Dallas Buyers Club

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:22 pm

Synopsis:

A man who sucks donkey ass goes up against the largest drug cartel in the world.

Review:

DVR'd it. "Oh yeah, that asshole gets AIDS? K, I'll check that out."

Donkey Ass Sucker (DAS) plays a part time oil field worker/rodeo worker in mid '80s Texas. He gets HIV in the non-drug-related way. In spite of having no medical training, he manages to discredit the latest FDA-approved experimental AIDS drug and design his own treatment regimen. He realizes that he can get fucking rich off this and partners up with a AIDS-infected drag queen to set up a "buyers club." Back 30ish years ago, they were semi-legal ways to get around the douchebags at the FDA.

All in all, not horrible ... which is saying a lot considering DAS is in it. Every member of the US government is portrayed as nothing less than a power-tripping, needle-dicked bureaucrat concerned with setting world records for corruption while simultaneously being blind to their own incompetence. Fortunately they're nothing like that in reality; they're a thousand times worse. There's some touchy-feely bullshit about DAS getting over his homophobia getting more becoming less profit oriented as time goes on. Naturally, all the good comeback lines go to the drag queens, so you'll see DAS get verbally teabagged a few times.

Verdict:

Not especially mind-blowing, but not especially bad. If your woman is a DAS addict and you're tired of buying new TVs after kicking them over Roadhouse-style every time in the middle of one, this may save you a few hundred dollars or a meaningless fight over the Netflix stream one night.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 2:34 pm

In the news today, the FDA doing exactly what this movie accuses them of.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 3:31 pm

I like DAS, because he plays characters from East Texas, and he does a good job of it. Because he's from East Texas.

Post by **Vince** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:38 pm

I watched him in Mud, and that was a pretty decent flick. Like a modern Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (without all the racist parts).

Post by **TPRJones** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:50 pm

Good movie. Matthew McConaughey plays Matthew McConaughey in his usual Matthew McConaughey-like way. The subject matter is handled well; one of my coworkers lost both her parents about the same time the movie takes place to AIDS (bad blood transfusion) and the stigma was pretty awful at the time.

Every member of the US government is portrayed as nothing less than a power-tripping, needle-dicked bureaucrat concerned with setting world records for corruption while simultaneously being blind to their own incompetence.

Well, it is a true story, so that's to be expected.