Counterpoint: no it is not his true calling. Jeez, have you seen Election?

Right on China! Make whatever movie you want to make, and cast whoever you want, and make as little plot sense as you wish to make!

The lead female does a fine job, I'll grant you that

Disagree. If I ask my students "Did the Holocaust happen?" I am giving credence to the idea simply by raising it as a question.

Ahhhh Phoenix. A movie that proves if you have an awesome final scene, people will forgive a lot of shoddy filmmaking

"That fight club is totally awesome, man" ?

Asking the question gives legitimacy to the question. You can't just say "Was Barack Obama giving his wife a 'terrorist fist jab?'" if you think the idea of a terrorist fist jab is bullshit.

I had a similar moment when I realized that 50% of my problems with Fight Club were with the people who liked Fight Club

Yes; no; no, and that's a fairly silly criterion to judge a movie by

Go listen to Death to My Hometown, fool

I had the same experience with a film class and Alien! It was awesome!

IMDB doesn't even list thriller, for what it's worth: Action/Crime/Drama

That was stupid in the exact same way I am often stupid. And therefore I found it funny

Also, they say that Milwaukee has an el. It…really does not.

I agree with your latter statement. Which is why I wouldn't advocate centrism for people in terrible countries, but for people in the US and UK? Yeah, centrism sounds pretty logical.

24 months after receiving aid to find a new job and 60 months over the course of a lifetime doesn't exactly strike me as the harsh hand of zealous conservatism

Do you enjoy the current state of politics in America? The extreme polarization, the assumption that anyone who disagrees with one of the (contradictory) platforms of either party must be an enemy? Maybe you're not from here, judging by your spelling of "centre," but I don't. So I'll stick to the center-left like a…

Precisely when did welfare get eliminated?

Leftists claiming all moderates are "center-right" is why there's no goddamn center left

Agree 100%