#689 - Early Late Style
Added 2026-02-07 17:25:55 +0000 UTC
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Whaaaaaat
Michael and Us
2026-02-11 16:21:28 +0000 UTCEpstein’s numbered notes sound like a teenager’s lsd epiphanies
Mallory
2026-02-11 12:41:50 +0000 UTCShowing the Whitehouse and surroundings in a less than reverential way is actually pretty interesting because there is an innate understanding (rather than an enforced one in like China for example) of what you can say and how you can depict things like this. The reason why so many libs lost their minds over Jan 6 was the breakdown of this fiction and the images from there more so than the idea that some knuckleheads would actually seize power.
Nick Playfair
2026-02-10 14:04:55 +0000 UTCHighly recommend people check out Siskel and Ebert's disagreement over this film. Seems like Roger overcorrecting from his tepid review of Unforgiven
David
2026-02-09 21:09:09 +0000 UTCWait till you hear what actual Starmer sounds like. - Luke
Michael and Us
2026-02-09 15:34:03 +0000 UTCClint's hideout was shot at Christopher Hitchens' apartment lol
Adam
2026-02-09 01:07:46 +0000 UTCOh, and I forgot to mention before, it is absolutely wild to think of who was alive just a short time ago. I remember there was a World War I veteran at my bar mitzvah. I’m pretty sure there were a couple civil war veterans around when my parents were born.
Johnny 5
2026-02-08 13:57:56 +0000 UTCI always thought Dave was really endearing. It’s probably because I saw it when it came out and I was still a bit politically naive at 14, but Kevin Kline’s earnest performance really makes it a win. Obviously you get nonsense like Charles Grodin saying “If I ran my business like this I’d be out of business,” but I think it largely works. At the same time, I also loved The American President when I was 14 and that does not hold up. I have six post graduate degrees in mathematics!
Johnny 5
2026-02-08 07:18:54 +0000 UTCThere was another Clintonsploitation movie that came out around the exact same time. Murder at 1600, from Dwight (Marked for Death) Little. I remember it being quite similar but more absurd, and thus maybe more entertaining.
Richard Jones
2026-02-08 03:54:56 +0000 UTCThere were a lot of movies in the 90s with ex-CIA/ American-empire-gone-rogue villains, almost like a foreshadowing to when we all learned about the term blowback in 2001. But after that the national security state had to become the heroes again.
Andrew Buchner
2026-02-08 01:54:02 +0000 UTCcannot abide Luke’s Starmer impression
majjj
2026-02-08 01:40:17 +0000 UTCAs far as 90s president movies starring Clint Eastwood are concerned, I would also forward In the Line of Fire, which has a great John Malkovich villain performance as a disgruntled former CIA wet work operative out for revenge
sinesynced
2026-02-07 23:57:25 +0000 UTCI feel like maybe his 90s movies were mostly bad except Unforgiven and maybe,,,” a perfect World”? I remember it being a Temu “Badlands”
D.I.E.
2026-02-07 19:51:05 +0000 UTC
