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The movies. Film. Cinema. One of the most powerful and globally regarded artistic mediums of our time. They can make you cry, pump your first, or even want to barf all over yourself. But what if there’s something deeper behind every one of those 24 frames a second we let into our hearts? Ideology. Conservatives say Hollywood is dominated by liberal ideology, liberals pump their fist and cheer as the CIA agent drone strikes proletariat revolutionaries in defense of an ethnostate’s monarchy in the climax of Black Panther. But what is it really, that gets everyone so excited to pay 30 hard earned dollars for giant tubs of sugar water and gut-melting popcorn? As the intellectual vanguard of C-SPAM, that is what our mission will be to discover. Has an Illuminati cult brainwashed our children, or are we simply bearing witness to the mounting contradictions of capitalism projecting its own weakness? Let’s talk about Deterrence (2000.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvRjOMRM9f0 President Not-Bernie nukes Baghdad after baiting and switching Uday Hussein to launch a bunch of fake nuclear missiles sold to them by France, and then mocks them on television. The two PoC characters are the only ones against nuking Baghdad, and are treated as cowards going into hysterics. Establishment liberal professors apparently show this movie in college as if President Not-Bernie is the good guy in this scenario, even though it’s literally fascist propaganda justifying nuclear genocide. Also after committing a crime against humanity, President Not-Bernie surrenders the election to his opponent, Donald Trump. What are the most C-SPAM films of all time? Taintrunner has issued a correction as of 12:38 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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the most cspam movie is serial experiments lain, OP
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Feb 13, 2021 13:01
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Freddy Got Fingered
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Feb 13, 2021 13:07
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Dirty Work because the plot mocks capitalism and the movie itself was a product of capitalism but was a huge financial failure
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Feb 13, 2021 13:13
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either resident evil or those underworld movies. at some point beckinsale and jovovich decided they were going to make lurid garbage and get famous behind it, much like the shitposters here and adoring fans who can't stop talking about us.
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Feb 13, 2021 13:47
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Rain Man
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Feb 13, 2021 14:02
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"The Peacemaker" from 1997 had a villain whose family was killed in the Yugoslav Wars, and then he blames no country in particular for the having supplied every side in the war with arms, and decides that the problem is the UN, so he goes off to nuke the UN headquarters in New York. To be clear, it's very lib-brained to assume that the conflict in the former Yugoslavia was just too complex for people to really understand*, excusing the film from ever really having to commit to any kind of explanation, and then especially when the blame is then directed to the UN of all organizations, when anyone politically motivated enough to engage in the kind of act portrayed in the film would almost certainly be capable of drawing a direct line back to the US specifically (though I suppose in this case nuking New York would happen all the same, though perhaps with a different blast epicenter). To a lesser degree, The Peacemaker also engages in a lot of post-Soviet Russia stereotypes, assuming that the country is one big wasteland run by the Russian mob and all Russians are easily bribed. The director of the film went on to make the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic "On the Basis of Sex" some 21 years later. ___ * there's a throwaway line in Behind Enemy Lines that also does this, though BEL for the most part instead does manage to clearly identify a villain in the form a Slobodan Milosevic-type character. Perhaps that's another post for this thread.
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Feb 13, 2021 14:48
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Children of Men
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indigi posted:Children of Men This
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Snowpiercer Parasite
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Feb 13, 2021 18:23
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Patlabor Movies 1 and 2 2 has a conversation where they talk about how peace in the developed world is built on the back of war and strife elsewhere.
