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Heathers 1989
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I don’t know, there’s something I just really didn’t like about Heathers. It’s pretty clearly a satire of John Hughes “real” high school 80s classics, movies that I’m not particularly familiar with outside of general cultural knowledge. But there’s something contemptuous about Heathers for its own characters, the genre, and the audience. In literature, this era hasn’t aged particularly well - nobody is telling you to run and read early David Foster Wallace fiction that’s sure it’s more clever than…
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2007
Almost genius. The cast is a murderer’s row, and the cameos are perfect. The driving hate for the laziness in Ray and Walk the Line infuses Walk Hard with more urgency than most of Apatow’s work. When it is specific, it’s devastatingly funny - the over the top Jewish managers and producers is such a solid slap against Ray, the June Carter will-they-or-won’t they becomes a perfectly distilled physical fight make out session with Dewey and Darlene, the club for…
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