I realize the bar keeps going down, and there’s not much we can do about it.  I realize that politicians, religionists, and network television executives will not stop until our mentality is back in the Stone Age.

But two-time Academy-Award-winner-before-she-was-30 Jodie Foster was someone I used to think of as a standard-bearer.  A beacon of class and integrity.

And then she decided to make the new film THE BRAVE ONE.

What was she thinking?  Why does she want to be Charles Bronson and remake DEATH WISH?  Since when is vigilantism a value worth celebrating and promoting in A-pictures.

Thanks, Jodie.  Thanks for joining the Great Unwashed.