“Now I’m a pretty firm believer that depiction does not equal endorsement, especially in crime fiction. I also believe that someone like Quentin Tarantino has often taken a little too much pleasure in pushing that idea to a certain point and then unpleasantly winking about it. But I do not agree with the reviews of “Dragged” that call it a right-wing fantasy. This Zahler film tamps down the outlandishness of “Brawl” (but doesn’t entirely dispense with it) and ushers in some Elmore Leonard the better to construct, with great patience and devilish craft (this is potentially one of the most engrossing 158-minute films you’ll ever sit through), a story of two criminal schemes that converge and go very wrong. “
At the end of the day, all I ask from Hollywood is to entertain me. Before they became obsessed with virtue signaling, SJW activism, and tokenism, it used to only be about, "Let's make a good movie that entertains people."
And really, that's all I care about. I don't care if it's Sean Penn or Mel Gibson. Just make a good movie.