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1. "It was also a really bad/immoral film"
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Wed Oct-27-21 06:14 PM by handle

          

At least Rampage from Flipmode Squad got his name from it.

Ebert's review said it best:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-last-boy-scout-1991

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This movie is the future. It assumes the average audience now has no standards except those of the mob.

The only consistent theme of the film is its hatred of women. The two heroes (Willis and Damon Wayans) have a wife and a girlfriend, respectively, who cheat on them - the wife with Willis’ best friend, the girlfriend by prostituting herself. Both men are at home in this screenplay, which hates women with a particular viciousness; the verbal violence begins by calling them bitches and whores and worse, over and over again, and the message is that a man can only really trust another man. The end of the movie is peculiar in the way it insists on this; the hero, reconciled with his cheating wife, embraces her and whispers vile obscenities into her ear. We are intended to read them as tender. Then he strolls off lovingly with his buddy.

I am a reporter. I must report not only the film’s willingness to degrade women and children. I must also report the film’s slick, clever professionalism. As I said before, this film works. Despite any objection I may have felt, it plays well with an audience (although some of the people around me seemed disturbed by an extended scene in which Willis and his child curse each other).

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Movies Revisited: Is the Last Boys Scout Deplorable? [View all] , Buddy_Gilapagos, Tue Oct-26-21 01:32 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
When Ebert was on, he was dead on.
Oct 29th 2021
2
… I still really like it.
Oct 30th 2021
3
RE: Movies Revisited: Is the Last Boys Scout Deplorable?
Oct 31st 2021
4
No definitely not saying yank it.
Nov 01st 2021
5
Now I want to rewatch this
Nov 01st 2021
6
Not going to lie, its worth re-watching.
Nov 02nd 2021
7
you should. It's a solid action flick.
Nov 05th 2021
8
      Better than most action flicks today, tbh.
Nov 05th 2021
9
      Rewatched it. Honestly, it still holds up
Nov 08th 2021
12
Eh, even back then
Nov 06th 2021
10
Tony Scott da Gawd.
Nov 08th 2021
11

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