I, and I suspect most men, only need a couple of minutes to figure out if the guy we're talking to is a violent psycho, and avoiding having to interact with them in the first place isn't too hard if you're a big guy and have good don't-fuck-with-me face. There are exceptions, but they're rare. There isn't a general shoe-to-drop, every-fucking-time anticipation of when this conversation is going to go wrong and how bad it's gonna get when it does.…
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Ambulance 2022
The poster for this highlights the LA in AMBULANCE, implying that this is the story of a city or something. Maybe that would explain how this “guys hijack an ambulance” movie is 136 minutes long. Or maybe another, truer way to explain it is Michael Bay.
I've dunked on Bay a lot over the years, and intend to continue to do so for the forseeable future, but a lot of us have and director-wise he's been a reliable internet-film-nerd target…
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The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) 2015
Tom Six, like a lot of people whose art is childishly offensive and basically stupid, considers himself a warrior for free speech. (o, how hard he fights. On Twitter.) He dresses like the French guy in Raiders Of The Lost Ark and has so far shown the world exactly one idea, which he's flogged out for three movies now. I am caught between befuddlement and admiration.
This third gulp at the can dispenses with the dropout-Cronenberg medical horror of the…
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Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
George Miller had been talking about this - or at least, had been persistently asked about it in interviews - for like twenty years now, and I don't know what's different about now that he finally got around to making it but I'm glad he did. The response on this has been gobsmacking, though I was willing to chalk a fair bit of it up to Peak Gen-X Nostalgia, and it coming at a good time to be heralded as…
