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No mockery, just discomfort with emotional oversharing.

Come now, everyone knows Cheney was a Batman villain.

Come on. A Big Mac? Them shits are slapped together from the cheapest possible ingredients by minimum wage employees with nary a thought for anything but the lowest common denominator. You really think Tarantino cares that little about his product? Even if we accept your allegation that his work only "tastes good"…

I think if you had trouble with the ear, there's some brutality in Django that would really make you squirm. I'd actually recommend Pulp Fiction, if you wanna get into Tarantino. I watched that without trouble at age 12, but had to look away from Reservoir Dogs during the ear scene at age 18.

I didn't really get it. Can someone explain to me why that's a great film, or at least link to an article that does so effectively?

Well, I consider myself pretty liberal, and certainly don't revel in bloodshed, but I found some satisfaction in my country finally proving it had its shit together enough to hunt down the people who attacked it. It's certainly better to have killed Bin Laden than to have failed to kill him. Cleansing or no, it was a…

I thought the Mandingo scene was great for how much of the horror was conveyed purely through sound. The camera would be focusing on Django at the bar or the pretty courtesan, and in the background you'd hear cries of anguish and pounding flesh. It really drove home how the genteel amicability of the Antebellum South…

On the topic of Starship Troopers, I'd say it doesn't really knock it out of the park as a satire because it seems to put the commentary element aside for a lot of the runtime. Cut out those laughably jingoistic newsreels, and how much is it really skewering the values held by the characters and society we're put in…

I must say, frustrated as I am by The Colonel's stonewalling, I am really enjoying the carefully-worded, thoughtful arguments he has prompted. Maybe trolling is intellectually valuable?

I agree that the point they're making about Zero Dark Thirty's inaccuracy is different than similar objections to Django, but I'd still say they're taking too narrow and literal a critical tack. Unless the movie was billed as a documentary, it's tacitly understood (or, at least, should be) that artistic licenses were…

I dunno, I kinda like there to be a point to the violence, unless the movie's just a campy piece of trash. By "point" I don't necessarily mean a didactic moral, just some way that it ties into the rest of the film semantically.

There was sort of a trunk shot from Hildy's POV in the Hot Box, IIRC.

We can't even use the word in context? I could have sworn I'd done that several times.

DiCaprio's excuse is that he's at first trying to play along with Shultz, and then, in the phrenology monologue, making fun of him.

I find Spielberg's movies to be intellectually stimulating. Not intellectually challenging, usually, but they often make me think a lot, when I put the time into looking beyond the brute emotional impact. His films certainly aren't thrown together, and wherever there is craftsmanship and care there is much to…

What does Marsellus Wallace look like?

A Blaffair to Rememblack

There's something to be said about gruesome revenge films presenting a kind of outsider art catharsis not provided by the privileged perspective of the mainstream film industry.

As a Northerner, that's reassuring to hear.