Thread by @Soundsaboutrig4

So not a lot of people know that @Soundsaboutleft has a bit of a past. He got stuck in traffic one day and went a little...let's just say good thing he was able to use his "album privilegium."

Hint: Album is latin for white.

Anyway. Here's his #FallingDown day. #LeftRight

I mean a lot of people want to make a mountain out of a molehill for all he did. I mean all he did was...have an argument over geographical access, food costs, fencing, food prep, etc.

I mean...who doesn't hate paying a bunch of money on drinks?

#Coke #Smash #Rollingbackprices

I will say he had a point that the advertising for fast food is nowhere near the reality. They do all kinds of tricks and shenanigans to make 3 cents of beef look like a meal fit for a king in a commercial.

The reality is always...disappointing. Especially when delivered.

Yeah. I've run this schtick into the ground. This is Falling Down. Starring Michael Douglas Aircraft Company, Robert Devo, and other people...

This is one of those movies I haven't seen in like 15 years or so, so I legit am curious how this will land now in the current political environment.

Hell, it's interesting how different people interpret this movie.

Because the truth of the matter is that a lot of people are angry and do feel like D-Fens. They see him as a role model for better or worse.

In a lot of ways this movie was a warning that this (misplaced) anger would go from minor issues (i.e. leaving your car) to straight up bad shit (electing an orange stain and allowing yourself to die from a plague).

Because we can look at D-Fens as just a psycho or just someone who broke under pressure, but a lot of people look at him as who they see themselves.

They see him as a

*burps*

God. This is getting way too serious.

Let's just watch this damn thing from a cinematic only p...

Okay, that'll be hard to do completely, but my point is that this anger he represents is a real thing and we are seeing the effects of people who feel ignored and powerless and lost in a world that's shifting away from them being in control.

Even if they're oblivious to what...

Ugh. I got serious again.

You know. Probably...probably not the best movie to review considering what's going on with the world.

So here's me being an idiot and poking the bear that'll potentially piss off both sides of the political spectrum!!!!

Just one last thing. I'm doing a bit. I will say potentially stupid things and I'm being insanely ironic...or not...or maybe I am.

Who knows.

Just don't take this serious.

I gotta go complain about my delivery being cold.

Be back in a few minutes to talk about this totally not currently relevant today movie...that everyone sees in a different light.

Oh...this was stupid idea.

We start out at Mike D in his car looking like he’s about to post an unfunny review on Twitter.

He’s stuck in traffic. Like no one is moving. It’s a parking lot.

We pan across people and not very subtle commentary.

I’ve legit but stuck roughly at this spot in LA. It’s a major intersection.

Everyone around him is just as miserable as him, but his AC is broken. So. Ya know. Dude is at his breaking point. He doesn’t even have a phone to play games on. Life back when kinda sucked.

Though, let’s be honest. The podcasts he’d listen to would have gotten him on a list.

He pulls a breaking bad with a fly and then…whoa. That Delay looked like delta for a second.

Mike D has had enough and gets out of his car. He pulls a Cartman.

He leaves his car in traffic and I gotta be honest. I’ve thought of that a time or two when in traffic that had stopped for ten plus minutes with no moving.

I do not miss traffic.

Several cars back is Robert Devo. He sees a CHIP motorcycle guy go by for an audition. He decides to walk up and help the pi…err…cop and this dude push the car off the street.

Devo tells us it’s his last day as a cop. Good thing you’re not he main guy. That’s a death sentence usually.

We cut to Venice. Back when you could afford to live there. Now it’ll cost you 10 billion and your neighbor is a smackhead

Mike D is creepily calling his ex. This was back before caller ID and back when people always picked up their phones. Ugh.

Mike D hangs up the pay phone. He wants to call again and sees he has no change. He goes into a corner store to get change.

He’s told he has to buy something. Which. That’s fair. It’s a business.

He goes and creeps out inside the drink cooler and rubs the drink on his face. Just. Weird shit.

He goes up to the counter and is told it’ll be 0.85 for the drink. Not enough for the phone call.

Mike D tries to negotiate it to fifty cents. Uh. That’s not how that works.

Ugh. Then he gets all racist with the store owner’s accent. I have relatives like this.

