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Cocaine Bear
2023 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Elizabeth Banks
Inspired by a true story, an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
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comedian making a joke about cocaine bear movie sequel addressing factual inaccuracies in a reply to the joke. Not a meth scientist, just fascinated by biology and chemistry.
Or even Cocaine Bear: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14209916
Cocaine Bear was a great documentary.
I'm waiting for a similar movie as the superb 'cocaine bear'
Well based on a true story has no real percentage of trueness. Cocaine Bear is based on a true story. It might be more correct to say inspired by a true story but it is based on a true story.
Based on a true story just means someone somewhere said something like this happened. Bloodsport is a great example of a movie that is based on a true story but that true story turned out to be entirely false.
2023 had a lot of big-budget bombs. Ant-Man, Indiana Jones, Mission Impossible, Transformers, The Flash, Fast X, Blue Beetle, Elemental, Shazam!, and the Marvels all underperformed somewhere on the scale from "disappointment" to "disaster".
On the other hand, aside from the massive big-budget hits of Barbie and Mario, there were also a number of mid-budget films that did very well: John Wick 4, Sound of Freedom, Five Nights at Freddy's, Cocaine Bear and M3GAN all exceeded expectations.
So it's hard to interpret this as the "middle class" of movies disappearing. I'd say it's the opposite, in fact. People have gotten sick of the big-budget crap that follows the same formula (note how most of those bombs are superhero movies). It's really the big-budget films that are falling apart.
Degeneracy is positioned as "tolerance" while traditional morality is repositioned as "hate".
"Reality TV" shows like "Ridiculousness" (hour upon hour of groin-shots) resemble what the movie "Idiocracy" portrayed in 2006 ("Ow! My Balls!").
When "hits" like "Jackass" are given platform and marketed toward youth who partially identify with Steve-O and his band of drop-outs, even though they aren't shown as heroes the emphasis is on the humor of their hijinks not the disastrous consequences of having given themselves wholly to wanton self-destruction.
"The Bachelor/Bachelorette", "Married at First Sight", "Real Housewives of [place]", etc - play on the commoditization of intimate relationships, reducing life partners down to nothing except the degree to which they approximate the standard as presented within the media - a status symbol: as either a Sex Object or a Success Object, and only to the degree that it fits with one's need for narcissistic validation.
I didn't see "Cocaine Bear" but I have heard of "Straw Man" - maybe it's the same thing.
In Cocaine Bear nearly none of the people mauled by the bear in the first half of the movie were drug users. The maulings seemed randomly chosen, save for the two kids. I'll go ahead and speculate that aside from the kids, the second half didn't involve any lectures on correctness. Am I right?
Perhaps more to the general point-- reality tv has rooted itself into the modern entertainment ecosystem at the speed of English Ivy. Other than the cooking shows, the cast are ostensibly chosen for narcissistic traits and then goaded into incorrectness for the pleasure of the viewing audience. Again, the outcomes seem randomized, probably to milk the endings for maximum intensity.
It's almost like that entire reality genre were carefully cultivated in a lab as a counterpoint to your comment here.
Hmm. Is there going to be a "Cocaine Shark"[0] movie at some point? Or perhaps a "Cocaine Sharknado"?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Bear
In the tutorial, the very first card I was presented with was reported for being "illegal", and the description was (from memory. I might not have it quite right)
"A post about the movie Cocaine Bear recommends doing cocaine while watching the movie and contains a photograph of a bag of white powder with the hashtag #cocaine"
That... seems like an obvious joke to me. And even if it's not, while "doing cocaine" is illegal, photographs of white powders are not, nor is suggesting that people do cocaine, nor is portraying them apparently doing so. We can know this is true because the producers and actors who worked on the film Cocaine Bear were not arrested.
Content moderation is hard, but I'm not very impressed that the very first card shown got it (in my opinion) totally wrong.
The latest fad I've noticed is subjecting movie-goers to 20 minutes of ads before even the previews start. The family and I hit a "mainstream" cinema to see the latest Dracula movie. We were in our seats by the posted start time. I was expecting the previews to start then. I mean, I know they're not going to start the movie at the time they say they're going to start the movie. But I was kinda surprised they waited 20 minutes before starting the previews.
If your business model is "we're going to make you pay to sit in a dark room and listen to uncomfortably loud advertisements," then I think I'll just stay at home and catch it on streaming.
I contrast that with seeing Cocaine Bear in an EXTREMELY janky theater. The kind that looks like it's been fully depreciated. It looks like they popped the popcorn a few weeks ago. I'm glad they never turned the light on in the theater, I didn't want to see what was on the floor.
But... they didn't pelt me with ads. When I walked in, there was cheezy music being piped in. I sort of worried the projector was broken, but a few minutes before the time the movie was supposed to start, the previews started. No ads, just coming attractions. And only about 5 minutes of them. The movie started more-or-less on time and I'm happy to report the sound system was not completely blown out.
So it seems like my choices are: Clean Theater but I'm not the customer, I'm the product or Sketch Theater, but it's clear they're not getting paid for my eyeballs. I think my preference is to watch the movie on my PC after downloading it from a torrent site.