As someone who grew up in the mid-2000s this just feels like a return to normalcy
i know it's not what you meant, but: Kiefer Sutherland. vampire, dime store hood, marine LT gitmo, klansman. he was always playing those unlikeable bastards.
i saw this scene around age 7. it both scared the shit out of me and was my first exposure to simple, but effective tough talk.
"What are you gonna do? Shoot us all?"
"No, Ace. Just you."
That BAZINGA guy with the lightbulb head wilding out as a CIA assassin tasked with saving a bunch of hostages in an unnamed Middle-Eastern country.
in an unnamed Middle-Eastern country.
You say this as if they wouldn't simply just call it Bazingastan
Jesus fucking christ that makes me pissed. I know TF already existed because of Reaganite shit about commercials, but this is so fucking 1980s america it hurts. Good on Kasem for telling them to screw off
im afraid that guys booked till 2050 on young sheldon & future big bang brain spin-offs and reboots
Pass me the lathe. I want to see Colbert in the next Expendables as the computer nerd.
I disagree, that juxtaposition with Bryan Cranston adds to the intended artistic value of the show for me, its not just a side effect of the culture decaying into fascism.
If it was walt would be the good guy
Yeah Reddit mentality is that Walt was the good guy and Skylar is an annoying bitch. If someone hasn't rewatched it as an adult, they probably haven't come to the obvious conclusion that this is, and always was incorrect, and the showrunners tried to be obvious about it. I remember that it'd made sense to me back in 2011 too.
Very true. And I think even adults watching it the first time - on release - were caught up in the zeitgeist Walt-as-hero narrative of the show that was the dominant cultural one - especially the early seasons. Speaking for myself as an older Chapo - it was a very different experience on the rewatch. And that one scene in the kitchen
:yikes:
George Costanza's character is based on Larry David (of Curb Your Enthusiasm) so maybe not :think-about-it:
Seinfeld’s a pedophile
Wait I thought that was just a cumtown bit
He dated 17 year old Shoshanna Lonstein in 1993. Its hardly a revelation.
That movie has to be self aware, right? There's a scene where they joke North Koreans are brainwashed by propaganda depicting violence against their enemies. The climax of the film is Kim Jong Un getting graphically exploded by a rocket.
It’s possible. Rogen himself didn’t believe that North Korea hacked Sony, so that could’ve been a PR stunt that Americans fell for
There's a whole chapter about this movie in the book "National Security Cinema"
Chapter begins bottom of page 96 in this PDF. It should not only answer your question but give some further insights. I began by posting a comment with excerpts from this chapter, but hexbear ate my comment for being "too long" and I'm not about to copy-paste and reformat the line breaks in those paragraphs again.
I was an American teen in 2014, people accepted everything they heard about North Korea without a hint of irony. Like I remember hearing a rumor in high school that Kim would feed his enemies to piranhas :kim-peace:
North Korea was thought of as a wacky, modern-day version of Nazi Germany, so no violence against a dictator like him would be considered unjustified
That's the only movie I got a piracy notice for, and I feel like they should've refunded me my time if they went to the trouble of contacting my ISP.
Their mistake is that he was actually really competent, just like in a Mr Magoo kind of way.
For sure, but it's also why anyone thinks he's supposed to be the "good guy."
Ah but you're failing to consider "John Benjamin as Sterling Archer” -> “John Benjamin as Sadamm Hussein”
if seth rogan becomes an operator im never taking off my sunglasses or beret to watch a regular movie ever again
It's sad because I used to like them in their sitcoms. Less Jim though.
And yes, I did subscribe to Nonthreatening Boys Magazine.
Gotta be the stoner kid who drives the pizza van from Stranger Things, or the stoner kid from Never Have I Ever next
Waiting for Jim Rash and Danny Pudi to get cast as the leads in the next Rambo remake
Judah Friedlander as Frank on 30 Rock to playing Saul Berenson on Homeland.
(Someone please photoshop a World Champion hat onto Mandy Patinkin)
slow but very real
extraneous words
it took a decade dude. "but very real" yea no shit
