Thread: Tonight I finally sat down and watched Everybody Wants Some, which I am prepared to classify as a guilty pleasure.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
Like. It's about a bunch of white dudes and one black dude playing college-level baseball in 1980, which. It does what it says on the tin.
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It's not remotely trope- or period-critical, and it's not meant to be. It's light, indulgent, nostalgic, and in that context, it works.
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Literally all it is, is a character study. We meet a bunch of dudes as they meet each other, watch them have fun & be bros. That's it.
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And there's nothing wrong with that, in the sense that I'm not the Plot Police going NEE-NAW NEE-NAW for lack of higher substance. BUT.
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I'm hard-pressed to imagine a similarly indulgent, character-centric, conflict-free film being made about a bunch of non straightwhitedudes.
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The closest thing I can think of with ladies just hanging out for fun is Tarantino's Deathproof, which still has a core revenge/rage plot.
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I cannot imagine a similar film about women/POC/queer folx just hanging out and being friends and having shennanigans getting greenlit rn.
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Which is really a fuckin shame, because I would watch the hell out of a comic character study film about non straightwhitedudes hanging out.
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Fuck, I could WRITE the hell out of a comic character study film about non straightwhitedudes hanging out and having shenanigans at school.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
& if/when I finally do that, and people ask what the hell my basis for thinking it's watchable would be, Imma point at Everybody Wants Some.
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Basically I wanna see more films where people just have a good fucking time that aren't solely about the one kind of person. THE END.
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