“The Bizarrely Pro-Blacklist Hagiography Reagan is the Worst Movie I've Reviewed Here Since Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey”

[Introversion]

https://nathanrabin.substack.com/p/the-bizarrely-pro-blacklist-hagiography

Back when I was a professional film critic and people would ask me what I did for a living, they would sometimes say, “I don’t envy you having to watch all those terrible movies” when I told them my profession.

I would smile, pat them on the head condescendingly, and deliver my standard line about how a bad day at the movies was still better than the best day at the coal mine.

Besides, I love terrible movies! They’re my thing! I’ve written books and columns about bad movies and have a podcast, Travolta/Cage, that regularly, even obsessively, chronicles that endlessly fascinating subject. My World of Flops, my column about the biggest disasters in film history, is currently in its SEVENTEENTH year and its third stint at The A.V. Club.

I have spent my life and career happily, eagerly watching the worst in entertainment and Reagan kind of broke me. I can’t recall the last time I had less fun at the movies.

Last night, I saw a movie that posed a formidable challenge to my conviction that the worst day at the movies is better than the best day at the coal mine.

Suffering through the 135 minutes of hysterical right-wing propaganda that constitutes Reagan had me thinking that maybe working in a coal mine might not be that bad after all, Black Lung and possible fatal cave-ins included.

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[Alessandra Kelley]

Ah, this is the movie a fashion historian I ran across the other day excoriated for Reagan’s big ugly too-wide windsor-knot ties.

I believe the phrase he used to describe the ties’ knots was “like a meatball under the chin”.

(Apparently real Reagan in real life used the considerably more elegant four-in-hand knot. I have no idea what any of this means, but I was amused enough by the language to remember it.)

 

[Maryn]

I know only a little about Dennis Quaid's politics, but when he said to the press that he felt unworthy to play the part, I knew there'd be a slant...

I mean, Cranston wasn't afraid to take on LBJ, now, was he? Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the script didn't make the president out to be a saint.

 

[lbender]

There was actually a movie called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey?
I am very sorry to hear it was bad - the title is so cool...

 

[lizmonster]

There was actually a movie called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey?
I am very sorry to hear it was bad - the title is so cool...

Yeah, The Kid saw it. She also had hopes that it would at least be fun-bad, but it was just bad.

 

[Marian Perera]

There was actually a movie called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey?

Apparently Pooh and Piglet are abandoned by Christopher Robin when he leaves for college, so they become psychotic killers who devour Eeyore and murder several young women. There is a sequel and a third film is being developed.

ETA : Love this line from a review : "...the nudity involves Pooh gratuitously tearing off one victim’s shirt. One might call it a silly old bare."

 

[Stytch]

There was actually a movie called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey?
I am very sorry to hear it was bad - the title is so cool...

The original characters are now so old they've passed out of copyright, in case you're wondering "how."

 

[Lex]

Everything about this thread and the linked post is outstanding. No notes.

 

[RedRajah]

Scott Stapp.

From Creed.

Is.

FRANK SINATRA?!

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...I got nothin'.

 

[Jlombardi]

There was actually a movie called Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey?
I am very sorry to hear it was bad - the title is so cool...

I had to Google that before I even read the link, lol. I was hoping for something like Tucker and Dale vs. Evil or Evil Dead. I would have even taken Cocaine Bear, a terrible movie that becomes good if you don't take it seriously and fast-forward through some bits. That said, I hope the dude who runs the YouTube channel Pitch Meeting does a skit for it.

 

[BenPanced]

I think I'm gonna hurl.

Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey​

 

[CWatts]

I know only a little about Dennis Quaid's politics, but when he said to the press that he felt unworthy to play the part, I knew there'd be a slant...

Finally something to top his brother's most famous line "The shitter was full!"

They're really getting 'the best people'...

It’s a bio-pic of Ronald Reagan from the director of “Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels,” “Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite,” and “Bratz.”

I mean, even Nixon got Oliver Stone.