One of those “We speak American here” and then goes off about how much money we’ve given Korea.

Mike D stammers when the owner slams his ass by asking how much. Hahaha. What a jackass.

The owner asks this racist dbag to leave his store and Mike D refuses. The owner goes to grab a bat because a racist dude is about to start shit. Mike D grabs the bat and ohh boy.

Oh. Subtle. They knock over a thing of American flags. Subtttllleee!!

The owner tells him to take the money. Mike D is offended by that. Hey. He’s a racist who never talks to his kid and destroys a display case. He’d never steal.

Mike D then calls the owner the thief. Uh. It’s his store.

Mike D asks a price for tons of things. When told the price. He smashes it all.

I mean ignoring all kinds of economic issues and food access, it’s not cool to do this.

Mike D asks how much for the soda. Fifty cents. He makes the exchange and leaves.

We cut to Devo at his desk on his last day. Honestly. His character is whatever.

His coworkers make fun of the fact he’s probably going to die that day. Hahaha.

Devo pulls out a photo of his kid and is obviously sad.

We cut back to Mike D’s ex. She’s prepping her kid’s party.

Mike D calls, but the line is busy.

I bet he rants about her using the phone. If around now he would 100% be on certain subreddits for whiners.

He walks away.

We see a couple stereotypes follow.

We now see Devo’s wife calling and you can tell he doesn’t want to talk to her. She’s an emotional wreck.

Like. I get bad stuff happened, but man is she annoying.

Gonna be honest. Devo’s subplot is who cares.

We cut to Mike D looking through a hole in his shoe like Al Bundy and then the job ads. He puts paper in the shoe.

Two gang stereotypes come up to be dbags to Mike D. Yeah. Mike D …ugh. He talks about them speaking English.

Then he white guys gang territory stuff and wooo boy.

Mike D says he’ll leave. The stereotypes demand a toll.

They want his briefcase. He gives them a free taste of a bat.

He rants and screams about going home. Uh. Your wife and kid don’t have any you because you’re insane and abusive.

We cut to Devo hanging over his pew pew. Nope. He won’t need that later.

Devo is asked to take the store owner’s statement and Devo thinks all Asians speak the same language. Ugh.

Man. This movie is subtle.

The owner tells him what happened. No theft. Since that’s not Devo’s department, he had to go to a different part.

Then the owner says he took the bat. They don’t care.

We cut to the stereotypes in their car with their stereotype friends and girlfriend searching for Mike D.

Mike D then creeps his ex out by calling again. He breathes into the phone and she calls him out.

He tells her he’s coming home. It’s obvious their relationship went bad and he still thinks he can control them and the situation.

The dude doesn’t even pay child support.

We see the stereotypes rolling up.

Mike D is creepy to his ex.

The stereotypes send their girlfriends out of the car and then they botch the hit.

The stereotypes wreck because they’re idiots.

Mike D walks over. He ignores the victims hurt and goes to the injured stereotypes.

He stares dispassionately at their pain, jokes, and then pew pews. But he only wounds them and takes their weapons.

We cut to Devo talk to his boss and whooooo carrrreeeeesssss??

This movie suffers from a b-plot that is who cares!

The captain talks about how he’s retiring too early blah blah.

Hey. It’s Rayland’s dad in Justified.

And we find out two things. The first is the captain doesn’t know Devo at all and Devo’s kid died. Sad.

No offense, but damn was he old when he had his kid.

We cut to Mike D walking around MacArthur Park doing people watching and trying to get on a bus.

I’d rather walk.

Mike D then gets pissed he can’t walk through a construction zone. Yeah. The construction is at fault for being in your way.

We then see his ex talking to a cop. Reporting his harassment. We find out there’s a restraining order and Mike D is an angry, violent POS.

The cop is dismissive. What a POS cop.

We see Mike D watching kids and he’s harassed by a homeless dude. Like extremely aggressive dbag.

Mike D calls him out in his bullshit story.

The homeless guy keeps harassing him and demanding money. Wow. Way to make Mike D seem like the better person.

Back to the bland b-characters.

They’re interviewing the stereotypes girlfriend.

She talks about him a Devo realizes he might be the guy who attacked the store owner.

