fawning celebration of its subject
That’s all I needed to hear to know that it’s bad.
That’s saying something since Borderlands was also dropped this year.
Apparently,The Crow has stolen Bordelands’ crown as biggest flop. That’s impressive.
In my opinion they made a huge mistake in trying to refresh The Crow with a modern Gen Z lens. I think a lot of modern retakes have been done well, but this character is so deeply rooted in that 90s grungy alt rock metal culture that trying to remove him from it just makes him a really bland emo antihero. I personally think they should have leaned hard into the nostalgia factor and cranked the crunchy guitar up to 11 with just a bit of modern freshness. I don’t know what musicians would have been appropriate to tackle that in the 2020s.
At least borderlands isn’t about a person who’s helped lead the world to ruin
i cant imagine its worse than the crow reboot. i could barely get through the trailer. even borderlands was tolerable.
And Reagan was the worst president of all time.
I’d say Buchanan still wins. Saw the Civil War coming and basically stood back and let it happen. Was even sympathetic with slaveholders and the South in general even though he was from Pennsylvania.
But I hope to see the day sentiment finally changes and Reagan joins the worst Presidents list.
andrew jackson is worst for me. trail of tears/genocide is pretty fucking unforgivable
American presidents didn’t stop or start genociding natives with Jackson.
Fun Fact: Grant assigned Sherman to figuring out how to genocide Indians in the most efficient way possible, leading to the buffalo extermination campaigns.
Nixon. Trump. Bush Jr. Plenty of awful ones to choose from. Seems like it just gets worse with every Republican.
I know there’s the argument that “Reagan lead to Trump”, but I don’t think that’s particularly applicable. Also, Reagan’s “legacy” as it where has had 40 some years to really seep in. Trump has only had 8, and even in just those 8 he’s at the very least giving Reagan a run for his money.
Worse than the guy who grabs women by the pussy because he thinks he deserves that right as an entitled manchild?
They should do an anti documentary. Show Reagan as the blood hungry man that actively sought to gut government spending for mental health institutions, show him in backrooms smoking cigars to cut taxes, and talk to the CIA director to funnel crack in neighborhood.
Bonus points for downplaying aids specifically to target the gay community.
And the war on drugs stuff, and the Iran-Contra stuff, the DoH grant rigging, Ill Wind, loans crisis, Wedtech scandal and so many more classics!
After all, he’s number one in the hall of fame for convictions/indictions of Administration officials. A whooping 138 record, making him the Babe Ruth of corrupt US government leaders.
Adam McKay was in the early steps of doing a Will Farrell comedy about Reagan’s time with Alzheimer’s dementia, the concept being he was too far gone so his advisers told him he was playing the President as a role… the outrage machine got summoned and it got binned, but CANCEL CULTURE only applies to other things I guess.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/big-short-director-adam-mckay-892495/
Most Will Ferrell movies would have been much better without Will Ferrell.