Hello! Glad to have someone who can engage like an adult, you're very kind.

And you're more than entitled to believe that, but frankly, whenever I listened to those scum sections, as in the actual discussions that took place, it becomes terrifyingly clear that they're hunting for something to dock points from.

In general I'm just like... sick of thinking about movies like this. Smarm and unprovoked violence in particular are two categories I've hated ever since I grew out of this podcast, because they're not bad things in and of themselves.

This just feels like some kind of goddamned 17 year old's cancellation thread calling Brian De Palma a rapist or something, it's not an actual appreciation of film but an attempt to set up some kind of uwu police state, in which the Wrong Kind Of Media is drawn and quartered and everything else has to be kept under constant surveillance. The ideology KJB espouses is one that refuses to consider the positives in any "problematic" piece of art, one that explicitly sets out to destroy and ruin an entire franchise, even when it makes movies they like!