• RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I wonder how many mega-sellers "IMPERIALISM IS FUCKING BAD"-movies/books are there and libs don't get it.

      • RalphGrenader [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        *watches Star Wars ep VI *Misses the similarities between the US in Vietnam Such a good, wholesome movie!

        • PlasticRadioMan [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I remember one take was that the hunger games was about how bad communism is. Yes the story about rich people watching poor kids die for fun and a revolution is started against said rich people

        • HeckHound [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It’s obviously the American colonists and the British Empire! You can tell because the good guys are fighting for Freedom, which is what Americans do.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Dude, I never watched them but goddam never heard of that obvious connection

      • modsarefascist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        all of them, nearly all well liked media is leftist

        except like 24 and some Michael Bay stuff

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Capeshit movies too? Like m*rvel and shit?

          • garbology [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            The Black Panther movie has so many nods to actually good politics, then shits the bed anyway. I can't tell if Coogler left dog whistles to the good politics he wanted to put in but Disney wouldn't let him, or if it's just performative lib BS. Killmonger grew up in Oakland of all places? Can't be an accident.

            • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Killmonger is my favorite MCU hero. Shame his revolutionary spirit was crushed by a technocratic xenophobic monarchy that then transitioned to libshit

            • RNAi [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              I would never watch marvel shit, but the comments I heard about that movie are disgusting, like, any sane person would cheer for "the bad guy" plan but he was bad so his ideas are totally wrong.

    • JayTwo [any]
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      4 years ago

      I watched it in the theater with a comrade, and I had a hard time explaining it to them afterwards, that while I liked the movie, I didn't think it worked as a teaching tool, like I kept hearing.

      Everyone is just going to associate with the class they think they're a part of, excusing their bad bits and inflating their good ones.

      And sure enough...

      It's still a great film. It just doesn't have any pedagogical qualities, imo.