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 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).