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Chaos: A Very Short Introduction

Leonard Smith

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Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject...

Matchdays: The Hidden Story of the Bundesliga

Ronald Reng

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The enormous success of German football is envied around the world. The national team won the 2014...

Developmental Disorders of the Brain: Neuropsychological, Neuropsychiatric and Evolutionary Perspectives

Nicole J. Rinehart, John L. Bradshaw and Peter G. Enticott

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Developmental Disorders of the Brain: Brain and Behaviour addresses disabilities that occur or have...

Handbook on International Sports Law

James A. R. Nafziger and Stephen F. Ross

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This Handbook presents a comprehensive collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners in...

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson

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'The book is a house of wonders' The New York Times 'Steven Johnson is the Darwin of technology'...

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1

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It's all change at the Las Vegas Crime Lab following the shooting death of Holly Gribbs ("Pilot"),...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated The House (2017) in Movies

Sep 19, 2020 (Updated Sep 19, 2020)

The House (2017)

2017 | Comedy

5.7

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Not a better movie than 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘰, but by far a better analogy between crime-soaked gambling and the bloody baseball bat of capitalism - as unintentional as I'm sure the allusion is here. Given how much of a dead horse the target of whitebread suburbia is even well through twenty-five years ago now, I'll give this some freshness points in the way it portrays the quest for fair financial stability in lieu of absurdly-gouged education prices, big banks, etc. by the warping of the upper-middle-class into an entire demographic forced to confront their own morals when they're encouraged into private crime upon the abject failure of their own government by way of goofy dark comedy. Starts off like your routine bland improvy entry into the 'haha raunchy families' trend and progressively becomes more and more doused in blood, blunt trauma, property damage, and general chaos that throws moron policemen, corrupt officeholders, and the inherent violence of America's economic system into the fire in its wake. Plus it's brisk (for fucking once with this genre good Lord) and has a ton of laughs even though I believe it still seems generally uninterested in its own plot in addition to criminally underutilizing both Ferrell and Poehler's talents together as well. The bit with Nick Kroll at the end was fucking gut-bustingly hilarious.