Absolute cum stain of a film, ruined an already brutally stupid premise set up by TFA. Eat my whole ass hexbear, I’m not going to hitch my ride to this shit because it tripped half way into making a good point with some vaguely sucdem rhetoric.
Just trash all around, its sequel was king trash only because this bullshit laid the groundwork for trash. A fucking structural engineer had to design a solid trash foundation for that steaming pile of shit ROS. Most boring movie I’ve seen in theaters. 3+ hours of diahrrea o stg if i see another post praising this movie I’m going to eat my shit. Shape the fuck up, this movie sucks.
Even hotter take: Andor was okay in theory but filled me with such intense Capitalist Realism that I struggled to enjoy it (probably a me thing, but still)
idk if I'm reading this correctly but the themes of the show work in tandem with the meta knowledge that they do manage to overthrow the empire in the end, like it's a foregone conclusion that the Capitalism Ain't Real
their struggles are overwhelming and seem pointless, and Andor and so many others don't live to see the fruit of their efforts, but it's a in-universe examination of why these people fought despite that, with us knowing that they were all important even if they didn't at the time
the intended angle isn't "imagine even trying, the empire will never fall and all of the idealists get owned", it's more like "yeah even the relatively small act of throwing a brick at a stormtrooper during an IRA funeral was vital to the destruction of the death star and by extension the empire"
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I think those themes certainly ring true in the show, I just worry that the future will be vaguely materialist epic stories of rebellion broadcast on demand to placate us while we're locked in Amazon shipping containers on a poisoned world and forced to remote control helium-2 mining drones on Venus for 16 hours a day under threat of being shot to death by patrolling Boston Dynamics robots if we ever leave.
That said I've spent the last few months in an unbearable and unshakeable melancholy that annoys everyone around me (including me) so maybe I'm talking out of my arse idk.
ahh I get you now, Cyberpunk Realism is a hard feeling to kick
yeah I completely get it, but at the very least I don't think rebellion media is a unique or new horror and I don't think it placates more than any other form of media does, the contradictions will ensure that anti-cybercorp aktion will arise no matter how many anarchists forest whitaker portrays
Yeah, you're totally right, I suppose Capitalism will chug along regardless of whether the media is based or not, just bizarrely it sometimes feels extra dystopian when the slop you're watching is making good points, y'know?
eh not really, they successfully restore some parliamentary monarchies which is better than the empire but a far cry from socialism.
while they don't show socialism as a path to success, they explicitly show liberal capitalism as inevitably falling to fascism every time it's tried