A perfect day to continue on with 1998 movie options: now watching "Bulworth" (1998)

No blu-ray release yet wtf

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Hi, I'm Alan and I will also be commenting on "Bulworth" (1998). Reduced crew for this thread, but we'll get it done. #Bulworth2019

The DVD is not even anamorphic #Bulworth2019

"I believe in a hand-up, not a hand-out. Vote for me on Tuesday." #ClassicMovieLines #Bulworth2019

I hear we stand at the doorstep of a new millennium. #Bulworth2019

The idea of a Californian Democratic senator being center-right is too absurd to believe

@SenFeinstein

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This opening sequence (Bulworth endlessly watching and rewatching his third-wayist ad campaign and going crazy) is remarkable, love this

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I'm wondering if the film being set in 1996 instead of 1998 is going to be relevant #Bulworth2019

Good flipping through 1990s TV nonsense, violent and paranoid, this really evokes the era well #Bulworth2019

Bulworth's 1996 is much less pleasant than You've Got Mail's 1998. Surprising. #Bulworth2019

This hitman arranger is not very professional. #Bulworth2019

He had a beautiful array of pastel-colored fast food containers, enjoy what he brought to the scene #Bulworth2019

The progression of the movie works, as Bulworth goes from self-loathing and quietly self-destructive, to gleefully and publicly self-destructive to bring down all he hates

Good organic flow #Bulworth2019

Bulworth's opponent has apparently just "leapt onto the neoconservative bandwagon." #Bulworth2019

The newest campaign volunteers always get the valet job. #Bulworth2019

It's remarkable how they were on-boarded within the span of two hours. Nice operation Bulworth has going on here #Bulworth2019

I'm very impressed by the Bulworth political machine. #Bulworth2019

Were cars really backfiring this much in the mid-'90s? I don't know how historically accurate this is #Bulworth2019

I sense a Bulworth rap coming on. #Bulworth2019

The day-glo decor is pretty cool at Frankie's, but it seems too loud to maintain a conversation #Bulworth2019

I stand corrected, if you stand a few feet off the main floor, it becomes quiet #Bulworth2019

Frankie's has a very casual-seeming bar in the corner of a dark dance club. Seems incongruous but compelling. #Bulworth2019

Bulworth has reached the stage of boogie-woogie singing #Bulworth2019

Wow, Frankie's also serves delicious-looking ribs. This really is the ultimate dance club. #Bulwort2019

Bulworth is now exclusively rapping, but his flow is now quite poor.

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Bulworth has mastered dancing, and is now doing really solid turntableism at the DJ rig

This plot is basically the same as "Phenomenon"

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His flow is now much, much better

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It's very handy that this microphone is wireless. #Bulworth2019

"You can call it single-payer or the Canadian way. Only socialized medicine will ever save the day." #ClassicMovieLines #Bulworth2019

I'm not exactly following how the soundsystem is picking up the beats

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I like how there's basically a playthrough of HITMAN happening in the background during this whole thing. #Bulworth2019

Good sound mixing (pained moaning music, blurry foreground audio) during the "I want to live" sequence, which really sells it. Effective sequence #Bulworth2019

I'd like to know more about the specifics of the hit. How much urgency are they instructed to use to improvise and kill Bulworth now, instead of merely waiting for a more sensible venue in a few hours?

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Halle Berry points to the decline of manufacturing jobs in urban cores as a driver of decline in black activism, but doesn't do enough to lay out a program to actually restore these jobs, I could have used more detail work here

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The sickly green light in Vinnie's office is really nice #Bulworth2019

RIP Vinnie (1940?-1996)

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He died the way he lived: sideways on a couch. #Bulworth2019

Yesssss the debate. Very excited about this. #Bulworth2019

It seems like Halle Berry would have been a much less effective operative if not for Bulworth's sudden change of heart. This was a real break for Vinnie

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More debates should be done in silhouette in front of a flag, it's striking and levels the field between candidates #Bulworth2019

Larry King cameo! #Bulworth2019

Larry King's dogged journalistic integrity demands that he covers this story, he's the most honest newsman out there

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Vinnie has survived, thank god

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Bulworth can sure drive a limo. #Bulworth2019

I can't remember ever seeing a limo chase sequence before, this is good #Bulworth2019

"Sheik of Araby" being crooned by Halle Berry's grandmother, always nice to hear #Bulworth2019

Kale in 1996! Very ahead of the curve. #CleanEating #PaleoLife #KaleEveryMeal #Bulworth2019

Civil forfeiture of ice cream just committed by the police, this is egregious #Bulworth2019

Policeman Mark Breaux bringing disgrace to all "Mark ...eaux"s everywhere #Bulworth2019

This appears to be set in 1996 instead of 1998 only insofar as the senate election can be bumped by the media in favor of Clinton/Dole coverage #Bulworth2019

The casual swilling of Dom Perignon from the bottle is very good. #Bulworth2019

This primetime Election Special seems incoherent, various senate candidates and third-party presidential candidates? This seems unwatchable #Bulworth2019

They could have been doing more to explain the George Hamilton cameo #Bulworth2019

Beatty *loves* to drench the shots wholly in bright colored light. I haven't seen anything to do this to this degree since Batman '66 #Bulworth2019

Bulworth has hit peak flow. #Bulworth2019

Bulworth again talking about the decimation of urban manufacturing jobs, and school funding, but not enough about class segregation and spatial inequities within our cities

Jay Billington Bulworth, why won't you talk more about housing?

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Bulworth's proposal for procreative racial deconstruction is solid in the long-term, but he ought to introduce more pragmatic efforts that will help in the short to medium term

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WOW. We learn that Bulworth was running from the paparazzi in the limo all along. This seems very familiar. Disney's Superstar Limo, anyone? #CaliforniaAdventure #Disneyland #Bulworth2019

Let's just thank god that Bulworth's story didn't end in tragedy https://youtube.com/watch?v=bSx_Si4503E

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Bulworth is now babbling, just infinitely powerful and wholly post-verbal

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Bulworth should immediately run for President. #Bulworth2019

Faking leg fracture simply by wearing casts seems implausible. Walking around would presumably give you away.

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It seems clear that 9/11 is what prevented Bulworth's message of change from changing American politics forever.

It just needed another year or so to really incubate

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It's probably for the best that Bulworth's story ended this way, he was clearly returning to a spineless fuddy-duddy, with no flow

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Really, really solidly unsatisfactory ending. Exactly what we deserve. #Bulworth2019

Bulworth is agitprop, not comforting pabulum

If you don't like it, you can MOVE

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From watching the trailers, etc, I had no idea how the internal structure and organic progression of the movie would work, but it's really a solid product

Bulworth really is a masterpiece (and honestly, among the top-two candidates for Earful, clearly)

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