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Cali-Texas and big florida fighting the feds over who gets to be the true Heir of Hitler while the northwest has a Maoist Insurgency lol red-sun

  • Optimus_Subprime [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

    Yeah, thankfully Alex Garland said he is retiring from directing movies to focus on screenwriting. https://screenrant.com/civil-war-last-movie-alex-garland-director-retire-confirm/

    I watched Dredd and, damn, did he not get that it’s supposed to be a satire of the American justice system and Dirty Harry-style cops in particular. He made Dredd look good when he’s supposed to be the most nightmarish thing you can think of. He basically remade Robocop.

    • AlicePraxis [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      7 months ago

      I tried to rewatch Dredd a couple years ago and I turned it off because it was so explicitly fascist. It just felt like a conservative nightmare fantasy where crime is so bad that of course we should let cops kill whoever they want. You’re supposed to 100% buy this logic and root for Judge Dredd and the other white woman cop who spends most of the movie holding a black man captive. Like you said there was no satire, they pulled a reverse-Starship Troopers.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        7 months ago

        The black guy the movie assures us it’s OK to hate by heavily implying he’s a rapist, and also too dumb to realize that the beeping Judges gun in his hand is about to explode, despite being a high ranking lieutenant in the Mama’s gang and presumably having experience with this kind of Judge fuckery. He was probably the one character other than her who should definitely have known not to do that, but instead he just stands there staring at the gun for several seconds while it beeps and eventually explodes and takes his arm off, which is played for laughs.

        And the climax of the plot is when they do the main antagonist Pinochet-style

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      7 months ago

      I was annoyed by that movie for that exact reason, like dude it’s not supposed to be 300 but with one guy.

      Also lol @ the scene on the stairs, where he throws some gas bombs that creates very obvious green clouds that his opponents (the unarmored small time drug dealers who are trying to pay rent and live in the building with their families) obligingly walk into for no reason and start choking on, at which point he casually strolls up and shoots them all point blank in the head. The soundtrack assures me I should be hooting and thumping my chest as this happens.