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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Pretending like what's honestly an almost-TOO-obvious anti-authority script just doesn't exist because the real-life ties to the USAF automatically override it is also pretty disingenuous
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @arthur_affect and
literally this is a movie that mashes up retro top gun imagery with the rah rah war on terror and then the whole first two thirds of the film are revealed to be pro-kree propoganda, carol has been lied to by the military about EVERYTHING from her past to the nature of the skrulls
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Replying to @seandehey @AlexJThomas and
I don't think all criticism of Captain Marvel is sexist but singling it out for "fake wokeness" out of the other MCU films kind of really really obviously is I mean hate on the MCU as a whole if you want, fine, but it's FAR more subversive than any of the Captain America movies
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Like, Captain America and Black Panther got praised for being more progressive than the other MCU films because *they actually are*, and the writing of the movies as "a Black movie" and "a feminist movie" is absolutely part of why they are
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Replying to @arthur_affect @seandehey and
And the contrarian narrative that no, they suck actually, and movies that don't participate in "woke tokenism" are actually more artistically effective because movies that star white guys always are kind of pisses me off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @seandehey and
Like I actually did in fact really like Winter Soldier and Civil War but Captain Marvel is absolutely a much more committed criticism of American imperialism than Winter Soldier, it isn't even close The critiques of Captain Marvel are WAY MORE TRUE of Winter Soldier
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Winter Soldier has all the characters signing back up with the "good parts" of the US government as a positive thing! It ends with Black Widow giving a little monologue about how as bad as fascism is we'll always need cops and soldiers!
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Replying to @arthur_affect @seandehey and
Captain Marvel ends with Carol flying off into the universe as a goddess, far far away from the Air Force AND the Kree AND SHIELD, swearing that she will never be part of any institution or let anyone give her orders again but follow only her conscience!
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