There's a character called Peacemaker and hes Captain America but evil cause America does mostly bad shit.

However the movie is basically set in Cuba and the heroes free it at the end. It does a lot to try to muddy the waters and not make it seem to much like a real country, but the "Viva Fictional Country" chants at the end and line about now being a free and democratic country have to be courtesy of the CIA.

It's some incredibly politically confused shit. Kind of a good movie I guess, probably the best DCEU film and much better than his Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Didn't feel as focus tested. Its also basically a remake of the first one but with actual pacing.

  • MsUltraViolet [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Idk what the hell you're all on about, if you actually watch the movie ALL THE WAY THROUGH (unlike some of your babies who literally turned it off 10 minutes in because a communist didn't appear on screen and make a speech about how America's evil) it's pretty explicitly anti-American. It cites our fucked up imperialism via how we're doing horrible shit at a military base in another country, Peacemaker is like explicitly shown to be a fucked up psycho trying to protect American hegemony by the end, Waller, who's the embodiment of coercing these inmates to do terrible black-ops shit, is shown to be a imperialist freak and gets clocked with a golf club, so that the heroes can save civilians. And the Island generals controlling the place seem much closer to right wing Pinochet types than any sort of left-wing allusion.

    You're all literally making up shit to be made at in a stupid entertaining superhero movie, that, despite it being a big budget mainstream product, still had some small amounts of American critique. Like, the American government, the ones forcing these people do to the mission or they blow their fucking heads up, are shown to be run by a psycho trying to stop the release of info that American's tortured hundreds of people in a former Nazi laboratory on right wing controlled island.

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I loved Peacemaker. Was a hilarious lampooning of American evil abroad. My favorite moment was during the Harley rescue scene when they’re preparing to infiltrate the building and he says he has a shot on someone so they can sneak by but then it cuts to who he’s aiming at and it’s a female civilian office worker that he obviously doesn’t need to shoot. Love that he just doesn’t mention that and is ready to just go for it