Game Night Movie Review

Rachel McAdams is my queen. A review of Game Night (2018) dir. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Spoiler alert.

This movie is really fun. I wish I had a game night crew. I felt really bad for their neighbor. Is he very strange? Sure. I feel for him though. What's his name? Gary? Erik? I can never remember.

I think it's really interesting how many layers of criminal affiliation the crew can get themselves into. I wouldn't say the ending is unpredictable like High Fidelity (2000), but I could not have guessed the steps by which we reached it. 

"Semi-Charmed Life" is one of my favorite songs. In fact, my bestie Gabriel wrote an article defending the stance that it is the best song ever made. It was nice to see it here. It was used somewhat tastefully.

I thought the black couple's subplot about cheating was really lame. Every time we went back to it, I wanted to fast forward. The Denzel Washington bit paid off in the end, but it was a painful journey.

On the other hand, I really liked the British girl. Ryan was an annoying character, and I don't know why they keep him around if they are willing to kick Gary out of their group. But his date for this movie was good. She's the voice of reason to his nonsense.

The bullet removal scene threw me for such a loop. Such an obvious thing, yet they missed it.  

Eminem thought it was just a prop gun. You know, for the game.

If this plot happened to me, I would be upset. I would not want to be Rachel McAdams in this movie. I would be willing to be her irl though. She won the movie in the airport scene. 6/10. Can't wait to watch Send Help (2026) starring Rachel McAdams.

Re: the last review. Now that I am sober, I am giving The Civil War on Drugs (2011) dir. Trevor Moore and Zach Creggar a 6/10 as well. And while I'm at it, I'm bumping up High Fidelity (2000) dir. John Cusack up to a 9/10. That movie is too personally important to be anything less. 

The Civil War on Drugs Movie Review

I love WKUK and Nora was willing to watch this with me. A review of The Civil War on Drugs (2011) dir. Trevor Moore and Zach Creggar. Spoilers ahead.

I really liked a lot of gags in this movie. They were not only funny, but also memorable. The Jamaican slave, Doug the soldier, the man who could shoot straight up, the Indians being frat bros, and especially President Lincoln. Nora and I were quoting Lincoln's "It's a plant! In nature!" and "Legal now! Always gonna be legal! This is the United States of America!!" The way he shouts gets a kick out of me.

I usually don't like when the conflict of a movie is due to a misunderstanding. Like, in Gravity Falls S1E19, when Dipper things Grunkle Stan is bullying him, and he hears an out of context clip of Stan that proves his point. And he hates Stan until he learns the context, which proves that Stan loves Dipper and is teaching him discipline. Good episode? Sure. Lazy plot point? Absolutely. I think Civil War on Drugs uses this plot point to good use, because it's so over the top and ridiculous that it becomes another bit. How the writers went almost the whole movie without mentioning slavery whatsoever is impressive. 

I found it funny how Zach is a different character in every scene. My favorite Zach character is Abraham Lincoln. My least favorite was Ulysses Grant. I didn't like the Grant scenes very much; I am not big on gross-out stuff. 

I love historical fiction where massive details change. The war having 3 days of conflict and 150 deaths is crazy. See more crazy inaccurate history in the upcoming Amish Media Group film Berger (2026) coming out this month, on 16 February 2026 (tentatively). I can't wait for Mars to come out.

Somebody should score this film. But not me, man. I'm too high.

Idiocracy Movie Review

 Mike Judge made this one too, so Gabe bought it on iTunes. A review of Idiocracy (2006) dir. Mike Judge.

Randies online like to look at anything Trump does and claim, "This is just like Idiocracy!" And I have to admit, they were onto something.

• Corporations have too much power over public life.
• Politics is more about entertainment than about justice or virtue.
• Our society is hypersexualized; every man, woman, and child is so porn-brained they can't even think straight anymore.
• People have very short attention spans. If it doesn't immediately grab you, you move onto something else.
• There's trash everywhere. (This was especially poignant, watching it in St. Paul, Minnesota.) 

But just because it's very accurate doesn't mean it's revolutionary. Most media that "predicted" something was just looking at the problems of its day and making jokes about it. We as a society haven't changed so much since 2006. The movie is a critique on "capitalism" (what teenagers on Reddit call greed), but it's also about society's inability to analyze itself and its own flaws. Everyone who promotes Idiocracy online exempts himself from its symptoms. Notice how most people that make the Trump-Idiocracy comparison online usually support abortion or have a "Be gay, do crime" sticker on their laptop. "Everybody is dumb except me."

The means by which we avoid an idiocracy is not by yelling about Donald Trump or big companies online. We must first learn to admit our blind spots and grow out of our own self-enlightenment. President Trump and TikTok were but a twinkle in the eyes of God when this movie came out; we cannot blame a few scant pieces of modern American society for our collapse. Our current political / cultural climate is accelerating towards an idiocracy for sure, but change comes from within. What is the LORD's monologue saying at the end of Job? Repent!

This movie is kinda ugly and sometimes annoying. All the CG looks like a PS3 game or a Nickelodeon cartoon. I'm leaning more towards PS3 game with how much brown there is everywhere. Wasn't very funny either. At least not compared of Office Space, which is both beautiful and hilarious.

This is the most centrist post on this site in its 13 years, so I can't help but review Idiocracy as a 5/10.

Office Space Movie Review

Gabe and Dan kept quoting it and made me watch it on full volume in the library. A review of Office Space (1999) dir. Mike Judge. Spoilers ahead.

I've seen this criticism of Fight Club before, and I found it again looking for a photo for this article. "Boo hoo! You have a stable job in a good economy! You have no idea how bad it will be in 2026!" People like this make me wonder if they have any sense of reality, or if they are so egocentric that their problems are automatically more important and gargantuan than those from past generations. Everyone in the movie is miserable. Some people are constantly at risk of being fired, no matter how hard they slave away for Initech. Some people get fired for no reason. One has already been fired, and the company refuses to tell him because they love taking advantage of him. Peter is called into work 7 days a week just to be bullied and mocked by the higher-ups. How many voicemails did Lumbergh leave on Peter's phone when he was a little late for work? I think it said 37. His job is undervalued, and there is no incentive for him to bother. Not to mention his girlfriend that was cheating on him the whole time. Peter wins because he is the only one unwilling to play the game. 90s America gets glazed so hard by pop culture it's unbelievable. If you actually pay attention to the movie, you would know that the problems you face are not new. Suffering is not specific to a particular time and place. Maybe watch the movie instead of victimizing yourself at every turn. 4chan users are such losers.

I felt for Joanna. I can see why Peter wanted to be with her. The 15-flair minimum thing made me so mad. As someone who works in service, I was glad that the "bad guys" won in the end. Peter never got punished. Joanna got a better job. Michael and Samir ended up in a better company. Milton got his vengeance. Lumbergh's company ended in ash.

The color in this movie looked sharp and vivid, even through Gabe's laptop screen. The songs were great too. 90s rap has such a dated yet timeless style to it.

Peter owns a Nintendo 64. 7/10