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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29164542

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[–] 84 points 5 months ago (35 children)

Those "keep politics out of x" is so ridiculously ignorant. As if self-censorship is politically neutral 🤦‍♂️ As if avoiding LGBT representation is neutral. Just wait until they discover that Star Wars is political and has always been 😂

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  • [–] 51 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    My dad loves to say “I hate how political movies are now”, and I’m just like “How many movies have you made me sit through over the years where the main takeaway is ‘The US military and government and all of their policies are awesome and correct.’”

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    I mean... it's actually kind of disturbing how many there are, The green Berets, Top Gun, Transformers, Black hawk down, some grey area ones like saving private ryan and similar.

    Of course, you'd get the other side of the coin with say movies like rambo, apacalypse now Born on the fourth of july etc...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Didn't the first(?) (The one where the main guy finds Bumblebee) movie have the government as the secondary bad guys?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Of course, you'd get the other side of the coin with say movies like rambo, apacalypse now Born on the fourth of july etc...

    Oh, you mean things that are unironically used as pro-America media by people that have 0 ability to see a political message? The same people that told RATM that they were good before they became political in 2016 (lmao)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    For how much conservatives hate anything LGBTQ showing up in movies, it's weird that they love Top Gun so much. That movie is probably the most homosexual piece of media I've ever had to witness, and I've enjoyed quite a bit of gay porn in my days.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (17 children)

    never heard of star wars, but i agree on the rest

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    According to Lucas the rebel alliance was based on the Vietcong.

    https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-vietnam-war-inspiration-explainer/

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's so interesting. I heard in the post-red scare era a lot of left political commentators turned to sci-fi because it allowed them to commentate without being censored.

    Art can defeat the state!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Some has some pretty bad ironic concepts though. Like the expanse in my opinion was a strong version of that. In watching it it really showed the capitalism hell, with the belt clearly representing some level of the working class/the global south.

    To me the great irony of it though was after it got canceled, Jeff Bezos personally took towards buying the show and using amazon prime to keep it going.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    never heard of star wars

    But I'm sure you heard of it's main protagonist, Captain Kirk

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    That's star trek. Star wars is the one where the kid finds the alien and helps him get back home.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    That's ET, Star Wars is where group scientists in Artactica find an alien organism that can imitate whatever it absorbs.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    That's The Thing. Star Wars is with the time travelling british twink.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That's Doctor Who. Star Wars is the one with the computer that says "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" and starts murdering the crew.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars is the one where a robot goes back in time to kill a lady before she gives birth to the leader of a resistance movement.

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