The Jared Hess sensibility is even stranger absent of almost any recognizable jokes. But there's some fun in how purely this is a Wes Anderson pastiche about your kinda funny, kinda annoying high-school friend.
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Napoleon Dynamite 2004
I don't know that any subsequent Wes Anderson rip-off has as good a take as "what if Wes Anderson couldn't imagine a world outside of the barren hellhole he grew up in?". It hits some dry patches in the second half but it's still funny and sweet, and there's no denying that this went a lot better than I expected watching Napoleon Dynamite 20 years later to go. Tina Majorino should've gotten at least as many studio supporting roles off of this as Efren Ramirez did.
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The Big Short 2015
Adam McKay is telling you a joke. It's a brilliant joke, one of his best. But the only punchline is "fuck you". And McKay can't get through it without bursting into tears. That's the movie.
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Love & Mercy 2014
A film with the shocking revelation that there are people worse than Mike Love out there.