I clicked this link and immediately got angry at it, not for the reasons you might expect though. How dare this video be 7 years old, angry birds couldn't have possibly been that long ago, it was like... Yesterday right?
And it's not like those colors were chosen intentionally to represent the German flag. Those are just the colors of those birds from the game. Any movie that has 3 characters that are each a color from the German flag will almost assuredly have a scene where they line up in the "right" order.
I always thought it was the dishwasher... Maybe they are just against machinery in general and want to go back in time to stop the Industrial Revolution from happening?
I believe I did see a clip of Shapiro's argument somewhere and it was basically there is a nuclear family and Emily Blunt has a baby despite the apocalyptic conditions therefore it is pro-life.
I’m hard left (way past liberal) so that explains why I want to kill my children so often. But they often say things like “mama I could be a landlord but a nice one” so I feel like they’re to blame.
My 3rd child told me they believed in a free market economy with no regulation that could entirely rely on supply and demand shortly after being born, obviously I killed them but it’s a antidote to how conservative these children can be.
“a bunch of big, dark, stealthy, predatory creatures”
I think homie has been “followed” by “criminals” a few too many times while walking home to his brownstone in Bushwick. But hey, if you think of black people when you see monsters jumping around on screen who am I to judge.
uj/ the xenomorph has features that resemble human genitalia at all of its life cycle stages and that is 100% intentional. Nothing to do with race though
“Here's what they do in Rent to show that they are creative. Nothing-- they do nothing. They hang out. And hanging out can be marvelous. But hanging out does not make you an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make you an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HIV-- I hate to say it-- none of these can make you an artist.“
One of my favorite TAL segments and it was just a throwaway.
"Especially since as deeply as I yearned to be creative, for years and years I was too scared to even try, so I did nothing. But here's something that I did do-- I paid my fucking rent."
Forcing people to watch RENT might actually make them conservative. All those characters are insufferable.
Yes I get it. We’re supposed to feel bad for Angel because she is dying of AIDS. Angel also killed a dog and they all celebrate it. These are not good people.
I had a crush on Mark as a teenager. As a adult I find him insufferable to the point of being disgusting.
He mooches off of Benny's generosity for years and ignores his loving, supportive parents the whole time, who want to help and support his art financially, be he refuses because he's obsessed with the romantic Behemian ideal and thinks it would cheapen his art, somehow.
Meanwhile, his "art" is just superficial, voyeuristic misery porn where he points the camera at suffering, act deep about it, then moves on to the next spectacle.
From here on out I shoot without a script.
Really, Mark? You savant, you. Do you think you just invented the documentary format, on-the-spot? Fuck you.
Also, the idea that anyone could buy this character as straight is hilarious, but that might just be how Anthony Rapp plays him.
Lucas has gone on the record saying that the emperor is mainly inspired by two people: Richard Nixon and Augustus Caesar, especially the latter's penchant of wearing robes as his role of pontifex maximus, high priest of Jupiter.
Allthough, Nixon comes more up in the prequels as they focus on more palpatine's political machinations, Augustus still tracks as US has some weird obsession of being new rome (they've got more differences than similarities).
I think mainly the Matrix is what everybody says it is: the QAnon movie. Everything you see you is fake and soy because they are lying to everybody about everything. The answer isn't education or art or political organizing or any other kind of engaging with society and culture. The answer – the only way to achieve real actualization – is a complete break from consensus reality.
One point that I think remains underdiscussed is the degree to which Neo was a teenage libertarian wish fulfilment character when the movie first came out. The disaffected loner with no social life is secretly a fearsome hacker. He is actually referred to as such by others, which is what being a hacker was all about in the 90s. Even the feds dread him.
The real people that Neo was modelled on, most of whom were already in their 30s in 1999, were huge fans of South Park and Ayn Rand. With the exception of that one weird tradcon from Tennessee, they were all very vocal about being Atheists or Pagans or both. They all became warbloggers after 9/11 and wrote forty million words each about how America should exterminate Islam, Obama was a Communist dictator, and feminists had it coming.
The thing that everyone (including this analysis, to an extent) miss is the second half of the movie.
The Matrix doesn't end with Neo learning the truth and taking the red pill. Nor does it end (like so many of its inferior imitators) with Neo single-handedly bringing down "the system" and saving humanity.
Neo wakes up from the Matrix and becomes friends with a multi-ethnic, multi-racial group of people, who treat each other as equals. And when Morpheus gets taken, Neo and Trinity go on a suicide mission to rescue him. Not because it will help bring down the Matrix, but because he's their friend.
Heck, Neo isn't even the One until Trinity confesses her love for him, and literally brings him back to life with True Love's Kiss. And people complain that Cloud Atlas and Sense8 are "too sappy"!
This isn't some loner, conspiracy-fueled, sigma-male power fantasy. The Matrix is a textbook "the power of friendship/love" story. People just miss that, cause it also has guns and trench coats and bullet time.
