ROTTEN TOMATOES: Total Recall: Your Tax Dollars At Work

Total Recall: Your Tax Dollars At Work

by RT Staff

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Department of the Treasury: In the Line of Fire

Since we're sure most of you aren't particularly enamored with the Internal Revenue Service right about now, we thought it would be a good time to point out a little-known fact: the infinitely more awesome Secret Service is also part of the Department of the Treasury. Yes, those black-clad, joke-free dudes who protect the president are under the same jurisdiction as the IRS, since they're also tasked with investigating fraud and identity theft. In In the Line of Fire, Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) does it all; not only does he apprehend a counterfeiter (a pre-Jigsaw Tobin Bell) in the movie's opening scenes, he also must save the president from assassination aficionado Mitch Leary (John Malkovich). Leary knows Frank's secret: he was on the scene when Kennedy was assassinated, and his inability to save the president continues to haunt him. However, nothing will stop Frank from defending the unnamed president, even if it means taking a bullet for him.

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Department of Education: Rock 'N' Roll High School

George W. Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind Act arrived far too late to bring accountability to the likes of Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and Marky Ramone, those irrepressible (and long-in-the-tooth) juvenile delinquents who spent more time sniffing glue and beating on brats than hitting the books. As Joey himself proclaims in the film's theme song, "I don't care about history/ Cuz that's not where I want to be," words that would surely chill the spines of school administrators whose charges are scoring low on standardized tests. In Roger Corman's Rock and Roll High School, principals at Vince Lombardi High School are like Spinal Tap drummers, unable to control their students' collective appetite for such punk rock classics as "I Wanna Be Sedated," "Pinhead," and "Teenage Labotomy." It's likely the Department of Education would grit its teeth before allocating any of its $68.6 billion budget to Lombardi High, a school where the average student's language skills consist of shouting "gabba gabba hey!" and little more.

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on Apr 14 2009 05:33 PM

Screenwriter for Top Gun, Jim Cash, lived near by where I did. . . so everyone in my town was supposed to love Top Gun. I fell asleep while watching it, my friend hated it, my friend's mom LOVED it and just kept saying Tom Cruise in some far away whisper. . . Anyway, Top Gun got a 10 from the papers, and I always thought it was universally loved (Did make a lot of money). Now, thanks to RT I can see that I wasn't a freak in the minority, but a freak in the majority!

Bueno!

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ledawg1138 writes:
on Apr 14 2009 05:36 PM

Ah, good ol' Monty Python.

But in "Top Gun", all I learned is that Maverick Mitchell is a punk. A loser pilot. And a punk. (Worth mentioning twice.)

I never thought "In the Line of Fire" and "Top Gun" would be mentioned together in a article, but here we are.

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clint g. writes:
on Apr 14 2009 08:13 PM

i am shocked that Top gun is rotten

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bamb0o-stick writes:
on Apr 14 2009 09:32 PM

Keanu Reeves used to be such a badass in those cop/FBI movies he did. Now he doesn't even pass as a cop anymore (ie Street Kings) to me. What the hell happened?

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tomwaitsjr writes:
on Apr 14 2009 09:44 PM

As far as Top Gun being rotten goes, I am quite happy, but delighted.

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Angelica P. writes:
on Apr 14 2009 10:13 PM

Aren't there too many Keanu movies in the list?

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Tim Ryan writes:
on Apr 14 2009 10:51 PM

A fair point, Angelica. But let it not be said that the man doesn't work overtime for the American people.

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jocorotten writes:
on Apr 14 2009 10:57 PM

In reply to this comment (#2425893)
Angelica P, there is no such thing as too much Keanu.

"You crossed the line. People trusted you and they died. You gotta' go down." Johnny Utah, Point Break.

That is some fine cinema right there.

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neryan writes:
on Apr 15 2009 08:33 AM

I LOVE this list! But, as a public school teacher, Rock 'N' Roll High school terrifies me!
Keep up the good work!

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neryan writes:
on Apr 15 2009 08:34 AM

I LOVE this list! But, as a public school teacher, Rock 'N' Roll High school terrifies me!
Keep up the good work!

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HyperionChild writes:
on Apr 15 2009 10:04 AM

Ah yes, I love the Hollywood versions of "Your Tax Dollars At Work".
So entertaining; and so different from reality.
Excuse me while I look for the nearest tea party..... :)

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IMAmoose24 writes:
on Apr 15 2009 09:26 PM

I'll be at that tea party! Stay away from my money OBAMA! You know how to spend it as well as I do, which isn't a good thing!

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whitey_mcwhite writes:
on Apr 16 2009 10:23 AM

I wasn't a big fan of Top Gun either. Too homoerotic for me. I'd rather watch a movie about gay people not hiding who they are.

I've never seen Point Break, and probably never will, I can't stand Patrick Swayze. The best movie he did was Donnie Darko where he plays the motivational speaker he gets his house burned down and gets caught with kiddie porn and thrown in jail. I like seeing Swayze in anguish!

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gm1200 writes:
on Apr 16 2009 04:20 PM

Keanu is in so many of these movies because he plays the perfect government employee...completely without talent or the ability to survive in the real world.

Perfect!

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