Oh absolutely. Don't get me wrong, I'm not banging on RoboCop at all, or even necessarily people who don't think about the political subtext. I think Mad Max Fury Road is the greatest action movie of all time, and a big reason is that it's as deep as you want it to be: you can enjoy it as a dumb action movie, you can enjoy it as a piece about how fascism maintains itself by deliberately alienating and dis-empowering people through capitalism, patriarchy, etc. and that the only way to defeat it is to break down the arbitrary barriers that exist between the lower classes. Just providing an explanation as to why people are able to enjoy movies with wildly different politics than their own. Hell, I can enjoy superhero movies despite them all having terrible politics.
Oh absolutely. Don't get me wrong, I'm not banging on RoboCop at all, or even necessarily people who don't think about the political subtext. I think Mad Max Fury Road is the greatest action movie of all time, and a big reason is that it's as deep as you want it to be: you can enjoy it as a dumb action movie, you can enjoy it as a piece about how fascism maintains itself by deliberately alienating and dis-empowering people through capitalism, patriarchy, etc. and that the only way to defeat it is to break down the arbitrary barriers that exist between the lower classes. Just providing an explanation as to why people are able to enjoy movies with wildly different politics than their own. Hell, I can enjoy superhero movies despite them all having terrible politics.
A fun way to watch Batman v. Superman is to look at Superman as what America thinks it is, and Batman as what America actually is.