Comment on Anon watches The Whale

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think people don’t realize you’re making fun of manosphere and alt right creators co opting the terms from the movies like red pill and others.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think Flight Club is a better idea of the right people walking away with the wrong message.

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      RoboCop and Starship Troopers (by the same director, no less) are other examples of people completely missing the point, and taking the film at face value.

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      • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Robocop’s message was pretty simple, I thought. If you do crime, you’ll get your genitals shot off by a cyborg.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Alt Right tried to claim They Live as an anti-Jewish alligory.

        Carpenter ended up tweeting:

        “THEY LIVE is about yuppies and unrestrained capitalism. It has nothing to do with Jewish control of the world, which is slander and a lie.”

        It’s the example I cite whenever someone tried validating a smooth brain media interpretation by claiming “Death of the Author!”.

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      • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Starship troopers’s point was missed by the same people making the sequels to it, I was so disappointed by the sequels, and don’t understand how they could have been so oblivious.

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    • TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not a movie, but RATM is my favorite example of this. Or the Punisher.

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      • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Punisher badges on police equipment…

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      • AnalogousFortune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Some of those that burn torches are the same that burn crosses!” Yeah!! Woohoo!! What fun music. Go GOP!!

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    • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fight Club is such a good movie. It seems like an awful lot of people don’t understand it at all. The same with American Psycho. You definitely nailed it with the right people walking away with the wrong message.

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• kopasz7@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly! Cypher is the only sensible person in that whole world. /s

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All he wanted was a nice steak. What’s wrong with that?

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    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Trump gives the vibes of a piece of shit betrayer who wanted to be king who’s ass is kissed globally

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      • axus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Trump famously eats only well-done steak

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    • kopasz7@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eventually getting flushed into the gutter when the human battery’s best before date passes?

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He does make sense. What does it matter to you if you don’t realize it is all fake

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