• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      16 days 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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        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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          Correction: “Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.”

          Zack’s saying that the police aren’t your friends, and if you’re a certain ethnicity some of them are actively trying to eradicate you.

          In that context, that MAGAts are championing that song is even more sinister than them just missing the point.

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      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.