The Truth About DASHCAM And Annie Hardy
Because my review is too long for the comments section (and for the other reason), here's a "list" containing the whole thing. I needed to set a few things straight, because it would appear that most people didn't understand either the movie or its star... A whole bunch of clueless and angry reviewers writing up tons of nonsense, completely mislead by their own biases and political intolerance.
I may alter the review somewhat.
I may alter the review somewhat.
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- DirectorRob SavageStarsAnnie HardyAmar Chadha-PatelAngela EnahoroTwo friends embark on a horror-fueled road trip and livestream the most terrifying night of their lives.I can't believe I'm giving a found-footage film an 8/10, but I can't remember the last time a woman made me laugh like this, and that's no small thing. Irony: she's not even a comedienne, much less an actress. (Yet she is great here.) Funny women are more rare than blue moons, so when I find one (which is on every 11th blue moon, on average) I tend to appreciate it as all good rare things should be.
Especially women with character and spunk, but without forcing a phony-baloney "girl power" agenda which is the hip thing to do now, not to mention that it reveals insecurity rather than confidence. (That kind of chip-on-shoulder female routine is cringe.) Not self-conscious at all, she just lets it rip, no apologies - least of all to her numerous snowflakey haters which "her character" refers to as "whiny Antifa bitches". (More on that a little later.)
The great irony - and a typical idiocy of this pre-Orwellian era - is that nearly all "critics" (i.e. dishonest left-wingers) claim that Annie ruins or at least mars the movie because of her "awful, annoying personality". The complete opposite is true: it is primarily her wild, hilarious, devil-may-care, direct and honest nature that makes the movie work. Any other "proper actor" in the lead instead of her would have turned this movie into just another decent horror film, nothing memorable. Her involvement elevates the film.
In fact, by all accounts she'd been screwed over financially (paid very little, a measly 7,000 pounds) and wasn't even given writing credit, despite the obvious fact that much of the dialog was improvised, and that the jokes were hers. She plays herself, and she is quite likely the only right-winger (or at least freethinker) in the entire cast and crew (if I know the film industry well), or at least the only one that dares be one openly.
This film personifies totally unabashed insanity. Annie Hardy, of whom I'd never heard before, more-or-less plays a hyper version of herself. In reality she fronts a band called Giant Drag, of which I'd also never heard of. Clearly a nutcase, in real life as well as in this hilarious spoof of found-footage films. The reactions she got on IMDb had me amused too, serving as a sort of small bonus after I'd finished laughing at her lengthy end-credits rap - which you definitely shouldn't skip. The last time somebody (ab)used the credits this originally and in such a fun way were the Pythons. All my life I'd finish movies and read the myriad of ridiculous names in the credits, but finally somebody took the time to do something with the end-credits, have some fun with them. Childishly. Nothing wrong with that at all. There's a time for clever humour and there's a time for the toilet type, just as there's a time for heavy music and a time for mellow ballads...
To give you an idea how much her haters detest Hardy, just consider the fact that some people complained about her "lack of flow" and "worst white-chick rap I've ever heard". These nitwits actually nitpicked about the "quality" of her rap, in what was clearly intended to be funny, and nothing else. (Nevermind the fact that rap is anyway a total joke in itself, hence analyzing the "quality and precision of rapping" is a mindless exercise at best.) Or do these people really think she was planing to release this "song" as a single and storm the charts with it? People are absurd.
The REASON Annie triggered so many negative reactions (a whole third of the "reviews"/rants are 1-star comments, which is very rare for a 4.6 average) is very simple: she plays (or is) the epitome of everything liberals hate - an outspoken right-winger/freethinker who takes the mickey. Her shirt says "No Liberals". There are numerous political references: to Antifa, to MeToo, BLM, feminazis, libtards, (don't get angry at ME, I'm just quoting/listing the words/topics used/mentioned here), and there's a number of Covidiotic conspiracy stuff strewn all over the script as well.
Just to briefly sidetrack: the reason why so many right-wingers fell into the covidiot trap is because the Left Establishment cried "wolf" so often in the past - and nothing to back it up with - that the Right learned not to trust them on ANYTHING anymore. I.e. if you lie and lie and lie for decades - then suddenly you do finally tell an important truth - many skeptics are liable to not believe you. That, in a nutshell, is what happened with the whole anti-mask anti-vaccine nonsense. I instantly understood it, as soon as it became clear that the vaxxers/anti-vaxxers were being divided mostly along political lines, not randomly. The Liberal Establishment is mostly to blame for the negative backlash and the paranoia, because they'd so poisoned the cultural and political aspects of life on Earth, since the 90s, that (smart) people have a hard time believing them anything anymore, in those rare instances when they actually do tell the truth. (Which is on every 15th blue moon.)
