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.
Office Space
stealing is bad even if it’s fractions of a penny from a corporation!
But then the plot twist is that
stealing is actually good if you can get away with it
if it doesn’t harm anyone and nobody even notices it happening, how can it be wrong?
oh wait that applies to creepshots under some circumstances… maybe we need to be deontologists after all
I think you could make the argument that it is wrong to do something if there is both
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A chance that someone finds out what you’ve done
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Harm done to that person if they do find out
The psychological harm done by an invasion of privacy is enough to consider it wrong even if that psychological harm isn’t guaranteed. imo anyway
Yeah. I hate the “but your stealing” part from Rachel. This movie is perfection in aesthetic (it hit so close to home with its office satire I shivered the first time I saw it) and the comedy is pretty great. Turns out the message is just kind of sort of total bullshit.
that argument was so unpersuasive that it basically just washed over me. They literally couldn’t even show any reason for why it was wrong for example anyone being hurt or even inconvenienced.
My brother in christ it’s your story you control the narrative why are you just stating your point with no narrative support.
that said the moral of office space is that you should burn down the office if your boss moves your desk so you can’t see the squirrels
The office space guy was way happier as a labourer even though he has to endure a lot of the same petty bullshit and jokes that pissed him off before, they don’t really dwell on that cause it’s just a quick throw away gag. He probably also took a massive pay cut, they never really got into that.
