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I keep going back to that "Bad News Bears" scene where they were losing some kind of grudge match with another team and somehow got most of the audience to chant "It Just Doesn't Matter". what the hell was that about?
Same. I also expected rather a lot more quicksand than I’ve actually encountered.
And I nstead of being victorious over the preppy twats, we, and I speak seriously, have been given the Wacky Races. Dick Dastardly openly sabotaging whilst Muttley laughs and nobody does a goddamn thing to stop it
Superbowl halftime show viewership declined 6.2% this year with a viewership of 113 million in 2025, compared to 120 million in 2024. The game's viewership was down 5%.
Seriously. It's like how the Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons didn't prepare you for what deserts actually look like. I expected what he's looking at here, plateaus & cliffs, but there are HUGE mountain ranges!! And there aren't cacti everywhere. WTF?!
True, and that comeuppance would be delivered within 90-120 minutes. Now we're supposed to wait years for the rich guy to get his just reward?? I. Don't. THINK. So. 😡
Movies are fantasies. The real villains of the 80s went on to do AM radio, host Fox News shows, and become king makers behind the scenes of both parties. The movies just made sure no one thought they had to do anything for karma to work.
Maybe that was their plan all along - make us think evil can’t win so we watch passively until it’s too late, and the rec center is demolished forever.
We've always talked a good game. But in the end, Americans LOVE their rich masters and crave being told what to do by them. It makes life so much easier. Read the Constitution. Even the Framers NEVER trusted the people to make their own choices. And "the people" heartily agreed.
Yeah, I'd like to see a remake of 'Trading Places' starring (f)Elon Musk and David Lynch, except for the part where it wasn't actually a remake of a film, just a rewriting of reality. A rewriting of reality for the good, you know? Just for a change.
But isn't that the entire point of underdog movies: to lull you into believing that comeuppance for rich people is really a thing. It's not. "Maniacal laugh, maniacal laugh..." - Tex Richman
That is when we were guided by the constitution and the rule of law with an overlay of civility, not by money and raw power with an overlay of ignorance, apathy, and greed.
I can solve everybody's problem right now. Imagine every Republican in Congress is the Walking Dead. Then if you see them, stab them in the head. If enough of us do it, then constantly repeat that they were already dead (like J6 deniers), MAGA may leave their cult and join ours. Just a thought.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
I just finished bingeing the Mary Tyler Moore show. 1977’s finale fires all of the smart, competent people and keep the narcissistic imbecile. Should have watched it sooner. I, too, expected more comeuppance.
With all the time-travellers going back to kill baby Hitler, I think they've ended up forming a line that goes on for so long that it becomes an encampment.
No I had a weird nightmare as a kid that was obvs influenced by an episode of Mickey Mouse Club, the first Sonic game, Neverending Story 2, and I could see all that but never figure out why there were evil lobsters that I knew were rich bc dreams, in the pool, pretty sure this explains that
I just finished rewatching Fall of the House of Usher and about to rewatch Handmaid’s Tale. I am loving watching comeuppance shows right now. Also have been meaning to watch the Menu too. I haven’t seen that one yet.
“Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.” - 1776, the musical.
I think this explains a lot of people’s support for actions that are actually hurting them. “I will be rich one day and want to do that.”
Particularly those 80s new york real estate moguls engaged in nefarious criminal activity. The dance kids should have done a lot more to stop them tearing down the Rec Centre!
I watch crime series with half an eye while I'm working on my art. Since the inception of TV they've been trying to convince us the power structure was a "force for good" while the musicians howled on the radio they were "bad people". We did our jobs and let it entertain us. We are disappointed now.
What they don’t show, after the credits stop rolling, are the police beating the protagonists half to dewth and the rich assholes suing the kid’s family into oblivion.
I feel cheated. I prepared for all the quicksand there would surely be as an adult, and also cars exploding on impact and I have never once got to use these skills.
And now we have Nazis. I hate those guys.
Kinda like watching "Father Knows Best" make us think cleaning house in pearls and heels made sense? Or that problems could be resolved in 30 minutes?? I wish.
I felt this, intensely.
Seeing as I love everything John Hughes.
Seriously, they always got their asses handed to them in the end.
WTF is going on now?
80's movies destroyed lives.
They leave you with so many delusional expectations.
That the good guys beat the bad guys.
People are inherently good.
Logic and reason will win out.
The little guys voice matters.
Or the most insidious of all, that you can find the one you were destined for.
I always lose my shit when I think about how I grew up seeing the CEO want to buy and destroy the public school/park for a resort being the bad guy and yet they literally vote for that same exact guy for president
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We're not in Kansas anymore.
And I nstead of being victorious over the preppy twats, we, and I speak seriously, have been given the Wacky Races. Dick Dastardly openly sabotaging whilst Muttley laughs and nobody does a goddamn thing to stop it
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Superbowl halftime show viewership declined 6.2% this year with a viewership of 113 million in 2025, compared to 120 million in 2024. The game's viewership was down 5%.
Boycotting works!
As a genXer, I don't know how it happened. Everything was ok into the 2000s. So many of my friends became terrible people.
American movies ALWAYS portray Good winning over Evil.
A majority of us feel that way.
We need to blow past outrage, to plans of action to counter this flagrantly illegal, illegitimate administration & its oligarch parasites.
Encouragement is a start!
People saw good people who followed God’s commands suffer and die and terrible people having a great time and never punished.
So religious leaders created the concept of heaven & hell to say *eventually* rewards & punishments would happen.
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Is it old enough to have inspired something in like 1988?
John Cusack classic
I think this explains a lot of people’s support for actions that are actually hurting them. “I will be rich one day and want to do that.”
And now we have Nazis. I hate those guys.
Can't even put the effort into some nice Hugo Boss uniforms.
Seeing as I love everything John Hughes.
Seriously, they always got their asses handed to them in the end.
WTF is going on now?
They leave you with so many delusional expectations.
That the good guys beat the bad guys.
People are inherently good.
Logic and reason will win out.
The little guys voice matters.
Or the most insidious of all, that you can find the one you were destined for.
Get on it.
Sorry, I know you have passed and I still love you.