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 haven't watched it but that's too fucking perfect lmao :peltier-laugh:
It's amazing considering that for all of their flaws the original books at least end with a violent political confrontation where the Nazis have to be defeated in order for things to go back to normal.
It's still not good that they end by rehabilitating the wizard government that had completely failed to address the Nazis until the main character, who was a teenager, decided to do something about it.
If you enjoy watching bad movies and making fun of them I can’t recommend it enough. I had a blast watching it because it’s an absolute disaster. Watch it with a friend or a partner, maybe make a drinking game out of it.