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Feb 13, 2021 18:28
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Pasolini's The Decameron is very C-SPAM e: and The Canterbury Tales
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Feb 13, 2021 18:31
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Rollerball[ (1975) A whole lot of movies do the corporate state dystopia thing but Rollerball is distinct in that it showcases the impact of the corporate state on the people at the very top. The main character is a dedicated Rollerballer, Jonathan E, and he just wants to rollerball because he is the Tom Brady of Rollerball he gets asked to leave the game because his popularity and prowess are perceived as a threat by the corporate directorate. this sets off a chain of events where the directorate attempts to make the rules of the game more and more barbaric and offer Jonathan greater and greater luxuries to abandon his career in order to squeeze him out. The liaison for the corporate system in the film, Mr Bartholomew, https://i.imgur.com/9jb2dzD.mp4 straightforwardly describes why jonathan is rocking the boat, describing the game as a purposeful meat grinder, something no one was supposed to be good at, that just chewed people up like nothing for the sheer spectacle of it. Jonathan E begins to wonder how the world got to this sorry state in the first place and goes on a quest for information and discovers that the consolidation of data centers has allowed information to be tightly controlled by the corporate state. https://i.imgur.com/E1GTYTt.mp4 So what does he do? He loving rollerballs, that's what. https://i.imgur.com/YBGhMvk.mp4 The film also depicts the psychotic decadence of the ruling class in a way that tracks very smartly with our lived experience with people of wealth https://i.imgur.com/EakxWA0.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/HKViEdn.mp4 and it understands that nothing matters https://i.imgur.com/X34porS.mp4 Learn more about Rollerball at your local library
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Salo
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Zardoz 1974 Zardoz is about owning the libs. Spoilers will follow. This film has a reputation for being a "lol look at this weird movie" kind of film but that is only because of imaginative superficial things which are actually explained incredibly well in the narrative. Ponytail Sean Connery, in his famous outfit, is a Brutal Exterminator riding horseback through the wastes culling the human population on behalf of his god, Zardoz, which is a giant stone head which pukes guns and makes derisive comments about procreation Zed stows away on Zardoz one day because, as we later learn, the Exterminators have become suspicious of their god after he orders them to farm instead of just ranging around killing people Inside the giant head, Zed discovers a man and kills him, that man, we later learn is a part of a community which is isolated from the harsh conditions of the wastelands, in domes of pristine beauty, where they live lives of ease and luxury. This man that Zed kills was tasked with constructing a social scheme to control the human population of the outlands and had a flair for the dramatic so he invented this garish religion angle to gussy up the task of administering a slow moving genocide the bubble communities, Vortexes, we come to find, were created by the liberal elite as the apocalypse unfolded, they entrusted the maintenance of the basic aspects of society to an AI called the tabernacle which also used a genetic/conciousness uploading scheme to make everyone functionally immortal (that is why they are called Eternals) and gave themselves over to the pursuit of the great questions of the universe while conditions outside the vortexes deteriorated. here is a brief history https://i.imgur.com/pwtDduc.mp4 and continuing https://i.imgur.com/tAL2aPm.mp4 the concept above, that the Eternals tried and failed to answer the great questions of the universe, is critical to the film and very poignant, that there is an epistemological horizon which can never be approached, questions which can never be answered. The whole entire Vortex project, the creation of the Eternals, was a faulty premise which has created an absolutely insane society which is every caricature of a bourgeois hippy commune/polycule you can imagine smashed together with the smarmy veneer of bourgeois academia slathered all over it. A sizeable portion of the population is seething with resentment and craves death. Many have become "apathetic" a sort of dissociative catatonic hebephrenic state and that is why they had to grow bread in the outlands in the first place. a decadent society shot through with social pathologies https://i.imgur.com/mCdqpSP.mp4 We later come to find that Zed was genetically engineered from the inside in order to bring down the vortex system by the man behind Zardoz himself, kwisatz haderach style This exchange near the end earns deep respect from me as it plants the film securely on a dialectical materialist footing https://i.imgur.com/DwrNlAm.mp4 also this film has the sickest burn on lib NIMBY attitude right here "I always voted against forced farming" "You eat the bread" https://i.imgur.com/Gdhxwlv.mp4 loving sick! Egg Moron has issued a correction as of 21:15 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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Feb 13, 2021 19:56
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Did everyone seriously miss the part of the OP where Not-Bernie genocides Iraq and then concedes the election to Donald Trump holy gently caress lmao
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Feb 13, 2021 21:31
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Harry potters 1 through 10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HQsVgxMTnc
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The Network (1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9XeyBd_IuA The camera work and cinematography are just as good as the dialogue and performances here.
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Feb 14, 2021 01:09
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Hackers.
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Rollerball has already been discussed, and eloquently Soylent Green is fantastic, Charlton Heston plays a detective with nitecrew sensibilities and alcoholism, married with daycrew's dogged work ethic. The story is antiestablishment, anticorporate, anticop (Heston realizes he's not one of the good guys eventually), ecoconscious, and focuses on the plight of the proletariat. Eat the rich? Nah, the shark eats you. wildcard pick: Behind Enemy Lines (2001) Owen Wilson stars in this 2 hour long misbegotten military recruitment endeavor. With irrepressibly American verve, he flies over North Korea and they have the temerity to shoot him down. He cinematically eludes and outsmarts the entire North Korean military, except for one badass Korean special forces sniper who murders his way through his own countrymen to capture the war criminal pilot who had no business violating his country's sovereignty. This movie could have been salvaged by making the Korean murderer the protagonist. At any rate, Gene Hackman is a crusty general tasked with recovering the wayward pilot, and no scruples will be observed in the undertaking. Hackman clearly doesn't give a poo poo about the film, barking out stinkers like "the American people want their pilot back" with no real commitment to the thankless role. At any rate, the movie ends with the US blowing up the Northern side of the DMZ in an undeclared act of war, and everyone cheered. Notably, this movie was made before the 9/11 attacks, so the post-towers collapse brain-brokenness of the American public cannot excuse this atrocious film.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:01
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rollerball was better when Paul heyman was in it
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Feb 14, 2021 03:05
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What's the movie where Sam Jackson was right to murder a bunch of arab civilians? gently caress that movie.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:05
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MonsieurChoc posted:What's the movie where Sam Jackson was right to murder a bunch of arab civilians? gently caress that movie. rules of engagement?
