Coattails
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Nurtured by austerity-fueled discontent, trading on xenophobia, and riding on the
coattails
of false promises, Brexit and its backers won the day for many bad reasons.
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Many Detroiters, myself included, are worried segregation is now returning to the city itself on the
coattails
of this renaissance.
You know the drill: young hotshot with hubristic flaw (in this case, Matthew McConaughey, trying to jump-start a flagging career by latching onto Pacino's
coattails
-- hey, it worked for Keanu and Colin, didn't it?) is discovered by glamorous and delightfully corrupt father figure (Pacino, natch).
If this was a stand alone flick, it wouldn't be so bad, but riding on the
coattails
of a brilliant piece like Atlantis makes it utterly inexcuseable.
The problem is that the movie rode in on the
coattails
of the 60's-created concept that comic books could only be done as "camp" (i.e., the 60's Batman show) for TV and movie.
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