Mines the Patriot by Mel Gibson, I don't even know why

  • buh [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    sometimes I like to get a lot of mcdonalds and eat it while watching supersize me

  • Themfor [any]
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    4 years ago

    Monarchy/Aristocracy loving films and shows. Downton Abbey, The Crown, Jeeves and Wooster (kind of critical, but I think it's more pro- than anti- aristocracy at the end of the day), Horatio Hornblower, Kate & Leopold. I have a whole bunch of these costume-drama types that I unironically enjoy but can rarely recommend.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

    Ok, now I remember why I like this movie

    • LastTrainToNilbog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Curious by this response. This is usually considered Sono's masterpiece. I still haven't gotten around to watching it. On a related note, about to sit down and finish The Forest of Love.

      • qublic69 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I'm not saying it's a bad movie. I don't like bad movies.† I love that movie.
        I just feel guilty about it, because it is sooo prevered and irreverent, and fetishistic. And violent for that matter.
        I was raised surrounded by religious fundamentalists, so yeah, that guilt is a sexy whip I'll be carrying with me probably forever.

        † if I don't like it, it's bad, by definition. far as I'm concerned, other people's opinions are either the same or wrong. :P
        when push comes to shove everyone puts their own value judgements first, even if their first value might be a democratic one.
        the interpretation of 'worst' is subjective, i chose the adverb definition in 'worst guilty pleasure'; bad movies are only worth mentioning in so far as to assign them damnatio memoriae.
        if something is "so bad it's good" then it clearly isn't bad.

        (sorry, i've been writing an unrelated argument somewhere, can't help my brain is in argumentative pedantic mode right now)

        (i know 'guilty pleasure' often means good movies with problematic parts, but I would roll those into it being a less good movie not it being fun haram; my reaction then is disgust not guilt)

    • PresterJohnBrown [any]
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      4 years ago

      Verhoeven's movies are satires of American corporatism and fascism... so not very guilty.

        • PresterJohnBrown [any]
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          4 years ago

          Robocop accurately predicted the future of Detroit and American privatized police.

          As much as ACAB could have been better represented in Robocop, they were making a distinction between public cops and corporate cops, which are much worse and far less accountable.