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Is America Ready for Observe and Report Yet?
Nobody understood the R-rated American mall cop movie 15 years ago. Rewatching it today is like seeing a bad omen too late.
The New York Times ’ Manohla Dargis opened her review with “If you thought Abu Ghraib was a laugh riot then you might love Observe and Report.” Others lambasted the movie’s date-rape scene between Rogen’s Ronnie and his long-time crush, Brandi, played by Anna Faris. Hill didn’t make another feature film for nearly a decade, focusing instead on Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals, the TV series he worked on with recurring collaborators Danny McBride and David Gordon Green, until releasing 2018’s The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter through Netflix. And although Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly commercially flopped at the time, with a rare F CinemaScore from audiences, it has since become a cult classic for the contempt of its final speech, in which Brad Pitt’s hit man says of the myth of the American Dream and Obama as a defender of it, “This guy wants to tell me we’re living in a community.
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