What's this Warfare movie bullshit?

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 hours ago

    This shit apparently works too. I remember hearing about this kind of movie being shown to Vietnamese libs at Fulbright University and bringing them to tears after realizing how hard American soldiers had it.

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
      cake
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      14 minutes ago

      I think that's the norm among compradors in general though; they're libs, so they eat that stuff up. There are even Chinese libs who think America is a model to emulate and that the 8 nations alliance occupation was a good thing. On a completely unrelated note, don't visit Shanghai.

      • miz [any, any]
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        3 minutes ago

        but I want to go back to Shanghai! I never got to visit the former residence of Zhou Enlai or the site of the 1st National Congress of the CPC

    • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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      1 hour ago

      nah it's pretty much just the US

      whites from europe/australia make movies about how travelling to non-white/slightly less white countries taught them a lot about how to live, laugh and love

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        57 minutes ago

        nah it's pretty much just the US

        opens a history book

        nice try Hans

        whites from europe/australia make movies about how travelling to non-white/slightly less white countries taught them a lot about how to live, laugh and love

        west hemisphere honkeys do that too. Just more confirmation that y'all the same

        • Krem [he/him, they/them]
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          38 minutes ago

          it's pretty much the USians doing the sad vietnam vet movies yeah. but you're right, Julia roberts is also a USian so they're also stealing the euros thing of making movies about going to india and being joi de vivre vampires

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    3 hours ago

    Correction: the movie will be about how sad the soldiers got from being criticized for doing it

    • Enjoyer_of_Games [he/him]
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      2 hours ago

      Correction: the movie will be about how sad the soldiers got from their posthoc fabricated narrative of being criticized for doing it

  • Inui [comrade/them]
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    4 hours ago

    A24 makes/funds a lot of bad movies, you just dont hear about them since they don't market them. Look at their Wikipedia or some of the trailers on their YouTube channel though and you'll find em.

  • newmou [he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    Yeah I was waiting for the typical A24 twist perspective in the trailer but no it just kept going until it ended

  • CredibleBattery [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 hours ago

    don't worry, they'll still fill up the theaters with the tacticool-obsessed 20-58 yr old male demographic who cum in their pants everytime the actors do ''lore-accurate'' order barks or know not to point their guns at friendlies

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      5 hours ago

      they'll still fill up the theaters with the tacticool-obsessed 24-58 yr old male demographic who cum in their pants everytime the actors do ''lore-accurate'' order barks or know not to point their guns at friendlies

      Hexbear is the only safe space left online to be a military otaku that's also a leftist.

  • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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    4 hours ago

    I saw an ad for like an A24 50 shades of grey kink Christmas romance. Which I guess is sort of a funny idea but also, like, why are they doing that?

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
      hexagon
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      5 hours ago

      28 Days Later, Ex Machina, Annihilation all bangers then what did he hit his head in the shower or something or get injected by pentagon money?

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 hours ago

        They're a distribution company, not a studio. They've released some absolute trash before, they just don't advertise themselves associating with it as much as their boutique stuff.

        • falgscode [they/them]
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          2 hours ago

          they took on 200+ mil in venture capital in 2022 and talked about making more marvel-style IP, the last two years has only accelerated that

          • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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            2 hours ago

            I should pitch them on a Night Man movie

            The world shouldn't be deprived of a superhero who's power is being able to hear when people have EVIL thoughts

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 hours ago

        He also did a lot of the directing work on Dredd uncredited.

        I think he's always had brain worms, but he's just made some fun middle brow movies along the way

      • Voidance [none/use name]
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        4 hours ago

        There's a scene in 28 weeks later where US soldiers are crying while they shoot civilians lmao

      • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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        5 hours ago

        having enjoyed the book first Annihilation is a C- nonbanger for me and I never liked 28 days later apart from the GYBE intro sequence

        on the one hand different strokes for different folks, on the other hand I do see a thread of emptiness and missed opportunity throughout his filmography

          • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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            5 hours ago

            yeah it's more a reflection of how dang good the book is (it's really good, vandermeer does ecological cosmic horror/wonder fiction like nobody else)

            at the end of the day the book is too non-narrative and too challenging to translate to a profitable film so i get it but god damn it alex should have tried harder

              • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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                5 hours ago

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            • miz [any, any]
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              34 seconds ago

              have you read Absolution yet? I haven't