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The movie may have sucked but this review is art.

"(I’m looking at you, Clint)." I'm going to assume this is aimed at your friend Clint Howard.

A while ago I learned that Fred Durst produced the 2000 Primus album 'Antipop', which makes sense when you listen to it with that knowledge. Anyway, the album also features a song with Tom Waits (he and Les Claypool have worked together lots), which means there must have been a moment of Fred Durst and Tom Waits just sitting there trying to relate to one another. I think on this a few times a year and it tickles me every time.

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I was about 15 when Limp Bizkit was at the height of their popularity and was all in. I recently relistened to "chocolate starfish..." and it was 1/3 good guitar riffs that I still like, 1/3 stuff I now find embarrassing but understand why I liked it at the time, and 1/3 stuff I should have found embarrassing at the time.

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Their best song is a George Michael cover. Durst has only two voices, fake tough guy and about to cry. Which is perfect for Nu-Metal, I just could never get into it. Plus a white rap guy from Florida was a non-starter. And again, not trying to claim the high ground here, I owned an album from a band called "Cherry Poppin Daddies." Which didn't even register as cringe at the time.

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I read this comment before I looked at who posted it, and when I saw Cherry Poppin' Daddies, I thought: oh I guarantee Vince loved those guys.

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Hahaha *Laughs and points* Bob used to do it all for the nookie!

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I was working on WWE's 'No Mercy' PPV from 2001 for work, and the Undertaker was using "Rollin'" as his walkout song at that time (it's the era he would roll out to the ring on his dumb motorcycle wearing his straight-from-central casting Harley guy attire). ANYWAY, that took me on a little YouTube revisit to some Limp Bizkit songs. Your 1/3 descriptors are accurate AF. "Break Stuff" rips and yet it's completely embarrassing at the same time. This must be how furries feel.

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"Fred Durst deserved better." - Vince Mancini, The #Content Report

Imagine that pull quote on the poster? It would be enough, on its own, to tank the Rotten Tomatoes score to 0.

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I really took the opposite when I saw the trailer. No high concept or anything. Just “dude what if Y2K happened?” and let it roll. A little heavy on nostalgia but all I wanted 90 minutes of dumb jokes, people getting killed in dumb ways, and Kyle Mooney doing wholesome dumbass.

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"(Not trying to claim the artistic high ground here btw, I owned multiple albums of swing revival music)."

I too, owned an embarrassing number of Squirrel Nut Zipper CDs.

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I don't get Kyle Mooney and don't think I ever will. But my good friend who was born and raised in San Diego loves him. I'm really curious to know if it's a regional thing with him.

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Finally watching those clips made me understand that Vince's reaction is similar to why I liked Trailer Park Boys so much: it reminds me of people I went to high-school with.

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You really nail why the movie doesn’t work on its own… it has a very “paint by numbers” feel to the characters and story. But the barrage of references totally worked for me. Even the skater shoe thrown into the pond made me chuckle, simply because I was that kid when I was 13.

I also think the use of music was brilliant (specifically the beer run scene towards the beginning, and grinding the basketball goal with THAT Limp song)

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What was the name of the shoe? I looked all over for it and couldn’t find it or remember it.

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also if they had put that scene literally anywhere else… in that moment it just made absolutely no sense.

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I missed the brand, but one of the characters calling him a poser mentioned they were Eric Koston’s, who did a bunch of brand deals I think. Read to me as “those are corporate sellout shoes”

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For my Saturday movie, I chose Nightbitch, the movie where Amy Adams plays a suburban mom who thinks she's turning into a dog. Unfortunately, it turns into an indie dramedy about how powerful mothers are, and the dog thing is largely a metaphor for her pre-mom self trying to escape. A bad weekend for high concept, I guess.

Anyway, this is about what I expected from the Y2K trailer - I'll catch it on streaming, but I felt like I got everything out of the concept in two minutes. At least Fred had I Saw The TV Glow this year.

What was everyone doing on 12/31/99? I was 11, visiting family in Texas, having as exciting a NYE as one can have at that age (Dr. Pepper and pizza!).

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I wanted to see that, but apparently it's not out here in the boonies yet.

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I was blissfully unaware of this movie's existence and now I have to see it. I don't write the rules of nostalgia, bro. Thanks a lot, Mancini.

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A “state fair version of his act” is a fun note considering thats where most of his nu-metal ilk end up. I have enjoyed Durst’s new MO of going wherever the nostalgia trip takes him, even if it’s a psychedelic trans/queer allegory (I Saw The TV Glow)

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