Seriously. This side plot is he biggest weakness of this movie that makes it not flow as well as it should.

Devo maps out the attacks and realize they probably are the same@person blah blah.

We then cut to Mike D going into the fast food place. He wants breakfast.

They stopped serving breakfast. But Mike D thinks the world should bend to his will because Mike D is a Karen.

Then Mike D whines that the employees use their first names. “I call my boss by his last name.”

Mike Karen. That’s great. Your boss is a prick. I call my boss by their first name because this isn’t the 50s.

Karen whines that they don’t serve breakfast and pulls out a pew pew. He terrifies everyone because he’s an asshole who cries his fast food place won’t change their entire menu for YOU, Mike Karen!!!!

He accidentally pew pews and these poor people think they’re going to get ganked. And rightly so!!

Mike Karen D decides he wants lunch. Uh. You could have had that anyway you POS.

He then Karens some more.

He waves his pew pew around and tries to make small talk with the customers. You are a monster, Mike D.

Mike D gets his food and is mad that fast food looks like fast food.

He whines about false advertisement. Dude. It’s a three dollar meal made in 2 minutes. You get what you paid for.

Younger me remembers thinking “Ha. Man. He’s hammering these fast food people for their cheap ways.”

Older me realizes he’s just a whiner who is mad the world won’t do everything he wants. He would 100% be a Trumper.

We cut to the borrrrrinnnggggg Devo plot. Who cares!!!

You’re retiring. We get it. Bad stuff happened. We get it. Stop looping the same info over and over again!!!

Devo’s partner tries to help Devo with his personal life. Me? I want nothing to do with my coworker’s life. That’s for them to figure out.

We then find out that Devo thinks his wife only had good looks and nothing else going on with her. Ya kinda suck, Devo.

Devo’s partner’s new partner drops exposition about Mike D in the fast food place. He thinks they’re the same dude.

We then cut to the dude in front of a bank with a sign. He’s not “Economically Viable.”

He’s protesting the bank’s policies that I’m guessing are…uh. Let’s say they’d give Mike D one without a question.

Mike D buys a creepy snow globe as Economically Viable is arrested for protesting in public.

Uh. That’s a violation of his rights.

The LAPD just continue to show why people don’t like them.

We cut to the ex wife being scared by a cop. Then both cops basically go “It’s not a big deal! Lock your doors. Call your lawyer. Try not to be ganked by an enraged album dude with a violent past”

We then see Mike D using another public payphone. Man. We were basically cavemen back then.

Some dude is an annoyed Mike D took so long and Mike D Karens it up by pew pewing the phone. If he can’t have it, no one can.

We then cut to Devo listening to his wife and then finding out that…ugh. I don’t care about this guy and his wife. I’m sorry. I just don’t carrreeee!!!

Devo tells his ex partner it’s the same guy

*farts*

Oof. Still better than Devo’s story.

We cut to a cool mural that Mike D walks by and into a surplus store. Oh. You can get Levis there!!

Inside a nut job is listening to the police scanner and getting off to it.

Mike D is looking for stuff and the nut job owner creeps on over and creeps on Mike D.

Mike D wants boots.

The nut job then drops homophobic slurs at a couple in the store.

Again. This nut job makes Mike D seem like a decent person.

The nut job would 100% be into every conspiracy online today.

Ugh. Stop dropping slurs.

Mike D sees a unit across the way and seems nervous.

We cut to Devo

*snores*

Devo hallucinates about his kid after finding more information from the stereotype’s girlfriend.

Devo’s expartner comes in and describes Mike D to the T.

Nut job just plays dumb while being sexist. He’s…oof. He would win an election in MTG’s district.

Mike D asks why he covered for him. Nut job takes him in back to see some…oof. It’s gonna be bad isn’t it.

Nut job gets off on items from 1930s/40s Germany.

He’s a monster.

Mike D is creeped out by it. I mean even he isn’t this blatantly racist/evil.

Nut job wants to arm Mike D. He thinks Mike D is doing some…oof. So sooo so many racist slurs.

This is actually an interesting situation. See. Mike D sees himself as different than nut job. Nut job thinks they’re the same.

So Mike D would 100% say he’s not racist at all.

