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Here's How Bernie Is Still Losing
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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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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/
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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/
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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/
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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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Callback payoffs are overplayed ad absurdum; there are as many "Chekhov's Gun"s as actual guns here. Vacuous events are montages of subliminal-speed jump-cuts crashing into each other, all flashing lights and keyframes 3/
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Initially worried Hot Fuzz would not age well (and a few jokes fit the bill), but the sharp satire of inane action movie pageantry here feels evergreen.
Hot Fuzz's jabs at common action movie tropes obviously come from people who *love* those tropes enough to cleverly dissect them. 2/
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Ok done, had to rewrite some things (old review)
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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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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/
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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/
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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. 5/
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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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Callback payoffs are overplayed ad absurdum; there are as many "Chekhov's Gun"s as actual guns here. Vacuous events are montages of subliminal-speed jump-cuts crashing into each other, all flashing lights and keyframes 3/
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Initially worried Hot Fuzz would not age well (and a few jokes fit the bill), but the satire of inane action movie pageantry is evergreen and remarkably coherent.
Hot Fuzz's satire of common action movie tropes obviously come from people who *love* those tropes enough to cleverly dissect them. 2/
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Fucking crazy for Hot Fuzz. Need to repost my review from FB
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and people think this guy is a VISIONARY lmao
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He will *gleefully* treat women in his films as cheap tittilation, ensuring some on-screen violence comes to them. Men are never subjected to any such indignity. Only conclusion here is he finds the on-screen brutalizing of women as perfectly appropriate "social commentary." Disgusting.
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Past summary:
"Gaspar Noe makes insincere shock shlock for the most irritating stuffshirts at the micro-brewery tour. His violence is either crass or corny and any symbolism merely gestures at deeper meaning without having any besides 'wow this is fucked up haha.'"
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[Gaspar Noe has entered the chat]
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Absolutely no clue but it wouldn't hurt to try 🤠
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Oh yeah and comments might be turned off on YT but you can report it for harassment!
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Completely on-brand that the Party of Failing Upward platforms 5th-Place-Failgirl as their spokesperson. Let them delete some webpages and do EOs nobody follows. Trans people have been here before Europe was shitting in toilets.
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The "Barbarian" producers remind you of their legacy as well, peppering in a few returning gags and legitimately great one-liners that never felt, themselves, like snide 4th-wall breaks or shoulder nudging (no more than any other talk show, anyway).
I give it 40 shares in the company 6/
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a late-night patisserie window of family-friendly sleaze and dubious spirituality, the movie assessing its own (in)credulity with every smirk at the camera and guest-seat skeptic; this constant self questioning left my belief suspended until the (well over-trod but not unspeakably bad) ending /5
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While never overtly scary, I was wowed by its earnestness and self-restraint, completely engrossed in the made-for-tv melodrama of our host, "Jack Delroy," and the gentle implication that he's *too* good at his job to be second place, that something is amiss. The paranormal aspects display like 4/
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- sets the backdrop for a belief-suspendingly authentic performance. Quick-witted late-night personalities and their antecedents play Wimbledon-grade quip tennis to a crowd dressed in convincing 70's cheese as you "view from your home TV set" 3/
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Watched Late Night With The Devil last Fall. Probably the highest-budget "Shudder" production I've ever seen: a lavishly authentic set - from the grainy 70's "footage" of real events down to the between - "segment" interstitials (movie takes place in a talk show) 2/