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Feb 14, 2021 03:06
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Maya Fey posted:rules of engagement? Yeahy I think that's it. Disgusting racist movie.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:07
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MonsieurChoc posted:What's the movie where Sam Jackson was right to murder a bunch of arab civilians? gently caress that movie. An excellent suggestion for this thread! I want all the most hosed up ideology movies reviewed ITT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcBJbgJf69A
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Feb 14, 2021 03:12
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Taintrunner posted:
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DanteDevils posted:The Network (1976) +1 Bonus CSPAM for the a raving madman as the star screaming about the evils of corporatism. Cpt_Obvious has issued a correction as of 03:39 on Feb 14, 2021 |
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Feb 14, 2021 03:31
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Rambo cuz he kills cops
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Feb 14, 2021 03:38
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network is a great movie. i also like how the only two characters who really know what's going on is the corporate CEO at the top and the stand-in for angela davis who has no illusions but skeptically agrees on a licensing deal to get that 
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Feb 14, 2021 03:38
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I watched Judas and the Black Messiah tonight and that feels like a pretty damned CSPAM movie
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Feb 14, 2021 03:42
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https://files.catbox.moe/1156p5.mp4
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Feb 14, 2021 03:45
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bird. posted:the most cspam movie is serial experiments lain, OP agreed unironically, sel loving owns have you ever seen haibane renmei/the charcoal feather federation? it's by the same dude and it also owns
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Feb 14, 2021 03:47
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I watched Judas and the Black Messiah tonight and that feels like a pretty damned CSPAM movie
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There's a certain moment in the middle of that Network performance where the CEO switches his tone from that of a vengeful deity to a gentle huckster, right after screaming "and you will atone!" It's a little frightening and a very disarming. Truly, a capricious and coercive god.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:48
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anyway, i recently watched The Villages, which is an aronofsky film about the retirement community in florida. it wasn't as good as i had hoped, but it's still worth a watch imo
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Feb 14, 2021 03:49
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I watched Judas and the Black Messiah tonight and that feels like a pretty damned CSPAM movie is it good? i was kinda let down by blackkklansmen because there was too much adam driver in it and they both sided the cop characters.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:52
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:how was it? it looks good I like it a lot but it's a deliberately slow movie. My wife thought it could've been paced better and I don't entirely disagree but it is also a hollywood film evangelizing a socialist revolutionary so for that aspect it's really interesting to watch. I'm interested to see how the discourse plays out around it because it's does not pull the punches that all the cops/Hoover were racist murderous assholes (and are) So like from a filmmaking stand-point, as a first feature film for King it's got some growing pains but I think as the content and the strangeness of it being made at all elevate it into something that's going to be very interesting.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:52
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Please tell me you have the scene with the communists flipping out over their ratings. Cpt_Obvious has issued a correction as of 03:58 on Feb 14, 2021 |
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Cpt_Obvious posted:+1 Cpt_Obvious posted:There's a certain moment in the middle of that Network performance where the CEO switches his tone from that of a vengeful deity to a gentle huckster, right after screaming "and you will atone!" It's a little frightening and a very disarming. Truly, a capricious and coercive god. Cpt_Obvious posted:Please tell me you have the scene with the communists flipping out over their ratings. it's rare how the movie shows the contrast between the mainline CPUSA and the ultra-leftist maoist sects at the time. there's another scene with laureen hobbs in the background where she's [very... carefully] talking about building a popular front of all the democratic forces which contrasts with the armed adventurism of the ecumenicals. it's like, hey, the screenwriter has actually spent some time reading about this stuff. also part of the "joke" here is that hobbs is actually more ruthless than the maoists (who end up being another group of dupes and tools), flipping things around. she's the only character i found sympathetic. also she makes sure to lawyer up before doing anything around these loving producers. BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 04:14 on Feb 14, 2021 |
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