Actor Michael Rapaport, famous-ish for his minor roles in violent 1990s classics True Romance and Cop Land who also was outspokenly anti-Trump before turning heel a few years ago because who the fuck even knows or cares, announced on his podcast Tuesday a four year-long campaign for the New York City mayor’s office because, per Breitbart, he’s already sick of far left Democrat Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s administration, which begins in 12 hours and 1 minute from this printing.
“I am coming to take back New York City from him and his entire cabinet of bullshit artists. I am announcing my candidacy to be mayor of New York. Let this roll off your tongue: Mayor Rapaport, Mayor Rapaport. It has a fucking ring. I’m not playing games. I’m not bullshitting around. I will be running for Mayor of New York in a few years, 2028 – that’s when I will get started to take back New York City. Come 2029, there’s gonna be a lot of fucking problems for Zohran the Moron. Bullshit artist, Zohran the Moron,” said Rapaport, whose character got bitten in half by a genetically engineered hyperintelligent shark in Deep Blue Sea and then his foot twitched for a few seconds.
Pretty cool direction. Samuel L Jackson’s character’s death was funny in the way that it was paced and set up but kind of cartoony in execution. Like maybe rather than the shark coming up from a porthole behind him the production team could have set it up where he was standing on like a piece of plywood or whatever and then the fucking shark would pop up from under him. It would’ve been like 97 percent exactly the same but then they’d have the option to use an animatronic shark instead of the CGI that hasn’t aged all that well. Also what the hell happened with Thomas Jane? He was such a great mid-tier lead actor and then freaking Jason Clarke comes out of Australia or wherever he’s from and takes all the roles Thomas Jane used to be casting directors’ top choice for.
In conclusion, Jason Clarke is a perfectly fine AA-lister – and a damn hard worker at that – but he’s missing that mystery secret sauce that Thomas Jane brought to the screen in his performances.