Nut job doesn’t take kindly to Mike D not being as GQP as him.

Nut job holds Mike D hostage and drops more slurs as he breaks the snow globe.

M…ugh. This scene. Nut job deserves everything that happens to him.

Mike D shanks the GQPer and…then Mike D seems to enjoy this.

Then he second amendments the dick out of Nut Job.

Back to Devo and my nap.

The captain is

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Devo sees the path Mike D is taking.

Oh. Fun. More about Devo’s wife and:

Devo decides to hit he street because his boss was mean to him.

Back at the ex wife’s, she answers the phone.

It’s Mike D and he’s being a jealous, creepy monster who enjoys scaring his wife. He threatens her and tells her he’s past the point of no return.

Uh. Yeah. You shouldn’t look at Mike D as a role model.

Man. Mike D today would right posts about snowflakes and libcucks and red pills and shit today.

He threatens her life. Like. He is straight up a monster and, yet, people would see him as “the hero.”

We cut to Devo at the corner store and he realizes this is right beside where the dude had abandoned his car earlier that morning. Devo could just check google maps these days.

They now know whose car it is. D-FENS.

Then Devo is weird to the store owner.

To cut to the ex’s with cops showing up.

We then see more construction blocking lanes and some dude yelling. Mike D decks this guy.

Mike D goes up to complain about the construction.

Dude. Get over it. Sometimes they need to do maintenance and stuff.

Though, hahaha. He’s not wrong that they piss away money to keep their budgets.

Mike D Karens about his tax dollars and shit. Dude. You don’t even pay child support. Go pound sand.

Mike D then takes out a GI Joe pew pew. He’s told how to use the boom boom from a kid. Rightttt.

The kid thinks it’s a movie. Dumb kid.

Mike D lets the boom boom go and he causes more damage that’ll cause even more construction and more traffic. Way to make everything worse, Karen.

Write*

Devo and his partner go to Mike D’s mom’s house.

We find out Mike D is a sad sack. Big surprise!!

We cut to Mike Karen climbing into a golf course.

I’m okay with this scene.

The golfers complain that a poor person is near them. The golfer hits his balls at Mike D while screaming “Fuck the proletariat!!”

Mike D gets mad and goes off on how big a waste of land the golf course is. I mean.

The old guy collapses and his meds go with the run away golf cart. Hahaha. Okay. Mike D has a few great moments.

We find out that Mike D’s mom is scared of him. That’s sad as hell.

We find out he won’t let his mom see her own granddaughter and that he’s been fired.

Basically, Mike D feels his world spinning out of his control and he’s snapped.

It’s not an excuse for his behavior.

We then see him trespassing on someone’s house and yells at the people that they have barb wire on their fence.

Ya know. Mike D is the reich in a nutshell. He breaks into a yard bat has security to protect it from nut jobs and he complains his illegal actions are someone else’s fault.

He gets angry, but calms once he finds out that this guy is the caretaker.

We then hear sirens.

Mike D grabs the caretaker’s kid hostage and the caretaker follows with his wife and kid.

Mike D whines that the doctor who owns the house makes money.

Like. I get getting angry that some people make stupid amounts of cash for not necessarily a good reason, but that’s no need to take it out on the caretaker’s family.

Mike D then whines about how he was fired for being too smart and blah blah blah blah. Everyone else is at fault.

He then sees the girl has blood on her and lets her go. He does show genuine remorse.

The caretaker offers himself up instead. Mike D gets all insulted.

Dude. You grabbed his daughter and lead her into a building. Why wouldn’t they …oh. Right. Your the hero of your story.

Mike D whines about how he wants to see his kid and how his wife left him and blah blah blah.

Then he gets creepy talking about the dark and oh god he is going to gank his entire family.

We cut back to be LAPD still eating all the shit ever by telling his ex her husband is as kidding. Then this b word cop says that she needs to vote for any bill that gives more funding to cops. Not kidding.

The ex is rightly freaked out. Mike D thinks he can get his family back by taking them into the darkness. Just. Creepy.

Devo then talks about finding the nut job.

Then Mike D calls his ex. He complains about businesses changing and …holy shit. Run!!!!

The ex gets the fuck out of there because she knows he’s right there. He breaks into the house as they run out the back door and around the front. He gives chase.

