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How can it be anti-capitalist if it's basically a giant ad for Legos and Lego products? Good thinking there Fox.
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Yes, the main bad guy does look like Mitt Romney. Then you watch the whole movie and go "oh." Jesus.
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Feb 9, 2014 02:36
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FlamingLiberal posted:How can it be anti-capitalist if it's basically a giant ad for Legos and Lego products? Good thinking there Fox. Danes 
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Feb 9, 2014 02:38
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According to Fox News, any movie that portrays a businessperson as greedy or villainous and lacking the glittering halo they think all CEOs deserve is by definition anti-capitalist. Never mind the fact that the greedy boss/executive trope has been a staple in entertainment for over a century. Then again they said the exact same thing about some Muppets movie a few years ago, so this is probably some point you'll see them drag out against other movies on slow news weeks to fill up airtime.
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Feb 9, 2014 03:36
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Lou Dobbs once included The Secret World of Arietty, a Japanese animated feature based off of an English children's' book, as an example of Hollywood stumping for Obama.
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Feb 9, 2014 03:39
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God drat, it's like if a movie premiered about a twirly mustached villain with top hat and monocle tying women to train tracks, Fox would be ALL OVER THAT poo poo for being totally anti-capitalist. 
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Feb 9, 2014 03:43
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I wonder how Fox News will handle their most accomplished and intelligent contributor revealing his true colors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXywiChY15Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5GaDXgf65Q&t=26s
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Feb 9, 2014 03:47
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comes along bort posted:I wonder how Fox News will handle their most accomplished and intelligent contributor revealing his true colors: What the gently caress? e: 
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Feb 9, 2014 04:01
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Dr Christmas posted:Lou Dobbs once included The Secret World of Arietty, a Japanese animated feature based off of an English children's' book, as an example of Hollywood stumping for Obama. Maybe the anime was stumping for the Obama clan from Feudal Japan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Domain
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Feb 9, 2014 04:48
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Lou Dobbs is still on television? Who's his audience, Pat Buchanan?
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Pander posted:Just saw the Lego Movie. Great movie. A lot of right wing extremists are basically real-life cartoon villains who hate fun and any kind of uniqueness at the most basic level. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Feb 9, 2014 |
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Feb 9, 2014 05:15
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Rexicon1 posted:What the gently caress? Oderus (Dave Brockie) is a lefty Canadian.  He also writes a football column for a metal blog and has been really vocal about the Redskins changing their name.
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Feb 9, 2014 06:03
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Not to insult GWAR, but it's loving embarrassing that a dude who dresses up in a Halloween costume and plays novelty music for a living is more intelligent and sensible than at least half of our elected leaders. Goddammit America.
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Feb 9, 2014 06:21
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Zeroisanumber posted:Lou Dobbs is still on television? Who's his audience, Pat Buchanan? There's a big market for doughy white guys complaining about brown people.
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Feb 9, 2014 06:28
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Fox was really mad about the Seuss adaptation from 2012 or 2013 being "anti-capitalist" too. I can't remember the name of the movie right now.
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Feb 9, 2014 06:35
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TheQat posted:Fox was really mad about the Seuss adaptation from 2012 or 2013 being "anti-capitalist" too. I can't remember the name of the movie right now. That's kinda funny because I was a little mad that they used The Lorax to sell a loving SUV.
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Feb 9, 2014 06:37
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Zeroisanumber posted:That's kinda funny because I was a little mad that they used The Lorax to sell a loving SUV. On the plus side think of all the green energy we can get from the spinning of Seuss' corpse.
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TheQat posted:Fox was really mad about the Seuss adaptation from 2012 or 2013 being "anti-capitalist" too. I can't remember the name of the movie right now. Lorax, the movie with a loving SUV commercial deal. The loving Lorax. Selling SUVs. Yea real leftie.
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I'm glad that they were talking poo poo about "It's a Wonderful Life." Yeah, keep telling people how awful that is and how Mr.Potter is the real hero. Old white people love that movie and their interpretation of it is a great way of illustrating to OWP just how repugnant their views are. Also I'm not a religious person but I wouldn't shy away from unironically calling the Lorax movie blasphemy. It should have included a 10 minute section where the Lorax teaches kids to spike trees and steal sparkplugs from construction equipment.
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I don't know, guys, maybe Hollywood really does hate rich people. I mean, there's certainly never been any successful piece of mainstream cinema in which they portrayed the CEO of a large corporation to be, for example, a superhero.
