Vengeance (2022) - New Yorkers vs Texans scene - Directed by B.J. Novak

There was a time in the early ‘00s in the South when Jack N the Box was like that. It was after the bochulism scandal and they were still looking to expand. They had the biggest most insane burgers for a handful of years, got established, then scaled everything back to trash quality. They were dope for those first few years though.

As a Texan I can confirm this man’s personal account! F*** all private equity firms!!

You’re probably right, but I still love it. I’m from way up north. I have family in deep South Texas. I don’t think I ever had Whataburger until one of my trips down there around 2010. Loved it though. Maybe it’s because I only get to have it once a year that I didn’t notice the changes, but it’s still great to me. We usually roll into town pretty late when we make the near 30 hour trip down there, but our first meal is always Whataburger. Usually get it at least one more time for a meal. Also get it when we go to South Padre Island. And then we hit it one last time when we travel back north, usually in Gainesville.

Ugh, when I moved to Houston back in 2013 Whataburger just was amazing. When I left Texas in 2024 it was just overpriced, c**** burgers with insane wait times for fast food (I think I waited like 30 minutes one time for just one of their basic burgers with jalapenos). Goddamn private equity really does ruin everything.

Also Texan. Every whataburger I've been to taste the same.

I miss the chophouse cheddar burger :(

Yeah, they're just a rebranded Sonic now

I’ve been to shit locations before the buyout and I’ve been to great ones after. They should work towards getting their individual kitchens in order, but the idea that corporate is saddling the franchisees with sub-par ingredients is just perception instead of reality.

Facts heard great things went to texas for business in 2022. Shit is almost as bad as modern Burger King.

How dare you sir

Our impression of it when we finally got one in Tennessee was that it was a shittier, more expensive Sonic with less options and no cherry limeade.

Accepting them was a mistake. He cooked in this scene, he should press charges for the guy assaulting him, he was right that people who believe that shit are f****** stupid, and no amount of coddling or acceptance is gonna make their warped view of the world anything short of **sabotage** the second they enter a voting booth. Willful ignorance should never be accepted.

Ashton Kutcher’s best work. And he’s in it the perfect amount for an Ashton Kutcher role.

Boyd Holbrook. He is great in Justified: City Primeval. You might want to check it out.

That's what I loved about it. It completely blew me away. I was watching one movie, then went "HOLY SHIT" and was left jaw dropped.

>!Ryan from the office shoots Kelso!< Nah but for real it's a solid movie and worth a watch

The End

That's fair.

I've lived in both states. Neither of these people sound like people from NY or TX. And let's not pretend "city slicker who's all brain learns something from small town people with heart" is deep because it's the plot of every Hallmark love movie.

OK, that's good to know. Because that's exactly what this clip makes it look like and I was wondering if it just did because it was out of context. :D

I'm from Germany and I'm not surprised to hear you say any of that, having watched that clip. :D

Yeah way to not listen to a word I said lol. You just repeated your original comment. You are LITERALLY acting like the people in this video. That's wild.

I'm not obligated to 'reach people'. I'm not a government service. If I want to make fun of you and put you down for being more focused on performative manners than actual change, then that's what I'll do.

No. Listen, I get it. I'm from a state that gets the same treatment, but so many people here are too tightly wound around their cultural pride and too caught up in the admitedly shit writing to take a step back and dig in to what was actually being said here. The movie isn't saying Texans are stupid. I think the character thinks that, but that isn't what the *script* is saying. B.J Novak's character is growing too, it's important to remember that we're seeing a small isolated clip of a larger story. So if the point isn't that Texans are stupid, what is it? It's that Texans are too individualistic to recognize when they should be open to an outside perspective. That's absolutely true, though I want to be clear: I think the writing perscribes an American problem to specifically Texans. I've lived all over this country, it's not a Texas problem, it's a US problem. Americans love the idea of following our hearts, we overvalue the individual. No one is calling anyone stupid, don't mistake a character's opinion for a writer's opinion.

No

I mean, I’m from the South and sometimes people ask me why I don’t have an accent. Sometimes they have also told me they assume or used to assume that everyone with a southern accent is dumb.

He basically said "she was just a chick I used to smash" if he went with "I didn’t even know her that well" he would probably avoid that punch.