If the reverse had been the case - i.e. the Right had bullied the West for 30-40 years and dominated all of culture and politics, BS-ing everyone, then all those pro-vaccine Antifa kids would have been covidiotic i.e. anti-vaxxers. It really is that simple. And logical. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say that if suddenly the Left decided that Covid never existed, and that it was invented all along by the Right, liberal sheep would buy into that too, and instantly. They'll believe literally anything their media tells them. Pro-vaxx liberals aren't smart, they are obedient: there's a big difference...
Anyway, now that I've cleared that up, back to the movie...
Yes, Annie Hardy survives about a dozen car-crashes and zombie attacks, pretty much unscathed, and so is her web-cam equipment - as the movie's nitpicky detractors were quick to point put... But, one must realize (unless one is a complete fool) that this is a comedy first-and-foremost, and then a horror film. After all, none of the supernatural events are ever explained; they exist simply as almost random plot-devices to fuel Annie's antics, some of which are hilarious at best, and interesting at worst. No dull moments here. Annie's original personality shines throughout, ensuring that the film has no lulls, and I'm convinced nobody could have replaced her. In fact, what most people don't know is that the role was written with her in mind, anyway. She got a very small script, consisting only of a few pages of a basic outline of events: the rest was ad-lib stuff that was mostly hers, and presumably also from the actor who plays Stretch. (He is very good, they make a great team.)
"You asked him to do that, so don't later #MeToo him, OK?" That line, said almost unnoticeably during one of the frenetic action scenes, made me laugh for several minutes. Annie's brazen mockery of the Liberal World is sometimes so spot on and well-timed you'd think she was a top-notch comedy writer. Allegedly, three other people wrote this, which is kind of laughable. Why would you need THREE people for a brief outline? Plus, I'd like to know whose decision it was to cut Hardy out of the writing credits.
It should be interesting to find out whether these three co-writers (who hogged all of the credit) will get blacklisted for being involved in this movie - something most "liberals" would probably support, despite being so "liberal"... The big joke, of course, is that Annie "wrote" large portions of the script (by that I mean a lot of the dialog is hers - ad-libbed) hence these political opinions don't represent the views of the director and his writing team - all of whom are probably the polar opposites (because how else can you get to forge a movie career these days?). And yet, the director and the "writers" took all the writing credits for themselves - just so they can pay Annie less than they really owe her. Film-makers: as much as they like to impersonate charity-friendly idealists and do-gooders, they always place money above political affiliation... If this weren't the case, these 3 writers would have washed their hands from the project, claiming that "Annie basically wrote the whole thing, we had little to do with this filth".
They want to have it both ways: take all the credit - yet pin the blame for the movie's alleged "extremism" all on Hardy. They wanted to claim ownership hence the money yet disassociate themselves from Hardy and her politics. In fact, Hardy had stated that she was tricked by the makers, including the director who she claims was her boyfriend for quite a while...
Still, it should be interesting to find out whether their careers will suffer as a result of being so closely associated with an alleged Trump supporter and her views. Certainly Annie Hardy's film career is over. She is 1000 times funnier than all the quasi-comediennes in that female "Ghostbusters" reboot combined. Yet her acting career ended as quickly as it'd begun because she got cancelled, i.e. blacklisted. As she'd mentioned in interviews.
From a YT clip...
Interviewer: "I haven't seen much of you since Dashcam... What's that about?"
Annie: "Oh yeah, because that ruined my career. You'd think that being the star of a movie and doing a great job - not to be a narcissist - but I believe I did alright, you'd think that would improve one's career. But I work in an entertainment industry in which everybody is Biden their time being on the Left, and the film makes me look like I voted for Trump even though it says in the movie in the streaming comments that I voted for Kanye, which is the truth. And the whole Trump thing is sort of a troll. But people are stupid, I guess, they think I'm [indiscernible], so I'm swept away [under the rug for it]... It's not like I'm benefiting from false trumperism. I think Trump is great as a false character on the world's stage, but I don't think any of this is real. It sucks that most people do."
Hardy never intended her character to be this obnoxious, it was Rob Savage's idea and he pushed for it throughout the shoot. (All credit to him that he did, otherwise the movie would have been less entertaining.) If Libs want to be rabidly angry at anyone, it should be Savage, the director. He insisted that Annie plays it "as obnoxiously as you can" (he used those words, according to Annie). Don't get me wrong, I am glad she played it this extreme, because this over-the-top characterization is largely what makes the movie entertaining. However, it is interesting how Rob used her, in a way, knowing full well that he'd market the film later in such a way as to absolve himself from the "responsibility", by throwing Annie under the train instead. That's the film industry for ya: if you're new, naive and trusting you get screwed over royally.