Like. We realize this dude is going to gank his family. Younger me didn’t get this.

Devo then figures out he’s going to Venice just as another cop gives him the ex’s address in Venice.

We cut to Mike D watching home movies. He’s creepy.

The phone rings and the 90s in him is screaming for him to pick up, but he holds strong and ignores it. That was a Herculean task back then.

We find out that the cops still suck because they tell Devo and his partner it’s no big deal what’s going on with the ex and they won’t send units.

Devo realizes …ugh. His wife calls and she’s annoying and I don’t careeeee about her!

He finally stands up for…okay. That is too far, Devo. That’s some “Go make me a cake” kind of shit.

We then cut to Devo getting a going away cake and stripper???

Devo finally fights down his…Oh shit. The new partner talks shit about Devo’s wife and he decks him hahahaha. I like Devo.

We cut to more home movies and we see Mike D being an aggressive piece of shit who doesn’t care about the emotions of his family. Holy shit this is all kinds of abuse.

Yeah. Your wife left you for a reason.

He also realizes that she loves the pier. Uh. Way to go to a dead end, ex.

Why not run to Santa Monica? It’s like a five minute jog. Okay. Maybe a bit more. Still. Better than HOLY CRAp

They arrive and he has no gun. His partner barges in and there’s a pew pew.

She’s holed up. He tells the neighbors to call the cops. Man. Life before cell phones sucked.

Devo takes the pew pew and runs. Well. Saunters.

It doesn’t matter because they all run the same speed according to the results of them getting to the same place at roughly the same time.

The girl sees her dad and the ex is freaked. And rightly so.

Mike D runs up out of breath. Then tries to kiss his wife and embrace her and holy shit he uses the “until death do us part.”

Then he sexually assaults his wife, pulls out a weapon, then goes to talk to his kid.

He cries that she’s gotten big. Uh. You just lost your job. Why didn’t you pay child support????!!

He says he’s not leaving as the wife points out he’s unstable.

Devo somehow god damn teleports like Jason Vorhees beside Mike D and rants about fish.

Devo tells Mike D his life story and talks about Arizona. No one cares about Arizona.

Mike D is mad that he’s being interrupted. Then Devo talks about the joy of making babies and this is creepy.

We find out that Devo’s kid had SIDS. Oof. Sad.

I mean it explains why the wife is broken.

Devo gives the daughter some popcorn and the cops appear and the wife throws the pew pew into the ocean as Devo holds him back.

The ex wife and kid escape.

Devo asks him what he’s gonna do and Mike D says:

Then we realize that Mike D was going to be a family destroyer.

Then he goes off on how the American Dream is dead but without any substance. He’s just a whiner.

He then talks about the weather and oh my god take your daughter away from there ex wife!!!!

Mike D threatens Devo and says he wants to high noon it.

Devo tells him he has a choice and Mike D fakes a pull so his kid can get the insurance.

Devo second amendments the dick out of Mike D and Mike D becomes fish food in front of his daughter. She’s gonna need therapy.

Hahaha. Then Devo’s boss dunks on Venice and Devo does something a ton of people want to do. Tells his boss to go fuck himself on live tv.

We then see Devo checking on the ex wife. She acts like her daughter doesn’t know, but last we saw…she was watching it happen.

Then we see all of the girl’s friends there for the party. That’s gonna be awkward as fuck.

“Here’s a Barbie. By the way. Sorry your dad got got. Is there cake???”

They decide to delay a day. Uh. Not everyone can reschedule like…wait. The daughter is right there. She hears you talk about this!!!!

The kid pretends she didn’t hear as Devo chats with the daughter of the dude he just iced. I mean…awkward.

We cut to more home movies and…you should just burn those.

Well. That was Falling Down. It’s a pretty odd and entertaining movie. It has a character who you sometimes get his POV but you realize he went too far. Well. If you’re not crazy you realize that.

Some people consider him a hero. I consider him a flawed and angry person who broke under the stress.

He could have benefited from therapy.

His more toxic ideas are still prevalent today and his other ideas can be relatable. Like who enjoys traffic or false advertisement or other issues like that?

Still. At the end of the day, he was the bad guy.

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