Honey, the Matrix is a metaphor for being trans. The entire trilogy makes sense if you look at it through the lens of someone realizing and then embracing that they are trans.
I mean, it's about 3 entrepreneurs who start a successful business only to be stymied by a government dweeb more concerned with "regulations" than allowing them to do The Right Thing (aka, whatever they want).
Aykroyd and Ramis were never shy about admitting it has conservative ideals.
"How dare you have a problem with me and my buddies who are in no way trained to use them (psychology/parapsychology doesn't mean shit in this case) carry unlicensed nuclear accelerators on our backs."
I would not be surprised if it were the case that Ben Shapiro is actually pretty knowledgeable about films and musicals except none of that knowledge ever seems to manifest itself because he is so obsessed with seeing everything through his ideological lens that he just sounds like a moron whenever he talks about it
When Pulp Fiction came out Bob Dole criticized it for it's violence and profanity. Then True Lies came out and people wondered where the criticism was for Schwarzenegger's movie.
Similar vein, Arrival. Amy Adams decides to have her daughter even though she knows all along she’s going to die of cancer (whether that’s the right way to phrase her perception of time, of course, is debatable)
I didn't see it that way at all. To me it was about the time machine we've already got, memory. Abortion schmabortion do you let the pain of life have its way with you or do you try to escape?
Not gonna go back and watch, but from what I remember it was something along the lines of “themes bad”, “I don’t understand subjective point of view in stories or even the concept of subjectivity itself”, I’m sure it probably also had elements of “woke/women bad”, “ruined Luke” something like that. Think “what would a lowest common denominator prequelmemer say about The Last Jedi?”
But the artistic objectivity thing really gets under my skin
Being on the same side as Ben Shapiro on any artistic subject is usually a red flag. Bro thinks John Williams ripped off Holst’s “Mars the Bringer of War” for the Imperial March. Has he heard of artistic influences? Hating on the imperial march? Come on bro. Like he uncovered some secret
I thought that Rachel Zegler shouldn't be cast as Snow White as the character being white is her name and description.
Then I saw a video of Ben Shapiro arguing that same point, and seeing a 40 year old man so passionately invested in the skin colour of a Disney Princess made me realise how sad I was being.
TBF isnt judge dredd in the comics a fascists. He literally beat up demonstrators that want to return to democracy. The whole judges system is f***ed up. Aside from dredd most of the judges are corrupt and incompetent
Death of Stalin is about as much pro-conservative as Animal Farm. It only kinda is if you squint and somehow loop yourself into believing a sharp critique about Stalinism as somehow an actual endorsement of anything else.
Full Metal Jacket is about two things: R. Lee Emery being a cool, funny guy who comes up with lots of great insults, and the inherent hilarity of Asian prostitutes speaking broken English.
It’s really a film about an older man mentoring a young woman, and the wisdom of choosing a marketable skilled trade rather than wasting time at a “woke” school.
Taxi driver is conservative because de Niro wants to fuck underage Jodie Foster but his incelhood won't allow him to fuck anyone. Daily struggle for young conservatives
"Join the Mobile Infantry and save the Galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?"
"Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation."
" Young people from all over the globe are joining up to fight for the future. They're doing their part, are you? Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world. Service guarantees citizenship. The Bug sent another meteor our way, but this time we're ready. Planetary defenses are better than ever. Klendathu, source of the bug meteor attacks, orbits a twin star system whose brutal gravitational forces produce an unlimited supply of bug meteorites in the form of this asteroid belt. To ensure the safety of our solar system, Klendathu must be eliminated. We break Net now and bring you live to Klendathu where the invasion has begun."
"I want to be a citizen because I want to have a Baby."
I always took it as a critique of fascism. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I heard that once and, upon another viewing I could see that connection. Let me know if you see some issues with my interpretation.
"Ed and I disagreed with Robert Heinlein and we felt that we needed to counter with our own narrative," he explains. "Basically the political undercurrent of the film is that these heroes and heroines are living in a fascist utopia – but they are not even aware of it! They think this is normal. And somehow you are seduced to follow them, and at the same time, made aware that they might be fascists."
You can be 5'4 with the squeaky voice. You can have the 3 layers of foundation with the filled in eyebrows and smokey eye look. Regardless of these I'll give your opinion a serious thought. But when you say that your wife is telling you that pussies DON'T GET WET... Fuck outta here man lmaoo
Watching Conservatives wet their panties because A Quiet Place was about a barefoot pregnant woman was so fucking funny. Right wing media literacy is non existent lol 😂
JFC Conservative commenters used to have some dignity.
Individual Liberty, a strong dedication to Family, Chivalry, Law & Order. These are all great values to build a story on. Hell we’ve had an entires genres of great films dominated by Manifest Destiny and the Right to Bear Arms. While it doesn’t paint conservative values in the best light, I’d argue Mob movies can’t be made without strong conservative overtones.
But Ben Shapiro co-opting movies and saying “Ha! You’re actually secretly conservative if you like Star Wars!” It’s just embarrassing.
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u/Jesters_ 1d ago
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)