Tony Bravo July 20, 2021Updated: July 20, 2021, 4:37 pm
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, exits the Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule after it parachuted safely down to the launch area near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20. Photo: Associated Press
When I saw Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, giving a return-to-earth press conference after his maiden space voyage in a blue flight suit and dusty-hued, wide-brimmed cowboy hat, I laughed out loud.
Why is it that whenever an obscenely wealthy dude needs to demonstrate his pioneering spirit, and/or connection to the “common” man, he reaches for that particular accessory?
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Thunder Force?
There’s already an AC/DC song in the movie, and parent company Netflix has the resources to pay for it. Plus, it’s perfect for Melissa McCarthy’s character, whose apartment is decorated with beer paraphernalia and who treasures her vintage 1994 Slayer concert T-shirt more than her life. The practical answer, as always, is that it’s probably a rights issue. But it’s also just one of the many ways this fifth collaboration between McCarthy and writer-director Ben Falcone squanders what little personality it has.
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McCarthy’s Lydia is the only real character in the film, a pushy but good-hearted loudmouth who drives a forklift for a living and pounds Old Styles at Wrigleyville watering holes in her free time. (Everyone else is a sketch on a cocktail napkin.) A Chicago barfly who loves Van Halen and cries when they talk about the ’85 Bears is a distinct type, and giving superpowers to a dirtbag like Lydia essentially a female met