Joel Anderson

Do you feel that way about 08?

Like, when you're re-watching Entourage or you're watching Tropic Thunder, stuff from back then, are you ever like, 08 was the best, man?

It's just...

Housing prices were low.

Some people get hall passes.

Like Barkley had one.

There's a hall pass element to it, but I think that the thing that's crucial is if you're going to make fun of other groups of people or basically anybody else, and this is what this movie actually does do,

You have to be the buddy of the joke.

And Larry is always the most awkward, difficult, funniest person on curb.

Like, no matter who he's making fun of, Larry is always the one you're like, I can't believe this guy needs a napkin that bad that he's going to do this.

And Larry always loses.

And Stiller and Downey and Jack Black, like, yeah, they get a moment of heroism at the end.

But the people who are most worthy of ridicule in this movie are the stars of the movie.

And the Vietnam stuff is like, I kind of think about the scene in True Romance when Clarence Worley is like,

man, did you make Coming Home in a Body Bag?

That's my favorite fucking movie.

It's like, this is almost making fun more of Coming Home in a Body Bag than it is like The Deer Hunter, you know?

And Coming Home in a Body Bag is a fictional movie from True Romance.

Yeah, I think Oscarology was more of a niche pursuit.

No question.