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And certainly not more than one successful franchise.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:According to Fox News, any movie that portrays a businessperson as greedy or villainous and lacking the glittering halo they think all CEOs deserve is by definition anti-capitalist. Never mind the fact that the greedy boss/executive trope has been a staple in entertainment for over a century. Also, yeah, I don't remember hearing any rich people complaining about the portrayals of Batman or Iron Man.
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Feb 9, 2014 17:28
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Guilty Spork posted:Also, yeah, I don't remember hearing any rich people complaining about the portrayals of Batman or Iron Man. They were complaining about the Batman villian Bane just because
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Marlamaid Swordhand posted:They were complaining about the Batman villian Bane just because It really says something about your business practices when you even think you can be mistaken for a fictional loving supervillain. 
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Robviously posted:It really says something about your business practices when you even think you can be mistaken for a fictional loving supervillain. comes along bort posted:The irony is conservatives' entire worldview is basically a creation of the film and tv industry (the same one they constantly bitch and moan about as a liberal conspiracy) reinforcing what they believe are "American values" to the point most of them are wholly incapable of distinguishing fiction from reality.
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Haha this is fantastic  . Kinda surprised this my first time seeing it though.
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Marlamaid Swordhand posted:They were complaining about the Batman villian Bane just because Wikipedia posted:Bane is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character's origin was in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993) I'm trying to find something witty to say but goddamn they're dumb.
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NO LISTEN TO ME posted:I'm trying to find something witty to say but goddamn they're dumb. Well, uh, excuse me...they could have changed it if they were fair-minded enough to be extra sensitive to one of Romney's political weaknesses, but noooo...
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FuzzySkinner posted:I once heard Neil Cavuto crying over the fact Argo won best picture over Zero Dark Thirty.
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beatlegs posted:Well, uh, excuse me...they could have changed it if they were fair-minded enough to be extra sensitive to one of Romney's political weaknesses, but noooo... Isn't it Romney's (or whoever founded Bain if not him) fault for naming his company Bain, a homophone of Bane, which is an actual word predating Batman which means "a cause of great distress or annoyance," or "(archaic) something, typically poison, that causes death."? It would be like naming your company "Nemesis" or something.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Isn't it Romney's (or whoever founded Bain if not him) fault for naming his company Bain, a homophone of Bane, which is an actual word predating Batman which means "a cause of great distress or annoyance," or "(archaic) something, typically poison, that causes death."? Probably had something to do with the company being founded by Bill Bain as a spin off from his consulting firm
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Isn't it Romney's (or whoever founded Bain if not him) fault for naming his company Bain, a homophone of Bane, which is an actual word predating Batman which means "a cause of great distress or annoyance," or "(archaic) something, typically poison, that causes death."? There's another private equity firm named Cerberus so no, nobody cares.
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They like that stuff cause they're emotionally teenaged boys. "Whoa Cerberus yeah don't we sound like badasses, we're gonna crush the competition and kick their asses and make like tons of money bro." It's why you heard people talking about "Project Death Star" at Enron. edit - See also the GOP's "Para Bellum" labs.
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Chantilly Say posted:There's another private equity firm named Cerberus so no, nobody cares. Royal Ahold always goes over well here in the US.
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Now I really want to hear that Romney speech about the trees having the right height in Bane's voice.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Now I really want to hear that Romney speech about the trees having the right height in Bane's voice. There's probably a modulizer that exists for it, I know one exists for the Dalek voice.
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computer parts posted:There's probably a modulizer that exists for it, I know one exists for the Dalek voice. It's called a plastic cup.
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It's kind of hilarious that Fox News ever got upset about the Dark Knight Rises. It's a movie where the Occupy-esque working man underclass is portrayed as a bunch of bloodthirsty terrorist anarchists who want to murder the rich and take all their stuff, and they could only be stopped by a rich white guy leading a bunch of police officers in to beat them up.
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cbirdsong posted:It's kind of hilarious that Fox News ever got upset about the Dark Knight Rises. It's a movie where the Occupy-esque working man underclass is portrayed as a bunch of bloodthirsty terrorist anarchists who want to murder the rich and take all their stuff, and they could only be stopped by a rich white guy leading a bunch of police officers in to beat them up. It's a problem because, for a small amount of time, they win and when in power Gotham is a much better place. http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/02/10/Conservative-and-Single-The-Odds-are-Good-But-the-Goods-are-Odd Article where in a hardcore Righty complains about how people like her are so disliked and marginalized that she can't find someone to date that isn't a loon like herself and isn't someone she knows from working in "the movement". So the question I have is why is she complaining about being unable to find some one to date when she herself won't date someone like her?
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