I find the seething disdain for Harry Styles to be similar to most other handsome or cute male pop stars who haven’t intentionally projected an accepted brand of masculinity over the past two decades or so. Maybe even before then, but that’s the beginning of my awareness. When I was still in school, most guys hated…

If you put a word in quotes, and attribute it to a speaker, that’s supposed to be because the speaker said it. If you can point me to a post where I used the word “racist” to refer to The Women King, I’ll eat my hat.

I’m not sure that X expects us to take the protagonists at face value - the movie isn’t anti-porn, but it’s very clear that characters are struggling at the lower rungs of adult entertainment (stripping at an oil refinery, shooting low-budget porn). When they express ambition (to make an artful porn movie, to be…

What the fuck are you talking about? You’re seriously delusional. Fuck off troll.

Are you okay? Did you hit your head recently or are you always a strawman?

What does that have to do with my visual interpretation of her? I wasn’t commenting on her acting, as this thread wasn’t about that.

Oh, I think a post of any length would’ve been too difficult for you, buddy.

I loved X. For me, it totally nailed the 1970s porn vibe and the 1970s/1980s slasher vibe. It was decently acted, the main characters (victims) were fleshed out enough, so you weren’t thinking now it’s the floozy’s time to die.

says you. how do you know that?? You don’t. Seriously. Not everything fits into your basket of presumptions and condescension 

Are you seeing a lot of recent films about the American Founding Fathers that I’m just missing? We had John Adams on HBO, but that was (a) 14 years ago; and (b) about one of the most anti-slavery Founding Fathers.

I’m not sure that’s quite right. Yes, every historical takes some liberties. But the Dahomey weren’t merely a nation that has some cultural elements we now find problematic. Slavery was central to who they were, in a way that put them at odds with other African and even European nations.

Many said it was racist, problematic, inaccurate, insulting, fascist, ableist to name a few “boos”. And also there was a call for boycott.

In total fairness, sure, Saving Private Ryan invents a US army platoon and a rescue mission. But it doesn’t, I dunno, try to make it seem like the Germans were heroically fighting to save France from the evil invading British and Americans.

I was hoping they’d make it look significantly worse, just to fuck with everyone.

Slight double take at Rifkin’s Festival, because for a moment I thought you meant Rifkin’s Dilemma, George St. Geegland’s unfinished novel about the boyhood of a guy named Rifkin who jerks off all day long. 

Or maybe it was an honest mistake? 

This might convince me to pick up a Peacock subscription when it happens. Also, is this the secret Columbo reboot that the internet was talking about several months back?

It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree. 

There will be dumber comments than yours put forth on the internet today, but hopefully I don’t come across them.

I am as feminist as they come and the guy is an absolute scumbag. But you can’t hit someone. It doesn’t help anyone’s cause. You just can’t.