Comment on Anon watches The Whale

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And off you’re a cop, you’re gonna work after death

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Punisher badges on police equipment…

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    • AnalogousFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • felbane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Minor correction: “Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.”

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  • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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