i feel like it was pretty based actually, i don't remember if there was a shitty lib moral at the end but it was certainly a very interesting take on socioeconomics

  • purr [undecided]
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    3 years ago

    one of those late 2000s movies, like jumper, that had a cool af premise but wasnt

    • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm glad I'm not the only one that has these two movies lumped together in my mind, along with that weird action thriller Wanted

      • Woly [any]
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        3 years ago

        I still crack up thinking about that movie, and about how the central plot revolved around a magical loom that told this team of elite assasins to kill people, and the villain of the story had decided to stop listening to the loom and kill people for his own personal gain.

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I meant the original comic book had the story that "The main character is actually a supervillain and isn't that cool how he's just killing all these assholes, but guess what?

          You're the asshole if you enjoyed it you sick fuck!"

      • purr [undecided]
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        3 years ago

        by any chance were you also 13 when those movies came out and were just simultaneously excited for all of them

        • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I was pretty young, plus the fact that there were just so many commercials back then, it was inevitable that the movie trailers would get burned into your brain