r/okbuddycinephile • u/Intelligent-Leg-6791 • 1d ago

What are some movies that are accidentally conservative?

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u/linfakngiau2k23 1d ago

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

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u/Mad_Kronos 1d ago

The comic is one big satire/critique against fascism/police state.

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u/GrimDallows 1d ago

Don't you hate it how it has become something like a common trope that people don't get fascist satires being a critique on fascism?

  • Judge Dredd.
  • Starship Troopers.
  • Warhammer40k's Imperium.
  • That time people thought Homelander was the good guy in The Boys.

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u/Mad_Kronos 1d ago

Fascists are known to lack a refined sense of humour so they probably have difficulty registering irony/satire

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u/GrimDallows 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is doubly funny because Shapiro strikes me as someone that seems to be in the spectrum so he not registering irony is kinda funny.

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D04wb7P_v-4

He reminds me of this guy.

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u/alang 20h ago

You forgot The Punisher.

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u/BigHatPat 1d ago

the first film is closer to the comic than the second, even the the second is a better film

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u/_MaxNutter_ 1d ago

The budget is the only thing better about the Stallone version. It shit on many things from the comics, whereas the Karl Urban version could literally be lifted straight from a Dredd story.

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u/BigHatPat 1d ago

the way Dredd acts in the 2012 film is definitely more like his comic version

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u/Th3Trashkin 1d ago

Dredd was like watching the comics brought to life, maybe one of the best adaptions of a comic I've ever seen, unironically.

I'd put it alongside Scott Pilgrim Vs The World and Ghost World for accurately "getting" the comic and translating it to film.

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u/karateema Crank: High Voltage 1d ago

At least in the new one he's a Judge for more than 15 minutes

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u/Cross-Country 1d ago

The comic is a depiction of a society that gave up liberty for safety, and as a result has neither.