group identity cannot, by definition, have insight into social justice because they are blinded by privilege. The problems with that are that a) it’s perfectly possible to have…

I respect your laser-like SJW focus on acceptable themes for movies, but I don’t share it. Three Billboards is probably a better movie about “toxic masculinity” than any other film this year (except Colossal - that actually might have been the best one on that theme), what with its recognition that a person who has…

Identity Politics is like an avalanche of bullshit. If it was an avalanche of snow, you wouldn’t say “what a cliche”, you’d run. It’s not my fault you can’t see the problem, but don’t worry; you’ll get it once it buries you.

Yeah I think a movie can be escapist entertainment and be important.

It sounds like your objection is that things in a movie don’t unfold exactly the way they would in real life. I can’t argue with you there, but that’s an odd standard to hold movies to. Mine is whether the story logic works within the context of the film. Having said that, cops in real life sometimes murder…

...but they ARE too dumb to understand it. Is the thing. And hey; I love superhero movies, but I have never seen one that had anything to say I cared about as much as I did the message of Three Billboards. Maybe Black Panther will be a morally complex tale, but signs point to the usual escapist fantasy that one…

I love it that identity politics people can’t handle Three Billboards. They are literally incapable of recognizing both flaws and humanity in a person. It’s identity politics poisoning reason take one million.

No, dude, it made perfect sense and it had plot consequences; he got fired, and it’s not clear if that guy was going to press charges or not. It also represented that character’s low point; after that experience he tries to right himself. Meanwhile, it ALSO causes McDormand’s character to escalate to firebombing the…

I think it’s nice that the internet has decided that Star Wars is to be the pop culture central hub of representation and intersectional political statements. It’s a weird choice, but sure, why not? It’s a bold new direction from a franchise that had been stuck in a rut for awhile. Also, the internet is in charge of…

I think it’s really important to understand that the reason Republicans having affairs matters isn’t that it will cause them to lose the support of their voting base but because it makes clear that they won’t lose that support, because “Tax Cuts for Rich People” is the only, only thing Republicans care about, and they…

Huh. I don’t think the problem with TLJ was that it was too feminine. I think it’s just kind of bad.

She should rip off Paranoid Android next, just for kicks.

Well, I’m happy the people hoping for a depressing, eat-your-spinach Star Wars movie got what they wanted. Next, a sequel to Doug where the characters fail to make it in the arts, get fat, and die of opiate overdoses! Change is awesome!

if the movie had given real time to Rey and Luke and Rey developing their weird tug of war relationship, that would have been better.

PORGS PORGS PORGS!!!!

It is absolutely not a certainty that a fan will have an unequivocal take.

Thank you for your apology.