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.
As far as I understand, which is not far because this movie was incomprehensible gibberish, the magic deer shows them who’s “pure of heart” but then for some reason they vote and they just trust all the fascists to vote for the pure of heart person. As if they wouldn’t just go “Yeah no he’s an asshole and that’s why I like him”
And then it bows to someone who isn't even running, which even the film is embarrassed about
And the non-candidate it bows to is the one who organized this situation that could be considered a coup!