Am I supposed to take Purple Rain (the movie) seriously?

xpost yeah there's no actual realism or grounded elements, the style was the hook. i do find it funny that they almost never arrest anybody, pretty much every perp winds up in a body bag

like imagining how much time they would have had to spend doing desk work while each shooting was investigated in real life

...then Crockett would light his twelfth Marlboro Red around her and she dies of lung cancer in 1997.

i always loved that sonny crockett's super secret undercover name is sonny burnett

'hey boss the guy I'm working with is named Sonny, didn't this cop named Sonny actually like give a deposition in open court against one of your guys last week, is that something you want me to look into'

'nah there's lots of Sonnys here, let's close the deal"

the pilot ep where 3 of the 4 participants in a drug deal are undercover cops made me laugh, always wondered if there was ever a deal that was all cops because everyone got so undercover nobody knew who was who anymore

haha i'm sure it's happened

that’s basically the plot of The Man Who Was Thursday except with anarchists instead of drug dealers