Comment on Anon watches The Whale

• 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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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also, Jesus.

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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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    • felbane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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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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