Annie has already mentioned several times that she feels her media career is over. She didn't mention the word "blacklisted" but that is what she is referring to. She says all the doors are shutting down, which is of course exactly what happens to nearly all dissenting voices in "mainstream" show-biz, especially the American (but also western European) film industry which is run like that of the USSR used to be. Under Stalin, Lenin and the others the Russian film industry also only allowed ONE type of political direction - which is precisely the current situation in the U.S. of A. and its own film industry, very fittingly mostly situated in NY and L.A., the world capitals of liberalism and decay.
Just to clarify once again though: she never voted for Trump. By her own accounts she voted for Kanye, as a joke... That makes the hate she receives even more absurd. 99% of the rabid haters who would most gladly crucify her given half a chance are convinced she is a Trump supporter.
And even if she was... Where's the problem? Is the U.S. of A. still a democracy, as it used to be, or is it a dictatorship? Make up yer mind, Libs, ye can't have it both ways: democratic - yet also Communist i.e. politically one-sided, shutting down all right-wing voices, obliterating Free Speech. You are either democratic or you're Communist/Fascist, they are mutually exclusive. Liars and hypocrites always want to have things both ways, nothing new there.
While she may not be a Trump supporter, it is clear that her political orientation lies somewhere on the Right. As such, there is no place for her in an "entertainment" industry that is no longer there to primarily entertain, but solely to indoctrinate, to prepare us for a world devoid of free thought and freedoms people grew accustomed to. There had always been Marxist propaganda in music, literature and films, but it used to be less frequent and subtler; now it is extreme, obvious and pivotal. The entire "entertainment" industry is now one global washing-machine that cleans brains, before they can learn or start to think. Not that many would have done anyway... which is why the global brainwashing project is such a blistering success. Annie is of course totally correct when she stated that "this movie reminded me that most people are idiots". There are extremely few free-thinkers such as Hardy left in the western world. She feels like a misfit, as we all do. All of us who have an open mind, who analyze before sheepishly accepting whatever our new Overlords/Elites serve to us. Democracy was never about zombie-like obedience, yet that is what we have these days: America as a nation of increasingly non-thinking sheep, waiting to be lead to the slaughter, and even instructed to look forward to it. Little do they know the horrors they are being guided towards... Karma will be a very nasty b****.
There's plenty of toilet humour in the movie too, so beware. It's definitely not for everyone. But I guess when a liberal comedian does this then it's OK, right? Liberal hypocrisy, it is an endless stream...
In fact, you do the math... If all the "tolerant pro-diversity" users who rated this movie 1/10 out of POLITICAL hatred were to be taken out of the average, then the film's average would rise from 4.6 to probably something like 6.5. So, never trust the hype, nor the anti-hype as is the case here. Lots of Red hysteria surrounds every person or movie who dares voice different opinions from the Marxist Establishment. And I love it how some of them pretend to hate the movie for reasons unrelated to its politics: that's amusing too.
It is quite refreshing for all those inflexible liberals to get a taste of their own medicine, to be annoyed by a politically-INcorrect movie, for a change. They get routinely spoiled by the Establishment parroting the same dumb slogans to them in practically every movie; leftist film-goers are totally unused to DISSENT. Not even a bit of it because extremely few movies and TV shows go that way. The irony being that for democracy to work one always needs DISSENT, because without dissenting voices you get an Orwellian atmosphere, which is Fascist in nature... and they're all allegedly against it. (I mean, they're allegedly against Fascism, not nature. Though coincidentally, they are against nature too.)
"I am sorry that you are being hypnotized by the mainstream media that you think you're anti-Fascist when in fact you're Fascist because you won't let people like me have our own beliefs."
Another funny (and very true) bit, funny because of the context in which it was said, which comes at a totally odd time. Which part of this do liberals not understand though? You can't call yourself "liberal" (a proponent of freedom, in other words) yet strive to have only one worldview represented by the media and in politics. It's one of their most obvious, dumbest contradictions.
One of the things that make this movie totally mad is this up-and-down rhythm of action-filled horror scenes alternating with toilet humour and political provocation. Unusual. It may be off-putting to some people, but it was about time that finally a film comes out that politically does the complete opposite of the usual leftist propaganda rubbish. Every film's protagonist being a leftist anyway portrays a very distorted and biased version of society, in effect ignoring/marginalizing/vilifying one half of the population. (Or one third, whichever.) Lib cinema-goers hate the fact that someone DARED write a part for a protagonist who is a Trump supporter - even though her character was made out to be "semi-obnoxious". Yet, liberals were so triggered by the mere PRESENCE of such a right-wing character that they couldn't even choose to watch the movie as a parody, which they could have done. They chose not to, because their instinct was "fight or flight", there was no thinking involved... as usual.
After every close call with the enemy (the ghouls and the "Antifa bitch"), it didn't take Annie long to start joking again, which KINDA sums up this movie... It's a COMEDY. Whoever fails to understand this can't be helped.