The plot itself gleefully revels in the hyperreal wish-world of Cop Procedurals, where "Hero Cops" are given "no other option" than to spin-kick preachers to save their community, and "official channels" are bureaucratic rat's nests designed to prevent them from doing said spin kick (Yuck!) 4/ - ThreadSky

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The plot itself gleefully revels in the hyperreal wish-world of Cop Procedurals, where "Hero Cops" are given "no other option" than to spin-kick preachers to save their community, and "official channels" are bureaucratic rat's nests designed to prevent them from doing said spin kick (Yuck!) 4/

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dreutiful.bsky.social•1 day ago

Speaking of cop procedurals, if the movie doesn't have the actual box copy of Bad Boys II or Point Break in the frame, it will have the shot composition or one-liner re-enacted. They actually *show* the movie *in* the movie if you're not up to Speed (1994, starring John Cruise) 5/

dreutiful.bsky.social•1 day ago

I also think it rises above the common throwaway criticism of procedurals as "Copaganda" because its politics are frankly pretty good. The main antagonists are avatars of boomer angst, highlighting that the banality of pensioners' complaints of "modern culture" 6/

dreutiful.bsky.social•1 day ago

are as extreme (and unjustifiable) as their means of "righting" them, down to an actual honest-to-God "Make [x] Great Again" dogwhistle far before it loomed as some collective nightmare idiom. The rest of the precinct outside of this "shadowy cabal" pulling the strings of violence treats the 7/

dreutiful.bsky.social•1 day ago

two Hero Cops as justifiably insane because they are operating on a logic outside of the Action Movie strangereal which, actually, totally justifies cool nonlethal violence to the elderly.

Smart dumb fun. Good satire that wears its inspirations on its sleeve. "Scream" for action movies 8/

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