Okay, so that's just Truffaut's Maxim -- you can't ever really make an antiwar movie because war looks inherently cool There are people who unironically stan the Mobile Infantry in Verhoeven's Starship Troopers and wish they could join it, the satire is totally lost on them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
And fine, those people are real and they matter and they vote and we have to live with the fact that that's a valid criticism of that movie or any movie about war But it's still absurd to say this proves what the movie is "really about"
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @arthur_affect and
Mind you don't injure yourself with all that reaching.
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @phyphor and
I mean yeah, but this article provides no actual evidence of any "recruiting win", only expressing hope for one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I think what you're not accepting is that movies can do multiple things, at cross purposes -- in fact they usually do because they're made by huge groups of different people who all signed up to work on the movie for different reasons
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @phyphor and
I don't particularly feel the need to grade movies with a universal "pass" or "fail" on their leftistness -- because, contrary to what a lot of people accuse me of, I don't think movies are actually all that important in the grand scheme of things
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Captain Marvel was made within certain constraints it pretty much had to be made under in order to be an MCU blockbuster movie in the 21st century, and under those constraints it's unusually good for an MCU movie (like Black Panther, and unlike, imo, the Iron Man films)
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