I hope at the end of the series we meet and she falls heads over heels for me and we live happily ever after.

No.

Recognitions will be with you shortly!

I mean honestly, a guy who yanks it in front of you but talks like Ned Flanders would be WAY creepier. That’s when you know he’s also potentially a serial killer. The guy who whacks it and swears like a sailor is just a creep.

Yeah, kinda an arson, murder, and jaywalking situation there.

Once someone jerks off in front of you, fires you and gets you blackballed, I think you can just stick to that part of the story. Using colorful language doesn’t really add much to the accusation.

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Either! Both!

No. FUCK no.

It’s an inconvenient, uncomfortable movie about uncomfortable people who can be very ugly to each other and leave a lot unresolved. You are supposed to feel uncomfortable finding humanity in Rockwell because of how viscerally loathsome he was for the first half - I know I was uncomfortable. I also know it all felt…

Film aiming for nuance enrages Internet commentators who lack it.

There’s an even better version of this movie with Dixon’s victim included, although I appreciated the parallels drawn between the casualness with which the bar man at the end and Dixon spake their evil acts.

If you dislike a piece of art because it doesn’t represent your ideal picture of the world, maybe it’s time to consider that the problem is with you and not the art.

It’s just the way it’s going to be from now on because it’s just so easy. No need to read up on film history, learn about cinematography etc. Some of reviews now imply that reviewer may not have even watched the movie. You just check the cast and crew list and sort by gender, race etc to apply some kind of checklist,…

The idea that a human being can’t hold abhorrent beliefs in one area and not continuously and permanently occupy the same place in the moral spectrum in all subsequent scenarios as a result of that is its own bizarre form of puritanism.

Jeez... I love film criticism... and I’m progressive... but we’re getting to a horrible social media version of the era when every single book and play was filtered through a feminist and racial critique. (Thankfully, Twitter users aren’t getting to the Marxist criticisms yet.) I don’t think these are bad approaches,…

It seems like people are upset that the characters are not caricatures of people they dislike that they have already caricatured. That is no way to tell a story.

I love that these conspiracies are somehow all-powerful, yet also clumsy enough for some barely educated rube to uncover

The idea that it’s “offensive” to suggest we might see our preferred cultural targets as anything less than one-dimensional monsters is a reminder that when people say they like art that’s “challenging” and “subversive”, they don’t really mean it.

So, we complain about the trend of movies bowing to audience expectations, and then we slam movies for not being as woke (or the wrong kind of woke) as we expect them to be?