My coworker was telling me how well Jerry Maguire stands up today and I forced myself to remember the major beats of that piece of shit:

  1. Big company bad and evil; small start up good and pure.

  2. Being principled always pays off in the end.

  3. Everyone can make it if they try hard, believe in themselves, and believe in each other.

  4. We can have perfect interpersonal relations if we just learn to balance work and life appropriately, and it's up to us to accept that challenge.

Fuck this movie. More importantly fuck people who like this movie. Jerry would have turned out just like his old firm buddies (even if the major plot points largely stay the same). Everyone in this movie is actively trying to exploit each other in the beginning. And even though it's totally inconsequential to how bad these people are in their shitty lives, if you ask me the most unbelievable part is when Jerry and Bridget Jones get back together at the end.

Not buying it.

Tell me about the shitty liberal movies that are renting space in your head.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Jenny was correct and a based anti war activist and should have never gone back to him. Should have just gone from a hippie to a sober/straight edge anti war activist instead

    • supdog [e/em/eir,ey/em]
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      2 years ago

      I'm ok with Forest Gump, ban me idgaf. No I don't think boomers should be allowed to watch it. I like how the movie turned out balanced. I can't think of a movie that can commit to the tones Forest Gump does with the acts feeling like they belong in the same movie. Doc Brown bled out alone that night while Marty McFly saved himself. They COULD have devoted an act to grieving and guilt but that'd break the tone of the movie.