Based on no science whatsoever.
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Napoleon Dynamite, or something equally “short breath of laughter” funny and completely nonsensical.
The Last Days of Disco.
Dumb and Dumber
Oh, my god. Beans everywhere. There is beans everywhere! Dammit! There’s beans on the front page. Oh, my god! This site is full of BEANS!
I’ll nominate an underdog: Alphaville.
Basically unknown, jerks you back and forth between genres, simultaneously art house and amateur, and the main character is named Lemmy Caution. Sure he’s a government agent, but he’s the good guy out to destroy the mind control computer on a distant planet by pitting daughter against father.
This is really cool
Man. I really need to start watching movies from the French New Wave. I knew Alphaville was technically a science fiction story, but I didn’t realize how far I to the genre Godard leaned.
I think @protist was close with the Night of the Lepus suggestion, but I think a different movie about a bunch of rabbits may actually be more thematically fitting.
Watership Down
A small group of people/rabbits breaking off from a very large group. Forewarning bad things happening in the larger group that they are fleeing. Attempting to invite others to join them along the way to increase their numbers to a sustainable level. Conflict with another group of domineering authoritarians.
It’s all there.
Ooooooh, that’s a good one!
Fight Club
This movie.
I think Mallrats is very in this vein - just more PG than Clerks.
Is there a movie about Marxist nerds yelling at libs? I’d watch it if so
High Hopes by Mike Leigh seems like it at least partially checks that box.
I’m not sure, but probably not “Red Dawn”
Four Lions
A Bug’s Life
