Mel Gibson's New Police Brutality Movie Is a Vile, Racist Right-Wing Fantasy

[RockRaven]

4. One cannot be surprised a film starring Gibson, Vaugh, Johnson, directed by Zahler is TRASH

The original article references "Brawl in Cell Block 99" and I'd like to point out a factoid for those who don't want to click through, or those who do in case the Daily Beast doesn't mention this (cuz I didn't click through I'm not aware): "Brawl in Cell Block 99" grossed $7,144 according to Wikipedia. No, that's not a typo. Seven thousand one hundred forty-four dollars. Total. Gross. Released to theaters Oct 6, 2017. Released to streaming and video Oct 13, 2017. $7K in revenue. Welp.

Now take the cast of this movie (including the same female lead, btw), add Mel Gibson and some *additional* racism, and maybe you've got a deplorable blockbuster. Except no, you won't. Because deplorables won't really put up when the chips are down (Unite the Right DC march anybody?). They will pirate this video before they pay $15 or whatever. They will watch it in their basement before they brave the public forum of a multiplex. They will praise this film and Gibson and Vaughn before they've even seen it.

I hope Vince Vaughn saved up his doofus college-boy stoner movie money, because I think his middle-aged white-guy right-wing hackey-propaganda movie money is going to dry up in time... There's too much competition -- Baldwin and Sorbo and Selleck, oh my!