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06-22-2020, 01:05 PM | #1 |
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It is bright where Joel Schumacher is in hell
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/j...or-1234644961/
Phone Booth was a pretty good movie from what I recall, honestly And I really, really fucking love Falling Down |
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06-22-2020, 02:46 PM | #2 |
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06-22-2020, 03:25 PM | #3 |
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Another one lost to MacGregor's Syndrome. RIP.
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06-22-2020, 07:14 PM | #4 |
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We've really been slacking on the celebrities IN HELL threads lately.
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06-22-2020, 07:21 PM | #5 | |
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I always thought Phone Booth was a silly gimmick |
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06-22-2020, 07:33 PM | #6 |
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Michael Douglas's character in Falling Down is a stand in for white rage. He lashes out at Asians, Latinos, black people, etc. cause he thinks he's lost his white privilege. It was released after the LA Riots. It's awful.
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06-22-2020, 08:47 PM | #7 |
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Nah, never read it that way. He also lashes out at an old white golfer, construction workers, fast food employees...he loses it because he's simply tired of the million inconveniences life throws in one's way and just snaps.
Whatever you think his motivation is, the movie certainly doesn't paint him as sympathetic in the least. He's bound and determined to reunite with a daughter he has no right to see. You're not supposed to empathize with him. |
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06-22-2020, 08:51 PM | #8 |
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Oh yeah and there's a part where he straight up shoots a white supremacist store owner
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06-22-2020, 09:28 PM | #9 |
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So because he's an asshole to a white person the film it isn't a film built on racist tropes?
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06-22-2020, 09:31 PM | #10 |
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The main character is a white man lashing out because of his perceived loss of privelge in society. It came at the end of the Reagan/Bush years and right after the LA Riots.
It was a modern retelling of countless other white man revenge films. Except instead of his wife or daughter being murdered or raped it's his white ego that he's going vigilante over |
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06-22-2020, 10:29 PM | #11 |
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ok
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06-22-2020, 10:47 PM | #12 |
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I'd be curious to hear an analysis of Network.
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06-22-2020, 11:04 PM | #13 | |
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Anyway, I suspect it turns out that Michael Douglas is actually the baddie in Falling Down and that the story was not meant to endorse his behavior so much as condemn it.
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06-23-2020, 12:10 AM | #14 |
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I loved the Phantom of the Opera movie as a kid.
Also Batman & Robin is lowkey a trash masterpiece. |
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06-23-2020, 01:11 AM | #15 |
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Didn't he do one of those John Grisham movie adaptations with Mathew McConaughey? Not the one with the car. Well, I think it had a car in it, but this one had McConaughey defending this guy who avenged the murder of his daughter by Klansmen.
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06-25-2020, 12:58 PM | #16 |
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06-25-2020, 09:06 PM | #17 |
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