The details of the rest of the story are up for grabs, and grab they did, while in the process of making a far more entertaining story. The true story is, a bear in the 80’s that got into an air-dropped duffle-bag of cocaine but that doesn’t put asses in the seat. The point is that this movie carries the tag claiming authenticity to its logical conclusion exaggerate the hell out of a paper-thin story to make it appealing. But come on, if studios didn’t zhuzh up a story and exaggerate details from time to time the entire Conjuring franchise would just be two con artists exploiting and preying on the fears of the delusional and financially troubled. I mean besides the based on true events tag no, a coked-up bear didn’t rampage through Georgia. Well, first off it didn’t lie to its audience. Luckily now, you can sue thanks to Judge Stephen Wilson who ruled last December you can now sue for deceptive trailers… Now, where does Cocaine Bear fit into all of this? It was a dream and the real story had something to do with poachers or diamond smuggling, honestly, I don’t remember the plot. Yes, I speak of the reviled Kangaroo Jack! Marketed as a fun romp of two bozos in the outback hanging out with a kangaroo who could spit rhymes, but when I saw said movie, I found that scene that was plastered throughout the entire campaign, cut and recut, was taken out of context. Twenty years ago, I, just a wee lad in New England, bought into the lie that was fed to all us Zoomers.
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