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Thats a distinction without a difference, though, since either way it stinks to heaven.

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He was angry, bug-eyed, serious.

He was Samuel L. Jackson.

ThatShaftwasnt focused on sex anyway it was another forgettable vigilante picture.

Usher has to sputter in self-defense (in falsetto) that he does, too, like pussy.

He has to say to Jackson, kindly dont use the N-word.

He has to priss, Im anti-gun.

Most degrading of all, Jackson calls himDon Lemon.

Gun violence is part of the vocabulary of cinema, for better and worse.

But the director, Tim Story, doesnt stage the shoot-outs for suspense.