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The fight scene where RRP forces the other guy to put on the glasses was the inspiration for the cripple fight episode of South Park. And that really is the bes
by gweinberg 5y ago
The fight scene where RRP forces the other guy to put on the glasses was the inspiration for the cripple fight episode of South Park. And that really is the best thing to come out of the film.
Really, it was every bit as shallow and superficial as it seemed. "People I dislike are like evil space aliens". "No, it's YOU GUYS that are the ones like evil space aliens." There was no more depth to it than that.
- tomdell 5y agoReally? The core idea I got from the movie is that our desires are driven by advertising - that maybe the constituent parts of our personality are largely just impulses instigated by external forces to consume various things, to work, spend money, and propagate to keep the economy in a state of constant growth for the benefit of the wealthy who don't need to work - landowners, large stock-holders, etc. The campy, stupid action movie aesthetic is sugar coating for what I found to be an interesting theme.
- lurquer 5y ago> The campy, stupid action movie aesthetic is sugar coating for what I found to be an interesting theme. Hehe. I think you’ve got it backwards. You have Rowdy Roddy lined up to do a film. You come up with a campy corny idea of him fighting about sunglasses. After that, you come up with some off-the-shelf ‘theme’ to sugar coat the campiness. Real honestly, I would have watched 2 hours of that sunglass fight. That WAS the movie. Best damn fight ever. Wish it had lasted two hours.