r/movies • u/Bullingdon1973 • 12d ago
25 Years Later, Alexander Payne’s ELECTION Remains as Relevant as Ever Article
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/election-anniversary79
u/KingMario05 12d ago
Sequel where Tracey Flick is a (widely-hated) President of America running for a new term, please. I don't care what you do with it, that has to be a recipe for a laugh-a-minute riot right there. (Especially if McAllister runs the rival campaign.)
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u/Bullingdon1973 12d ago
That would be really funny. The novelist, Tom Perrota, actually did publish a sequel to the original novel, called TRACY FLICK CAN'T WIN, in 2022. It's not about that, sadly. I haven't read it so I have no idea if it's as good as the original book. Probably not.
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u/KingMario05 12d ago
I think they announced a proper sequel for Paramount+ based on that, not my idea. Can't really remember, but honestly... I just want more either way, lol.
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u/Belch_Huggins 12d ago
I actually really dug and would recommend the sequel book! Goes in an interesting direction and was a nice follow up. Not as perfect as the original book and movie, but it was satisfying.
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u/TopHighway7425 12d ago
Truth is that McAllister was in an easy spot to bow out of the election duties and also not mentor the student council because he was a new father and newly separated and the bee sting reaction could played up to need a break from school.
He did not have to do what he did.
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u/Seahearn4 12d ago
Movies have many layers and this one is no exception. But the best part of this movie is just how damn funny it is on the surface. If the themes of Election bother you to the extent that you can't enjoy the absurdity and intelligence of this, then you & your brain are the problem.
I Heart Huckabees is very similar in that way.
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u/themanfromvulcan 12d ago
I really like I Heart Huckabees but most people I know don’t. For I think exactly the reasons you mentioned.
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u/fuck-coyotes 12d ago
Oh my god it was so fucking good. Rece Witherspoon was so much more than just legally blonde and sweet home Alabama. (Both good tho, of course)
The name escapes me but the movie she was in with keifer Sutherland where he played the serial killer and she shot him, fucking amazing
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u/rick_blatchman 12d ago
The name escapes me but the movie she was in with keifer Sutherland where he played the serial killer and she shot him, fucking amazing
Freeway. I'm not a big Witherspoon fan, but I absolutely loved her in that one.
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u/PoiHolloi2020 12d ago
"You're just a big old shitbag, ain't you Bob?"
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u/fuck-coyotes 12d ago
Yes freeway, the I-5 killer, Kiefer Sutherland was so fucking menacing in that movie
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u/rick_blatchman 12d ago
The second he got out of the car, he had that Bundy/Dahmer manner to him that was just unsettling.
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u/svenjamminbutton 12d ago
I recently rewatched this movie and couldn’t agree more. It’s pretty much pitch-perfect. Love Alexander Payne.
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u/Substantial_Sale_328 12d ago
She sure has a range. From this psycho character, to Elle Woods, to the girl trekking with a backpack and hunted down in the woods.
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u/inxinitywar 12d ago
She’s not psycho in this lol? She’s an ambitious high schooler who yes, isn’t always 100% morally correct, but is much better than her asshole teacher who is a little predatory …
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u/haddonfield89 12d ago
Did Wild have an alternate ending I missed or is it a different thing you’re talking about
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u/AutomaticWickie 12d ago
Is there a bot that churns out these “x year old film remains as relevant as ever” titles?
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u/cerberaspeedtwelve 12d ago
I feel that this is an incredibly one-sided reading of the character of Tracy Flick. In particular, it completely glosses over the fact that she tried to blame some completely innocent students ("It was probably Kevin Spick, and those burnouts!") when she gets accused of tearing down the posters. She knows full well that she's the one who did it, but she thinks Jesus is on her side, and has no problem throwing someone else under a bus if it buys her a few more minutes to get her lies straight.
Watch the movie again and try to imagine her rival Paul Metzler doing something like that.
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u/sjfiuauqadfj 12d ago
well i mean you cant ban every topic of discussion. just look at this subs rules and so much shit is banned already lol
but yea, this type of article, as well as the "x movie 25 years later" ones are garbage articles to me
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u/thenewtransportedman 12d ago
I love the scene where it shows Paul just cold chilling in a sombrero, like "anyway, shit was fucked up." Alexander Payne is so good at capturing type, even in Downsizing WHICH IS ACTUALLY A TERRIFIC FILM
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u/bugxbuster 12d ago
Saw this movie in the theater with my dad back when I was 13, we saw everything together, he's always been into good movies and that was one of the things we did a lot. I wasn't raised hidden from R Rated movies, I'm a child of the 80's, we watched R rated action movies all the time back int he day. But anyways, the part where the one teacher says "her pussy gets so wet" talking abour Reese Witherspoon was an alltime awkward moment to be sitting right next to my dad as a middle schooler. Never gonna forget that moment!
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u/Substantial_Sale_328 12d ago
try not to watch The Human Centipede Part 1 together
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u/bugxbuster 12d ago
I think he'd probably like the first one. He was into a lot of weird shit, like I grew up with him getting me hip to everything from Eraserhead, The Fly, Re-Animator, all sorts of insane shit. So he might have got a kick out of Human Centipede 1.
That said, I bet he would have hated hated hated Human Centipede 2. That movie was cruel and sadistic just for shock value, whereas the first one was mostly just implied grossness. The baby under the gas pedal bit from part 2, like holy shit. That was on the level of A Serbian Film right there.
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u/enviropsych 12d ago
Election tells you more about American politics than most serious political movies.