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:
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Big company bad and evil; small start up good and pure.
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Being principled always pays off in the end.
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Everyone can make it if they try hard, believe in themselves, and believe in each other.
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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.
I love how basically the first scene of the show is a guy in a park saying “I’m tired of being oppressed by all the magic users in this city” and our main character, the most powerful magic user of all, beats him up with magic. And keep in mind that both the city government and police force are made up entirely of magic users. Amon was right, Zaheer was completely right.
also one of the guys we're supposed to feel bad for having his magic taken away is a mobster who sets fire to people for fun and until it happens he keeps yelling about setting fire to people.
not sure why the audience was expected to think there's a man who should have power over fire
I guess the point is that bending is sort of a deep intristic part of a person. Taking someone's connection to the element is like chemically castrating a person.
in his case it's like chemically castrating a serial rapist while he yells threats to continue doing that even if that were the analogy. If it was the analogy it's a bad one as these intrinsic parts of them grant them immese and inescapable power over everyone around them and also Aang taking away the bending of the fire lord was earlier portrayed as a merciful and reasonable thing to do
The show's line on this seems to be the same as current mainstream view on chemical castration as a from of crime prevention — it's a cruel and unusual punishment, the dude should just be put in jail.
that's a really bad analogy if it is the case they're making because they made it magic powers he's a violent man who can apparently never be disarmed without it being a violation of his inalienable right to set fire to whatever/whoever he wants to
I haven't watched the show since it came out, but as far as I remember they had like a whole city full of those bending dudes and a badass metal bending police force, so I feel like they had the whole bender jailing situation figured out. Unless the plot needed a prison break, of course.
badass sure but really bad at investigation and the guy had been operating openly in city streets for years and just no one on the police stopped him. that police force and it's focus on firepower over any form of community outreach played more like an occupying force than a source of justice (it is an American show though).
And it’s extra frustrating because the first show was a story about anti-imperialism
Don't take my magic powers away! Something something culture something something spirituality plus then I'll just be a regular nonmagic person! The horror!