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"Make the end of the world.... Great Again!"

posted 6 years ago by Portlis (18)
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Seriously? Ugh.

Can we not just have movies for entertainment purposes anymore? Does everything need to included little underhanded political jabs?

Gee, I know. I'm an ultra-liberal hollywood dork who thinks he's clever. I'll hire the old white guy to play a heartless asshole who is obsessed with guns and is afraid of "outsiders" and doesn't want to let anyone in. If that's not obvious enough, I'll give him cringey MAGA reminiscent lines throughout the movie so there's no doubt about his character.

I don't even care about the politics of it, I'm just sick of it being in movies. I dislike anything that snaps me back to reality when I'm trying to simply lose myself in the story.

Oh, and the ending sucked. Other than that, it was at least entertaining for the most part. If only the rest of the movie had been as good as the first half hour.

[–] fountainhead (323) 2 years ago

I'm glad they actually gave Douglas' character a little more depth than I expected (his instincts wound up being right most of the time, despite being an asshole). But that line felt so forced and will forever be tied to contemporary 2018 American politics.

[–] brux (14730) 2 years ago

The problem is that people read stuff into movies according to our prejudices and stereotypes, no matter what they do, so they have to think about how it will affect the audience.

I thought Malkovich's character was great, as were most of them. This is a movie I thought I'd hate, but it was pretty entertaining. Turns out he was right to be suspicious.

But I see also you do not recognize or mention the stereotype character of the selfless black man who dies for the white hero/heroine? What about that? That must feel pretty offensive to black people.

I remember watching some movie, and a group of black teens was close by, and when the action started they were all pointing out the stereotype, because they knew what was going to happen to the black guy in the story. That seemed very sad to me.