Crazy Rich Asians was released at the perfect time, the blockbusters of the summer are come and gone and nothing of mass appeal being released at all in this upcoming week. It’ll put together a solid run, maybe 75-100 million dollars domestic. Not by any means a back up the brinks truck return, but a pretty solid ROI…

A quick note for desperate movie studios: I am available to replace Kevin Spacey in your movie. I won’t lie to you: I’m not a very good actor. But I’m cheaper than Christopher Plummer and I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone, so I’m clearly your best option. 

You’re a confusing fetishizing someone with appreciation.

It’s a valid critique because it points out how this movie kisses cop ass, as does your comment

What is this I don’t even.

You’re arguing, in a film trying to relate historical events to modern day, that not depicting behaviors and actions these specific police officers took that run counter to everything this film purports these men did is similar to The Social Network not depicting Mark Zuckerberg’s bathroom activities, essentially…

The funniest thing about the people criticizing Lee for doing that is that it’s pretty much what people protesting the police are saying needs to be done: the police need to listen to members of the community and get more insight into what they are experiencing and feeling.

Giving Spike Lee shit for doing exactly that…

You should probably read his essay. Given that this is a Spike Lee movie, and it ends with images from Charlottesville and an upside-down American flag, I think it’s fair to question the argument the movie is making by revising the true story. Yes, “they changed some shit” is a tiresome form of non-criticism, but…

Indeed.  The film seemed to say “the institution is fundamentally good, it just has bad people in it”.  Whereas I think the reality is the opposite - plenty of cops, like most people, just wanna make a living and not die.  But the institution they serve is fundamentally oppressive.

I’d argue it’s generally a good idea to measure a work against its own intentions, not the ones one would have wanted it to have. Generally. But there are cases where the choice of focus is definitely something worth talking about, and this here is probably one of them. If some institutions is reponsible for a lot of…

And that’s pretty much Boots’s complaint. If you make up a crowd-pleaser to make the cops look like they’re all on the same team, fighting the good fight, and the Blue Wall is kaput, it undermines any supposed greater point the film was trying to make. Especially if you’re trying to compare it to modern times.

Yeah, I definitely had a slightly weird feeling when I left the cinema. The movie is thoroughly pro-cop, to the point that it feels kinda forced and weird as it insists that most cops are good and so is the system, it’s just one or two bad apples. It insists that it’s based on a true story, and emphasizes that the…

Right, but it wasn't supposed to be plausible. It was supposed to be a crowd-pleaser.

Yeah, but in the context of the film it seemed like a deliberate Hollywood ending headfake in order to set up the finale.

AVC writers seem dead set on passing on summaries of half-remembered news stories that they only partially understood in the first place.

Honestly, even if she does read the Daily Heil, Miss Layla isn’t wrong on this one.

“It’s a damning assessment on the whole, going so far as to end on a note in which Riley draws links between Lee’s film and a paid advertising campaign he did for the NYPD a few years back.”

Why is there so much race tension in America? What a messed up country!! – Miss Layla, Kent, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago

There aren’t enough of them to matter. Eliminate voter suppression laws and you never have to cater to racists.

i.e. we need to pander more to ignorant people. Yay!