Let’s make a movie about a toy gun that wants to be a real gun. Let’s make a movie about GI Joe who only wants to be a “real soldier.” Let’s make the latter film end with GI Joe visiting a proctologist. So that, you know, we know he’s “real.” Let’s give him terrible PTSD and a nasty drug habit. Let’s make these films, have the gun, GI Joe, say “patriar…
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