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 hated that movie so much. Not only is the ideology paper deep, the shooting is terrible, the writing is bland, and (as you say) the ‘heroes ’ are exclusively pieces of shit. Also it was like three different stories wrapped up and sold as one. Dog doo film making really
I would really like to know what the point of making it was? Were they really trying to make us feel for her? Or was the true intention supposed to be that the throwaway white guy was the real hero all along and we’re just supposed to hate lesbian girlbosses? It’s such a weird fucking movie. Why was it listed as satire? As crypto-neoliberal propaganda. WTF!!!
I have literally no idea. I hated everyone in the movie except the ‘villain’ (the dude who had his mom stolen, but was mean about it?). More than anything, I want to be a fly on the wall of Dinklage’s office after he read the script, but before he accepted the role. What was my man thinking???
