Fern’s Flix Reviews

“I know how to drink and drive, sweetie; I know what I’m doing”

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this would make an unbelievable double feature with Burn After Reading (2008).
am i too woke for saying that i would proudly join their revolution if it were taking place in reality?

i think a very good judge of good character work is to ask the question “would this character be a great bit-part in a one off episode of Seinfeld?”
Steve Lockjaw would be one hell of a screen partner to George Costanza, i’ll tell you that much.

to piggyback off the Seinfeld part, another way to judge good plot is to ask if it would be a funny scenario to find the gang from Its Always Sunny in it; the gang getting too high and not remembering the rendezvous point is the funniest shit imaginable to me. 

how the FUCK did they manage to pull off all of the “Dirty Work”, “Mo Bamba”, and “Shut Up and Dance?” needle drops?

everyone is giving career bests. i will be very sad to see Leo not win for this role but i like Timmy and MBJ fine enough that id be happy if any of them win, but if sean penn doesn’t win best supporting actor i am going to riot in the streets. 

also its just about the most cathartic film for our time. it’s political but in such an accessible way. like it’s refreshing to see that in an OVERTLY political. makes it very clear that the politics are “there’s all of us normal real people of varying viewpoints, walks of life, and maybe even political opinions; and yet there’s these lameass, goofy, weird, uniquely evil fascists we all should fuckin hate and do everything we can to topple.”

it’s probably the funniest film of the 2020s, too. i am going to be thinking about it for a very very long time. cannot wait to rewatch this and turn this one over in my head for the rest of my life.