I don't even mean a bad thing, necessarily. I mean a thing that is made to normalize the status quo, pave over inherent contradictions in late stage neoliberal capitalism, make even the idea of changing society somewhat seem evil or impossible, and have lots of performative gestures that hide the stench of affluent arrogance. :zizek-preference:
I know it came out well before 2020, but I finally got around to seeing Iron Man 2 and I stopped at the instant Tony Stark said "I've successfully privatized world peace." It was bad. Very bad. The original movie was entertaining even if it had some painful deliberate adjustments to the comic book character to make him more like :my-hero: but the sequel played out like Ayn Rand fanfiction, especially the big smart awesome genius giving a speech about how the evil government and the ungrateful moochers were taking the sweat from his brow and so on and so on. :zizek:
The flood of MCU movies wore me out to the point that I stopped watching them and because of that I have only seen maybe half of them by now. Maybe it was a mistake returning to try watching Iron Man 2 because I now have even less interest in seeing anything MCU ever again. :zizek-fuck:
Years and years. British TV show about how everything is going to shit. Basically some of the stuff is OK - and it is an interesting premise, exploring the decay of the west.
However it is so full of lib shit I genuinely zoned out thru a lot of it. Let's see...
'When you go far left it loops round again to the far right' actual horseshoe horseshit quote about the rise of the communist party in spain.
The concentration camps are liberated by.... blowing up the jamming tower so people can video and broadcast what's happening there. Gonna say that my hopes were raised and immediately dashed when the rebels got a rocket launcher out.
Everything bad was the fault of one person and they were a nasty icky populist. Oh and they used Fake News and Disinformation to rise to power.
As per standard, nothing bad can ever be understood unless it's happening to a middle class family. The poorer relatives (and anyone poor really) are largely shown to be reactionary plebs who are dum dums unable to see thru the Fake News.
Once they get rid of the Bad Person, stuff magically goes back to normal.
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Not a clue I am afraid I watched it when it was on either Iplayer or more4 can't remember which.
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Yeah that's it BBC Iplayer. I dunno how or if u will be able to watch it where you are as I am not that tech savvy but its showing for me in the UK
Fmovies has it. I watched the nuke episode like a year ago and it seemed really good but I don't think I'll watch the rest of it knowing all of the libshit.
Bins mate
Whats it called?
Ah yeah sorry it's actually called years and years, I wasn't talking about it being years ago I saw it.
Like I said, if u want an insight into how libs percieve the world and how they think it can be fixed, it's worth a watch though it's unintentionally chilling when u realise that this is the dominant ideology that's dealing with a climate crisis.
No problem sorry I misread :P
Oh boy what a show, you weren't lying.
It does good anti communist propaganda and secures the standing of the Torries.
Also it blames the younger/middle aged generations for bad things instead of the old ones and the ones in power. Material conditions don't matter so much.
Pure ideology :zizek-preference:
"You wouldn't dare to arrest me on camera, a mother with her child", lol
Besides the depiction of the concentration camps look nicer than actual camps refugees are living in currently. It hypes moral paper tigers, but ignores realities.
I think my favourite bit is at the end where everything just pops back to normal. There's just zero understanding of any deeper reason behind what happened aside from 'the silly poors voted in a bad person.'
If you twisted my arm, the refugee subplot with that guy's boyfriend trying to get to safety wasn't terrible in a couple of places.
Yes, but we ought to skip over the power dynamics in the beginning and the lack of agency of "the boyfriend" for large sways (their perspective is mostly shown through the eyes of the middle class brits".
During that time I really liked when the dad got three years in prison "cause of the gun" - but he used that time to learn Spanish - and is now teaching English to little kids in fascist ("communist") Spain. How is that supposed to be a good arc or sympathetic? He was a "banker" darn and learning Spanish is enough to get a job in a country adjacent to or part of the imperialist core to teach?