Look, this may be the beer talking, but
Hunter Killer (2018) is probably the best movie ever made.
I mean, when Gerard Butler makes it through the submarine tunnel and his XO finally understands what he's dealing with, I almost got misty eyed. I mean not since Rocky IV has a movie really embraced and understood the subtleties of Russo-American politics like this one did. And the scenes with the SEALs on their little mission dealie made me almost feel like I was back in my salad days. There was only like one nigger with lines in the movie, and even he was actually not annoying.
Gary Oldman...well you could tell he shot all his scenes in one day and he'd been drinking pretty heavily, but he's still...well, no, he was actually the worst thing about this movie, and I say that as a true and honest Gary Oldman fan. He really phoned it in...but even that's worth watching since he so seldom does it (even in the real Bruce Willis class stinkers he's in most of the time now, he actually mostly tries).
So, look, I'm not telling you to watch it, but it certainly exists.
On the other hand,
The Aristocrats (2005) you SHOULD watch. Now I saw it when it came out in a little arts theater with maybe 30 seats in it, and it was fucking amazing. But watching it now, it's the most depressing piece of film that you still wind up laughing all the way through (unless you watch
Precious (2009) while drinking with me). You get to see some ancient comedians
who were actually funny back in the day. Whoopi Goldberg was, believe it or not, actually fucking funny at one point. As were the South Park guys, Andy Richter, Lisa Lampanelli, Richard Lewis and Lewis Black and even Wendy Liebman. You can see how some folks like George Carlin, Michael McKean and Richard Belzer, who are very hit-or-miss comedically, were at least great students of the game. You can see that fucking Sarah Silverman and Jon Stewart were never actually funny. And also there's Taylor Negron and Carrie Fisher for some reason.
You can watch these ancient comics talk about comedy as pushing the edge
just to be funny, and be depressed about how it has turned 180 degrees and how being funny is the least important thing. When they talk about how you're allowed to talk about anything, and you really have to push your imagination to be offensive, and yet now, you can just literally say "nigger" and be more offensive than ANY ever telling of the Aristocrats.
You can see how the writing staff of The Onion murdered comedy. It's literally right there in the doc. You can just watch this bunch of soyfaced faggots (before soyfaced faggots were even a thing) just marched comedy out behind the woodshed and drowned it in a bucket of non-motile semen.
But mainly it's got a good rhythm and it builds up to the Gilbert Gottfried roast of Hugh Hefner. Also watch through the credits because there's some good stuff in there. It's a really good, funny, and extremely depressing time capsule.
