This thread is an amazing peek into the minds of people who literally know nothing about anything at all
Showing the US as the bad guy redeems any other issues with the movie. 👍 👍
Honestly on a pure vibes based level they fucking nailed it. We all know how the US became after 9/11 where 3k people died. Could you imagine the level of horrifying fascism that would be reached if a million people died in a nuke? The giant US space station menacing the entire world is a tremendous vibes achievement, the first iconic spacecraft to come out of the film industry in years upon years.
Oh yeah, totally. The US's behavior was totally on point.
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A lib friend watched it and was ticked off that the truth behind the nuke wasn't more of the storyline. "Why didn't they just tell everyone?" Took a lot not to laugh in his face.
"Why didn't they just tell everyone?"
Peak liberal
"simply tell people that the founding myth of their modern unified fascist society is based on a lie!"
the first iconic spacecraft to come out of the film industry in years upon years
Not gonna lie, I think if Avenue 5 had gotten another season it would be mad iconic too.
Is avenue 5 good? I remember watching the first episode and being incredibly bored
I watched the whole thing while baked one night. It was pretty good but incredibly disappointing that it ended when and where it did. It deserved and needed another season very badly. It was very blatantly about to be something that could be very useful for explaining class, labour, and the artificial divisions planted by the bourgeoisie so I'm sure that was a major factor in its cancellation.
When it was good it really did have something to say. It was a sort of run of the mill Iannucci joint though
Oh for sure. Yet another piece of media that could have been good if it was like 5% more based.
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed it and was really saddened that they cancelled it before the story could end. I felt that way about that Netflix show, Inside Job
honestly my unironic Avatar take. Having American stand-ins get killed en masse makes it a good film
Yeah, when I first watched it, Avatar fans were who I thought would vibe with it.
Makes me think of how in Arrival the Chinese are the most at risk of being militarily aggressive against the enigmatic aliens when it would 100% be America and it's allies IRL.
Still a pretty interesting idea for a movie though.
Well except for the part where US soldiers go rogue and kill the aliens.
I'm gonna be real, I caught it on TV over the holidays and may have legitimately been mixing a drink or something when this happened because I don't remember that at all lmao - Fair play to the movie for doing that though, brings it up even further in my book.
But dont worry Amy Adams is here to speak badly accented Chinese to save us all lol
That's not how I remember it. The Chinese ended up being the key that solved the mystery and it was American chud xenophobes that fucked everything up
it's really fucking long but somehow hugely compressed at the same time, they do lots of hop-skip-jump over sequences that could be entire movies in themselves (characters getting from A to B etc.) and as a result the movie starts to just become a series of disjoint events happening instead of something that follows smoothly. However, it has unbelievable art design. It keeps throwing machine/weapon/setting designs at you that would be standalone iconic in any other film.
Very much so
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::: The alien language operates outside of linear time. As the MC is learning it she starts to develop an ability to perceive non-temporal existence. IIRC there’s a plot point that the daughter she mourns is not actually born yet at the time of the alien visitation etc.
That was the most reasonable part of the whole movie though.
I am once again asking someone to find me a copy of Operation Scorched Earth
https://youtu.be/jCIwIJlYtNM
(CW US bombing of North and South Korea)
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I'm afraid I didn't have much luck on my usual sites. I asked a friend of mine over in Japan to let me know if they happen to run across it. We'll see.🤞
I just watched Battleship Island the other night and it was quite good. It'd probably be up your alley if you haven't seen it.
Understandable, I could only really appreciate it on the vibes and art design level. Also I like John David Washington in action movies because he's an ex NFL player so is one of the few actors that really knows how to physically move. Like in this part at 4m10s of the opening scene of Tenet, you can tell this is a man who knows what it means to sprint really fast. I was watching a Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie recently and the comparison is truly comical. Actually if you watch out for it a lot of actors can't run for shit, which makes sense because they're a bunch of grown-up theater kids basically.
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